The Guardian, on genre cover art.
Like some sober-suited middle manager tutting over his son's electric blue spiky haircut, the literary reader sees the genres' gaudy covers and wonders how they can go out in public looking like that. Why can't they be more like a Penguin classic, or that nice Faber poetry collection next door? Boring, says genre as it slouches out of the door to meet its friends.
Heh. At the end, the author asks for your worst-cover/best-book combos. The first one that popped into my head was the hardcover of Eon: Dragoneye Reborn*. You?
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*The paperback, thankfully, looks vastly better. AND THE SEQUEL IS DUE OUT IN APRIL. COMMENCE. HYPERVENTILATION. WOOOO!