catch my eye.
The cover would make me want to read a book. I can honestly say, I have picked up books with not the best looking covers... and put them down. I try to go by the saying
"Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover"
but it's a little hard to do that! The book Confessions Of A Shopaholic, stood out to me, because of the pretty picture almost hidden behind the cover. Now, honestly, wouldn't a picture of some sort catch your eye too?
The cover if Confessions of A Shopaholic, is plain, and a little boring. The picture is what caught my eye. I for one am a very visual, so a picture can help me understand something. But, the point of this blog post, wasn't supposed to be me telling you about how I am judgmental of book covers. Very often, the books that I pick up with not great covers, end up having a really good story. For example, Catcher In the Rye.
The version that I have, doesn't even have a picture. Yet, the story is amazing.
and though I don't always follow the rule "Don't Judge A Book By It's cover" I encourage others to do so.
I agree. It's not the author's fault is the cover isn't the way they like it, it's the illustrator's. And it's fair to admit that we all judge covers; sure, it's fine if we are cover critics, but a book shouldn't be affected.
ReplyDeleteI agree, you should never judge a book by it's cover [even if I do haha], but I sometimes regret that choice because the book could be good without a pretty cover! Nice post, but would like to hear more!
ReplyDeleteI think everyone has judged a book by its cover more than once and its a bad thing to do. Good job pointing that out.
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