Judging the Book by Its Cover/ Movie Stars

By now you might now have noticed that I put on a "currently reading" widget and this week's read is "The Perks of being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. I've seen this book around the local bookstore for years and years but have never bothered to pick it up until now. Now that I think about it, I never picked it up because it had this green colored cover with a picture on the upper right hand corner showing the bottom half of a person in brown and white (I say this because it wasn't really black and white, it was sort of brown like an old photograph). It looked boring and didn't look like a fun read at all. 

Now that it's a week from the release of the movie, I decided that it was high time I got myself a copy. It had more to do with Emma Watson and Logan Lerman being in the main cast more than anything that made me want to read this book. I know it sounds like a weird connection but that is what motivated me, mostly so that I could imagine them as the cast in the actual book while I read it. Of course there's also the added allure of the book vs the movie debate after watching the film. 

Judging book covers is an art. If I'm going to get a copy of this book, I might as well pick a good one. Not the original green cover or the film tie-in one (which looked good but the paper was white and looked like textbook paper). And so I opted for this one. What do you think?