ranking all the new covers of THE SUN ALSO RISES by ernest hemingway
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- The Hemingway Lover has logged on. Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises came out of copyright this year and EVERYONE IS MAKING NEW COVERS FOR IT. As the world's premiere expert on covers of The Sun Also Rises, I'm judgin' 'em.
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I haven’t read a single Hemingway book but I absolutely want to see Simone talk about something she loves and also I just love checking out book covers
this is the goal, you're trapped here, listen to me,
@@SimonedeRochefort You know honestly I’m kind of interested in reading it now after seeing your passion for it! And maybe if I do read it I’ll make my own video on my own channel about it and rate the book, but also - more importantly - the cover of whichever version I get 🤷🏻♂️
Yes, I would watch videos of Simone talk about things she finds interesting on personal channel too! Her Polygon stuff is .
“Vigor is what I see when I perceive this ass crack” god tier quote right there
You doing fun wacky videos about stuff you love aside from video games is so great, and I know you have a big girl grownup job about video games, but I also really love this and wanna see you doing more stuff like this about your passions
thank youuuuuuuuuuu
If someone said to me that I would voluntarily watch a half an hour video about Hemingway book covers, and enjoy it, I'd say they were wrong... and yet... you actually make this fascinating. Thanks!
Also, book covers are so important. I had a second hand copy of a particular book when I was a kid that I never read because I hated the cover so much. I would get a nicer cover out the library to read!
THANK YOU CLAIRE!
The most on-brand content possible. Thank you Simone.
The last one looked like the title page of a PowerPoint presentation I would have done in 5th grade.
Can you please do this for every Hemingway eventually? I love seeing all the different interpretations for books that have been around for so long and your presentation from such a dire place of investment is priceless.
i have never said this sentence with this much love and respect in my heart: simone why are you like this
no one can tell me
This was a magnificent time, and the breakdown of styles and covers was incredibly fun. I especially appreciate the rating being affected via matador booty. And also really good examinations of impact of each cover. But Also.
This is so cute!! Your relationship with Hemingway is my mom's relationship with Fitzgerald - I would love to hear her sort of analogous opinions to these, hahaha. Thanks for sharing!! I AGREE on that BLUE one it's beautiful
omg, there are some truly rotten Fitzgerald covers out there! You should definitely get her opinions on them lol
Can I be friends with your mom?! I have a similar relationship with Fitzgerald!
i have never read this book but by god do i relate to the struggle of trying to find nice book covers and/or buying more versions of the same book than i could possibly need
This is the kind of oddly specific video topic you only find deep into the night…
it's 24/7 in my house
I have a copy of _The Scarlet Pimpernel_ that I've long believed has the least ept cover in existence: a painting of a fencing match (there are none in the story) in a castle basement (nope) lit by a candelabrum that cannot be causing any of the visible shadows. The tagline reads "One masked man fights to save a city held hostage by Terr" -- like, they forgot to make sure the text fit and accidentally clipped the final word. (And also nobody ever wears a mask and there isn't any fighting, really, plus it's a whole team of dudes and they're saving individual people & not a city.) It's part of a series of reprints that Walmart sold 2 for $1 back in the '90s and it looks every penny of the price.
BUT EVEN SO I was not prepared for the last cover in your collection here! What a find.
Simone, this is grade A content! Actually, A+. I know you don't probably have loads of time to devote to this channel, but if you do decide to make more of these vlog-style videos, I will watch the shit out of them. Great work!!
This is something I would never actively search up, but just seeing your enthusiasm and love for the book was absolutely captivating! Great video from a terribly inconsistent RUclips channel
Please, please do more Hemingway content. This was fantastic. I yearn for more.
"The Sun Also Rises" is the only Hemingway I've read and Simone's passion makes me want to reread it. Love this video
I’m so glad that even with 4 months of editing you still managed to get your’s out first.
LOL
i have a bit of a hate-hate relationship with ole hemingway, but as an ex-library-worker turned visual artist this video is RIGHT up my alley. in fact i don't know how, but you've made so many videos that pertain to all my most niche interests??? keep up the great work, simone! 😊
This was great! I’m from Fort Worth and read about the King Candy Company and the real connection to Hemingway and the portrayal in the book.. learned The Sun Also Rises was actually based on real people and all of a sudden it came to life in a whole new way! Anyone interested in rediscovering or setting out to read The Sun Also Rises, I highly recommend reading “Everybody Behaves Badly” first .. Simone, these covers uncovered and your critique was just awesome and fun! I laughed when I saw you had done this because I had just picked a cover for reading the book after looking around for one that appealed best to me. Who knew you did this! lol . The audio version with the bright colors and the sun itself used as the “O” that you gave an A+ for was the book I had picked out… that cover is now a book .. cool! Keep it up, this was just fun! And thank you for doing it
the way i gasped when the last cover popped up
This is very good content Simone, I love your analysis and enthusiasm.
