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Violanthe
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PostBuy the Cover? (2/15)

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:48 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?




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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:00 pm
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I've read just the first of the Sookie Stackhouse books, "Dead Until Dark," and haven't felt the need to read any further. The cover alone wouldn't get me to reconsider.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:54 pm
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Really? I find the Sookie Stackhouse books very enjoyable, but I suppose they do qualify as "chick books."
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:50 pm
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I don't think it's so much a matter of "chick" book, I just didn't think it was very well written. Cliched characters and dialogue. Plus I'm tired of the vampire as romantic hero. Vampires should be scary. I do know a guy who has been devouring the whole series lately, so it does appeal to some men, and perhaps the books get better as the story develops. ??

I love both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, but the Buffy/Angel relationship is my least favorite thing about it. Strike that...Buffy/Spike is my least favorite, followed by Buffy/Angel, and I liked Boreanaz and his character more when he was the evil Angelus anyway.
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:46 pm
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I'd skip it. I tried reading the first Sookie Sackhouse and just couldn't get into it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:10 pm
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What turned you off to Sookie?
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