[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BlackVoid

I beg to differ. At sffworld.com one reviewer is fond of Joe Abercrombie - I absolutely agree, very good stuff. But this same reviewer also praises Shaman Crossing by Robin Hobb which is absolute trash (for me) - and even manmy Hobb fans agree (see Amazon user reviews). He also likes the Prince of Nothing trilogy by Bakker, which I liked first but hated really bad by the half of the 3rd book.
Also accomplished, well selling authors VERY RARELY get bad reviews, still I do not like all of them.
Yeah, maybe there is a rewiever someplace that has the same taste as myself, but I have not found it yet.

If I like one book by an author, generally I like others as well. The same goes for dislike. That much is true.

But you said:

I NEVER, EVER read reviews before buying a book. More often than not, they reveal the whole plot. Even the back cover blurb is full of spoilers most of the time. With ebooks, I only read the first few lines of the blurb / look at the cover (very misleading most of the time though, plenty of good books with cheesy covers) and decide to try or not.