Off-Putting Words In Reviews

[FredPuli43]

Do certain words or phrases in blurbs and reviews put you right off? Mine include "hilarious", "side-splitting", "innovative" and "...of the year" (usually comedy, movie, or performance, and in a blurb in February)

And some reviews put me off because of the sheer pseudery or self-satisfaction in them . Get this: "This really is raw film-making, in a political vernacular which speaks of Pasolini's high theocratic Marxist belief in the sovereignty of the people..." What's that about,then ? It's the Gospel according to St Matthew ! Well, I don't care, so long it has a happy ending.

[tiggerblue10]

I stopped watching X Facter a few years ago because of "you owned it" and several other very annoying phrases used by the judges.

[cazzz1975]

lol tigger snap I hate "you made it your own" and "you smashed it"

[sandyRoe]

I'd want to avoid anything described as 'heart warming'.

[andy-hughes]

The phrases 'rom com' and 'laugh out loud' usually set alarm bells ringing for me.

Likewise 'cutting edge' and 'modern comedy', and 'alternative comedy' always meant just that - it wasn't funny, that was the 'alternative bit - being wound off the clock instead of just laughing and enjoying it.

[Buenchico]

Off-putting words for me:
Zany
High School
Football
Baseball
Johnny Vegas
Ricky Gervais
Biopic
Remake
Sequel

[Sipowicz]

Re-imagining.

[tiggerblue10]

Lol Cazzz, and those too!

Totes amaze balls!!!

[naomi24]

I agree with you, Fred. A combination of laziness - and up-one's-own bottom-ness. I made that last bit up. Can you tell? :o)

[atalanta]

when the blurb tells me that in this book "the author explores . . . " some kind of subject. I don't mind an author describing something, but I don't want an account of how the author "explored" it.

[gerard]

Further to atalanta's answer, if a book's blurb compares it to "The Da Vinci Code", I put it right down!