| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Violanthe
Webmaster
Joined: 24 Jul 2003
Posts: 5903
|
 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:52 pm |
 |
|
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:
https://www.arwz.com/arwz/viewtopic.php?t=422
_________________
Violet "Violanthe" Kane
[email protected]
ARWZ.com: A Magazine of Alternative Reality Fiction
Last edited by Violanthe on Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:17 pm; edited 2 times in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
DougGogerty
Moderator
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 418
Location: Minnesota
|
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:51 pm |
|
|
Nope. The poison apple idea does not appeal to me.
_________________
Douglas E. Gogerty
-----
Around the Campfire
"No, I'm from Iowa. I just work in outer space."
-James T. Kirk |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Peter
Senior Member
Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 649
Location: NSW, Australia
|
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:02 am |
|
|
It intrigues me; I'd at least look at it.
Peter |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
librarylover
Moderator
Joined: 05 Apr 2006
Posts: 277
|
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:26 am |
|
|
| Although it did catch my attention, I don't think I'd actually purchase it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
NotAgain
Member
Joined: 23 Oct 2006
Posts: 60
|
Buy the Cover
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:54 pm |
|
|
| No, it looks to new. I can't explain that statement. I just get an ambivalent feeling about it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Violanthe
Webmaster
Joined: 24 Jul 2003
Posts: 5903
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
DougGogerty
Moderator
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 418
Location: Minnesota
|
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:47 pm |
|
|
Naturally, I don't. It just came to mind with the title -- twilight. It sounds very death-like to me. We are judging a book by it's cover, so I can make any snap judgements that I wish.
_________________
Douglas E. Gogerty
-----
Around the Campfire
"No, I'm from Iowa. I just work in outer space."
-James T. Kirk |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Mervi
Warlord
Joined: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 1119
Location: Finland
|
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:09 pm |
|
|
| Interesting. I'd look at the back cover. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Violanthe
Webmaster
Joined: 24 Jul 2003
Posts: 5903
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
