I thought I loved books

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Throwing a book away based on the title without bothering to read the blurb

is beyond disturbing. Not sure where you've been all these years that you'd never come across the Sue Grafton alphabet series, of which N is for Noose is 14th one.

She died last year having only made it to the letter Y, to the intense regret of all of her fans.

A Nation of Strangers, by Vance Packard, is somewhat dated as it came out in 1972 is essentially a look at the continual isolation of people in our culture. A more recent book, Bowling Alone, covers the same topic. Vance Packard is another author you ought to have heard of, wrote any number of books, the best known of which would be The Hidden Persuaders.

At the risk of repeating myself, throwing out books you know NOTHING about because of the title, without taking at least a brief dip into them, is simply wrong.