Don't judge a book by its cover

I know you shouldn't, but sometimes it's so hard!
I was browsing in one of the many bookshops and spotted a book called "Entry from Backside Only". Naturally this piqued my interest so I picked it up and read the spiel on the back.

'Backsides have a frontal position in Indian-English. In cluttered, crowded alleys there can be seen the notice "Entry from backside", a usage not exactly meant as a come-hither line to gays.'

What does this make you think the book will be about? Those amusing signs you see around the place where the English isn't used in the way we're used to, that raise a smile to your face, or a dry history of the introduction of English to the Indian Subcontinent? You thought a dry history on the introduction of English to the Indian Subcontinent? Doing better than me, then...

This is not to say the book didn't teach me something. 29 languages are spoken by more than a million people in India, 122 by more than 10,000. Even India with its love of paperwork has realised that it cannot translate all its documents into each of these languages (there aren't enough trees), so it needed one language to be the "official" language. But which one? Obviously North India was plumping for Hindi, spoken by 41% of the population, but there was no way that Marathi speakers in Maharashtra would settle for that! No Way! Just last week the papers were reporting on a big brou ha ha when an Bollywood actress allegedly said she would hold her press conferences in Hindi. As Bollywood is in Maharashtra, some people felt she should speak Marathi, and were insulted by her refusal. Her husband, Amitabh Bachanan, the Laurence Olivier of Bollywood, had to apologise as the head of the family for any hurt his wife Jaya had inflicted by her actions.

So English was settled upon as not necessarily the best language for the country, but because it was an import, one that wouldn't elevate certain groups or offend others. While this was a useful fact to know, I didn't really want to read 212 pages just to tell me that. My suggestion to publishers: I won't judge a book by its cover, but please make the cover (and the blurb on the back) a little more representative of the contents!
Rant over.