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- From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
- Subject: Re: Belgariad pics.
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:14:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- wilsom4@vccnorthe.its.rpi.edu (Matt Wilson) writes:
-
- >>Speaking of cover art, I think you are lucky if you have managed to
- >>avoid the poor Delray covers. I personally like more the ones which
- >>penguin, corgi & bantam books provide.
-
- >I'm sorry, I'm a great fan of Edding's work, but this discussion on
- >the cover art for the books is tedious. I have to ask who cares?
- >The whole idea in reading a book is to enjoy the images and the
- >characters that are really made up in your own head. Television
- >for the mind. If you need to quibble about pictures...try
- >alt.picture-books
-
- Firstly, if you don't like the discussion, you don't have to read the
- thread, now do you?
-
- Secondly, cover art does make some impression on first-time readers.
- There have been numerous occasions when I (sadly) have put a book down
- because the cover art looked REALLY LAME--scantily clad babes or
- something. I know a lot of people who, seeing the American paperback
- versions of the Belgariad sitting on a shelf, didn't pick them up
- because the SPINES of the books looked too "plain." Go figure.
-
- Thirdly, I find the comparisons of different versions' cover art to be
- fascinating. I am trying to collect different countries' editions of
- the Belgariad and Malloreon (got US and Australian so far), and I
- find any differences among versions, including cover art, quite
- striking.
-
- >Again, sorry if I've offended...
-
- Hmm. It just seems to be that the best way to deal with a thread you
- don't care about it to not respond and let it die, rather than waste
- bandwidth with a "what a dorky thread" message.
-
-
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