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Comments on: Book Blurbs by PCN https://popculturenerd.com/2013/02/22/book-blurbs-by-pcn Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:57:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: Naomi Johnson https://popculturenerd.com/2013/02/22/book-blurbs-by-pcn/comment-page-1#comment-309967 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:45:51 +0000 https://popculturenerd.com/?p=20957#comment-309967 ‘Honesty in blurbs,’ a new policy?

I rarely pay attention to blurbs, but I must add that my favorite read of 2012 — Wiley Cash’s A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME — was one that I picked up solely on the strength of the blurb by Clyde Edgerton, whose work I enjoy immensely. Sometimes, even the most glowing blurb is true and not just radioactive.

]]> By: Jen Forbus https://popculturenerd.com/2013/02/22/book-blurbs-by-pcn/comment-page-1#comment-309961 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:43:22 +0000 https://popculturenerd.com/?p=20957#comment-309961 I would enjoy those blurbs for entertainment sake, for sure. But as for me, I don’t pay one lick of attention to blurbs with the exception of two authors. Even people I know and adore I’ve disguarded as biased because I know they are blurbing either a.) a friend or b.) another author from their publisher. Which of course isn’t to say a book is bad, it’s just that I can’t use the blurb as a measurement. If they can’t sell me with the synopsis…I move on to the next option….

However, I will say, “playing with chickens” sounds more like one of Dante’s levels of hell to me… 😉

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