You shouldn't judge a book by its cover...

This subject interests me a lot, will be back tomorrow to go on and on about it, perhaps not until late evening tomorrow.
I hope others answer too.

Well, if you really know, I almost always judge a book by its cover. It's a habit...I mean who would want to read something that has no pictures on it. I mean, if I see something that is old and has curvatures on it, I would immediately know it's one of the olden books that I would hate to read so I wouldn't.

Also, in fifth grade, the first Harry Potter book was published and I was the first person in my school to take the book out and read it. Well, how did I know this book was going to be good? I looked at the cover. It was obviously about a boy who seems to have magic and who is flying on a broom. Who doesnt at age 11 want to read something about magic and stuff? SO I read it. and It was good!

The only thing i have against is judging the book by it's back cover. I mean, think of it this way: the back cover is written by the author himself. He would always make it sound exciting and good. But that doesn't mean it's good, do u know what i mean? So always be wary of the back cover!

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This is good.

This is even better.

Another good one.

All of the above were done by Brom.

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I devour Atwood but the cover did nothing for me

Venetian stories is gorgeous

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A striking cover:



Also very nice:

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wow, that makes me want to go to the bookstore and get some more books.

We just were given 6 boxes of books from a friend of ours. Most of them I have not read. So dh (dear husband) won't let me buy any books for a while. I guess that's good because our pocket book needs a rest.

I know that this might be an even worse habit than your judgement by pictures:
I usually fall for those titels saying "#1 NY Times bestseller" and stuff like that.
Makes me feel important I guess...

Jar - the pics are really small, what are the names of the books?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1880418592.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1888118040/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-4546101-8036157#reader-link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743449002.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Hehe Ray, the cover of the second book does look like one hell ride of a fantasy to me :-D

I know!
I haven't read it yet but those are three books that I'll be checking out soon.

Those are R. A. Salvatore's War Of the Spider Queen book 2: Insurrection by Margaret Reis, "The Thousand Orcs", by Salvatore, & War of the SPider Queen book 4: Extinction. There should be full-size cover art at Amazon.com or B&N.

Lost my bloody passwords, sorry.

Here's a new one I like, wonder what it's about?