Title: Bodies and Souls
Editors: Dann Herr & Joel Wells
Cover artist: Teason
Yours for: SOLD 9/18/10
Best things about this cover:
- Finally, a paperback that deals seriously with the lingering problem of the Manichean Heresy.
- "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, [Willard / Ben / Templeton / other rat name you can think of]"
- Hmmm ... uh ... I guess this cover's got a rat. And a skull. And a candle. Those elements hold a certain visual interest.
- If you like brown, this is the book for you.
- This book is another good example of why paperback design starts sucking some time around 1960. Art becomes more like stock footage. Text starts dominating the cover in un-thought out and ugly ways. Quit shilling for the "Doubleday Crime Club" and give me the beautiful cover art I deserve! 50 cents for a paperback?! What am I, a Rockefeller?
Best things about this back cover:
- When I want an authoritative literary opinion, I always turn to [squints to read fine print] the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer!
- This reviewer is sadly and humorously unaware that "catholic" in fact means "universal." I know the reviewer meant "Catholic" in religious terms ... but precision of word choice matters, even if you do only work for the Columbus Daily Muffin.
Page 123~
from "The Finger of Stone" by G.K. Chesterton
"Have you heard the news I say," rapped out the doctor. "Boyg is dead."
Gale stopped in a sentence about Gothic architecture, and said seriously, with a sort of hazy reverence:
"Requiescat in pace. Who was Boyg?"
~RP
