Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hi All,

Was reviewing

I added the cover picture I had, and started looking at the description. While accurate it's a bit dry. If this was a textbook I'd leave it, but for campy sci-fi I've always enjoyed the back of the book descriptions, especially ones like this whose style is part description part carnival salesman come-on :-)

What's the standard for descriptions? Insert this one on this edition only? Change them all? Merge them somehow?

I don't want to be making changes based on personal opinion...

Should I message the gentleman that inserted that description for his comments? (If so, how do I do that?)

For comparison, I've put the back of the book blurb below.

Comments appreciated,

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The night began with a strange eclipse of the moon... and exploded in terror!

For Margo Gelhorn, fiancee of one of the astronauts stationed on the Moon, the giant spheroid that had inexpicably appeared inthe heavens would mean grief greater than she had ever known... and romance more exotic than she had ever experienced!

For Paul Hagbolt, a Project Moon publicist, the dazzling heavenly wanderer would mean an excursion into object terror... and a sensual awakening beyond human comprehension!

For thousands of others it would mean their sanity... for millions of others it would mean there lives!

BUT, for one small cat... it would be heaven!

I would think that the back of the book blurb should be what is included in the description.

When available, the back-of-the-book or other official publisher or author blurb is preferred.

I guess I'm just wondering if the existing blurb came from a different version of the book.

All right, I'll use mine :-)

Thanks

Is the edition you're looking at the same as the one you have?

I don't know which edition the previous description came from (if any). If it's marked as 'use default' can you tell which edition the default one came from?

And are you hinting that the description should be different for different editions?

Brian wrote: "And are you hinting that the description should be different for different editions?"

Occasionally the descriptions will be different, for audio vs. text book for instance, or for different introductions and ancillary material, and often for same author but different illustrators in illustrated books.