No matter what book reviewers have to say, I usually check what other readers think about a book on amazon.com before I buy it or borrow it from the library, being sure to read the sobering one-star and two-star comments. That’s because I’ve learned from hard experience that you simply cannot trust book reviewers and [...]
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Beware of blurbs, revisited
by Rick Skwiot July 13, 2010 BooksI just came across a recent Salon.com post by book blogger Laura Miller, Beware of Blurbs, which I thought might interest you. It sheds more light on the book blurbing “industry” that I wrote about in my review of Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists. You can click here to read Miller’s post.