It's funny that with all the recent talk of book criticism having grown too nice, and reviews potentially being faked (or sometimes too mean), we haven't spent much time discussing the strange business of book blurbs. That shall be fixed, now. Book blurbs: They are those enticements from bylined outside sources telling you why you should read said book. They are all promotional, ranging from compliments about the author him- or herself to praise for the content of the book and its prose to favorable comparisons of the book to other books you likely have been enticed to read by other blurbers.
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