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"Lunging , forever Lunging" or "Thats TOO heroic"

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  • 21-10-2003 1:26pm
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    Seeker
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    I have never read a David Gemmell book. I do read other fantasy authors though. What puts me off picking up these books is the videogame-ish (scantily dressed cleavage exposed women , guys looking mean/moody) covers. nearly all of his books seem to have someone lunging forward intensely. Has anybody else noticed this and/or find this amusing?


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    Krusty_Clown
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    Go for the hard-back, and remove the plastic sleeve!
    It'll be worth it!


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    dudara
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    I'm with you on this one. Most of the cover art for fantasy books seems to involve lunging, women wearing leather bikinis and a moody gloomy dwarf-man.

    ah well, goes to show that you can't judge some boooks by their covers.


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    Kraken
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    wheel of time anyone?


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    Jes a lode of pratchett books have that "feature" on the front it dont stop me(or my mom) from enjoying them or picking them up in bookshops.:cool: , get over it try the books and see if you like them, thats whats important...not the cover.


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    simu
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    Most book covers are irritating. Sci fi books often have trashy looking covers that do nothing to get rid of the stereotype that all sci-fi is pulp fiction.

    Many literary novels have very pretentious covers and I hate the way, if a film based on a book is popular, they put a scene from the film on the cover of the book. The book was there first plus it takes away the pleasure of imagining how things in the book look for yourself.

    Maybe we could have threads on bad and good book covers!


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    ixoy
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    Which books are guilty of this? Oh sure the ultra-**** ones maybe, but any of the more decent authors don't do this anymore. More likely to have some piece of landscape or achitecture on the front. Can't think of when Hobb, Feist, Wurts, Jordan, Erickson, Brooks, Eddings, etc. have done this recently. It was done on a short story collection I get- Mammoth Book of Fantasy Novels - but beyond that I've been spared...Still it shows there's not enough ladies reading!


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    simu
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    Well, Greg Bear covers suck, also many sci-fi anthologies have badly drawn covers... basically, I would prefer if all books just had really plain covers with the author and title printed soberly.


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