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Originally Posted by jhempel24
I think somebody is of the "it's popular so it's rubbish" persuasion 
-- No. It is entirely possible I have read hundreds or thousands more popular books than you.  Stephen King and Agatha Christie never wrote a sentence that terrible, certainly.
Over analyzing things never really gets you anywhere in fiction.
-- This is rubbish, too.
It was a perfect first sentence. It set the tone of the entire story, and was perfectly readable and understandable. |
-- If he was capable of perfection, I am sure someone would have mentioned it.
If it set the tone for the entire story then it is all about happy noisy children and a guy that dies on an indeterminate staircase?