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Originally Posted by kennyc
I enjoy the reviews and find them helpful. It's pretty obvious when they are either too praising or too punishing, but between the blurbs, samples and 'averaging' the reviews I can generally tell if a book fits my needs or not. Not always of course -- even with all of that duds still slip through.  |
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A little bit of common sense to average them out, some additional reviews from somewhere like goodreads, and I find the reviews quite helpful.
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Originally Posted by DianNC
For instance, I saw these incredible reviews for The Sea of Tranquility at goodreads the other day and before I knew it, I owned it!!  |
Nice, that looks a cracking read..... not normally my type of book, but I've added it to my wish list and might just buy it