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Title: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: alandhopewell on March 29, 2016, 04:18:09 PM
     One look, and you HAD to read it.
For me, this one from 1989 comes to mind, SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK....

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sJq42pXCZlI/S5mpYrccWuI/AAAAAAAABmg/IjkytVVdGA0/s320/sunglasses1.JPG)

     You?


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: retrorussell on March 29, 2016, 08:38:54 PM
A book with blood on the cover.  This would normally indicate a good murder mystery with gruesome deaths.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: Trevor on March 30, 2016, 01:18:50 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/The_Probability_Broach.jpg)

I would love to see a film made from this: I wouldn't mind making it either  :wink:

Just BTW: that gorilla on the cover is the VP of the United States Confederacy.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: sprite75 on March 30, 2016, 03:26:57 PM
Yeah this one here...

(http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mY63JV-97xS4zllnsSr9wMA.jpg)

The cover kind of creeped me out at first.  Story was good though.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: frank on April 04, 2016, 04:45:27 AM

Firmin by Sam Savage. Basically because of the fake gnawed-upon cover. Great book.

Skippy dies by  Paul Murray. Admittedly, it was a combination of the title and the cover art work. Also great book.



Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: indianasmith on April 04, 2016, 06:08:32 AM
I always thought my publisher did  a really great job with this one . . .

(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/Version%2007_zps6y3u68n8.jpg) (http://s67.photobucket.com/user/Indianasmith/media/Version%2007_zps6y3u68n8.jpg.html)


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on April 11, 2016, 02:47:52 PM
Okay. Lewis Ben Smith. I have your number, so I will be reading what you have written, as soon as I work through my backlog of books to be read and/or finished.

1 Star Wars novel featuring Darth Vader and the Emperor.
2 mysteries.
--1 set in contemporary Sweden.
--1 set in the 1st decade of the 20th century in New York City
5 historical novels featuring Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guilford Dudley.
--an interesting couple, as they were both married, tried, and executed ere either was 20, and one for whom I have some empathy, especially the husband.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: frank on April 12, 2016, 05:54:31 AM
..
--1 set in the 1st decade of the 20th century in New York City
..

Which one is that?



Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: Trevor on April 12, 2016, 06:45:06 AM
As an impressionable teen, the covers of some James Hadley Chase books definitely caught my eye  :wink:

(http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1326260896l/521193.jpg)


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: sprite75 on April 12, 2016, 10:55:46 PM
Here's another one that caught my eye;

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lc3JBTGiL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

I saw it one evening at Books a Million and picked it up.  Couldn't stop reading it so I went ahead and purchased it.  It was very interesting to see what was in the early versions of the Book of Common Prayer and how some of it is still in the 1979 version of the BCP.  (Which is the latest version of the book). 


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: alandhopewell on April 19, 2016, 02:50:58 PM
As an impressionable teen, the covers of some James Hadley Chase books definitely caught my eye  :wink:

([url]http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1326260896l/521193.jpg[/url])


     I remember this one from the early 70's....

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6jKfO97fM_w/TY0ex3t691I/AAAAAAAAT80/LhzWG5UesMU/s320/Corgi-9111+Spillane+The+Erection+Set.jpg)

     I was seventeen, and quite enamored.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on April 20, 2016, 03:47:59 PM
..
--1 set in the 1st decade of the 20th century in New York City
..

Which one is that?



You would ask me that. And I will have an answer for you soon. I just have to go back and look thru the long backlist of books I'm waiting to do reports on.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: dean on April 20, 2016, 07:40:38 PM
Romance books have often got the funniest title. Was staying in the country at a bed and breakfast a while ago that had a book on it called 'Accidental Father'. Basically its a mystery series of stories in which some handsome guy investigates something, but TWIST it turns out he has had a child he didn't know about which relates to the story; eg cop investigating a criminal and finds out it's his son! Guy is trying to find a missing person and TWIST she ran away to have his daughter. That kind of thing.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 20, 2016, 10:39:25 PM
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_nPwQjaGsks/UV8aDNhqp1I/AAAAAAAAJdI/oEQiDuZeyAc/s1600/stephen+king+salem's+lot+signet+1976+pb.JPG)

STEPHEN KING wrote a few very good Horror novels like THE SHINING or THE DEAD ZONE or THE STAND or  SALEM'S LOT... my sister-in-law had loaned me her paperback copy of this 40 years ago and I loved it, and read it at least two more times.

S'unspeakable... 

I could not find an image online of the INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE paperback cover my sister-in-law had loaned me... THE VAMPIRE LESTAT also by ANNE RICE though imperfect, was great.  Subsequent novels for me, not so much. 

Good topic. 


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 20, 2016, 11:17:14 PM
I cannot find the cover of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE my sister-in-law had loaned to me about 40 years ago when I was summering in her home.   :smile:   Her copy had a color photo of a family of vampires.  I'll know it when I find it.  Paperback covers must already be collected, they are so cool... 


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: javakoala on April 21, 2016, 11:27:28 AM
I cannot find the cover of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE my sister-in-law had loaned to me about 40 years ago when I was summering in her home.   :smile:   Her copy had a color photo of a family of vampires.  I'll know it when I find it.  Paperback covers must already be collected, they are so cool... 


I think you are thinking of the same version I read ages ago. Is this the cover (front and back)?

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ruMXY3GRxbc/TlcDUdB1LCI/AAAAAAAAD_8/h5DjD82sfTI/s1600/interview%2Bvampire%2B1977.jpg)


(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NyV9tkrSbRA/TlcDntreRAI/AAAAAAAAEAE/xsZSvZtg1Xo/s1600/interview%2Bvampire%2B1977%2Bback%2Bcover.jpg)


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on April 21, 2016, 04:46:09 PM
..
--1 set in the 1st decade of the 20th century in New York City
..

