The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!
This week’s theme: “Who will buy this wonderful morning?” – A cover featuring a shop or market.
For once I had no trouble coming up with a book for the theme. Needful Things by Stephen King is actually about a store called Needful Things, and although it’s been years since I read it, I remember it being a bunch of fun. And being a Stephen King book, there are a ton of covers, so I tried to pick only the good ones:-D Take a look:
Viking/Penguin edition 1991 | UK Paperback 2011
Spanish edition 2009 | German edition 2003
Czech edition 1999 | French edition 2010
French edition 1993 | Chinese edition 2009
This book is tough for me to call, but I’ll try. I actually love the Spanish and German editions, but I’m not crazy about the font on either one. Same goes for the French 2010 edition, I just love the design, but I HATE the font! So I’m going with the UK edition because the font doesn’t make me mad, and I do love the atmospheric colors:
Great choice. I love your cover and it’s the one that immediately sprang out to me followed closely by the French 2010.
Lynn 😀
Thanks Lynn, this was one of the easier ones for me to come up with!
I actually really like this week’s topic! I totally agree about the French one–great image, not so great font choice. These ones definitely make it a tough call–I like the Viking and Spanish ones as well.
Stephen King books always have so many covers, so it’s fun when the theme fits one of his books:-)
I’ve got the 1991 edition and I’d say it’s second only to your top pick. 😉
Lauren @ Always Me
I have that one too, and I do like it just because it’s so familiar:-)
Nice pick, I actually struggled this week! And my favorite might be the French edition 1993, what an amazing angle of the shot making an innocuous corner storefront look so creepy!
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It’s definitely one of the creepier ones:-)
What a fabulous response to this week’s theme, Tammy! You definitely have by far the best selection of covers here:)). And I, too, love your favourite, though the 1993 French edition comes a very close second.
Yes, I love the French edition too!
Your choice has the added bonus of showing what looks like the main street of a small town, and that’s the kind of narrative background King excels in, so it’s twice a good pick! 🙂
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I hadn’t thought of it that way, but you’re right! Thanks Maddalena:-)
Nice pick for this one! Love the one you went with in the end, there’s such a great sense of looming danger.
Exactly, it’s very menacing!
I really like your choice and I also like the French 1993 (minus the font). I love the angle of the building on that one and that the building’s awning almost looks like creepy teeth to me, lol.
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I do love the French edition, I just wish publishers wouldn’t use such terrible fonts! LOL
The Viking/Penguin cover is the one I own so I’m partial to it. I like your choice too. Especially the coloring.
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Me too, I have the Viking edition, so it’s definitely got a sentimental feel to it:-)
I’m with you on this one. The UK cover is pretty beautiful and atmospheric compared to the rest. I may be a tad biased (being from England), but I do think the rest of the world gets far less pretty covers than we do.
I have to agree with you Aaron, and I live in the US! I’ve always loved UK publishers’ covers, for some reason:-)
I like the first two the best. I like the image in the one you picked, but something about the style and colors of the first one is really appealing (and vintage/retro)
I own the first one so I have a soft spot for it as well:-)
That’s an intriguing title. My choices are the ones you didn’t pick as your faves, so basically I’m your opposite this time, haha. I like the Viking one and the French 1993 one. I guess I like how it almost looks like a normal, quaint shop, but not quite, and they both have that eerie shadow silhouette!
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I do like the shadows, I actually hadn’t noticed that before!
Oooh these are creepy! I agree with your choice! If you don’t look to closely at the French edition it kind of looks like a clown.
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One of my favorite King books. Great choice.