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  • I had been looking forward to this one since it was announced; I finally bought and read it over the weekend and was sorely disappointed by the lack of reversibility, especially in light of the back-cover blurb.

    From the stack: Reversible vol. 1 2010

  • Ack. Tom, I think your idea about using my picture on the back-cover is an interesting way to show “this is a different kind of author.”

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Susan Boyle and First-Time Authors 2009

  • Frankly, I almost always ignore not only this back-cover material, but everything that's printed on a book jacket, including the flap copy.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • I am arguing, however, that judgements on the film should be made after having seen it -- after having read the whole text, so to speak, instead of only the front-cover artwork and the back-cover blurb.

    Will You Go See Avatar? 2009

  • The opening sentence of the back-cover blurb for the paperback edition of Andrea Levy's Small Island is misleading: "It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war."

    Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011

  • Like you mentioned, cutscenes and bloated length were once back-cover bullet points.

    Great Big Bites SVGL 2009

  • A back-cover blurb to one of his novels notes that he spent his early boyhood in Cornwall, near St Michael's Mount.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Steve 2010

  • A back-cover blurb to one of his novels notes that he spent his early boyhood in Cornwall, near St Michael's Mount.

    R. Wills Thomas Steve 2010

  • Stranger in a Strange Land is also apparently a satire – it says on the back-cover of my 1980 NEL edition: “a searing indictment of Western Civilization”.

    Reading Challenge #12 – Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

  • In his back-cover blurb for the album, button accordionist Joe Burke praises it as "the old genuine music of Ireland."

    Beautiful, Genuine, Irish 2010

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