Saturday, March 8, 2008

Castles In The Air


Sir Lancelot gazed fondly into the soft blue pools of Lady Guineviere's eyes and gently held her mutant third hand. Wait, what?

Courtesy the beautiful Judge A Book By Its Cover.

34 comments:

I'll try that! said...

Thats brilliant. I'll keep and eye out me self for any of these and let you know!

Sidney said...

This is hilarious, I am loving your blog, Thanks for the laughs! Keep it up!

Shama-Lama Mama said...

GREAT idea for a blog! My husband and I are LOVING it! Keep them coming! We subscribed!

Ryan Selvy said...

Hahahha another amazing find! =)

Maughta said...

Hi,

Thanks for the link. I have to point out, though, that this is not a photoshop error. It's an actual painting. The artist just got overexcited, methinks.

Maughta @ Judge a Book

Bla said...

Freakin' LOL.

Anonymous said...

that is really funny! and bizarre

weno said...

hilarious!

Erik said...

Or Lancelot thinks a severed hand is a great, romantic gift to give the lady.

Maria said...

Well, it does say Priceless on the cover... ;o)

lorrwill said...

ROFLMAO!!!!

heavyness said...

read the book! it's about a man who falls in love with a 3 armed women!

Anonymous said...

upon closer inspection, it appears that the dude has 6 fingers on that hand anyway. these two are perfect for each other...

Tessa said...

what is going ON? amazing find.

miznyc said...

bwa ha ha!!!
*subscribing*

xenobiologista said...

Nobody ever said people who read Mills & Boon romances were smart.

Or people who illustrate Mills & Boon novels...

Or people who WRITE Mills & Boon novels, for that matter.

mithrilian said...

Maughta says: "Thanks for the link. I have to point out, though, that this is not a photoshop error. It's an actual painting. The artist just got overexcited, methinks."

It does seem to be a painting, scanned and worked on with photoshop. I suspect there is another lady "underneath" the one we see. The guy is holding the hand of the deleted lady. You could see that his gaze is not directed at the new lady's eyes but strangely at the top of her head. The deleted lady must have been lying in a different position, maybe lower upon the ground.

LallaLydia said...

OMG LOL I'mn going to be walking around the pulp fiction/romance section of the bookstore staring oddly at the covers now...

Anonymous said...

This in infamous. But it IS NOT Photoshopped. The painting was incorrect. The book's author herself has commented on this.

Anonymous said...

That first is not a PhotoShop disaster. It is an actual book cover that was released and sold. It is now quite the collector's item. That's a book by Christine Dodd and she got some good mileage out of her three-armed hero. I guess romance authors are smarter than some folks think.

Anonymous said...

I bet it helps her with her ski-boxing!

Anonymous said...

This post was posted to a forum I read, and someone found a blog entry from the author of this book.

http://squawkradio.blogspot.com/2005/05/on-other-hand-christina-dodd-talks.html

Anonymous said...

too funny! Thanks for the laugh!

Anonymous said...

i think he has even 7 fingers or so..

Katana said...

I read the blog post by Christina Dodd and nowhere does it say it wasn't photo shopped. She never stated where the print came from, and she had no idea it was an error until the book had already been published.

Sid said...

That's hilarious :)

Lin Sigs said...

good eye! lol. I love the mutant hand. That's a romance novel I would read!

Anonymous said...

You guys are silly, that's obviously his man hood :P

Kristen said...

omg! ahaahha

Anonymous said...

three arms? she's a witch!

Anonymous said...

I laughed so hard I almost woke up my entire household! Thanks for the chuckles!

Caitlyn =] said...

They do that so the shopper/reader won't forget the tittle and they buy the brand :] Marketing Genius. Its been used before the photoshop ages :]

ThatDeborahGirl said...

OMG. This reminds me of this part in Huck Finn where this girl artist was drawing a picture of a girl looking at the moon but she couldn't decide how to position the arms (arms folded, arms reaching to the moon, etc.). The artist died before she could finish it, so the picture had four pairs of arms drawn on in different positions.

I always wished I could have seen that picture and now, in a way, I have. Thanks!

Hikari said...

hahaha this is the best of the best :D