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Nesacat · 25th February 2008, 09:27 AM

I was talking about this to JD last night and it occurred to me that what really gets me is titles; more than the cover since often all you see is the spine of the book. At least here it is so. Very rarely are the books displayed with the cover facing browsers.

One of my favourite books, Shadow of the Wind, for example, has the most appalling cover for the US paperback edition. It's just stripes running diagonally across the cover. Says nothing at all about the book.

The title however is attractive, at least to me. Shadow of the Wind. The same goes for Clark Ashton Smith's City of the Singing Flame or Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and House of Dr Dee. My copy of The Blade Itself has a very uninspiring cover and so does it's sequel but the titles are very, very intriguing.

Like GOLLUM I sometimes buy particular editions because they match others that I already have and other times I might love a particular book so much, I buy several editions and versions of the tale. AN example here would be Beauty & The Beast.

25th February 2008, 09:27 AM	#43 (permalink)
Nesacat The Cat Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malaysia Posts: 2,643	Re: Do bad book covers influence you I was talking about this to JD last night and it occurred to me that what really gets me is titles; more than the cover since often all you see is the spine of the book. At least here it is so. Very rarely are the books displayed with the cover facing browsers. One of my favourite books, Shadow of the Wind, for example, has the most appalling cover for the US paperback edition. It's just stripes running diagonally across the cover. Says nothing at all about the book. The title however is attractive, at least to me. Shadow of the Wind. The same goes for Clark Ashton Smith's City of the Singing Flame or Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and House of Dr Dee. My copy of The Blade Itself has a very uninspiring cover and so does it's sequel but the titles are very, very intriguing. Like GOLLUM I sometimes buy particular editions because they match others that I already have and other times I might love a particular book so much, I buy several editions and versions of the tale. AN example here would be Beauty & The Beast.