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Violanthe
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 Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:18 pm |
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Look at the following cover. Imagine that you have only the cover and the information it provides (including images, title and author name) to decide whether to buy this (or any) book.
Would you buy this book having looked only at its cover? If so, what on this cover sold you? If not, what on this cover turned you off?
If you have, in fact, bought and/or read this book, tell us how well our verdicts guided us. Did the cover lead us rightly into great fiction? Or did the cover wrongly steer us toward a bad story or away from a great one?
So, would you buy this book by its cover?
Regular posters are invited to join our "official" Buy the Cover game:
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Nik
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Miles to go...
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:46 pm |
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Based on the cover, my first thought would be 'Honor-Verse' , and my reflex, 'Run Away !! Run Away !!'
( Why should I shun her, when the Starfire tales still engross me ?? D'uh... )
Then I remembered the ubiquitous Ms. Harrington was definitely drawn otherwise-- and would probably be the one holding the gun.
So, this is a re-issue of the Miles K. prequel, and they are his parents-to-be.
I thought the first Miles books were great fun, but I could not relate to the others....
Sadly, I cannot remember much of this title other than I knew how it had to turn out, it should be good, but I just could not get beyond the first few pages...
Other tastes may differ.
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Added: Board crashed my browser when I hit post after preview, then forgot that it thought me logged in only two minutes prior.
But it still took post !!!
D'uh... |
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Mervi
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:07 pm |
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Like mine 
One of my favourite books, but the cover is soooo bland and doesn't really say anything. OTOH, it does describe the characters well... but no, a bad cover. |
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ecgordon
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:09 am |
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| I like this book a lot too. Cordelia Naismith is one of the best female characters in all of SF. I would buy this if I didn't already have it. |
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pecooper
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:38 pm |
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| I also like the book, but the cover doesn't do it justice. If I didn't know what it was about, I wouldn't buy it based on this cover. Generic and bland. |
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Violanthe
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Mervi
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:39 pm |
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| Different covers, certainly, but I don't think that I've ever seen a good cover for it. For some reason, I don't much like Bujold covers. If she hadn't been recommended by several different people I wouldn't have pick them up in the first place. Just goes to show that the word of mouth is what really counts. |
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Peter
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:51 pm |
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| The one's turning up in Google are nothing to write home about. |
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Mervi
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:54 pm |
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