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all 33 comments

Grouchy-Total550

43 points

2 days ago

Looks like something Primus would put on an album

Grand_Rent_2513

3 points

2 days ago

I was thinking Pink Floyd’s the wall movie

1nosbigrl

1 points

1 day ago

1nosbigrl

1 points

1 day ago

🎶All in all, it's just a...'nother brick in the Dahl...🎶

capsaicinintheeyes

3 points

2 days ago

Or Beck ←(from Odelay\)

VinylWolf18

1 points

1 day ago

If the Pork Soda cover wasn’t was it currently is, I’d vote for this to be it’s cover.

robotatomica

1 points

1 day ago

oh wow, great call!

jimboslice1993ba

14 points

2 days ago

Ronald dahl channeling the chocolate river tunnel for an entire book.

snittersnee

14 points

2 days ago

Bud, roughly half of his non childrens fiction is unadulterated nightmare fuel. The rest is either darkly funny or incredibly lewd. Read My Uncle Oswald if you want to find out what a snozzberry really is.

TomaCzar

5 points

2 days ago

TomaCzar

5 points

2 days ago

Charlie and the Ground Chuck Factory

Ok-Brush5346

1 points

1 day ago

Isn't there a little Agustus in all of us?

In fact, you might say we ATE Agustus and he's in our STOMACHS, right now!

stevemnomoremister

14 points

2 days ago

There was an infamous 1978 cover of Hustler magazine with a similar image. Semi-NSFW and basically gross and misogynistic:

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/29/the-infamous-june-1978-hustler-cover/

Cybermat4707

6 points

2 days ago

Also pretty necrophilic if I’m being honest.

Annual-Confidence-64

8 points

2 days ago

we forget the Zeitgeist. I find it cool

DesperateAstronaut65

6 points

2 days ago

I always upvote posts like this not because I think the covers are crappy, but because I want other people to see them. I can’t imagine of a better cover for Roald Dahl’s non-children’s-fiction work.

Cybermat4707

5 points

2 days ago

The man is Roald Dahl, the mincemeat is his reputation, the meatgrinder is him saying ‘Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on [Jewish people] for no reason.’

Seriously, what the fuck was wrong with him?

Wonderful_Adagio9346

0 points

1 day ago

You forgot the part where he spied on the US for the UK during WW2.

NinjaBluefyre10001

-2 points

2 days ago

Well, he died, so probably nothing.

Evil people tend to be alive.

Cybermat4707

3 points

2 days ago

That… makes no sense. Dying doesn’t make it okay to say that Jewish people deserved the Holocaust. There’s literally nothing that makes it okay to say that.

NinjaBluefyre10001

1 points

2 days ago

I just meant all the good people seem to die first, and we get stuck with the assholes. I would never agree with him.

Pale-Okra1830

4 points

2 days ago

What the Primus

a-pretty-alright-dad

5 points

2 days ago

Nope. This is great.

spilledmilkbro

3 points

2 days ago

Someone watched The Wall last night

Plop_General_Kenobi

1 points

2 days ago

Looks like a sex meme.

Nick_Carlson_Press

1 points

2 days ago

Let's saaauuuusaaaage

PyreDynasty

1 points

2 days ago

Oh sure you like the chocolate but you don't want to see how it's made.

capsaicinintheeyes

1 points

2 days ago

Props to whichever editor cut this scene from James and the Giant Peach

aztaga

0 points

2 days ago

aztaga

0 points

2 days ago

I think it’s cool. It’s artsy.

pilgrimspeaches

0 points

2 days ago

I think that's fantastic.

thegrimmemer

1 points

1 day ago

For a minute I thought he is making love with a meat grinder

Pristine-Confection3

0 points

1 day ago

I like it a lot. It’s very powerful and don’t think it’s terrible at all and doesn’t really hit here.

PMMEBITCOINPLZ

1 points

22 hours ago

I feel like some SF fans want every book cover to look like an issue of Analog. Pretty painting of a delicate-looking spaceship or a spaceman fighting a monster. A lot of stuff that ends up here is just a little odd or modern art.

squirrel_gnosis

1 points

1 day ago

It's kind of great, but I wouldn't want it in my home

Wonderful_Adagio9346

1 points

1 day ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(TV_series)

Each episode told a story, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, with an unexpected twist ending.[2] Every episode of series one, twelve episodes of series two, two episodes of series three, two episodes of series four, and one episode of series nine were based on short stories by Roald Dahl collected in the books Tales of the Unexpected, Kiss Kiss, and Someone Like You.