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Gareth S. Brown
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Musician with Death-Static, The Declining Winter, Your Good Selves (formerly with Memory Drawings, Hood, Canvas, etc)
Game designer for Red Plenty Games
Employee at University and College Union
Member of Leeds Surrealist Group
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20

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Image shows cover of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Dunwich Horror'. The whole cover is taken up by a brightly coloured and psychedelic picture of a creature appearing to advance towards the onlooker across some farm land. It has a head like a goat but which is partly obscured by a shining globe. Its body is in reds, greens, and yellows and possibly covered in fish scales. Red tentacles emerge from its stomach. On its legs, as if symbols on its clothing rather than body parts, are two circles somewhat like wagon wheels. A relatively normal farm house is in the background but the sky is green and the sun or moon is turquoise. The Author name is in black at the top with the title beneath it in pink. Above the author name, also in pink, is written 'Travels into unspeakable terror by America's master of weird fantasy'. Underneath the title, again in pink, are the words 'With an introduction by AUGUST DEREITH'
December 15, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20

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Image shows the cover of Peter Godfrey-Smith's 'Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life'. A drawing of an orange octopus, from an above head-on perspective, takes up the centre of the the image, with its arms arranged in such a way that it tends towards the symetrical. The author name is in blue at the bottom, with the book name in blue at the top arranged in two columns - one with the main title, one with the subtitle. The background is an almost white grey.
December 14, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 18/20

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Image shows the cover of 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak. The title is in black on a white bar across the top. Similarly set out across the bottom are the words 'STORY AND PICTURES BY MAURICE SENDAK'. Between them, we are shown a beast with a head like a bull, a blue-grey furry body, with claws on its hands, but with human-like feet, sitting among some tall trees with its eyes closed as if sleeping. Next to it is a body of water in which there is a boat with orange wood and yellow sails.
December 13, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20

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Image shows the cover of Joyce Mansour's 'Flash Card'. It features a square, black and white collague in the forground of which are two romanesque statues, one with their arm around the other. Behind them is a grand paino with a rose emerging from the case. A gigantic (in relation to the piano) pocket watch stands propped up against it. The Title is above and to the left of the square in simple black type. The author name is at the bottom and to the right.
December 12, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20

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Image shows the cover of a Pelican Books edition of E.P. Thompson's 'The Making of the English Working Class'. A no-nonsense white box header contains the title in black and author name in blue. Below is a painting of a figure walking with a stick, smoking a pipe, and carrying a basket (on his way to work, perhops it is implied). In the background is a rail bridge with a very early steam train on it, pulling a coal cart.
December 11, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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😮 He does look like a situationist
December 10, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20

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Image shows the cover of Raoul Vaneigem's 'The Revolution of Everyday Life'. The cover is divided into three roughly equal horizontal bars (although the first is a little bit narrower). The higest bar is a mid grey with the title right at the bottom in black with the exception of the word 'everyday' which is in a sort of peach colour. The middlemost bar is a photograph of a snowy, mountainous scene with a silhouette of a figure in the foreground looking out upon it. The author name is in the top right of this bar. The lowest bar is black. At the top of it is written 'We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom'.
December 10, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20

Supposed to be covers but this one lost its cover about 43 years ago after being read 100s of times

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Image shows the title page of issue 1 of Fanstastic Four Pocket Book (a 1980 UK-published black and white reprint of Fantasic Four Annual 3). The main image is of Doctor Doom peering over the top of a newspaper bearing the headline 'TODAY'S THE DAY: WEDDING BELLS FOR REED AND SUE!'. You can see the fingers of his metal gloves around the edge of the paper and the top part of his metal mask with rectangular eye holes. He is hooded and the beginnings of his cape are visible. Above the top border of the image, words read 'THE FABULOUS F.F. HOLD A LONG-AWAITED WEDDING, ONLY TO FIND...' and then below that, within the image frame in an explosivce text box, it says 'BEDLAM AT THE BAXTER BUILDING!'. A circular box on the upper left contains the words 'THE MOST SENSATIONAL SUPER-SPECTACULAR EVER WITNESSED BY HUMAN EYES!!' On the opposite side, in a rectangular box are the author credits.
December 9, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20

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Image shows the cover of David Toop's 'Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication'. A large photograph, probably originally monochrome but with the white spaces artificially colourised to light blue, takes up all but the top 10 percent of the cover. It shows water, with concentric ripples from, perhaps, rain drops. A reflection suggest a tree but it is hard to make out. The photo has a white border. At the top of the page the author name is in simple black capitals, with the main title next to it in the same shade of blue as the photograph. The sub-heading is underneath in much smaller type. At the top right of the photograph, within its boundary, are the words, in white ''This history of ambient music is a masterpiece' Observer '50 Greatest Music Books Ever''
December 8, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20

