Agreed. My suspicion is that the unreliability of Cory’s recommendations is mostly caused by his feeling bound to compliment the works of friends and associates, whether or not those works are of any particular quality. This is routine behavior in the publishing world, so not at all surprising, but neither does it qualify as ‘classy’.
There actually are a handful of top writers who rarely recommend the works of others, but when they do, it will usually mark a must-read.
