history-of-love

The Most Obsequious Blurb Ever to Grace a Book Cover

Maureen O'Connor · 07/09/10 11:31AM

Behold, the blurb that launched a thousand mocking blog posts: "Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime, you open a book and when you close it nothing can ever be the same..." Book blurbs: Old media's version of linkbaiting.