Caustic Cover Critic
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A new addition ('The Woman in Cabin 10') to the surprisingly extensive Keira Knightley library, for people who only want to read books with Keira Knightley on them.
15 different books, all (but one) movie or TV tie-in titles, all with Keira Knightley on the cover.
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Not wonderful quality, but better than not seeing it at all!
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Oh, he's awful. Such a hacky, half-arsed, unfunny, folksy, can't-do-a-decent-ending-for-shit, unedited merchant of schlock.
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Sadly I am allergic to chocolate, so this has foiled me.
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Or she'd have been crushed in an accidental bibliolandslide.
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That's cruel and unusual punishment.
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It's this, which I just started and is very promising:
Cover of Virago edition of 'One Way of Love' by Gamel Woolsey
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Oddly enough I never tried this, though I can't imagine it would have actually worked.
From a book:

"A few evenings later he came to see her again and asked her if she would come to his rooms so that he could show her his books."
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YES! And they're also ugly, too, wrecking cover art with plops of useless text.
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Gordon, I believe you are now entitled to a share of his royalties.
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Yes, there are a few on that list I have very much not enjoyed.
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That's a lot more than I would have expected.
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Ha, the Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb blurb style.
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Ha! I mean, all the dipshit rich have "visions", they're just horrible, uncompelling, hacky ones.
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It shows! There are some prolific blurbers, King among them, whose enthusiasm is a definite turn-off for me.
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King is a terrible, incontinent blurber but this is impressive even by his standards.
Book blurb:
'Herbert seizes us by the lapels and begins to scream in our faces'
STEPHEN KING