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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I would have never guessed that State of Fear by Crichton was number 2. I thought it was ok, but not his best by a long shot. I've read five of those. Maybe it's just personal preference, but it's pretty unlikely that I'm going to go for a book with a standard Romance cover on it. The Kate Daniels books is about as far down that path as I care to go. For the most part, it also shows why I tend _not_ to base my book purchases on best seller lists.
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First: It is a bestseller list. Those tend to favor newer books. It does not say, that the best Chriton book is on it.
Second, we more or less know only two things about how you choose books: in the past baen and by looking through lists of new books (judging by cover? By title, by reading descriptions?) But we know a lot more how you don't choose them: reviews, bestseller lists, recommendations etc. Frankly, your methods of choosing books seem realy awkward, while you just handwaves very good methods away. Your whole "pile of crap" argument bases on your method of selecting books. It is just not very good and it wasn't very good even in days with fewer books,, but there it was more manageable. I understand that you like your way of choosing books. No problem. But please don't see your way as the only one and base your argumentation on it, if there are perfectly well other ways.