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Aug 4 2012
speaking of Lolita, there is a collection of published Lolita covers here, and they are almost all jaw-droppingly awful (although I think you could make a case for these: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). but I think I hate this cover of Lolita even more than I hate the ~sexy~ covers.  I dunno, those at least you can chalk up to the designer not really knowing what the book is about, but this is clearly an illustration of the bit where the protagonist has taken Lolita away from everyone she knows and gone on the run, and her mother has just died, and she is experiencing constant sexual abuse which is explicitly presented as such, and they’ve made it look like an advertisement for a fun road trip across the USA. 

speaking of Lolita, there is a collection of published Lolita covers here, and they are almost all jaw-droppingly awful (although I think you could make a case for these: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). but I think I hate this cover of Lolita even more than I hate the ~sexy~ covers.  I dunno, those at least you can chalk up to the designer not really knowing what the book is about, but this is clearly an illustration of the bit where the protagonist has taken Lolita away from everyone she knows and gone on the run, and her mother has just died, and she is experiencing constant sexual abuse which is explicitly presented as such, and they’ve made it look like an advertisement for a fun road trip across the USA. 
Posted at 9:31 PM 9 notes Tagged: abusechild abusechild sexual abuselitlolitamisogynyrapesexual abusesexual assaultviolence against womendesign

  1. 0252 said: How about this one: slacktory.com/wp-cont…
  2. luria-p said: also it weirdly resembles a sweet valley high cover?
  3. timocraticyouth said: it’s a still from the movie, sort of: virtual-history.com/mov… : not that this makes the rest of it a better idea.
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