Favorable quotes from famous authors don't mean a thing.

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Does that answer your question.

Apparently King now puts his name on book now he didn't write for $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

These quotes could also being taken out of context. As you probably noticed the . . . in the Dean Koontz quote, I wonder what is between "Unusually clever" and "highly entertaining" perhaps "…crap that only an moron would find.."

Yeah, I guess you could be right. I also heard yesterday that this book is the one Stephen King was reading at the time when he got hit by a drunk driver and almost died. Maybe he was delusional at the time.

No, you can't rely on this. It's a professional courtesy from successful writers to the new ones. Someone gave them a leg up when they were starting out - they now do the same. It may cost them a bit of credibility, but that's what's happening.

Or, how do you know it's "the" Stephen King and "the" Dean Koontz--maybe the quotes are from Stephen Herbert King of Hicksville, Ohio and Dean Alfonso Koontz of Nome, Alaska.

And don't you hear the same about movie reviews? I would be more curious on what has been left out from the review. I did hear one reviewer state that movie ads will take quotes out of context in order to market their movie.

Good point lab rat. So many ways to twist a truth, so little time. Now, as I suggested in KC's horror novel threads, Patrick Suskind's 'Perfume' will not dissapoint you. You can check out a teaser from the first chapter at Amazon.

Roger is right. Blurbs are often (usually?) done as favors between friends or by an established writer being nice to a new one. There are very few writers whose blurbs mean much to me, and those are by people, like DeLillo and Pynchon, who rarely do them.

Heehee - or they are completely misunderstood! My favourite was some movie proudly putting on ALL its advertising material this critic's opinion: "Even more saccharine than The Sound of Music"!!!!!!!

Perfume is MARVELLOUS!!!!!

Notice that most of quotes used had "..." in the middle of it, this means that it's not a complete quote, maybe in that long sentence the reviewer had said there were bad stuff about the books in it. THe publishers and the author (of course) who did not wish to publish something that was bad, they would eliminate it and would only use the favorable part. (I do the same thing when I write research papers).

Anways, the other thing is you must remember that there are many different people in the world here. Some books you may have hated from the first page, but some people would cling to their every word.

I guess it's essential next time, to seek opionions of your peers before you read something! Well, good luck in the future!

~> Zedd

Rather than new bestsellers, I read classics.
Rather than new cars, I buy second-hand.

I like to experiment, but not with my money.

Relative.

Zedd, yeah, I agree. I should have checked around, but it was getting ready to board a plane and didn't have time to really check it all out. I was just surprised at what a stupid book it was.

I have since looked it up on Amazon, and there are some good reviews on it, but a lot of people had the same complaints about the characters' complete lack of depth. I added one to their reviews page too, so some other sucker doesn't get taken.

I buy books from authors I know I like. Salvatore, Dale Brown, Clive Cussler, Harry Turtledove,etc.

Also the marketers are not above out right lying. There have been some authors that "endorsed" books but I heard them interviewed and they said that they had never even read the book. So it's quite possible that the quotes are made up.

But most likely it's the fact that the quotes are taken out of context.