Any cover with a swooning woman hanging off a shirtless muscle head.
Pyrope2 on
Way back when… Harry Potter. I was in a bookstore and one of the staff was super excited and telling me about the first book, and I looked at the cover (original US version) and refused to consider it. Several months later my mother brought the first two home and I devoured them.
Soshi_Kage on
honestly, any book where the cover has actual people. it makes me feel disconnected from the book when it’s an image of an actual person, I much prefer to have either an artist do illustrations of the characters or not have characters featured on the cover at all!
MisfitMaterial on
Movie tie-ins. Call me petty but no, absolutely not.
(Special mention: printed-on “stickers”. Blegh.)
Final-Performance597 on
Not necessarily a “cover” issue, but I won’t read any “self help” book where the author thinks that using the word “fuck” in the title somehow communicates a positive message.
To me, using “fuck” in a self help book title says to me that it is a book written by an asshole for people who want to be assholes.
babymoonbee on
I did not even consider reading The Lunar Chronicles until they got new covers. Hated the old ones, but I’m glad they changed because it’s my favorite series and would have never read them.
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Any cover with a swooning woman hanging off a shirtless muscle head.
Way back when… Harry Potter. I was in a bookstore and one of the staff was super excited and telling me about the first book, and I looked at the cover (original US version) and refused to consider it. Several months later my mother brought the first two home and I devoured them.
honestly, any book where the cover has actual people. it makes me feel disconnected from the book when it’s an image of an actual person, I much prefer to have either an artist do illustrations of the characters or not have characters featured on the cover at all!
Movie tie-ins. Call me petty but no, absolutely not.
(Special mention: printed-on “stickers”. Blegh.)
Not necessarily a “cover” issue, but I won’t read any “self help” book where the author thinks that using the word “fuck” in the title somehow communicates a positive message.
To me, using “fuck” in a self help book title says to me that it is a book written by an asshole for people who want to be assholes.
I did not even consider reading The Lunar Chronicles until they got new covers. Hated the old ones, but I’m glad they changed because it’s my favorite series and would have never read them.