can you judge a book by it's cover?

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Similarly, I had a film tie-in edition of The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, which I got rid of because I couldn't stand Kris Kristofferson's hairy visage any more. But now I quite miss it.

Especially compared with some generic wishy-washy cover like this one:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/s_oursel/Books/090-yukiomishima-thesailorwhofellfromgracewiththesea.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Sadly I can't find my Kris cover online anywhere, either :(

I wish I was an ILB moderator, then I could remove the extraneous apostrophe from the thread title; it gives me pain every time I look at it. [Obsessiveness such as this is a very good reason why I shouldn't be a moderator, obv.]

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure if you ask Chris very nicely, he would do it for you.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

UNLESS THE MOD POWERS HAVE GONE TO HIS HEAD!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

He's not gonna do it, I don't think, not even for Archel. If nothing else, it would ruin the joke he made about it upthread.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

No, it's not a fair request. Now if I had started the thread myself and was tormented my my own mistake... but no reason why other people should be edited just because I'm a freak.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's start another thread, a perfect thread, where there'll be no war and no typoes and no traffic accidents...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

And this thread will be another board, pastoral and idyllic, and we'll call it I Love Film.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

"on" another board. I guess I'm still posting in the same old world until we get that other thread created.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

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― online casino, Thursday, 18 August 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's interesting the way the same books are marketed differently in the UK and the US. When I go into a bookshop in the States, my eye is drawn to not a single cover that looks at all interesting. Whereas in Waterstone's or whatever I can barely make it past the special offers table. Obviously it's just a marketing style I'm used to, but I can't identify what it might consist of.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

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― on line texas holdem poker, Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh, I think I just made it so that you have to be a registered user to post to this thread. My apologies to those of you who are not registered users. No apologies to the spammers.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 21 August 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5264/5676251828_f926d1813b.jpg

― the pinefox, Sunday, 1 May 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link

seven years pass...

Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers

https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/dazzling-blocky-book-covers-designed-for-amazon-instagram.html

― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

Terrible Alison Bechdel cover for Woolf ahoy:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/W/WEBP_402378-T1/images/I/91apsarQGAL.jpg

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 September 2022 09:24 (one year ago) link

I want to read that foreword..