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Old 12-08-2009, 01:02 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
How? I read the blurb, which is neither a recommendation or a review, but a description (albeit written in a way to entice). I also look at the cover art, or I'll search under particular genres I like already (I call this mooching). Your recommendation 'might' make me aware of a book, movie or an album, but it will in no way attract me to the work at hand. And your opinon of it I neither need nor want to know to make my decision. I don't care if Cory Doctorow recommends X book, if that book doesn't attract 'me' then I'm not reading it, I'm probably not even going to give it a chance.
OK, fair enough. I guess that I consider the "blurb" to be nothing more than a "review written by the publisher" (or the author, for self-published stuff). But I take your point.
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