Books and authors I discovered because I fell in love with their covers…
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Clive Barker’s Imajica is my favourite book of his.
Big love to you, Akemi, Sharky, your Mum and Sis xxx
Those were not the Pratchett original UK covers, ours were more cartoony, by Paul Kidby.
Didn’t say they were the originals. They were the ones that first drew my eye and led me to discover Pratchett.
Argh, gotcha!
Were a good read though!
Looks like a good list.
I do love a great Book cover and I am so fussy when I purchase a book in that the cover and or Dust Cover must be utterly unmarked. I am so pleased to see that you like Terry Pratchett as he is an author very special to me. I have a mint copy of every single one of his books and I have been extremely fortunate to have met Mr Pratchett on 5 occasions. In the early days of Disc World Mr Pratchett used to hold book signings around the UK and he was the most friendly, approachable, funny and appreciative of his fans author I know of.
Thanks to signings I have 11 of his books signed in mint First Edition Hard covers while the rest are unsigned First Editions. He was a most remarkable man.
May I suggest that you check out a often overlooked English Author, Alan Garner, and his three book trilogy begining with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (yes, I have it in First Ed).
If ever I was to suggest a book that needed being turned in to a TV Series then this trilogy would be it.
So nice to hear Pratchett was such a gracious fellow. And thanks for the the Alex Gardner recommendation.
No Ice Planet Barbarians? I liked the covers of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, the books are on par with His Dark Materials but haven’t been made into movies.
Ah, I see…trying to lure me in with those Elric covers, I see… (it worked!) 😉
I’ve never thought about this as I rarely just pick books up for no reason. The only books I have read are: 1. the Elric series, which I picked up on recommendation, so covers didn’t play a part. 2. Ditto for the Pendergast books. 3. I read the Hornblower series and a variety of similar books because of my interest in historical naval/nautical fiction and ships in general, covers didn’t matter. 4. A variety of other books – mostly ones recommended – so agaIn, covers didn’t play a part. And that leads me to…
Murder mysteries. I’ve read several authors, including (but not limited to) Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, and – of course – Agatha Christie. Of these, I cherish Christie’s works and still have all of her paperbacks from the 70s and 80s, about 80 books. Lots of covers. And looking back, although I am a very visually driven person, I don’t think I was drawn by the artwork of one single cover. Nope…it was the titles. The titles of her books piqued my curiosity, as did the little blurb thingy on the back cover, setting up the plot.
Weird, no?
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