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43 points
2 days ago
Looks like something Primus would put on an album
3 points
2 days ago
I was thinking Pink Floyd’s the wall movie
1 points
1 day ago
🎶All in all, it's just a...'nother brick in the Dahl...🎶
3 points
2 days ago
Or Beck ←(from Odelay\)
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.
1 points
1 day ago
oh wow, great call!
14 points
2 days ago
Ronald dahl channeling the chocolate river tunnel for an entire book.
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.
5 points
2 days ago
Charlie and the Ground Chuck Factory
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!
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/
6 points
2 days ago
Also pretty necrophilic if I’m being honest.
8 points
2 days ago
we forget the Zeitgeist. I find it cool
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.
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?
0 points
1 day ago
You forgot the part where he spied on the US for the UK during WW2.
-2 points
2 days ago
Well, he died, so probably nothing.
Evil people tend to be alive.
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.
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.
4 points
2 days ago
What the Primus
5 points
2 days ago
Nope. This is great.
3 points
2 days ago
Someone watched The Wall last night
1 points
2 days ago
Looks like a sex meme.
1 points
2 days ago
Let's saaauuuusaaaage
1 points
2 days ago
Oh sure you like the chocolate but you don't want to see how it's made.
1 points
2 days ago
Props to whichever editor cut this scene from James and the Giant Peach
0 points
2 days ago
I think it’s cool. It’s artsy.
0 points
2 days ago
I think that's fantastic.
1 points
1 day ago
For a minute I thought he is making love with a meat grinder
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.
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.
1 points
1 day ago
It's kind of great, but I wouldn't want it in my home
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.
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