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Harland Miller’s Penguin Classics-Inspired Art

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D.H. LawrenceEdgar Allen PoeErnest HemingwayHarland MillerNorman MailerPenguin Books
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Sadly not as clever as they seem to think they are. Nor entirely an original idea. I bought a book of postcards of 'fake' Penguin covers ten years ago (whatever happened to it) which bad memory convinces me were funnier than these. Good and original , perhaps. Bug, as Dr Johnson had it, the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are big good. Or at least not THAT good.

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but these were lines from my personal ads decades ago!

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Harland also wrote rather a great book about 10 years ago about a mysterious Bowie impersonator in a rough Northern town in the '70's, called Slow down Arthur, Stick to Thirty. He's mates with Jarvis Cocker too. He has it all. http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Down-Arthur-Stick-Thirty/dp/1841152838/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300125511&sr=8-2

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I feel like I SHOULD like these, and yet they leave me flat.

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Adam - Classic Penguins for sure. Different layout...well thats the point.

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sorry to snark - they're not Penguin Classics, they're classic Penguins (i.e. the original Allen Lane/Edward Young design from the 1930s). Penguin Classics have always had a different layout.

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Tremendo titulo, la cago !

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My Brother's Confusing, I Can Write -- William James

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Great list! I was inspired to come up with some of my own: I'm way more sensitive than you - Virginia Woolf " " Harold Pinter Buy My Book, Idiot -- Susan Sontag Of Course I'm Confusing -- Henry James

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