Booking Through Thursday

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 Are there any good books that you read IN SPITE OF the cover and ended up wondering what on earth the artist and publisher were thinking to pair up a cover that so badly represented a perfectly good book? And … if you didn’t like the cover, what made you pick up the book? The author? Assigned reading from school? A recommendation from a friend?

Definitely. I read the entire A Song of Ice & Fire series by George R. R. Martin. I don't think they could have made the covers more boring if they had tried, honestly. I picked up "A Game of Thrones" because the series was starting a couple of months from then & I honestly hadn't known it was based on a book, or a series of books, but I knew that it looked good & wanted to read the first book to see if it would be worth watching. I enjoyed it & eventually made my way through the rest of the series & waited anxiously for "A Dance with Dragons," which was the book that made me realize that I needed an ereader, because my hands can't hold onto a large hardcover book anymore. That cover was also better than the others in the series, maybe because so many years had passed between it & the previous one.