I tend to forget this kind of snarky check-out-the-cool-reference-I’m-making stuff 10 minutes or so after I see it.
On the other hand, this earlier allusion to the Frey book is probably the worst thing I saw all last year: http://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/2006/02/piece-of-cake.html
I’m not really seeing a connection between this book and Frey’s other than the cover. I also found this cover. Anyway, I’m not really appreciating the spoof cover or Pinnochio’s and I’m reminded of something I read on Paul Sahre’s site about plagerism vs. influence. (The link is attached to my name.) Surely something more original could have been done.
This is a great cover, spoofing Frey, of a book by an incredibly overlooked writer. I read the book in one sitting. It’s great, and the cover fits it perfectly.
I didn’t design the cover for my new book, but I think it’s fantastic. Dorothy Carico Smith designs most of the covers for MacAdam Cage, and she does a fantastic job—especially with my books The Locklear Letters and You Poor Monster.
A very cool concept! A parody on an existing design, using the same photo & color treatment, new imagery & a total mockary of the original. Only hope the book is as good as its cover. And not, like, derivitive. Like its cover?
A weird bit of opportunism and shrewed salesmanship.
The only connection between this book and A Million Little Pieces, is the title. That, and there’s a short story about “why people lie”.
I have to say that it leaves me a bit flat.
Curious to see how others respond.
— Ben Pieratt, 2007-01-22 08:37:00
I tend to forget this kind of snarky check-out-the-cool-reference-I’m-making stuff 10 minutes or so after I see it.
On the other hand, this earlier allusion to the Frey book is probably the worst thing I saw all last year: http://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/2006/02/piece-of-cake.html
— Joseph, 2007-01-22 08:55:00
I’m not really seeing a connection between this book and Frey’s other than the cover. I also found this cover. Anyway, I’m not really appreciating the spoof cover or Pinnochio’s and I’m reminded of something I read on Paul Sahre’s site about plagerism vs. influence. (The link is attached to my name.) Surely something more original could have been done.
— C, 2007-01-22 14:03:00
http://www.paulsahre.com/index.php?/regrets/entertaining_mr_sloane/
— C, 2007-01-22 14:06:00
Million Little Lies at least made me laugh.
— Eric J, 2007-01-22 23:51:00
Love the author. Love the cover. Love the book.
— Stan J., 2007-01-23 19:02:00
I’m not even sure how to respond.
— benjamin kinzer, 2007-01-25 11:31:00
This is a great cover, spoofing Frey, of a book by an incredibly overlooked writer. I read the book in one sitting. It’s great, and the cover fits it perfectly.
— Sally P., 2007-01-27 11:34:00
If you read the title story, the cover is absolutely perfect! Opportunistic? Maybe. But perfect nonetheless.
— Scott Rollins, 2007-01-30 13:04:00
Love it!
— rita, 2007-01-31 04:57:00
I find it witty.
— Chadwick, 2007-02-08 19:27:00
Witty, yes. But also feels kind of cheap.
I like the eraser idea.
m welch
— m welch, 2007-02-10 22:49:00
perfect!
the eraser idea is great.
— cintia, 2007-02-14 07:47:00
I might have designed the first spoof of Rodrigo’s cover:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html
I like this cover. Pretty funny.
— Mike Essl, 2007-02-15 18:51:00
very witty. It makes you want to buy it for all the same reasons as the original and even more because you want to see how different it is…
— Ian B. Shimkoviak, 2007-02-20 07:40:00
I didn’t design the cover for my new book, but I think it’s fantastic. Dorothy Carico Smith designs most of the covers for MacAdam Cage, and she does a fantastic job—especially with my books The Locklear Letters and You Poor Monster.
— Michael Kun, 2007-02-24 09:47:00
...can’t wait to see the cover where the hand gets crazy glue all on it and it sticks to a kleenex…
— perry, 2007-03-04 16:51:00
A very cool concept! A parody on an existing design, using the same photo & color treatment, new imagery & a total mockary of the original. Only hope the book is as good as its cover. And not, like, derivitive. Like its cover?
— shep, 2007-10-18 18:34:00
I think it’s clever but in a few years the reference will be entirely lost.
— hummingfish, 2008-11-07 14:31:00