The list just helps you to focus. However the real problem for many is avoiding bad books and this is what sets the review columns of C Vu apart from almost all others. We review bad books. We warn vou about them. We try to give you an example of what we have found wrong with the book.
Most periodicals only review two, three, or at most, half a dozen titles in any issue.
Newsstand periodicals are trying to cover a very broad market so the chance that they actually review a book that might interest you is small at the best of times. Let me tell you about one of the bad books reviewed in this issue. It was prominently displayed in my local branch of Blackwells Bookshops. It looked interesting and the lead author had written some reasonable material before. I commented to the floor manager that I must get a review copy.