"You can't tell a book by the cover" is no longer true.

[thistlechaser]

For a while now, I've realized one of my first ways of deciding if I want to read a book was by looking at its cover. Not the content of the cover, but the quality of it.

Sometimes it's obvious a book is self published:


Sometimes it's less obvious but still can be seen:



... Ha, the author's description of that second book:

'Wolf Pack' is just a little post alien invasion story about the adventures of a lone surviving soldier who reluctantly take a 100 weepy, no-nothing wimpy females on a four hundred mile trek across the mountains...

NO-NOTHING WIMPY FEMALES.

I think someone here is a "no-nothing".

From the same description:

He was hundreds of miles inside alien held territory with no heavy weapons, no support, no Intel on the aliens, and no way to report the mission was a bust.

Intel.

Comments

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

holy crap. How do you FIND this stuff LOL?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I have a site I go to with thousands of books, listed in very rough groupings (romance, erotica, scifi, YA&children, etc), then within those groupings by title and author, nothing more. So what I do is go through the lists of titles, and if one catches my eye, click on it. That brings me to a page with the cover, summary, etc. And from there, I usually go to Amazon and Goodreads to see what others think.

So I see a lot, A LOT of duds for every good one I find. And sadly, I probably miss a lot of good ones as well, since all I judge on first is author/title.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

LOL you should work in collection development for a public library. :)

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

XD You sure come across some doozies. The cover on that first book is...special.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'd LOVE to! :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? The plot sounded interesting, until I saw the cover...

[twissie.livejournal.com]

What the heck is “no-nothing” supposed to even mean? Haha and a hundred of them? What the heck for?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I assume he meant know-nothing... So no-nothing is especially amusing!