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Image shows the cover of Charles Fourier's 'The Theory of the Four Movements'. It is a spectacularly horribly designed cover and in all honesty, I nearly forewent the alt text because you may be better off not knowing. However, since you clicked the alt button, It's a mid-to-dark blue cover with the title written in orange faux handwriting ever so slightly lower then the centre. The author surname (we don't get the first name) is in white, above it and to the right. The series title 'Cambridge texts in the history of political though' is in a thin column of white text - one word to a line in every case except 'in the' - and the editor names are in a thin column of orange text at the bottom. Between every line of text is an orange line. It is foul.
December 7, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20

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Image shows the cover of Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphianus. The author name is in gold at the top, with the title just below in gold with a black fill. In the centre of the of the cover is what looks like spilled, red jam but with a perfect empty circle in the middle. Emerging from the jam, as if the jam itself is producing them, are a large number of ladybirds spreading out over the page. Beneath them is a paragraph of writing consiting of invented words and letters. All these elements are surrounded by a thin, gold border with a strange symbol in each corner. The background is cream in colour.
December 6, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20

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Image shows the cover of Angela Davis' 'Women, Race & Class' The title is in bold yellow print in the lower half, with the author name in white above it. The upper half shows a black and white photo of the author looking like she is completely done with your shit.
December 5, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20

(Cheating today by mentioning the author - Jim Woodring - as his name is not on the cover)

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Image shows the brightly coloured cover of Jim Woodring's 'The Frank Book'. The title is in large, curvy, serif lettering devised by the author/illustrator. There is a shape reminiscent of a club from a deck of cards cut into the A of 'Frank'. Underneath is a picture of the book's protagonist, Frank, an anthorporphised bipedal creature of uncertain species, sitting on an ornate chair on a balcony. Next two him are two strangely shaped animals filling, it is implied, the domestic niche normally filled by pet dogs. On another balcony beyond Frank, a frog can be seen calling out to the sky. Three other frogs can be seen just below the first frog (perhpas on the ground, perhaps on another balcony) also calling out to the sky. In the further distance another building, purple and red, can be seen. The shape of the buidling is slightly like a frog's head. The title and picture are on a background that looks a little like a turkish rug until you notice it is made of eyes.
December 4, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20

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Image shows the cover of Ian Bone's 'Bash the Rich: True-Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK'. The title is in graffiti-style yellow writing on a red banner. Below it is a black and white photographic collage, the most prominent part of which is the author standing with an arm full of Class War newspapers. He is bald and bespectacled.
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20

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Image shows the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature edition of Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams'. It consists of a borderless image showing a formation of rocks stretching upwards in a way that is reminiscent of fingers, with a fallen tree in the foreground. The colour and sparseness of the leaves suggests Autumn. The title and author name are at the top in a cheap looking font.
December 2, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20

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Image shows a puffin books edition of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures on Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'. The author name is printed in black while the two titles are pink. Between the two titles is Teniel's illustration of Alice holding an indignant flamingo while steadying a rolled-up hedgehog with her foot. Another hedgehog wanders off in the background. The background is a sort of duck egg colour.
December 1, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20

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Image shows Patrick Hughes and George Brecht's 'Vicious Circles and Infinity: An Anthology of Paradoxes'. The title sits in the upper part of a black border within which there are three frames stacked atop one another charting the development of an ouroboros. Frame 1 is a black and yellow snake in the desert inspecting its tail, frame 2 shows the snake beginning to swallow itself, and in frame 3 the snake has vanished, leaving only the scenery. Changing shadows across the three frames suggest the passage of time.
November 30, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20

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Image shows the cover of Judith Butler's 'Gender Trouble'. It features an early 20th century sepia photgraphic portrait of two children of ambiguous gender. The word 'Butler' is printed in white, with 'Gender Trouble' written in a white bar below it.
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20

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Image shows the cover of Harry Cleaver's 'Reading Capital Politically'. The title and author name are in yellow over the top of a collage of words in mid to dark greys.
November 28, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20

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Image shows the cover of 'Moebius 5: The collected fantasies of Jean Giraud. The Gardens of Aedena' Within a pink Border, there is a picture of two figures floating in a transparent orb over a forest.
November 27, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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OK, this might be the thing to get me posting rather than simply lurking. Thnx for the inspiration @smioner.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20

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Images shows a paperback copy of 'Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations', edited by Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski and published by Pluto Press.
November 26, 2024 at 8:50 AM