EVER BOUGHT A BOOK ON THE STRENGTH OF THE REVIEWS ON THE BACK???

If you are like us (and probably one of the many thousands of book lovers across the globe) and have had the misfortune of spending your hard-earned cash on an apparent "best-seller"; you will probably also have experienced the dull thud as you bang your head against the wall, thinking "Why did I listen to the reviews on the back?!" The truth is: reviews found on books are usually self-promoting, PR stunt-type hype and not necessarily a true reflection of the books' quality at all.

It is our aim to tell the truth about books, but don't for one second assume that that is synonymous with us creating a blog to 'diss' authors' work - to the contrary - our intention is to provide an honest appraisal of each and every book we read. If the book is any good - it'll get a good review. If it's awful and a tragedy to the literary world - then it won't. It's that simple.

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

New COMPETITION coming soon...

We are extremely pleased to let you know that we are planning a new competition whereby members can enter for free for a chance to win a signed first edition copy of The Enemy's Son by James Johnson.

This is a must have collector's item - especially for you SF fans out there!

The competition is not yet open, so keep your eyes peeled on our main website http://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/ and of course, we'll let you know here FIRST!

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 July 2008 at 22:55

    When is this going to be available?

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  2. Anonymous16 July 2008 at 22:57

    Wow! This sounds like a totally excellent comp - will definately be checking back regularly for this one - and I totally second the other dude's question - when IS IT going to be available????

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  3. A mum22 July 2008 at 21:12

    Thanks for the questions and interest - we're hoping to get this competition up and running in August (all being well with our main guy who does the techy stuff on our main website). We'll be posting on here when it goes live - don't worry!

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