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Originally Posted by hildea
The presence of a half naked man on the cover tells us that at least one of the protagonists is a man, but says nothing at all about the quality of the book, and very little about the content. Dismissing a huge number books as awful based on the cover is prejudiced. It would be just a silly to dismiss all books with spaceships on the cover, or all books with guns on the cover.
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I happily dismiss all books with covers depicting naked torsos and/or spaceships; I don't want to read "steamy" romance or science fiction. Guns aren't genre-specific, so I don't dismiss books with guns on the cover unless the gun belongs to a cowboy, clothed or unclothed.
Silly? Perhaps. But the visual is a way to quickly cull the herd so I can get to the kind of book I like.