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queensthiefAnachred is away from the internet this week, but we can't let the opportunity for a Friday Book Talk to go by. Today's topic is:
BOOK COVERS
Specifically, what are some book covers you hated? Why? Can you post a picture? Was the book published in the UK as well as the US? If the covers were different, which did you prefer (or, which did you hate more)?
and did anybody like the covers on reprints of the Vorkosigan books?
BOOK COVERS
Specifically, what are some book covers you hated? Why? Can you post a picture? Was the book published in the UK as well as the US? If the covers were different, which did you prefer (or, which did you hate more)?
and did anybody like the covers on reprints of the Vorkosigan books?
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Date: 1/25/08 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 03:03 pm (UTC)I mean I like Stardust but WHY does Claire Danes have to be on the cover?!
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Date: 1/25/08 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 04:43 pm (UTC)I know some people in my classes got some odd looks when they were reading a Hitler biography that just had a picture of him on the cover and his name in really big print. I suppose that the cover wasn't condemnatory enough.
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Date: 1/25/08 05:07 pm (UTC)*seconds the lameness of changing the cover when a movie has been made*
I really don't like those covers they've been releasing Jane Austen novels in--pink or some other girly pastel color, with frills and... stuff. It makes it look as if its some sort of modern pre-teen girl romance, which it isn't.
Bujold
Date: 1/25/08 05:23 pm (UTC)This is not a cover I hate, but it really annoys me. It's the cover of the next Bujold, Passage (Sharing Knife 3). It screams midwest farmer family saga:
http://www.dendarii.co.uk/Covers/American/knife.html
Don't have anything agains family sagas, but this book is a fantasy. An adventurous romantic fantasy, I hope. And this cover does not "say" that. It's rather humdrum and boring, IMO, and I doubt it does the book justice.
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Date: 1/25/08 05:25 pm (UTC)ALSO LESLIE LESLIE I saw those new Little House covers and I hate them EVEN MORE than I hate the new Gail Carson Levine covers! I mean, okay, I don't begrudge the models getting to dress up all pretty (especially the Levine ones), but the originals were just so CUTE and homey and old-timey and I miss them.
Also, I just hate Photoshopped covers (http://community.livejournal.com/athanarel/208505.html?thread=4078969#t4078969) in general. There's no real style or art to them. That's one of the things I really truly adore about the KoA cover--it's an actual picture. Hah. Gamorgeous.
And screw movie covers. Though it really amuses me to see advertisements for Jane Austen movies--my roommate last year had the real movie poster for the latest P&P movie, and it said "From the beloved author that brought you Sense and Sensibility and Emma" and it made me laugh because P&P is arguably the most popular book (and I'm pretty sure it was published before either of those, although she was working on it and S&S at around the same time) and the one everyone knows, and it also makes it kinda sound like Jane Austen's been coming up with new stories for us to read, rather than oh, I dunno, she's been DEAD for a hundred and fifty years.
Re: Bujold
Date: 1/25/08 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 05:45 pm (UTC)Re: Bujold
Date: 1/25/08 05:51 pm (UTC)I generally get bored with an author after 4-5 books. Their style and the plots all seem the same. Bujold is one of the few who doesn't bore me and I've read almost everything she's written. Pratchett and Martha Wells are two others who remain interesting for me.
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Date: 1/25/08 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 06:02 pm (UTC)It is just wrong on so many levels.
Re: Bujold
Date: 1/25/08 06:11 pm (UTC)It's a great book btw!
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Date: 1/25/08 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 06:45 pm (UTC)*scrubs brain*
if you ever wanted to know what makes a truly reprobatish person want to scrub their brain, that sure is it.
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Date: 1/25/08 06:52 pm (UTC)Cordelia's Honor is more setting the background for the Miles books. I read it after I'd read most of the others and adored it for filling in the backstory but I prefer Miles as a protagonist. Gosh, I wish I could just lend you my copies...!
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Date: 1/25/08 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/25/08 07:45 pm (UTC)I remember not picking up The little white horse at the library for ages as a child due to it's very very pink cover! And then I utterly adored it when I finally did read it.
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Date: 1/25/08 10:18 pm (UTC)Re: Bujold
Date: 1/25/08 10:28 pm (UTC)Wells says she's 3/4 of the way through her next book. Can't wait.
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Date: 1/25/08 11:02 pm (UTC)http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=columns&vol=carol_pinchefsky&article=002
It was from this post in athanarel -
http://community.livejournal.com/athanarel/208505.html
Re: Bujold
Date: 1/26/08 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/26/08 02:19 am (UTC)