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Violanthe
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PostStorm Front by Jim Butcher

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:07 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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Golophin
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:34 am
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Okay at first glance i was interested however on closer inspection i see that its a tie in with a TV series so i wouldn't bother.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:55 am
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Golophin wrote:
Okay at first glance i was interested however on closer inspection i see that its a tie in with a TV series so i wouldn't bother.


Uh, no. A TV series is being made about this series. I'm rather curious about it but alas it's not likely to come here.

The cover is rather evocative so I'd take a closer look.
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ecgordon
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:55 am
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The tv series is brand new, the books have been around for several years. I haven't read any of them yet, and even though fantasy is less interesting to me than science fiction, at least it is closer to the urban fantasy I would prefer. This is also the first of the Dresden novels, so it would be the best to start with. I might buy this one, or at least read as much as I could on a store visit to see if it appeals, then if so I might get the SFBC omnibus instead.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:16 pm
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First, I wouldn't have picked the book up on the cover alone. It's not really all that interesting looking.

Second, I have read the book. It is a very popular urban fantasy series and similar in vein to what I'm working on. I enjoyed the book but haven't gone any further into the series.

Third, the TV series just debuted on Sunday. It was the novels' popularity that inspired the TV show.
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PostBuy the Book

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:54 pm
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I did buy the book, but as an omnibus of the first three novels. Enjoyed them all and I am not a big fantasy reader. It appealed to me on several levels. It was dark, it had mystery and the fairies did not make me want to throw the book down and run screaming from the room.
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:31 pm
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I'm waiting for my library to get this book on audio
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