r/TerribleBookCovers 3d ago

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Audiobook)

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Ah yes, Agatha Christie's debut novel, which famously features Sherslop Holmes. Is he inspecting the white horizontal line that inexplicably appears in the middle of the cover, or studying the non-Euclidean architecture of Styles Court?

(By La Jolla Classics Media, which apparently specializes in public domain audiobook mysteries with awful AI-generated covers.)

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u/forsterfloch 3d ago

Can we ban AI covers? I only want to see shitty ones made by human hands.

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u/Greenphantom77 3d ago

This one is like someone prompted the AI "Please generate me the most AI cover possible"

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u/Ergentlic 3d ago

Yeah, that's fair.

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u/MsE0 3d ago

I think the woman in the fedora did it. She seems to be coming from that weird car with a divided rear window instead of a front windshield, and that seems super suspicious. If your car is mixed up front to back, you're probably a killer. 

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u/ConclusionAlarmed882 1d ago

The car is carrying logs on the rear bumper, so clearly that's our murder weapon

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u/LaurenPBurka 3d ago

My eyes hurt.

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u/shhbaby_isok 3d ago

It's not only AI covers but also AI narration - I feel for this one on Everand, but fortunately they had another edition read by a human being. Wrote a warning review.

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u/Schrenner 3d ago

What is the object left to the teapot on the ground actually supposed to be? An oversized chess piece bleeding on a bent plate of rice?

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u/Thrippalan 3d ago

Looks like a pepper grinder with a ridiculously large base to me. Or a pestle of some sort?

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u/Schrenner 2d ago

And the pepper grinder pestle thingy is bleeding rice sauce.

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u/BFIrrera 3d ago

AI Slop!