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- From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
- Subject: Re: Belgariad pics.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.141533.8638@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:15:33 GMT
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- In article <1k26pnINN2bo@shelley.u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Yes. I agree with this (nameless) poster. Will people please leave in
- the attribution lines if at all possible, as it makes it much easier
- to follow a thread.
-
- >>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?
- >
-
- Agreed.
-
- >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.
- >
-
- AAaargh!
-
- >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.
- >
-
- Me too, (I've only got the Corgi editions, plus the jpegs just
- posted).
-
- (I am not going to scan in the Corgi covers because my scanner is
- brain-dead, and thinks that high quality is achieved with
- grey-scaleing! This is unlikely to change in the near future :(
-
- >>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.
- >
-
- Just kill it (your news reader will have that option).
-
- Donal.
- --
- If the opinions above are anyone else's, that's their problem.
-