Jul 02
Click for full imageArt Direction: Hilarious escapade? Well then, no one is going to care what we put on there. In fact lets just put everything we can! Including Centaurs, which I hear are the next big thing. And we’ll have giant people with planets for faces! We’ll stop there but wait till you see what I have in mind for the font!
Published 2001
(Rating: 6.75 out of 10)
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July 2nd, 2010 at 9:36 am
Minotaurs? Centaurs, surely?
I’m quite taken with the giant crow as well.
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 am
I want that font. I want every ssssentence I type to contain at leassssst one of them letter esses with the face on.
I assume the plot of this book involves a fancy dress party. Come as Saturn, or the Moon, or Jupiter, or a 60-watt bulb.
Come as a tiny person, or a bird of indeterminate size, or as a centaur.
Just one question: why don’t the centaur’s have mini-me hands?
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 am
Centaurs, not centaur’s.
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:40 am
Now this is just odd. Really, really odd.
The more I look at it the more I have no idea what anyone was thinking when they made this cover.
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:42 am
‘Gosh, there’s a man with a moon for a head…quick, give him some cheese’
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:48 am
I pity the mighty celestial being with Uranus for a head…
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:03 am
Aren’t those centaurs, not minotaurs? I don’t see any bull-halves.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 am
Talkie> yep changed now. Centaurs, minotaurs… pfft all the same thing to me.
“It’s difficult being the only non gas giant face here. They don’t get craters in their faces.”
July 2nd, 2010 at 11:17 am
Hot
July 2nd, 2010 at 11:49 am
Sadly, Pluto-head wasn’t invited.
July 2nd, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Everything on this cover, including that ghastly title, can be adequately explained in two words:
Piers. Anthony.
/ Spent a few months in high school reading the Xanth books until she got a clue.
July 2nd, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Haha Yea we know the Piers sure likes to throw them out there. Being a regular on the site.
Its no Sos the rope though:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/09/sos-the-rope/
July 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Swell Foop?! Really? There is no way I would ever say that title aloud. “What am I reading? Um, Swell Foop.” Forget it.
July 2nd, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I read a lot of Piers Anthony stuff when I was younger including this book.
I can assure you that the cover is pretty literal as to its characters.
I only read a dozen or so of his books before I realized that they were, uh, bad. Really bad. But I was 14, so whatever. I don’t need this judgement.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Honestly I think the artist did a great job illustrating the concept of “Swell Foop.”
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:25 am
To be honest, the cover fits the book perfectly. It is a Xanth novel after all.
Confession: I have read this one, and the dirty little secret is that I laughed at most of the puns.
July 3rd, 2010 at 4:55 am
I prefer my centaurs to have men growing out of their arms.
July 3rd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
I prefer my centaurs to be part feline, a lol-taur if you will. http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/05/daggers-point/
July 6th, 2010 at 10:38 am
A whole new meaning for mooning.
July 7th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
The guy in the red robes is saying “Sphere not!”