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Judging Revolve by its cover

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Revolve looks just like a girl’s fashion magazine cover, right down to the lower-case nameplate, and it’s meant to; it wants to grab you by the spaghetti straps and convince you that Scripture is cool. I’m not sure what the title refers to, but there are all those circles underneath the logo, so it must mean something, unless the publisher just thinks that teenaged girls are still way into Spirograph.

But more about the design: it’s a cold day in hell when you praise a teen fashion magazine for showing some design restraint, but between Revolve and a random sample of Seventeen magazine, you have to hand it to Seventeen for putting a lid on excess.

Mastication is normal: Judging books by their covers, October 2003

Earlier entries about Revolve: Bible for teen girls and Revolve: glitzy teenybopper Bible.

Born again marketing: Fundamentalist thrillers and Apocalyptic pop culture.

Richard Evans Lee
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Also note this comment on Bookslut (http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2003_10.php#000919): "The hot new trend in chick lit: Christianity." Can religion possibly get any more shallow?

Posted by: PZ Myers | October 30, 2003 12:03 PM

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