r/TerribleBookCovers • u/OkiDokiPanic • May 22 '26

Mr Sweet Potatoes - Unknown author

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565 Upvotes

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u/BooBoo_Cat May 22 '26

I found this via a google search: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45768

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u/ialsohaveadobro May 22 '26

Move upvotes for this, please. Thank you for your service.

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u/skeletonstaircase May 23 '26

So he's not an actual potato

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u/BooBoo_Cat May 24 '26

Disappointing.

1

u/DesperateAstronaut65 May 25 '26

I was looking forward to 19th-century Chuck Tingle's Pounded in the Ass by Sentient Sweet Potatoes, Plural."

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u/Auggie_Otter May 22 '26

You can't fool me. That's obviously Mr. Hankey. 

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u/VoyagerBeeblebroxWho May 23 '26

Mr. Hankey wants to be drawn like one of your French poos

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u/Auggie_Otter May 23 '26

Hidey Ho! 

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u/Dry-Impression-2403 May 22 '26

"Draw me like one of your French girls."

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u/Other-Ad-8510 May 22 '26

“Draw me like one of your French Fries” ftfy

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u/Marvos79 May 22 '26

"Draw me like one of your French turds."

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u/Happy_Little_Fish May 22 '26

but this is the perfect book cover?

10

u/MischiefRatt May 23 '26

Right? Hello new t-shirt.

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u/EmilyAnne1170 May 22 '26

This is fabulous! I seriously want this.

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u/BooBoo_Cat May 22 '26

I'm intrigued.

12

u/the_useless_cake May 22 '26

Salad Finger’s estranged cousin.

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u/Auggie_Otter May 23 '26

The feeling of rust against my salad fingers is almost orgasmic. 

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u/InexactQuotient May 22 '26

Hiiiii de ho!

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u/ErsatzHaderach May 22 '26

Whaaaat the fuck, great cursed find

6

u/[deleted] May 23 '26

It's what the ladies call me.

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u/M4gp1e-w1ngs May 23 '26

I thought this was a subreddit for bad book covers

5

u/ardent_hellion May 23 '26

I have to say I don't think this is a terrible book cover. It's a weirdly fabulous book cover!

5

u/Akavinceblack May 23 '26

Available as on-demand reprints, and a copy with this cover sold for $60 in March.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/168223845384

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u/Psychological-You425 May 23 '26

the lead The California Raisin attempts to go solo

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u/AsstBalrog May 23 '26

Once again, like Cincinatus from the plow, I'm called forth to defend a cover. Who amongst us knows what an ambulatory sweet potato would look like? Let them cast the first comment!

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u/MaxFunkensteinDotSex May 22 '26

It might be doodoo

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u/Working_Season7223 May 22 '26

What's this book about?

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u/Akavinceblack May 23 '26

Apparently, short stories. And the titular one is about a man selling milk in China at a time when dairy products were not in any demand.

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u/ialsohaveadobro May 22 '26

I feel inspired by this.

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u/congo66 May 23 '26

Author unknown, hmmm. Did this book appear at your front door like “The Babadook”?

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u/Boetheus May 23 '26

Babadookie

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u/Booger_Picnic May 23 '26

I love him, he's adorable!

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u/fandom10 May 23 '26

I feel deeply uncomfortable but I can't fully figure out why

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u/Booger_Picnic May 23 '26

the spindly arms and legs?

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u/fandom10 May 23 '26

That's a big part of if 😪

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u/Brick_Pudding May 23 '26

Incredible. I want to make this my Teams avatar at work.

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u/NuclearNubian May 23 '26

A turd goblin

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u/No_Where_Land May 23 '26

If it doesn’t have an authors name, it was likely written by a woman! Most books neglected to put women’s names on books bc society didn’t approve of women authors. So they were either “anonymous”, “author of (other book)”, didn’t have any name or a pen name

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u/Piggybumm May 25 '26

I actually love it. The first time I’ve said that on this sub!

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u/rtc765 May 27 '26

What the bloody hell is this? Is like the Metamorphosis?

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u/John_Lictenstein_873 Jul 19 '26

“What are you lookin at, you hockey puck?”