Simone stumping for indie bookstores, not a surprising development, but certainly a delightful one!!
also worth noting that every single one of these ratings is 100% objectively true and correct, so good job
ALSO also, i cannot unsee that in the dover thrift edition, the matador cape is hiding the fact that it would be physically impossible for his torso to be turned that way if we're seeing his legs from behind
Someone who understands art please draw him without the cape
i have never read a hemingway book, but i was so taken by the penguin classics deluxe cover that i ordered it immediately. thank you for your video simone! excited to become slightly more cultured.
Watching Simone talk about Hemingway is basically comfort food
I neither share nor understand Simone's passion, but I love watching the geek-out.
Just love watching you be so excited! The Sun Also Rises is one of my favorites even if I always liked Camus' writing more than Hemingway.
I could watch you talk about book covers all day. Do more of this stuff!!!
This is the most Simone de Rochefort content on the internet.
This is one of the channels I subscribed not expecting for an upload. This is a pleasant surprise.
this is delightful, thank you, i love this review
Such a good idea for a video! Fun watch, thank you Simone
As someone whos favorite genre of youtube video is "someone talking for a half hour or more about something their passionate about even if Ive never once cared about it in my entire life" this video is my drug fix.
Also while ive never read a Hemingway book, my favorite book of all time is Jane Eyre so I can still definitely relate to the energy of "huge book nerd for an old classic not enough people have read except maybe for school" from this video
I've been such a fan of Mumma Simone for years now. So heart warming to see Simone posting such a detailed video about her love of Hemingway. I am so here for this energy.
Oh, and PS. Bring back Awful Squad!!
Just wanted to mention that you are hilarious and awesome. Thanks for this video.
Such a good video! Your love for this book (and the covers) is so infectious, don't feel too pressured...but please make more of these lol
I was never really into books but after watching Midnight in Paris (which is one of my favorite feel good melancholy films) I read the sun also rises at my school library. It’s my favorite book and I feel like it has similarities to Midnight in Paris. I also think the blackstone cover, which I’ve recently bought, deserves an A+.
This video filled me with joy and watered my crops
Been waiting for this since you tweeted 😭
i know.. snippets about hemingway and Absolutely nothing about the sun also rises but this is a very enjoyable video. love watching peoe talk about thinks they love
Glad/hope it made sense even without context lol
A commendable effort, I appreciate the deep dive
love ya, simone!
Forgot that I subscribed until this video that caters exactly to my interests of classic lit and gorgeous covers; thank you Simone!
The video I didn't know I needed
analysing book covers is so fun, this is a great video
Read the Sun Also Rises last year and loved it, this was a really fun video! I liked hearing your analysis of each design, and I want copies of all the A+ covers now.
Well, if nothing else, you've convinced me to try reading this book.
Also my favourite was the one that looked like a stained-glass sun.
I've recently fallen in love HARD with sun imagery so, yeah :D
I definitely stand by my love of that cover!
I’ve mentioned this before but it’s worth mentioning again, I read Everybody Behaves Badly (the history book about Hemingway and Sun) before I actually read The Sun Also Rises and it was really helpful in giving me context for it and preparing me for how much of an a-hole Hemingway was lol
This was great! I admire your restraint in not commenting on how the bizarre choices in the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics edition direct the eye towards exactly one area in the photo lol (also I was relieved when you retracted the C+ from the very last one, it deserves to flunk the class & get a Graphic Design Is My Passion made out of it!)
I have never heard of this book before but I appreciate your passion
Just ordered my new favorite yoga mat. Because nothing says tranquility like a horse's intestines falling to the dirt of a bullfighting arena.
ahhhhhhhhhh!
I'm like a minute into this and am just a little overwhelmed by the absolute serve.
"5:00 hey what if we dedicated like 1/3 of the real estate to the Elizabeth Warren Stan green pantone" yeah these suck real bad!
Penguin Classics Deluxe is gonna literally get a cop by me tho that shit is FRESH.
Simone seeing carefully curated photo covers: -_-
Simone seeing OrANgE: 👀
(Simone seeing BLUE: 🙌)
No but really your opinions were *so* on point (apart from that one C+ lol), I can't decide which of the A+s is my fav
lmaooooo really though!!
