I'd say that I don't care about covers, but that's not true. I just don't care about illustrations. I have some books I've purchased simply because the dust jacket used reflective foil.
But that did get me thinking about Terry Pratchett's book covers, which, up to Carpe Jugulum (it looks like) consist of a chatoic background, the name of the book in a particular font, then then one clipart style image in the center. I compare those to the dust jacket of the very first Terry Pratchett book I read, Men at Arms, http://images.bookcrossing.com/images/journalpics/854/49/8541949.jpg. We got a copy in the mail from some science fiction book club and the only reason anyone in the family started reading it was because we were wondering if the writing was as bad as the cover art.
But then, I got to the Tiffany Aching books, and discovered two things: 1) They really had a change of heart on the cover design between books two and three. 2) Books three and four could have definitely been part of that gender swapped author slideshow.
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Date: 2013-05-08 10:04 pm (UTC)But that did get me thinking about Terry Pratchett's book covers, which, up to Carpe Jugulum (it looks like) consist of a chatoic background, the name of the book in a particular font, then then one clipart style image in the center. I compare those to the dust jacket of the very first Terry Pratchett book I read, Men at Arms, http://images.bookcrossing.com/images/journalpics/854/49/8541949.jpg. We got a copy in the mail from some science fiction book club and the only reason anyone in the family started reading it was because we were wondering if the writing was as bad as the cover art.
But then, I got to the Tiffany Aching books, and discovered two things: 1) They really had a change of heart on the cover design between books two and three. 2) Books three and four could have definitely been part of that gender swapped author slideshow.