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There’s a new measure of whether or not a book is a book, and that’s: “If it’s on Amazon.com, then it’s a legitimate book.” Notice that it’s not Barnes and Nobles, not Bowkers, not available via Ingrams or any other measure, but AMAZON.COM. Okay. Well, in that case, all books on The Deepening will henceforth [...]
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How do you go about finding good novels to read? Read reviews? Try one? Stick to authors you know?
I know what I do mostly: Pick up the book, read the back cover, read the front and back flaps, Start reading chapter one, go to some arbitrary spot in the middle, scan down the page with my eye, go to the back of the book — not the end, but somewhere in the last half inch of pages, and scan down that, too, to see if the writing holds or if it has reduced its quality to “trite.” If I like it, if the story intrigues me, I’ll buy it.
I like handling books before I buy them. I don’t particularly like buying online…though I do. I enjoy idling away hours at a good book store. Unfortunately, the only new bookstore we have locally is an indie whose children’s section is larger than all the rest of the store. (Owner is a grandma, probably a great grandma.)
So, the question stands, folks: How do you go about finding good novels to read?
