Cover Art

[Guest leebarr]

What is the best and worst cover art for the books. I think the best is TEOTW, the worst is KOD

[Majsju]

The worst by far is ACOS. The best...Hmmm, I think either TDR or LOC.

[Kadere]

I'd say the weakest is TFoH and the best is either TDR or TGH.

[Darth_Andrea]

I did notice what I think is a mistake on the cover of book 11 Knife of Dreams. The Aiel on the left hand side of Perrin is wearing a sword. And who ever painted it didn't give Perrin the golden eyes the look brown to me.

 

 

 

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[Tyrell]

All my UK paperbacks have nice covers, showing the wheel with the infinity shaped serpent entwined in various colours.

[algspkr]

All my UK paperbacks have nice covers, showing the wheel with the infinity shaped serpent entwined in various colours.

And I wish I had the extra cash to order them.

[Kalythase Breen]

My favorite probably has to be Winter's Heart - I love the colors, and it's not too weird looking. I liked EOTW and TDR, as well.

The worst, by far is Lord of Chaos. It's just... blech.

[Majsju]

I did notice what I think is a mistake on the cover of book 11 Knife of Dreams. The Aiel on the left hand side of Perrin is wearing a sword. And who ever painted it didn't give Perrin the golden eyes the look brown to me.

 

It's not a sword, it's the big knife all Aiel are carrying, just poorly painted.

[Guest cw]

Personally, I think the earliest ones were the best done.  Thanks to the structured discussion forum, I can't even look at Lord of Chaos anymore without thinking of Fabio and then shuddering.  I don't think any of books have very good depictions of the characters.

[Cybertrolloc]

Guys, it's the 21st century around here... Just go ewwwww:

 

The young reader releases seem to have better artwork, i.e.

 

Found them here

[Tyrell]

Yeah, eww. This is much prettier:

 

 

 

[Dragon21]

That's funny. I always thought Rand looked more like Fabio too on LOC.

It does look an awful lot like a cheesy romance novel.

[Majsju]

That's funny. I always thought Rand looked more like Fabio too on LOC.

It does look an awful lot like a cheesy romance novel.

 

Who the  bloody hell is Fabio?

[Dragon21]

Fabio is a male model. He does TONS of romance novel covers and tv commercials. A big hit with a lot of women in the states.

I am sure you can find plenty of him online....if you wanted.

[Majsju]

I get all the male model I need every time I shave ;D

[Dragon21]

Good one.  ;D

[Werthead]

The covers are pretty terrible, for the most part. The Great Hunt and The Shadow Rising are pretty poor. The Path of Daggers is reasonably good, but the cover for Knife of Dreams is so eye-splittingly terrible that it's unbelievable. The rest are pretty "Meh". Darrell K. Sweet really dropped the ball with these covers. I'm glad that they changed the UK ones over to the new symbols, but I'm even more glad they kept the spine designs the same (so the change-over doesn't look too noticeable on the shelf).

 

For a series that's sold so many copies and is so popular, I've never understood why there's such little official artwork around for WoT (plenty of fan art, obviously). Compared to what's out there for Song of Ice and Fire or Lord of the Rings, it's a pretty woeful state of affairs.