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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
I will never decide to read a particular book based on whether the cover is good, or not. But I *will* decide NOT to read a book if the cover indicates that its a genre I will not normally read. I am not interested in romance or erotic stuff, so any cover with half naked men and/or women will never hook me in, but rather it will turn me off.
My favourite genre is scifi, with an emphasis on the "sci" part. So if I see some book called, oh i dunno, Monsters from Mars, which has a half naked anybody on the cover, I *know* its not going to be the kind of thing I want to read. I could be wrong about it, but the cover will put me right off even bothering.
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It depends on how the half-naked people are drawn. Sometimes they can indicate proper fantasy and sometimes not. Take Conan the Barbarian for example.On most covers, he's half naked. But it is proper fantasy.
But in your example, half naked would defiantly be a no-go for me as well. There are way too many "fantasy" books that are really romance and putting them in the SF/Fantasy section of a book store is wrong (IMHO). They belong is the romance section.