ive never once bought a book based on its ranking on the nyt list or what oprah recomends. i read books that look interesting to me when i walk in the store and walk down the fiction isle or the non fiction isle, if there is an auther i really like ill specificly look for that author. with my ereading i do the same thing. yes some of my reading are on the list but most are not.
i find book reviews just as bad as movie reviews, like recently read a review on the movie voyage of the dawn treader and this major reviewer rated the movie low because there wasnt enough kink or sex scenes in it... completly missing the fact that it was a childrens story/movie made by disney and NOT a late night HBO mini series.
ive read simmilar type of reviews about my favorite clive cussler dirk pit novels about them not having enough cultural enlightenments in them. i dont read dirk pit for enlightenment i read it cuz i want to see him save the world and stop the bad guy :P
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