Book cover rant & Fables 10

[vierran45]

I'm starting to get really tired of this current trend of (semi-)headless female torsos on the cover of almost every frikking book I've recently bought. I received my latest book order today (home delivery too early in the morning -meaning around 8 a.m. :P- by the same nice boy who delived my mp3 player to me yesterday - he even quipped that here's

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[meganbmoore]

*skips Fables part because she's way behind on the monthlies, but what she's read of the arc has been awesome*

I've been annoyed by the covers thing for a while(it's really popular in icons, too.) It's supposedly "stylish" and "artistic cropping." IMO, someone did it once in something that it fit and got a lot of praise for it, and everyone ran to copy it. Really, it makes my eyes just glance over books. It and the female butt covers.

[myntti]

John Scalzi mentioned the same thing (headless women on book covers, that is) in his blog recently. http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=859 I guess it's "trendy" right now. *shrugs*