[DiapDealer]

Can someone give me a good example of a book description that doesn't sound boring to them? Also... have you ever read books whose description didn't do them justice?

Sorry, but the "they sound boring" meme seems rather disingenuous to me (everywhere it happens). Not to say that people might find them uninteresting, but rather from more of a "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" point of view.

There is no inherent right for all award-winning books to sound interesting to you (even if you may have convinced yourself that you had your finger squarely on the pulse of the genre in question for a brief second in the past). That's a rhetorical 'you' by the way. The more rational response--the more readerly response--would be to simply not read a book that sounds boring to you, and to remain silent about your lack of interest. You didn't read it so your opinion of it is meaningless, afterall. Or read the book and praise/trash/dnf it.

I also wonder if the naysayers who feel a need to publicly dismiss books no one suggested they need to read, let alone like, would be quite so vocal about "how these books sound" if it were friends who brought them to their attention rather than an awards list posting on the internet.

"Well, Alphonse; I checked out the description of that book you mentioned liking, and I have to say that it sounds like utter crap to me."