A "review" of LINELAND

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

     The Kirkus review is also on the Amazon site, and I can guarantee that 
     they didn't have the publishers review it.


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Subject: Re: A "review" of LINELAND
Author:  "Dale L. Larson" <dale at iam.com> at dbnaccip
Date:    6/27/97 6:54 AM


>  Is this really so?  Is this common practice?  Maybe TRP should start 
     
Different reviewers and review outlets do things differently.  My 
personal preference would be that reviewers never use such copy -- like 
you said, it looks bad.  But Midwest Book Reviews seems to do that quite 
a bit if they like a book (Lineland was an Editor's Choice), simply 
quoting some of the promotional copy and adding a sentence or two of 
their own. 
     
Perhaps the review in the July 1 of Kirkus Reviews will be more to your 
liking.  (I haven't seen it yet, but I don't think they ever quote 
promotional copy, no matter how much they like a book.)
     
BTW, http://www.iam.com/lineland/reviews.html has pointers to other 
reviews for those who are interested.