# New, more descriptive covers for some fantasy novels
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 9, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915 "2008-11-09T17:27:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915/21 "2009-03-05T11:46:16Z")
Meanwhile, the humorist in the OP’s link has since moved on to [the final frontier…](http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/02/23/and-the-circle-is-complete/)
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915/22 "2009-03-05T12:59:30Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam;10424603[Some more.]
([Mightygodking dot com » Post Topic » MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits, Part Two](http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/21/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-two/)) Stephenie Meyer fans won’t be happy.
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Who cares! They are Tweens and teens and that book was utter crap.
I picked up some book at the store the other day and it had the mutal author’s masturbatory comments from a more well known author on the back flap. Stephanie Meyers was one of them. I put the book down immediately and knew I would never even consider buying a book she recommended. She’s crap.
I wish I had photoshop skillz to be able to do this to children’s books and stuff.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2009, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915/23 "2009-03-05T13:14:15Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> LOL funny.
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> They fucked up with the Elric cover in link 2-Elric is a prime example of just how badly an alignment system breaks down when you are dealing with a character with lots of depth. But in all his iterations I don’t think he was ever Lawful Evil.
Yes, especially as the Melniboneans (sp?) worshipped the Gods of Chaos. Also Elric was too guilt ridden to be truly evil.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915/24 "2009-03-05T13:52:46Z")
> [@elfkin477](#):
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> So…[this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=509102) made me think of these covers. I’m not the only one who can [manipulate photos](http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/theevilwriter/manipulated/?action=view¤t=hamsterhelper.jpg), right?
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> If I start a thread for dopers to revise book covers too, would anyone else play?
[Why not.](http://das-ubernerd.blogspot.com/2009/03/if-only-all-covers-could-be-this.html)
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### Author:  [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915/25 "2009-03-05T14:05:24Z")
> [@amarinth](#):
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> “The Best Book You’ll Never Finish” - which it might be.
I actually did finish it. Not bad, but bit of a drag. It does come full circle–just the middle winds up making you wonder WTF is going on for a while.
I have to agree with most of the others I’m familiar with, though I did rather enjoy _Twilight_.
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### Author:  [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-more-descriptive-covers-for-some-fantasy-novels/471915/26 "2009-03-05T17:54:23Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> Outside of the title on the cover of the book, Robert Asprin’s Myth Series didn’t have any puns. I have to wonder if the guy actually read any of them.
Is this a whoosh? The books are puns from beginning to end. Skeeve is a Klahd. Bunny is a mafia boss’s girlfriend who loves to shop - a shopping moll. Shapely Tananda is a trollop (because she’s a female troll). There’s a poker player who always throws in a breath mint with his first bet - he’s the Sen-sen Ante Kid. The main vampire city is Blut. The planet where everyone obsesses over the Big Game is Jahk. And so on.
Re: the OP: great links, thank you. Dune especially cracked me up. It’s funny 'cuz it’s true!
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