BOOK COVERS THAT CAUGHT YOUR EYE

[alandhopewell]

     One look, and you HAD to read it.
For me, this one from 1989 comes to mind, SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK....



     You?

[retrorussell]

A book with blood on the cover.  This would normally indicate a good murder mystery with gruesome deaths.

[Trevor]

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

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

[sprite75]

Yeah this one here...



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

[frank]

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.

[indianasmith]

I always thought my publisher did  a really great job with this one . . .

[BoyScoutKevin]

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.

[frank]

..
--1 set in the 1st decade of the 20th century in New York City
..

Which one is that?

[Trevor]

As an impressionable teen, the covers of some James Hadley Chase books definitely caught my eye 

[sprite75]

Here's another one that caught my eye;



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). 

[alandhopewell]

As an impressionable teen, the covers of some James Hadley Chase books definitely caught my eye 

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



     I was seventeen, and quite enamored.

[BoyScoutKevin]

..
--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.

[dean]

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.

[Allhallowsday]

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. 

[Allhallowsday]

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.      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...