What’s a book you read just for it’s beautiful cover but became a favourite of yours to read?
Like for me, I bought A Crane Among Wolves, A Magic Steeped In Poison, and The Tiger at Midnight just for the beautiful covers and fell in love with them all.
It was a backpack filled with sunsets for me. I got it for the title/cover and fell in love with the stories in the book too.
fallguy2112 on
I have learned not to pick books based on the cover. One of my favorites is 1632 by Eric Flint. The cover is a pickup full of rednecks with guns chasing medieval soldiers on horseback. I avoided this book for years but finally broke down and read it. The story is excellent. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy and there are some pretty silly covers. I know in the early days the illustrator often read just a short passage and based the cover on that.
treadtyred on
Not sure about beautiful but I’ve always liked maps so Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch caught my eye.
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It was a backpack filled with sunsets for me. I got it for the title/cover and fell in love with the stories in the book too.
I have learned not to pick books based on the cover. One of my favorites is 1632 by Eric Flint. The cover is a pickup full of rednecks with guns chasing medieval soldiers on horseback. I avoided this book for years but finally broke down and read it. The story is excellent. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy and there are some pretty silly covers. I know in the early days the illustrator often read just a short passage and based the cover on that.
Not sure about beautiful but I’ve always liked maps so Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch caught my eye.