Subject: JDS covers
From: Malcolm Lawrence (Malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 1997 - 01:59:10 GMT
I must say that I think the current covers of the books...you know...the
white covers with the diagonal stripes...are the most boring covers for
paperbacks I may have ever seen. Perhaps JDS wanted them to be as
absolutely nondescript as possible for Zen purposes, but I've always
thought the burgundy and yellow cover or CITR, the white and green
(horizontal, which makes all the difference in the world) stripe of F&Z,
the butterscotch cover of RHTRBC/S:AI and the "tiles" of Nine Stories are
just so perfectly elegant in their simplicity and distinctiveness. You can
see them from a mile away and still recognize them. How many other books
can you do that with? And the packaging of them in hardcover is pretty
incredibly tantalizing as well. And I do think that the decision to put on
the dust jacket of the hardcover of F&Z (at least...haven't checked the
others) the spiel about how he's been writing the story of the Glass family
as his life work is a placater to all of us fans that if we wait we will be
rewarded.
Malcolm
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