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Post by Claire on Apr 16, 2011 13:34:16 GMT 1
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Post by fizz on Apr 16, 2011 16:12:21 GMT 1
Very difficult to limit it to 10 per poll!
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Post by haffyfan on Apr 17, 2011 20:48:39 GMT 1
OMg I can't belive all the votes for Fair horses - i really like that one!
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Post by Claire on Apr 17, 2011 21:48:49 GMT 1
I think Dream of Fair Horses is one of those you either love or hate, like Marmite whereas some of them are just plain revolting!
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Post by tintin on Dec 4, 2012 20:22:02 GMT 1
Poor Hamilton he looks like he has been called back from horse afterlife by some Haitian priestess - is the alternative title "I schooled a Voodoo pony"?
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Post by Claire on Dec 4, 2012 20:27:31 GMT 1
Crikey I haven't seen them for a while - what a load of shockers we found!
Just had a thought - did we ever do the best covers poll cos I can't see it anywhere....?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2012 7:31:59 GMT 1
I can't remember it if we did Be fun to do it again even if we did
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Post by trixiepony on Dec 5, 2012 10:53:39 GMT 1
Wow what a lot off shockers.
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Post by rallycairn on Dec 7, 2012 15:57:55 GMT 1
Well, I shouldn't bring up such a truly shameful part of my country's history, but the Riding for Ransom cover looks like a bunch of Ku Klux Klansmen! I mean, really, pointed ghostly heads?
tintin, Hamilton certainly does look like a re-animated voodoo horse, looming up behind the girl, who looks rather wooden and strange herself.
The horses on Summer on Wild Horse Island look not just wild but also rabid.
Kit Hunter looks oddly thick and bulbous, as does her horse. And despite that I see her horse is in the middle of a very naughty and/or desperate moment, she really should put on boots and get those heels down.
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Post by tintin on Dec 7, 2012 18:02:44 GMT 1
"rather wooden and strange herself" - probably paralysed with utter terror...
It's odd, but on the "Best Covers" thread there is a book called "Three White Stockings" which is on one of the "worst book" threads
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Post by rallycairn on Dec 7, 2012 23:58:05 GMT 1
^So, I guess you're saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover?" ;D
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Post by fizz on Dec 15, 2012 18:20:10 GMT 1
Has any one read Riding for Ransom? Has it something about the Klu Klux Klan? Odd as it is a UK book. A cover to offend many I would think. Catherine Harris didn't have much luck with covers!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2012 8:22:39 GMT 1
I haven't read that one of hers. It is a shame about those orange covers, I like the earlier editions covers. I bet those hideous clown/Klu Klux Klan monstrosities put people off buying them!
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Post by fizz on Dec 16, 2012 10:57:55 GMT 1
I had the one with the clown on, but it seems to have gone, maybe I recycled it when I cleared out my old room after my Mum died & I sorted the parent's house. Wish I had kept it, not for the cover, but it is a good read. We Started a Riding Club is good too. she injects quite a lot of humour into her books. However there is nothing funny about the Klu Klux Klan if you are black (or any colour for that matter) & I would like to know what the book is about & why that cover was used. Any one read it?
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Post by Claire on Dec 16, 2012 13:12:07 GMT 1
In Riding for Ransom they were dressed up as ghosts as part of the plot but the artist made the ghostly sheets look unfortunately similar to Klu Klux Klan costumes. No I agree nothing funny about the KKK, another chapter in the long list of atrocities humans inflict upon each other. Thankfully tho the book actually has nothing to do with it.
A lot of the Blackie reprints were pretty awful. The Ten Pound Pony by Veronica Westlake is another grotty one, which is a shame as the 1st edition was lovely. I think I'll do a search and see what other awful Blackie editions I can find!
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Post by susanb on Dec 16, 2012 19:40:27 GMT 1
The Alison books by Sheila Stuart all had those horrid Blackie orange cover reprints.....the original covers are lovely.
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Post by Claire on Dec 16, 2012 21:11:29 GMT 1
There was a Blackie reprint of Jill and Prince the Pony, blue this time not orange and not as bad as some of the others. But still had that awful stilted somehow wooden artwork.
Also did A Pony of Our Own by Pat Leitch have an orange Blackie reprint?
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Post by susanb on Dec 16, 2012 22:49:57 GMT 1
the orange definitely makes it all worse, at least for me....it's the only color I truly dislike.
I'm sure Pony of Our Own had an orange Blackie reprint...I remember being shocked that I found a copy of the original in dj for less than some of the orange reprints were priced at!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2012 7:46:05 GMT 1
Susan I agree with you, Orange is a yukky colour!
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Post by rallycairn on Feb 22, 2014 2:08:56 GMT 1
Just taking a look at these covers again to try to jog my memory for the covers quiz, and I have to stick up for a few of them. I think the American Girl one is actually quite lovely, aside from the girl looking WAY too eager or something. I'd take that alert but sweet-looking horse in a heartbeat. Looks like a Sam Savitt illustration? And the Boys' Life one is well drawn anatomically, just that the horse is in such a stupid position and the boy just sitting there like it's normal or even mildly amusing. Another Savitt, looks like. Cobbler's Dream - the drawn one -- ugh, and I feel sure I've seen that illustrator's work before. Just so crudely drawn with little correct detail, overly straight legs like pipe cleaners, coarse heads. Same with Horses in the Glen. And which rider is coming off sooner, Kit Hunter (looks just like the weird stiff and bulbous head of the girl on Sue's Circus Horse pb -- must be the same illustrator) or Cross Country Pony's rider? I'm not sure I could even achieve that kind of turnout with my hips/legs/feet -- she must also be a ballerina. . Again Kit needs to get those heels down, lol!
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