Dale, I enjoy a lot of your posts, but you're off base on this one and I don't really understand the point. You're telling those of us who have read the book and like it that you don't understand why we like the book since you don't like the book's cover. Obviously, to each his own. Nobody is for everybody. I could list 100 reasons why Mark is easily among the absolute best in L.A. and how I could 100% fall in love with Mark if we were meeting in a different context, but that's me doing me. You do you.
P.S. - I find the cover as spectacular as everything else about the experience.