quixoticSo let's play the blurb game! You've been asked to blurb an existing book in a way that is honest, accurate, and true to your feelings on the text. Most of these will probably not be used for publication, because when I'm being honest, accurate, and true, there's a lot of swearing.
I'll start:
"This book is like a cozy blanket for my soul. A cozy blanket full of evil clowns and profanity. IT is the most comforting thing I have ever read." —Stephen King's IT.
"Matthew Swift's London crackles with electric fire, neon heartbreak, and all the power and sideways logic of urban sorcery. Kate Griffin is at the top of her game, and she just keeps getting better." —Kate Griffin's Neon Court.
"FUCK YEAH, SEAKING." —Peter Clines's Ex-Heroes.
"It takes a truly great story, and a truly great writer, to make a book about rabbits more true to the human condition than most books about humanity." —Richard Adams's Watership Down.
"Lucy Snyder attacks the page with the raw, manic intensity of an early Sam Raimi. Jessie Shimmer is urban fantasy's answer to Ash from The Evil Dead: ballsy, profane, and too much fun to put down." —Lucy Snyder's Spellbent.
"Hey, look! It's a retelling of 'Tam Lin' that makes me root for Janet! That never happens!" —Pamela Dean's Tam Lin.
"You need to meet the people in this book. They have things to tell you." —Janet Kagan's Hellspark.
"The true power of fairy tale archetypes is the way they let us tell the stories that need to be told while framing them in a veil of the familiar. Jim Hines has created a Cinderella with a future, a Sleeping Beauty with a past, and a Snow White present in more than merely apples. These books are all the stronger for not being 'serious' fiction; by the time you realize that you're learning, it's too late. You've been taught." —Jim Hines's The Stepsister Scheme.
Now it's your turn! BLURB THE WORLD!
March 26 2011, 04:55:17 UTC 6 years ago Edited: March 26 2011, 05:20:18 UTC
"The atmosphere is thick enough to slice up and slather with anchovy paste and olive oil." --Vendetta, by Michael Dibdin
"McGuire has created one of the great horror villains of the genre, the kind who eats Chucky for breakfast and gives noogies to Pennywise until it cries Uncle"--An Artificial Night
"You can just about hear Woody Guthrie's guitar and Pete Seeger's banjo in the background on every page." --The Grapes of Wrath
"There were dozens of passages—some on almost every page—that made me stop and pause to contemplate the beauty of language as used even by not-too-bright people and plain-spoken political professionals."--All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
"It's the Cthullu Feel-Good Book of the Year"--Practical Demonkeeping, by Christopher Moore
"Somewhere, right now, there’s a predator who, having read Stieg Larsson, sees a skinny, vulnerable looking punkish girl on a dark street, and who gulps to himself and decides it would be wise to keep his distance and go after an easier target, like maybe Chuck Norris or Hulk Hogan."--The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
"Reading Sarah Vowell is like being the lucky, lucky kid who gets partnered up for the big history research paper with the quiet, geeky girl who sits in the back row, and who turns out to be infectiously passionate about the subject matter in ways that draw for cultural sustenance on Scooby Doo, President Clinton, and psychological insights about that popular, backstabbing kid with the perfect hair and the soul of a coal miner’s lung." --The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell
March 28 2011, 21:03:17 UTC 6 years ago