(Don't) Judge a Book By Its Cover
(Don't) Judge a Book By Its Cover
#1(Don't) Judge a Book By Its Cover
Posted: 7/13/12 at 4:06pm
As an avid reader, I enjoy strolling through a bookstore in a specific section and finding a new book for myself.
However, there are some books that just have horrid covers and tag lines. Ones where you hope no one ever asks to see what you're reading because you just don't want them to see it.
Usually I will still read them if I am grabbed by the premise and summary on the back and, sometimes, those awful looking books wind up having a good story. Some of them even have great stories.
So, I'm curious. What are some books that you read and wound up liking despite the awful cover?
And, on the other side of things, what books with great covers and tag lines turned out to be a waste of your time?
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#2(Don't) Judge a Book By Its Cover
Posted: 7/13/12 at 4:10pm
If I had known what the later covers would look like, which are more fitting of the story, I wouldn't have read it. It had such promise for the first third. Then, nothing.
Updated On: 7/13/12 at 04:10 PM
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#3(Don't) Judge a Book By Its Cover
Posted: 7/13/12 at 4:16pm
What about all the moody post-Twilight book covers? Pride and Prejudice should not be styled like that.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#8(Don't) Judge a Book By Its Cover
Posted: 7/13/12 at 6:45pmUsually at least by the time a gay novel makes it to trade paperback, even "literary" gay novels by Hollinghurst, etc, they suddenly have at least one edition with a dreamy looking, hot, young guy on the cover (often at least half naked). In the case of Hollinghurst it can actually be doubly funny because the initial hardbacks often have some pretty tame, nondescript image like a hedge maze or some ornamental fence.
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