When one picks up a novel the very first thing that is
noticed is the cover. Title, font and design are the very things that make you
pick it up, that (dare I say it) ‘draw you in’. Covers are important no matter
what genre you’re searching for; whether romance with a lovers embrace, science
fiction with a huge robot or gothic with a dark figure in the corner. Covers
define the novel and give insight into plot.
I cannot stand it, therefore, when a cover gets revamped because
the story has been used in television or film. I don’t want my Game of Thrones to have Sean Bean on it;
nor my Woman in Black to have Daniel
Radcliffe. I like the original designs that the author originally decided upon.
Having Christopher Eccleston or David
Tennant on my Hamlet doesn’t make me
want to buy it any more than before, if anything I’m less likely to buy it…
I understand books can get this awesome re-vamp when they
come out into other media, look how far Game
of Thrones has got. Written seventeen years ago it’s been brought back to
new audiences through the television series; and I even saw a computer game
based on it today!
I just wish authors
had the conviction to stick to the initial designs that they felt suited their
books, the initial image that they felt summed up their creation. It’s just a
bit of a cop-out to use some actor in place of a design they probably spent a
lot of money and time trying to create.
Applicable to people,
not however, to books.
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