Which one is that?



You would ask me that. And I will have an answer for you soon. I just have to go back and look thru the long backlist of books I'm waiting to do reports on.

Okay. Now I have an answer for ya.

Rhys Bowen's
Time of Fog and Fire
16th in the Molly Murphy series

Author:
award winner
Brit ex-pat

I don't where I started in this series, as I don't have all the series titles in front of me. Though,  this is not my favorite series. I think someplace in the last half of the series. Definitely not with the 1st one, but . . .?! I have tried to keep up with each new book as it comes out, and this is the newest one in the series.

Not my favorite series nor my favorite book in the series. That may because . . .
a.) our heroine is off her normal stomping ground. Most are set in New York City, but . . .?! This one is mostly set in San Francisco, during the great earthquake there.
b.) or it may be that the mystery is slighter than normal.
c.) or I have seen the great San Francisco earthquake better used as background in other stories. Still . . .?!

I find both the series, so far, and the book readable, and with so much being unreadable (IMHO) that's all I ask.

As to where to start . . .in most series, while they may reference past events and set up future events, most are set up, so one can start anywhere in the series and understand what is going on, and this one is no different.

Happy hunting and reading!


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: AoTFan on April 22, 2016, 04:36:01 AM

The cover was the main reason I read the YA novel Anna Dressed In Blood.  Turned out to be a decent book (and it's sequel, Girl of Nightmares) wasn't bad as well.  The cover is really haunting and well drawn.  I just like the dark, misty looking black and white haunted house in the background.  Reminds me a bit of the illustrations from the old Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark Series.

(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8f/9d/2f/8f9d2ff34d2182b5e30909be8e484545.jpg)


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: ER on April 22, 2016, 05:11:35 AM
I cannot find the cover of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE my sister-in-law had loaned to me about 40 years ago when I was summering in her home.   :smile:   Her copy had a color photo of a family of vampires.  I'll know it when I find it.  Paperback covers must already be collected, they are so cool... 


I think you are thinking of the same version I read ages ago. Is this the cover (front and back)?

([url]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ruMXY3GRxbc/TlcDUdB1LCI/AAAAAAAAD_8/h5DjD82sfTI/s1600/interview%2Bvampire%2B1977.jpg[/url])


([url]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NyV9tkrSbRA/TlcDntreRAI/AAAAAAAAEAE/xsZSvZtg1Xo/s1600/interview%2Bvampire%2B1977%2Bback%2Bcover.jpg[/url])


If you notice, the way that front book cover is laid out makes it look like Anne Rice is saying she thinks her own book is the "Most outstanding supernatural thriller of our time--". That gave me a smile.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: alandhopewell on April 22, 2016, 02:24:41 PM
     I'd always been a Harlan Ellison fan, but this cover drew me in....

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Strange_Wine_Cover.jpg)



Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: frank on April 25, 2016, 04:51:45 AM


Quote

Okay. Now I have an answer for ya.

Rhys Bowen's
Time of Fog and Fire
16th in the Molly Murphy series

Author:
award winner
Brit ex-pat

I don't where I started in this series, as I don't have all the series titles in front of me. Though,  this is not my favorite series. I think someplace in the last half of the series. Definitely not with the 1st one, but . . .?! I have tried to keep up with each new book as it comes out, and this is the newest one in the series.

Not my favorite series nor my favorite book in the series. That may because . . .
a.) our heroine is off her normal stomping ground. Most are set in New York City, but . . .?! This one is mostly set in San Francisco, during the great earthquake there.
b.) or it may be that the mystery is slighter than normal.
c.) or I have seen the great San Francisco earthquake better used as background in other stories. Still . . .?!

I find both the series, so far, and the book readable, and with so much being unreadable (IMHO) that's all I ask.

As to where to start . . .in most series, while they may reference past events and set up future events, most are set up, so one can start anywhere in the series and understand what is going on, and this one is no different.

Happy hunting and reading!

Thanks! But I won't probably start a series on this. I liked the Caleb Carr novels from NJ at that time, though.


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: alandhopewell on April 29, 2016, 03:12:54 PM
     Reading this book in 1969 took my interest in horror films from typical kid level to serious....

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_9pRuxana5o/Uzh1ZPWyE_I/AAAAAAABjxY/Pw_1_5MLQhY/s1600/449+Forrest+J+Ackerman+ed+The+Frankenscience+Monster+Ace+1969+1.JPG)


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 30, 2016, 08:20:44 PM
I cannot find the cover of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE my sister-in-law had loaned to me about 40 years ago when I was summering in her home.   :smile:   Her copy had a color photo of a family of vampires.  I'll know it when I find it.  Paperback covers must already be collected, they are so cool... 
I think you are thinking of the same version I read ages ago. Is this the cover (front and back)?
([url]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ruMXY3GRxbc/TlcDUdB1LCI/AAAAAAAAD_8/h5DjD82sfTI/s1600/interview%2Bvampire%2B1977.jpg[/url])
([url]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NyV9tkrSbRA/TlcDntreRAI/AAAAAAAAEAE/xsZSvZtg1Xo/s1600/interview%2Bvampire%2B1977%2Bback%2Bcover.jpg[/url])


No.  That's not it.  Close in some ways since there were the 3 characters.  I conclude that cover photo shoots, artwork, and changes were typical, expected, and common. 


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: Trevor on May 03, 2016, 07:56:39 AM
Loved the book, loathed the film.

(https://lareviewofbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1342936463.jpg)


Title: Re: BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE
Post by: alandhopewell on May 03, 2016, 03:18:57 PM
     I remember faunching over this book at the age of twelve, until I was able to buy it; I can't remember any of the story now.

(http://www.prestoimages.net/store30/rd10459/10459_pd2494549_2.jpg)