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Do you like the book covers of the series?
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this is one of the few cases where I actually like the tv show covers better.







I agree! I hate buying a book with a cover consisting of a movie poster!


I'm embarrassed to read the ones with the pictures of Anna Paquin and such. I like her fine, but I hate when publishers start putting photos of TV or movie characters on the original novels.

I'm embarrassed to read the ones with the p..."
I love the covers too! The illustration style is a big part of what drew me in, unlike just about everyone else here.




I love the old covers but I dislike the HBO covers. It's just promotion and they show photo's of people who aren't even in the books; Lafayette, Jessica, ... and it takes away the feeling of how different the two actually are. The show is only partially based on the books in the way of character introduction so I would've preferred it separated but yeah, we have that problem with so many bookcovers.

I agree. It feels like they are trying to force our hand on what the characters really look like by adding trueblood people to the Stackhouse covers. I don't like imagining Sookie as looking like the over-acting Paquin.
Though I do wonder about the whimsy of the original covers.









Like the illustrations because they are simple and mirror the theme of the book


Not me, You can go out w/all your books in one convenient little package! :)

I totally agree.


I am heavily influenced by covers and typeface and things like that. I have books 3, 4 and 5 in the arty covers, because I ordered those from the US back in about 2005, and the rest in either of the other two styles (you can't get the arty ones in England) and they change the whole feeling of the books for me. The arty ones feel whimsical and magical, and the others feel darker and nowhere near as enjoyable. Part of it is the size of the books and the font, but the covers have a great deal to do with it. So much so that I keep meaning to pay the ridiculous shipping rates to get copies of the arty ones and then sell the others. I'd have to go through them first though; I have a terrible habit of underlining passages in pencil and putting boxes round words I don't know - and an even worse habit of arguing with books in the margins. :)
(I wonder if I might like Lily Bard better in a different cover? I've read those twice and am just about ready to give up, both times I've felt utterly bleak for days after.)
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