Comments on Greenest Books Ever - page 1

I'm surprised I don't have more green books.

I was shocked and stunned at how many neon green books I own.

You DO own a lot, I am jealous! Green is my favourite colour and I think I need to do something about this problem.

We actually do have a very popular, bright green children's book here but I refuse to add it to the list because I think it's weird. I'm sure someone else will add it and then I will have the pleasure of not voting for it.

Hmm. Not sure what that might be.

Lee wrote: "You DO own a lot, I am jealous! Green is my favourite colour and I think I need to do something about this problem. "

I don't own all of these. Many of them, though.

The Giving Tree.

I have only dusty gray books for the most part. Does it count that my copy of The Great Gatsby has a faint green light blinking through the pages?

Harold wrote: "I have only dusty gray books for the most part. Does it count that my copy of The Great Gatsby has a faint green light blinking through the pages?"

"Lolita" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "A Conn. Yankee in King Arthur's Court" have nice green covers. See? Easy.

Lee wrote: "The Giving Tree."

It's been awhile since I read it so I can't remember all the nuances.

How Green Was My Valley

Thom wrote: "How Green Was My Valley"

Some editions of that are more neon than others. We strive for the most limey.

So.....,you want green BOOK COVERS, a "Sea of Green" as it were ?

So.....,you want green BOOK COVERS, a "Sea of Green" as it were ?Facing the Congo A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of DarknessHearts in DarknessThe Dark Heart of the NightsideThe Lost Tribe A Harrowing Passage into New Guinea's Heart of DarknessFrozen Leopard Hunting My Dark Heart in AfricaDark Hearts The Unconscious Forces That Shape Men's LivesDance of DeathAn Involuntary King A Tale of Anglo Saxon EnglandThe River Wife A NovelVision Machines Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-93Darkness Shining Wild An Odyssey to the Heart of Hell & Beyond Meditations on Sanity, Suffering, Spirituality, and Liberation

Frank Herbert, The Green Brain.
Richard Matheson, ?????(,most recent title.
Peter Mattiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord.

Wallace Stevens Good one here

Stevens had a special thing for Green as symbol and one edition way into the list reflected this in its cover.

You could try voting for those titles, off on the right side, Thom.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Harold wrote: "I have only dusty gray books for the most part. Does it count that my copy of The Great Gatsby has a faint green light blinking through the pages?"

"Lolita" and "A Good Man is Har..."

Not my copies. Upon inspection, my greenest book of all time is a bright green copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales, undated, probably published in the 20's or 30's. They don't make green like that anymore; the greenest modern copy of Grimm's listed on this site is but a faint spring to my copy's lush summer.

Susanna - you missed off Judith.

She's having computer troubles just now.

Susanna wrote: "She's having computer troubles just now."

Greenville's Heritage is a soft green colour

The cover's not in the database yet.

Lee wrote: "I'm surprised I don't have more green books. "

When I think of GREEN I think of caring about the environment....not the color of the cover. This is very hard for me for that reason.

Alice wrote: "Lee wrote: "I'm surprised I don't have more green books. "

When I think of GREEN I think of caring about the environment....not the color of the cover. This is very hard for me for that reason..."

Aesthetically pleasing to look at this list though isn't it.

:O)

Susanna wrote: "The cover's not in the database yet."

I added it - just need to take the cover piccie

:O)

There are some non-green books. Anyone know how to delete them?

If you figure it out on the delete please let me know as I have no idea.

It takes a librarian - I can do it.

Which ones do you want me to remove?

They all look good to me - wouldn't it make a lovely quilt?

A very lush and verdant one!

Susanna wrote: "It takes a librarian - I can do it.

Which ones do you want me to remove?"

#89 Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie is not exactly green. Also there are some with no covers, so we can't tell they're green. Is it possible to get them covers?

I think there's a thread about books that need covers over at the GoodReads Librarians group.

Canary wrote: "I was just trying to add the Georgia O'Keeffe cover to the book I added but no luck. Also, Iconic Reflections needs its cover. I downloaded it but not able to actually upload it to the book. "

I don't see either of those on the list.

Thanks to Goodreads for featuring this list in the November Newsletter.

MY EYES!

and some of them can barely be considered green

Thank goodness someone on here is a John D. MacDonald/ Travis McGee fan and included "The Green Ripper." Most of the obvious ones on page 1 are just that: obvious.

what about The Welsh Girl??

and http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

Why don't you add them?

done!!

Lobstergirl wrote: "Thanks to Goodreads for featuring this list in the November Newsletter."

J. RICHARD OTT, TIME TRAVEL IN EINSTEIN'S UNIVERSE.....Saw it on GR website with greenest-ever cover, but attempts to pull it up here have failed.

I just added it!!

Am I color blind? Is there any green in the following books that have been added to this list: #38 Dracula(looks back & white); #64 The Hounds of Baskerilles (looks very blue to me); #73 Pippi; #97 Stormbreakers (#97 looks blue to me). Can someone delete these if they agree about the color.
Thank You

P.S. What about #72 Greenwitch. It is not green either.

This list has probably had "duplicates" merged. There is indeed a cover of Greenwitch that is mostly green.

thanks. The list just did not show it.

That's really interesting Bettie especially as I pondered the question of colour recently when I realised I ignore all books with white covers. They are normally Mills and Boonesque. Looking at my pretty big book collection, the colour red seems to figure highly among my favourites. Will check for green when I get home!

Helen wrote: "That's really interesting Bettie especially as I pondered the question of colour recently when I realised I ignore all books with white covers. They are normally Mills and Boonesque. Looking at my ..."

my fav covers tend to look like:









Snort, I'll stop listing now (get carried away). ;O/

So it seems that some Goodreads librarian decided to combine editions on this list. While that's very helpful on other lists, I think a list that is about book cover art should be allowed to have multiple editions of the same book, if each different cover fits the theme.