To be buried...

WOW YES...THIS is what I'M TALKIN 'BOUT!

Except it's in Chinese and I'm not literate enough to learn Chinese and continue learning new words from the English dictionary...heck, I'm more or less illiterate because on how little I missed by being a butthead and getting transferred from the normal school classroom into a locked down special ed curriculum (if you can even call it that).  So, no, I'm not going to buy this.  But a U.S. publisher really should take note and copy!!!!  (with permission from Shanghai Literature And Art Publishing House of course, [or whoever holds copyright for the cover-design).
PET SEMATARY has never been published in English with an acceptable cover-art.  The U.K. re-issue from Hodder is an improvement over the 2002 U.S. trade paperback, which in itself is a vast improvement over the original hardcover pressing, but the U.K. edition is published for U.K. audiences and Brits speak an almost entirely different language than English speaking U.S. citizens.  I'm not even sure if a U.K. pressing of the book would make sense to U.K. readers if it weren't translated.  And once again, the cover design appears to be a rush job that nobody put much thought into.  The tag line on the front cover is what really gets me.

"A pet isn't just for life" ---- Huh?  What??  Seriously, it's not a book about bestiality or Tia Torres.  The book isn't about Animal Rights or Michael Jackson's 1993 Super Bowl performance.  The book does cover some ground regarding pets and people's relationship to them, but the cat in the book is a very minor character that does play an important role in the book, but is in no part the direct center of any of it.  The book is more about death in general and the lengths some people would go to regain what is lost.
The original hardcover press is not only stupid but butt ugly.

That's actually a mass market paperback (Trade paperbacks were quite uncommon circa 1984), but the hardcover press looks almost identical, if not 100% so.  Last time I was a Doubleday Book Club member, at least a couple years ago now, you could buy the original hardcover press from them, although DDBC prohibits re-sale of their books.  Sometimes the books DDBC sells are not any different from in-store editions, but most of the time they are shapped differently and the dust jacket is of a cheaper quality, which is fine if you just wanna buy it for the sake of reading and then throwing it away...I've already read PET SEMATARY.  I think the book is worthy of being a classic and should be showcased alongside other treasures of home media such as FORREST GUMP (BD), SIMON & GARFUNKEL's BOOKENDS (LP/vinyl, or CD if you're low on money such as myself), and TAKING BACK SUNDAY's TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS (vinyl or CD), etc. etc.....of course, my tastes in media differ from most/all people, but if you love something, you show it.  People that buy whatever random book they consider reading encourage publishing houses to continue publishing random books and marketing them.
I think David Letterman's estimate that we only need to be given one movie a year is a tad far fetched, but if there's no talented people to spin together a yarn to make something worthwhile out of straw & frame it in a way that makes an impression on the wall of the viewer's brain, then, really, what's the point of financing a bunch of $100+million movies and losing money on all but two or three?