What if books were titled after their first sentence?
7I always enjoy seeing people redesign book covers for famous novels, but it feels like there's only so far you can go with the title. I was thinking about what it'd be like if all books were named whatever their first sentence was.
Here's my design for George Orwell's 1984:
What's your favorite novel first-sentences? (And any photoshoppers out there want to try to make covers for them?)
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Howard Roark laughed
Ok, I made another one:
snapster, most ruinous user of the photoshop thread..
oops, I cut off the t. +T
hat's OK Snapster.
Jane Austen would sell a lot fewer books these days.
@Herb, ha! A few are pretty insanely long, which would make for a hilarious cover, but I may later take a stab at:
It's pretty clear this is an improvement.
@denboy, I admit I learned everything I know about Fountainhead from wikipedia, but I think this is vaguely accurate:
It was a pleasure to burn.
@dave Sweet wiki-inspired Roark graphic. The gray motif is quite appropriate as well as the building. Roark does look a little too genuinely happy, probably hard to get that feel from wiki. Nice work, you should make a poster of it.
there needs to be some self deprecating way to post shitty meme-generator entries. A favorite first line:
A Novel by Samuel Beckett - Author of Waiting for Godat
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.
By Douglas Adams
@snapster, ha.
@spitfire6006006,
@joshaw, He actually made a collection of related short stories called, basically, that:
@dave, the one for Persuasion is even better:
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
@Herb, That is a good one. Here's my take:
@dave very cool. (and now I know what Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage is)
Nice! That's probably just what the book would have looked like in your proposed alternate reality ...
I worked really hard on this one.