tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post2618735357888025729..comments2023-12-28T04:41:50.326-05:00Comments on Judge a Book by its Cover: I love my readers!Miss Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05075664250796458409noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-58439308042025988662008-03-24T01:48:00.000-04:002008-03-24T01:48:00.000-04:00The tattoo is actually central to the plot, by I a...The tattoo is actually central to the plot, by I agree about the man/woman thing. I totally thought it was a man when I bought the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-81923241135418463652007-12-18T16:57:00.000-05:002007-12-18T16:57:00.000-05:00The Moody Blues oughta sue the hell outta the auth...The Moody Blues oughta sue the hell outta the author of "Nights in White Satin". That cover makes me think of that episode of Seinfeld where Crazy Joe Davola is done up like a clown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-9950915313423864842007-08-30T11:13:00.000-04:002007-08-30T11:13:00.000-04:00I love Tanya Huff, and I waited excitedly (which I...I love Tanya Huff, and I waited excitedly (which I usually don't do) for this novel to be released; I actually found a used copy at a local bookstore before its "official" release date. I guess that was karma, or kismet, or some other k-word.<BR/>Anyway, imagine my surprise when upon reading the story, that the character on the cover <B>wasn't</B> the main character (a young gay man), but a new character. And female. Yay! I got more tits than she does!<BR/><BR/>I just stumbled onto this blog via CC. This is great!bats :[https://www.blogger.com/profile/17556380030347162246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-83061912307363944412007-07-11T15:04:00.000-04:002007-07-11T15:04:00.000-04:00I think Adrianna Dane deserves some sort of award ...I think Adrianna Dane deserves some sort of award for serial abuse of the comma. There are seven in the first two sentences.Michael Crofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02082318715167756473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-2556201896443610692007-07-11T14:01:00.000-04:002007-07-11T14:01:00.000-04:00how dare you ridicule poor Peter Cortland, and his...how dare you ridicule poor Peter Cortland, and his "desperate act of self-preservation", which obviously means paying a couple of sinister medical school dropouts to engineer him into a woman in some garage-turned-operating-room ["The Surgery Shack"] and later writing his autobiography under the name of Adrianna Dane, a painted white satin facade of a pseudonym.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-43794301379642852007-07-11T12:09:00.000-04:002007-07-11T12:09:00.000-04:00The creature on the cover of Smoke and Ashes has t...The creature on the cover of <I>Smoke and Ashes</I> has too long of a torso to be human. Oh, and shouldn't there be pubes? Not, I repeat not, that I would want to have to see them. The belly tattoo is just silly.Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039997156492900954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-66102254317349613262007-07-11T10:44:00.000-04:002007-07-11T10:44:00.000-04:00On the Smoke and Ashes cover, we know it's a woman...On the <I>Smoke and Ashes</I> cover, we know it's a woman because of the strategically clinging shirt. Why is it OK to show the nipples those inflated male pecs (I'm thinking of some of your previous covers), but female breasts of the same size must somehow, just by chance, have an arm or a drifting shirt or a half-unzipped space suit covering those two little bits of flesh?shaded-lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14006767625596152527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-44753104124787733132007-07-10T23:19:00.000-04:002007-07-10T23:19:00.000-04:00Do you think that's one of the Knights Who Say "Ne...Do you think that's one of the Knights Who Say "Nee!" lurking behind the ambiguously-gendered hero on the cover of <I>Smoke and Ashes</I>?<BR/><BR/>Regarding <I>Nights in White Satin</I>: sure, it looks bad, but is it as bad as it could possibly <I>get</I>? I'm sure if we all put our heads together we could come up with the most unsettling romance novel ever contrived. Taking a cue from this post, I'd wager it's probably gotta have <I>something</I> to do with clowns. And goats. And middle-aged catwomen. And sweaty actuaries who work for Prudential and order the same damned thing for lunch at Wendy's every single frickin' day. <BR/><BR/>"On that day Lars broke his tradition and ate at Burger King instead. On that day Imogene's goat had got away. Priscilla's Snuffles had died that moning, leaving a space in her heart that only a clown could fill. On that day, four lives would be changed forever."DocTurtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15154912977859107986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-50340451744692728202007-07-10T22:50:00.000-04:002007-07-10T22:50:00.000-04:00That clown cover reminds me of a cartoon in this w...That clown cover reminds me of a cartoon in this week's <I>New Yorker.</I> It looks like it's at a a carnival midway, and there's a kid talking to a clown with a white-painted face and a single tear, just like the one on the cover you have here. In the caption, the clown says, "No, it doesn't mean I'm a sad clown. It means I killed a man in prison."<BR/><BR/>It may be my favorite <I>New Yorker</I> cartoon ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com