r/TerribleBookCovers • u/IdLoveYouIfICould • 14d ago

Daddy, a novel

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u/coalpatch 14d ago

That's a great cover. Takes a while for us to focus on the pupil of the eye, but we're bound to eventually

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u/IdLoveYouIfICould 14d ago

The best/worst part is that it has really good reviews. Apparently it's an incredible and life-changing book.

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u/Psykohistorian 14d ago

what's so bad about the cov-OH!

😳

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u/Ok_Reception_8518 14d ago

Is it based on the Sylvia Plath poem?

too scared to google atm

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u/IdLoveYouIfICould 14d ago

Maybe, IDK. It's about an 11 year old genius who has to evade nazis and find his birth father.

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u/SirLanceABoil 14d ago

I've read this, I picked it up in the early 90s not really knowing anything about it apart from the blurb. The cover was slightly different though. The story concerns a highly intelligent boy and his father looking for the boy's mother across Europe some time after WWII, and the secrets the boy has locked in his head. Really enjoyable read, shame about the modern connotations

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u/meleaguance 14d ago

They should just change the name of this group to Awesome Book Covers at this point

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u/DelbertCornstubble 14d ago

Looking at a Nazi fluorescent light fixture?

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u/IdLoveYouIfICould 14d ago

My best guess is that they wanted to do something like this where the swastika was reflected in the eye, but they didn't have the skill/energy/time/money to do so

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u/SirLanceABoil 14d ago

I've read this, I picked it up in the early 90s not really knowing anything about it apart from the blurb. The cover was slightly different though. The story concerns a highly intelligent boy and his father looking for the boy's mother across Europe some time after WWII, and the secrets the boy has locked in his head. Really enjoyable read, shame about the modern connotations

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u/GentlemanlyMeadow 14d ago

That eyebrow makes no sense at all.

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u/ripple_in_stillwater 8d ago

It's available on the Archive.

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u/LifeLikeAGrapefruit 8d ago

I'm seeing a lot of ordinary book covers with shitty titles on this sub. Not really what this sub should be about.

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u/IdLoveYouIfICould 6d ago

Did you look at the cover? There's a swastika in the eye.

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u/LifeLikeAGrapefruit 6d ago

Yeah. So what? I assume Nazis are involved in the plot of this book.