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Originally Posted by issybird
I know everyone’s got their no-go areas, goodness knows I have tons, but we go down that road at intervals and I like the original premise of this thread. What are the specific words or phrases that tip you off to a book’s true nature? I think the key words are both useful and revealing.
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Originally Posted by barryem
I guess you guys take descriptions more seriously than I do. I look to them as a source of information to help me decide if a book interests me but I know most descriptions are hype and not to be treated as honest descriptions.
I'm more influenced by what I learn about the book than I am by it's description. If I don't find anything useful in the description I might stop reading it and look at reviews or other information sources. But I don't worry too much about it.
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I often discover new books/authors via links from BookBub emails, links from other book pages or things like that. So when I see something new that may be from a small press or self published, a description is often what I have to go by.
Reviews are nice, but then I also often suspect they are friends of the author or people with low standards. Books that look like absolute garbage to me get rave reviews.
Don't get me wrong. Reviews aren't worthless. But if a book has too many of my pet peeves, it likely isn't for me.