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!
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! 🙂
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.
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.
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!
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.
One of my favorite King books. Great choice.