To HATE photographs on covers of novels

[Summerbreezing]

Illustrations look so much better and still leave lots up to your imagination. Photographs just seem to ruin the whole fiction element of the book. And I particularly hate when an old children's book set, for instance, in the 1950s is reprinted with a photograph of a child in a hoodie and trainers. It just totally wrecks the whole atmosphere and setting of the story.

My pet hates are black and white photos of crying children trailing scruffy teddy bears on the covers of misery-lit books.

Yes! This irritates me too.

The other one that bugs me is the novels with an silhouette of someone on the cover (particularly crime novels as the
silhouette is always wearing a detective hat, and they also feel the need to add a red 'glow' around the person)

Like Sherlock after Ready Brek.

I love the way Noel Streatfeild books are being reprinted with lovely old fashioned covers. Far nicer than my 1970s versions with children in flared jeans and trainers, even though the stories themselves were often set in pre-war or immediately post-war England. Very confusing when I was a child.

This.

stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/awful-book-covers-wuthering-heights.html

The 90210 and Rosie and Jim versions . Who on earth picks those covers. Actually the 90210 one is a complete travesty.

Hehehe... I found out recently that a photo of me is the cover of a book...

The new Georgette Heyer covers make me want to cry:

www.amazon.co.uk/Grand-Sophy-Georgette-Heyer-ebook/dp/B004M8S44K/ref=la_B000AQ1Q70_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399161042&sr=1-3

They give off a really teenage chick lit sort of vibe to me. Yes, Georgette Heyer is light reading, yes, they are romances, but they are also beautifully written and deeply well researched. Silhouette cartoons just don't capture the feeling of the world her books inhabit at all, for me.

My DH once covered a copy of 'Never Let Me Go' with hand-drawn illustrations when the only copy I could find had the film version cover, so deeply did I object to it. So, YANBU! And generic photographs, even worse.