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Originally Posted by Pablo
If Richard Adin says he couldn't put down a book, I know I will like it.
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Thanks, Pablo, for the vote of confidence. I'm sending karma your way
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Originally Posted by Pablo
Why should I read reviews by people whose tastes I don't know? For me, the blurb is more important than any review, I couldn't care less how many "five star reviews" a book gets in Amazon.
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I agree wholeheartedly with this. I do not care about the online reviews and whether a book gets 1 star or 5 stars. There are certain reviewers I trust, mainly those in
The New York Review of Books, but I buy many more books than they can review and a goodly number of the books they review are not books that interest me. I look at the description and the topic. If it appeals to me, I buy it -- but only if it is from a publisher I trust. In other words, very rarely do I buy self-published books and those must be very inexpensive.
As I have said before, I largely buy hardcover nonfiction, and although I know it is no guarantee of quality that it is published by a university press, I at least know it has been vetted by the press.
As Amazon has demonstrated over many years, its star system is not one that can be trusted. Consequently, like Pablo, I ignore it.