blurb's

Oh how I wish they really were fooling us and we see the modern version of this, however I think the blurb's just written like that and we'll see a true to the source version that's going to be just as much fun.

Filmstalker: Jonah Hex plot revealed 2009

The publisher's blurb does it justice without hype; here's the blurb's conclusion, with emphasis added:

Archive 2007-04-01 Mike L 2007

The publisher's blurb does it justice without hype; here's the blurb's conclusion, with emphasis added:

After asceticism Mike L 2007

Which probably means this: Don't publicize that you have X and Y bestselling authors as your support group or bosom pals since childhood, cause that diminishes X and Y's blurb's value to some degree.

Brandilyn Collins and the Mir on Author Endorsements Mirtika 2006

Which probably means this: Don't publicize that you have X and Y bestselling authors as your support group or bosom pals since childhood, cause that diminishes X and Y's blurb's value to some degree.

Archive 2006-08-01 Mirtika 2006

Oates doesn't seem particularly comfortable imagining her way into the heads of anti-Semites, which means that despite the back cover blurb's boast that she "probes the tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges accepted limits of desire," the probing doesn't get far below the epidermis.

The Little Professor: 2004

Oates doesn't seem particularly comfortable imagining her way into the heads of anti-Semites, which means that despite the back cover blurb's boast that she "probes the tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges accepted limits of desire," the probing doesn't get far below the epidermis.

The Tattooed Girl 2004

Oates doesn't seem particularly comfortable imagining her way into the heads of anti-Semites, which means that despite the back cover blurb's boast that she "probes the tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges accepted limits of desire," the probing doesn't get far below the epidermis.

Archive 2004-10-01 2004

Despite the cover blurb's claim that the manuscript was "finished," it's painfully clear that Pirate Latitudes

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But her novel sometimes feels as if she might have written the blurb's claim that this fictional world is "not all that different to today" on an index card and stuck it behind her desk, lest the book should be torn from that narrow purpose by anything like a life of its own.

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