Comments on: Racist covers? https://glendalarke.com/2009/07/racist-covers/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2009/07/racist-covers/#comment-20715 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:03:11 +0000 #comment-20715 I guess we are all influenced by cover art in one way or another, but once I have picked up a book, its the synopsis or inside cover blurb that convinces me I want to read the book. As Imagine Me said, very rarely do covers depict what is in the book with any accuracy.

]]> By: Shaanti https://glendalarke.com/2009/07/racist-covers/#comment-20714 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:21:24 +0000 #comment-20714 Covers heavily influence what I buy. I'm sorry Glenda, but there is no way I would have picked up the Russian version of The Tainted… The French version of The Aware however, I probably would have bought just for the cover art alone. Luckily the Australian covers are all pretty stylish.

]]> By: Helen V. https://glendalarke.com/2009/07/racist-covers/#comment-20713 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:12:42 +0000 #comment-20713 Since I long ago worked out that book covers rarely have a relationship to the book I wouldn't have tried to work out who the character was. When a cover does turn out to actually connect with the book I'm pleasantly surprised. Really I don't think I pick up a book due to its cover art – in the sense of what it depicts. I'm more influenced by colour and form. If these please my eye I might choose them over one that is dull and nondescript.

]]> By: Amy Sisson https://glendalarke.com/2009/07/racist-covers/#comment-20712 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:37:19 +0000 #comment-20712 What do you think of her attire on the cover of The Aware?

I do have to admit, based on the cover I probably would not have picked this up off the shelves. But luckily for me, my book group leader chose the book. We all found the cover a little lurid, but it was one of our favorite books that year. The group then unanimously voted to read the second and third books.

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