Jul 02
Rachel J Comments: To view this cover, be sure to put on your 3-D glasses! Then take them off again to read the book.
Published 2011
Rachel J Comments: To view this cover, be sure to put on your 3-D glasses! Then take them off again to read the book.
Published 2011
July 2nd, 2013 at 9:32 am
Moon face! Mooooooon faaaaaaaace!!!
July 2nd, 2013 at 10:31 am
Ironically the cover star wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the 3D effect, what with the eyepatch and all.
July 2nd, 2013 at 10:59 am
What? No packet of microwave popcorn stuck to the back cover? So no artificially butter-flavored thumbprints on the pages of secondhand copies? I feel doubly cheated.
July 2nd, 2013 at 11:04 am
@THX. Ah, but he’s not actually missing all that much. The 3D just makes the cover look as if it’s been assembled out of flat cardboard cut-outs.
July 2nd, 2013 at 11:27 am
When did Pierre Boulle change his name to Vintage?
July 2nd, 2013 at 12:13 pm
Why does the “A” in “planet” look like a pair of cast off trousers? Having recently read the novel, I know for a fact that the apes in Boulle’s story don’t run around without their pants on, like the animal characters in a lot of children’s cartoons. What’s up with that, by the way? (I’m looking at you, Donald Duck.)
July 2nd, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Man: We came from space!
Ape: I don’t believe you… it’s against our religion.
Man: Well.. there’s my space ship… right there… flying!
Ape: Uh… that’s… uh… black magic!
Man: Seriously? …. damn dirty…ape…
Ape: WHAT did you say!?!
Man: I said… Damn… dirty… uh.. cape! Your cape is filthy. Yeah….
July 2nd, 2013 at 1:00 pm
I want the text to be in 3D also. It would be like a pop-up book with no pictures. The nouns would be at all different distances from each other. The action verbs would jump out at you. And oh those dangling participles.
July 2nd, 2013 at 1:54 pm
@Bibliomancer 8—good idea, but the split infinitives would cause serious eyestrain.
July 2nd, 2013 at 2:34 pm
@Rachel J — How many enjoyable hours have you spent looking at the 3D cover? If I buy this book I want to make sure the 3D is worth the extra price.
July 2nd, 2013 at 2:44 pm
“The Marlboro Man” on the Planet of the Apes was slightly altered to appeal to the masses.
I am hoping for a pic of Ape “Mr Clean” next.
July 2nd, 2013 at 5:42 pm
And the two different pairs of cardboard 3D glasses that I didn’t throw out when I moved house finally come into their own.
The red/light blue Red Bull pair worked better than the orange/dark blue Channel 4 pair.
July 2nd, 2013 at 9:41 pm
*blink* Punnett of the Apes?
Gregor Mendel: ‘Let my people go!…and cross-breed!’
Barbara McClintock: *simper*
July 2nd, 2013 at 10:09 pm
He’s either smoking a cigar or he had his tongue circumcised. I hope to God it’s the first of those two options.
July 3rd, 2013 at 2:23 am
@Bibliomancer. Unfortunately the 3D is really rather a letdown, in my opinion.
But you don’t need to take my word for this– just get some 3D glasses and see for yourself!
July 3rd, 2013 at 4:15 am
@Rachel – you mean the writing doesn’t leap right off the page??
July 3rd, 2013 at 12:50 pm
Vintage were really creative in keeping costs down when the entire cover run was inadvertently printed with mis-aligned colour separations.
August 6th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Why is it, that if, any species is an eye-patch wearer, then he/she must also smoke cigars?
January 5th, 2016 at 8:57 am
“Hey! Ape must not subject ape to passive smoking! For it is Ape Law.”
January 5th, 2016 at 10:20 am
@Anti-Sceptic, @A.R.Yngve: I think that’s a finger.