Quote:Radovarl
Just picked up my copy of the new B&N printing. The design of the book seems much more appropriate in-hand than the photos of it I had seen led me to expect. It's probably not the greatest binding, and whatever the boards are covered with certainly isn't leather, but the art on the cover isn't as jarring as it seemed in the photos. Overall I'm quite pleased.
I agree. In person, the book looks better than it does online--
and, you can better experience the mesmeric irridescent effect of the cover...oh, shiny! At first, I was slightly irritated by the fact that one of my reading hands had to feel a different texture (of the smooth, irridescent portion) than the other (which felt 'leather'), but in delving into HPL's fiction, one quickly forgets such neurotic details--being distracted instead by those the Lovecraftian narrators relate to us. Still, I think the cover would have been best had it all been of uniform medium, such as the 'inlaid paint' (for want of better words) used for the rest of the cover. All in all, however, it's a stylish tome, and I'm damn proud to own it! Currently, it crowns that so coveted spot on the table next to my bed, shining like a silver and irridescent beacon of weirdness....