covers

Today I realized that I totally judge books by their covers. It's true. I know this goes against all common wisdom and cliches, but I can't help it. If you hand me two copies of Hamlet, for example, and these were the covers, I would CLEARLY want to read the first one.

It doesn't matter that the text is identical. The first one looks way cooler.

And if this one were a book, I would totally choose it. But sadly, it's a screenplay.

On that note, I should probably comment that if they've made a movie out of the book and then a book cover out of the movie (I know you know what I mean - they did this with Lord of the Rings, Narnia, etc), I'll definitely go for that one.

I'm so shallow.

ajr