I’m so glad to see you make this kind of content! I just got back from Paris last weekend and if I had a Twitter you know I would have been bugging you for the Hemingway haunts I needed to visit! I did hit up Les Deux Magots and Shakespeare and Co so I think I did ok!
Hahaha! Loved the enthusiasm. I share the love for: the sun also rises.
I was… somehow waiting for you to rank the new Scribner’s edition because i’m indecisive between new Scribner’s or penguin’s (the one you got). Anyways, had fun watching this…
Fantastic
OMG the yoga mat HAHAHAA
imagine if the blackstone audio book cover was embossed along the gold framing lines, and how it would feel to touch it while reading!! 😍
Thank you sim1
The blue Penguin cover is my favorite by far! So pretty. Loved all your takes ☺
Simone, I loved this! This was a lot of fun. I watch so many RUclips videos about video games and so few about books. I’d be thrilled if you made more personal interest videos like this. I’ve never read The Sun Also Rises, but maybe I should?? The comic art edition (the one you actually own) was gorgeous.
Petition for a Patreon, the content and purpose of which explicitly only relates to The Sun Also Rises.
i love seeing reactions to covers and having my own reactions to them and learning a bit about the book. (I was also reminded of my abandoned wishlist at my local bookshop so now I'm browsing books it might take me years to read)
I am delighted by this video! I do exactly the same thing regarding collecting covers of varied beautiful editions of my own favourite books (the Sherlock Holmes books, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Jane Eyre). It’s so nice to get to see someone talk so enthusiastically about their own faves. I so enjoyed this vid Simone!
thank you!!!!!
great stuff!! gotta watch this and immediately relisten to that Spouter-Inn episode where you talk about Hemingway
oh thank you!! I’m so glad you listen to Spouter, it’s still one of my favorite podcasts.
25:14 to 25:30 makes me think of Professor Oak grading photos in Pokemon Snap.
once, my friend was going to get my favorite book so she could read it as well, but when I saw the cover she was about to purchase I dragged her across the store to check for variants because I was so opposed
that is to say, while I have never read the sun also rises I understood this video deeply
oh HELL yes
Really great video! I even rewound certain parts of it so i could catch certain jokes that quickly went by! 😅
Btw, i only caught that it was more than 30mins long after it finished, which kinda shocked me since it truly was so seamless and engaging that it didnt seem like that much time passed, lol. Amazing work! Thank you for sharing it!
that is the HIGHEST order of compliment!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for the captions! However I noticed they were wrong in some places.
I think legally I have to read this book now
Nice content
I'd like to see the covers of the editions in your collection
That image of the Word Cloud Classics from Canterbury doesn't do the book justice. It's all embossed on the flexibound cover, so it has a soft embossed leathery look. I've been thinking about getting it to read The Sun Also Rises for the first time because it looks inviting and comfortable to hold. I also dig their end papers with the stylized black bull. However, I adored the ass crack of vigor too.
God. Watching Simone rave about alternate book covers makes me wish I had passions. :/ on a less depracating note: People talking about things they like to no practical ends is my favourite brand of content and I hope we get to see more of it from you Simone.
It's also cool how you shoutout the artists of the covers.
I am also going to rate these book covers. I have not read the book, nor do I know of the authors works, nor do I have any design or literary expertise. But I do have a corner of the internet in this comment section, so I'm qualified to give my opinion:
1;The good painting makes a good backdrop for a simple and effective cover.
2;bonus points for ass, maybe the words should be bigger, idk. I guess you'll recognise it if you know the book. (I don't)
3; I think black and white pictures suck for book covers because they just feel so detatched from what I'm looking for. Like, I can't comprehend this, what is in this book for me? This takes something like the 1920's and turns it into an alien world.
4; I didn't realise Jojo's Bizarre Adventure had a bullfighting scene, but it's got everything that makes Jjba art good: dramatic faceoff, dramatic ass, tension and focus, so it's also pretty good to me.
5; That's just a dude with a black box over his tits afaik. And white on grey? No-one's looking at this and wondering what it is. That's a miss for me.
6; Looks inviting, calling anything 'the great' is bold, but I confess ignorance, I'll let it slide. Bonus points for large print because books _should_ be accessible.
7; This was criminally neglected by Simone. The brown is beautiful and the pattern picture is appealing in itself. Sure, the lots of writing makes it look pretty busy but it fits quite well with the complex pattern underneath. I think this is one of my favourites of the video and I gotta defend it. It looks full.
8; This is how people started to draw Freddie Mercury after he died. That's just Freddie Mercury. Bullfighting Freddie Mercury. Bullfighting Freddie Mercury who shaved his face. Anyways. Not sure what it's got to do with the book but I like Freddie so it passes.
