Lol, nice.

You should try George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman if you like speech like that and witty cynical action:
"Let me say that when I talk of disasters I speak with authority. I have served at Balaclava, Cawnpore, and Little Big Horn. Name the biggest born fools who wore uniform in the nineteenth century - Cardigan, Sale, Custer, Raglan, Lucan - I knew them all. Think of all the conceivable misfortunes that can arise from combinations of folly, cowardice, and sheer bad luck, and I'll give you chapter and verse."

Didn't Frazetta do some covers for those books? Sounds interesting...

In Italy cover illustrations are randomized (I once seen a Zelazny's book with cover art for Dragonlance :/ ), so I owuldn't know that, but they are a great reading:)

Strange!!

oh, printers just save money on copyrighted art, that's all.