No, this is not about ecology or sustainability. It's about the color green--covers that are as limey and as neon as possible.
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Sep 04, 2009 04:32PM
I'm surprised I don't have more green books.
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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.
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.
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.
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 ?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.
Stevens had a special thing for Green as symbol and one edition way into the list reflected this in its cover.
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 wrote: "She's having computer troubles just now."Greenville's Heritage is a soft green colour
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.
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)
If you figure it out on the delete please let me know as I have no idea.
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?
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.
MY EYES!
and some of them can barely be considered green
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.
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.
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
This list has probably had "duplicates" merged. There is indeed a cover of Greenwitch that is mostly green.
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/












