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Mar 18, 2011

Books Sculpted to Look Like Their Authors

For the Dutch book week, several books were hacked into and carved to look like their author's faces. There's Anne Frank and Kader Abdolah up above, looking all wooden-headed. Which author would you choose to carve?

17 comments:

Justin testing said...

Charlie Sheen with the book title "WINNING!"

Sean Clark said...

Stephenie Meyer, then I can use it as my own personal punching bag.

The Angry Lurker said...

Those are excellent, i'd like to see Terry Pratchett.

Zippy said...

Jim Butcher, so I can yell at him for pushing Ghost Story back to July.

pokerblogger said...

for you 2 ;D

Malkavian said...

wow, that would creep me out if i where reading something at the middle of the night.

Desuuuu said...

looks fucking awesome

Niko said...

Looks Perfect!
I need one!

chronometer said...

Impressive.

Generally Disgruntled said...

Kurt Vonnegut! In miniature, because it's not like his books are very long... I can think of a bunch of authors. I'd love to have a few of these on my bookshelves

Tasos said...

this is disturbingly awesome! but i think it will be a little bit uncomfortable...

Anonymous said...

Having H.P.Lovecraft Carved into one of his books would be totally awesome.

Jay said...

awesome and creepy at the same time. :)

Anonymous said...

that is SO GREAT!

Justsayin' said...

I would love to have one of Mark Twain and Tolkien.

Give Everything said...

EPIC!!

LilPixi said...

A book of Poe & his poetry for me please. Really cool.