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Violanthe
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PostArmageddon's Children by Terry Brooks

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:34 am
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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: Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:52 am
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Brooks is an automatic no.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:10 pm
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I'm beginning to think that if the author's name is bigger than the book's title, I shouldn't bother with the book. It gives the appearance that the author is more important that the story. At no point should that be true, so I'm passing...
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PostBuy the cover

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:42 pm
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No way, I don't like Brooks.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:34 pm
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This is a particularly dominating example of author brand-naming.
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PostRe: Buy the cover

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:01 am
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NotAgain wrote:
No way, I don't like Brooks.

Mervi wrote:
Brooks is an automatic no.


My feelings too.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:14 am
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My wife will tell you Brooks is great. I disagree. That's a no from me as well.

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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:21 am
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Why does she like Brooks so much?
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