Bad Chess Books : Common false promises and red flags!

I walked into a local bookstore the other day and noticed that barely 10% of their chess books are actually good ( based on statistical reviews from titled players I've interacted with).  Most of the them are average but some of them are nothing but atrocious.

So wanted to put together a list of red flags / false promises / warning signs (things the books say on the back cover) that these horrible books tend to "scream out" to a discerning eye.

Books that promise to =>

- Improve your rating by N points in T days.
- Assure you that memorizing all the traps inside will improve your game.
- Use words like "unbeatable opening".
- Talk about "Grand Master secrets"
- Talk about "Russian School" secrets (when there is really no such thing)
- Talk about secrets in general :)

Let me know if you have any more you can think of.

How about listing some books that aren't worth your time?

Bardu, only if chess.com had several gigabytes of forum space free! 

THAT would create a faeces-storm (Take that, language filter!) given that a few of the authors happen to be on chess.com and might just have this thread deleted by the admins.

There is more value in letting new players know how to recognize who's selling "snake oil" and who's actually writing a book that actually helps in a non-superficial way.

A fair warning is a book chock full of cpu lines and no human explanation for the moves. In this day and time, it is easy enough to get super engines spitting out lines but good human analysis is a rarity.

-KD