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Originally Posted by JSWolf
For fans of...
If you liked...
If I see either of those two likes at the beginning of the description, I pass on by.
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I don't like those either. First, any decent book has so much going on that it's hard to say if you like one you'll like another.
I learned in the paperback days of my reading, probably from 1950 to about 1995, that the blurbs on the backs of books were full of lies. Sometimes in the best cases they just shaded things and slanted things to make the book seem like more than it was, but more commonly they just lied and told you about things that weren't in the book at all.
Used car salesmen have a reputation for being sleazy mostly because they're not very good at it and everyone picks up on their stretches and lies. Publishers are smarter and can and do lie a lot more and far less noticeably.
Barry