Reading Poll!

This posts question comes from Booking Through Thursday's book blog meme. 

Do you read book reviews? Whose do you trust? Do they affect your reading habits? Your buying habits?

Book reviews - Do they influence your buying/reading of books?(surveys) My answers to the questions.

I sometimes read book reviews - like from actual reviewers in newspapers/magazines etc, but mostly I read book bloggers book reviews.

But even though I thoroughly enjoy the reviews, and reading peoples personal takes/opinions on books, most reviews don't really impact my buying and reading habits - except for the opinions of my reading friends who's suggestions I trust!  I usually read reviews of a book i've already thought of reading myself or have already heard about through the grape vine and reading the review usually just cements my planning on/wanting to get it and read it! 


So in a roundabout way, I guess they do affect my buying habits (though I would probably be thinking of buying a particular book whether or not i'd read a review of it - most books i buy and read are simply based on friends saying 'you should really read this book!'. I don't need to read a long, detailed review of plot and characters and people's personal thoughts on a book to make me read a book (though, no disrespect to book bloggers - I still enjoy reading all your great reviews! :D).

What about you? do reviews influence your book buying/ reading habits? please vote in the poll!