Queenan had trouble re-reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" when he disliked a movie tie-in cover that adorned the front. He finally realized that many of the books he owned that he had been avoiding reading had covers he found ugly. "Elated that I had finally solved this mystery, I raced out and bought a copy of 'Huckleberry Finn' with a passable cover," he wrote. "I loved it! I did the same with 'Nicholas Nickleby.' Fantastic! I then moved on to Dr. Faustus, a book I had tried to plow through a half-dozen times. No problem! That only left one more magic mountain to climb. I raced off to the library, checked out a copy of 'Death of a Salesman' that came with perfectly inoffensive packing, and retreated to my bed for a nice, long read. I hated every word of it. So much for that theory."
