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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Or shirtless females either. I really don't like the newer style of having naked people on the front of books where they are carefully, *almost* showing nothing. I really find that sort of thing unnecessary and in bad taste. Very avoidable.
It was bad enough when romance was going down the hysterically funny "Fabian" route where every guy had huge muscles, torn or half buttoned shirt and a swooning woman fluttering helplessly about. Nowadays ... oh never mind. Let's just say I don't even bother to buy the stuff. I wonder if that is part of the reason I don't read romance anymore. I've never really thought about it. But I don't shop for it anymore. Most romance I read these days is because it's a side plot to a mystery or UF.
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I'm a big fan of BAEN but their recent set of covers for the Poul Anderson Dominic Flandry books...annoy me... Double pandering there. (Plus I have the 80's paperback with the non-pander covers.)
However, the same approach to the latest Bujold Cover doesn't bother me at all. Mostly because the cover reflects both the tone of the book and an actual scene from the book.
Context matters, I guess.