9; Almost the best, however, not a fan of the fact that the sun is the o. Also not a fan of the fact that the picnture doesn't take up the whole cover. It could've, they could've done that. They didn't. But it looks great still so hit.
Little break to acknowledge Simone's real can do attitude to fucking. You tell em!
10; An 8 year old made this in I.T. Like...it's not egregious, but miss.
11; Poggers cover because when I first see it I don't know what's happening but it still looks cool so I'm interested, then the picture becomes clear and it's still good. That yellow/orange on white is a miss but hey, the bull's not black! Big W for this cover.
12; Very cool. I think that the 3 colours do so much for it. Adding personality while also highlighting each part of the cover but without being overbearing or complex. An expert made this. Or a 3 year old with a solid grasp of colours. Either way, got my vote.
13; Making the cover a Wordcloud in the shape of a sun is an awesome idea. Simone however, doesn't seem impressed by the actual contents of the wordcloud. 8/10 for the idea but maybe they should've stuck to quotes or something? idk. Not my field.
14; very nice all round. Easy and alluring. Fits anywhere. put it on a book, put it on my wall, put it on you phone. That's a damn good piece of art. Text included.
15; Bonus points for blue and sideways. Mid on the font.
16; Simone has awoken a distate foer gradients in me. That's like a 50% point penalty. Also we all noticed the lack of ass and the wierd cropping. They almost had something great here. Oh well.
17; The comic vibes are honestly what a book needs to be revitalised when it falls into the public domain. It may be the most unique one here. Also bonus points for all the art that's not the front cover. Very nice all round.
18; Looks Greek tbh, good, Ig. I'm not sure how it fits but seems nice.
19; A less aware 8 year old made this. No on most fronts. Also, gotta say something about those fucking punching bags, damn. Not what I want from a book.
If you got this far. Maybe you should review the covers yourself. Unless you're Simone, for obvious reasons. Don't wanna get stuck in a loop here.
Anyways, the book covers are alot of things but Simone's content is poggers and that's the main point here.
I unironically love the Ancient Wisdom Publications version. It's exactly my brand of garbage.
I enjoyed this a lot! Really great to see your passion, and it's so interesting looking at all the different choices that are made for the same book.
Just a heads-up that your subtitles are very wrong in places -- a lot of difficulties with names (it spells 'Simone' 'Symon' at one point) and sometimes with speech that a computer might find unclear.
The best one is the penguin classics cover I think all of those covers are great
17:20 okay but can we have a simone series where she does nothing but critique literary characters' inability to bring their women to orgasm
Most of my books are from *grupo editorial tomo* , and they don't do a lot with the covers, for instance I have the entire works of Albert Camus, and it's the same picture of Camus on every book, so seeing someone so excited about the covers is interesting 🦊
Being from a non-english speaking country basically everything I've learned about Hemingway has been against my will and because of Simone... and I wouldn't have it any other way
Simone told us not to come here but I don't handle authority well, so....
Simone!🖤
Well, now I want a video on the older covers! If only to confirm my already biased view.....(go Greeks!)!
love this video! love this kind of content! just wanted to also say there are a few typos/errors in your captions (thank you for adding your own bc the autocaptions are just The Worst)
i rlly do love watching ppl talk/educate/ramble/enthuse abt things they love! i personally have very little memory of his books (bc i don’t think i’ve read his books since high school probably) but god i love this video so much
Would be interested in what you think of Hemingway's literature in general...
A vigourass dressing down of these covers but will you follow up with the covers you already own?
I should!!
@@SimonedeRochefort interspliced with F1 material
Plz plz plz look up the Frank Frazetta versions of the John of Mars series (first three). Thank you and you’re welcome.
Never read this book but I really enjoyed the video! (god that last one was hilariously bad)
I really recommend the history of it that I talked about in this vid - Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesly M.M. Blume! It gives a lot of context for how the book was written which helped me appreciate Sun when I first read it.
@@SimonedeRochefort I will definitely check it out!
5:28 I though his name was F. Scott Fitzgerald, not A. Scott Fitzgerald. (I'm sorry)
i went out of my way to buy a copy of this book after watching this video. simone what have you done to me i only read gay youth literature
OH GOD NO I SPECIFICALLY DON'T RECOMMEND STARTING WITH IT ARE YOU OK
@@SimonedeRochefort i got like 4 chapters in, put a quote as my discord status and then set it on my nightstand so take from that what you will 🥰
Also, not to detract from this excellent video, but my inner animal rights activist feels obligated to point out that bullfighters are scum.
indeed