... part to keep my local bookstore in business. I love to browse in bookstores looking at titles and reading blurbs and regularly buy books based on a good blurb. One I recently finished, The Wizard of ... blurb shocked me. I had no choice but to buy The Theory of War; I'm glad I did. Blurbs that turn me away from a book use words and phrases like "empowering," "coming-of-age," & ...

... ; into my music playlist from time to time.  What I am going to cackle about is the fact that when this game comes out, the press blurbs that the publisher will slap on the front of the box to help sell the product will pretty much write ... you and hold onto it at night!" - Digital Gaming Quarterly I also have similar blurbs prepared in case Huey Lewis and the News ever get their own game, too.

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TheWife last night said that if she picks up a book and sees a positive blurb from someone whose books she likes, she is, in fact, more likely to buy the book. I, on the other hand, have never read a jacket blurb before making the purchase. How much do you find book blurbs to be effective, helpful, relevant?

... only people who actually enjoy them are pseudo-intellectuals writing blurbs for publishers weekly. Two words: stiff spines.  ... more diverse as far as gender goes, they lack the sophistication of the earlier blurbs. Captive of Sin Anna Campbell (Avon) ... "powerless hero".  The way these blurbs are written, they are trying to turn us more towards the litrachoor stories, aren't ...

What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/phrases will make you put the book back down immediately? Any blurb that contains "suspense/mystery/noir/whodunnits" instantly make me check out tha book. Now one can add "Global terrorism" too, to the list. "Mystic", "magic", "fantasy" may interest me or maybe not. It depends. ...