The Long, Lost Exit Home

The Long, Lost Exit Home

Also lost: the art of comma usage.

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David King
6 years ago

At least 6 different fonts, and a fake light sparkle on the razor blade, the distorted eye image — the horror is all there in the cover design.

War Goat
War Goat
6 years ago

I like the pentagonal blood drop.

Dave
6 years ago

So, what’s a long exit?
Aside from imitating ransom notes, when was “every word in a different font” ever a good idea?

Grackle
Grackle
6 years ago

Un Piece-of-Crap Andalou.

Gary
Gary
6 years ago
Reply to  Grackle

Nice reference. It is literally the first thing in months that I’ve seen that makes me feel smart. I appreciate it.

Grackle
Grackle
6 years ago
Reply to  Gary

Thanks! I think it’s literally the first smart thing I’ve said in months so I’m glad.

twilight
twilight
6 years ago

Has anyone here read the book? I have, and really enjoyed it. There is a reason for everything and I think the cover is awesome. Supposed to be blurred because of where the picture takes place. Typo? Where…The sentence is correct: The Long, Lost Exit Home. Also, the title makes sense once again if you read the book. I just don’t think you have anything better to do with your time then pick on hard working indie authors that do their very best. Everything on the cover has meaning. How boring it would be with all the same font, yuck!

twilight
twilight
6 years ago
Reply to  Nathan

Oh well, I guess it’s just more opinion. Poems mostly always have a capital on the first line of the sentence.

What about your book cover, “LEVELS” I personally don’t like it because is looks like a dark toilet bowl? So… it’s all a matter of opinion. I don’t like picking on anybody, but I will bite back. There will always be something that somebody does not like about something! So I leave this conversation and get back to more important things like my family and work.

red
red
6 years ago
Reply to  twilight

> How boring it would be with all the same font, yuck!

I agree, but “Home” should be in a cross-stitch sampler font.

> Everything on the cover has meaning.

That “When night falls…” verse really needs “Burma Shave” after it.

Tuula
Tuula
6 years ago
Reply to  twilight

No, we have not read the book, nor are we going to. The cover is meant to entice a reader to pick up the book and read it – not as something you look at afterwards and go AAAH, now I know why the cover had to have such an amateurish photo on it!

This does not make me, and I doubt anyone else, want to read it. Even if they may winder at the Long Exit.

twilight
twilight
6 years ago

Yes, it would have been cool with a cross-stitch sampler font for “Home”. I am not a writer, so what does a “Burma Shave” mean?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
6 years ago
Reply to  twilight

From 1920 to 1963 Burma-Shave posted advertising signs along highways each with one line of a jingle, ending with “Burma-Shave”.

red
red
6 years ago
Reply to  twilight

Despite the illustration, the cover has a sort of playful air to it. The title treatment suggests an element of humor or parody to the book, and the verse is much like the old Burma Shave jingles–I thought that might have been done intentionally as a play on the illustration. (Burma Shave was a brand of shaving cream.)