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Originally Posted by leebase
How do you choose the books you read? I pay attention to the description of the book...how else would I choose among the thousands?
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Way to not answer the question asked.
I never once suggested that descriptions shouldn't be used in a reader's selection process (nor that I don't use them myself). I asked what
exactly about a description would make a book seem "boring" to someone. I also asked if anyone had ever encountered a description that didn't do a book a justice. I also suggested that voluntarily announcing that an award-winning book's description sounded "boring" seems like a pointless over-share to me. I don't recall a lot of "
thought about reading book x, but the description sounded boring so I didn't" posts in the "What Are You Reading Now" thread. So I fail to see why such would be relevant here.
Nobody really cares what someone thinks of a book they're NOT going to try before commenting on it. They only care what those who DID try think of it.
As for contributed 'blurbs' ?? I don't give them the slightest glance no matter how I feel about the author they're written by. They're all inane nonsense that I won't wear my eyes out reading.