Guess I cannot edit my post, so I have to elaborate on my previous post instead. When I purchase a book, I usually not only read the books description but I read others reviews and a bit about the author himself/herself. But not everyone does this so I can understand someone believing they have been tricked into buying something based soley on the books review. This may be why it is free for a limited time.

I have watched Michael Moore movies, which are incredibly biased (my observation), but I think for myself and come to my own conclusions. No one can force me to believe something that I don’t believe. No grown-up is that gullible and if they are they should reconsider their adulthood (hint: grown up is not an age, it’s a state of mind).

I very easily understand the reasons why people feel “hoodwinked” or whatever word you’d use to describe this. But are these also not the same people who feel “hoodwinked” when the main character of the book dies in the end of the story?

I specifically remember seeing this kind of thing on Amazon one time. A science-fiction book I came across, set in a futuristic world where earth has been destroyed and humanity was rebuilding, sounded like an average Sci-Fi book. But the comments made the book out to be horrible, all with the same complaint: “the main character is a Christian girl.”

The problems they had were not that the book was a poorly written work of science fiction. Their complaint was that it wasn’t the same kind of science fiction that they were used to reading. The very thing that made this novel unique among sci-fi books was what the readers were complaining about.

As far as artistic and literary values go, something that surprises the reader is GOOD! If you come across a book that sounds good, and find that it challenged your expectations and preconceived ideas, then you shouldn’t complain about the book… you should be in awe of it.

It seems that people are just bigots lately. If these same people came across a secular book that had a plot that revolved around karma or finding balance in nature… would they demand that the book be labeled as Hindu or Buddhist Fiction, and be just as angry that somebody had “hoodwinked” them into reading a book concerning Eastern Religions?