Re: The Seymour/RHtR Cover
anaconda (anaconda@wwa.com)
Wed, 08 Oct 1997 17:34:54 -0400
At 07:26 AM 10/8/97 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, anaconda wrote:
>> Secondly, the covers of the Salinger books are completely empty
>> of anything. I suppose it has been some time since I have bought
>> Salinger new, and these might have been around for awhile, but what
>> an awful thing Time-Warner has done to the Salinger books. None of
>> them portray any personality whatsoever.
RickL said:
>I don't think this is anything Time-Warner has done to the books, but is
>something JDS has reqested or demanded himself. I read somewhere that the
>covers should be white and as plain as possible, so that the cover would
Interesting. It isn't as if the books were very "glitzy" in the first
place, just different colors.
Then: WILL HOCHMAN said:
>just goes to prove that old saying about books and covers...will
:} True enough.
Then Kristen Shahmir said:
>Is the COVER of the book really that important?!! Maybe Salinger wants
>his readers to begin a work with absolutely no contrivances as to how the
>characters appear, etc. i kind of prefer them this way. Somehow i can't
>see a rosy cheeked studio art design of Holden. It would just ruin it
>somehow.
Well, the cover _is_ important, in the sense that I like to quickly find my
books, CDs, cassettes, etc...I happen to have a difficult time keeping
everything
in order. Either way, a good half of my more favorite books no longer have
front or back covers, they tend to fall off.
I was simply venting last evening, it was a weird evening.
-bob
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