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Originally Posted by tompe
It follows since if you can detect in a paragraph that the book is not worth reading then the reviewers or friends would have told me so.
I am of the opinion that you have to read maybe 70-100 pages before being able to decide if the book is really good or just mediocre. And sometimes you have to read the whole book since a bad ending can make an otherwise very good book be a mediocre book.
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The reviewers could be wrong, or their tastes might not be the same as yours. Samples provide additional information about the book for people to make purchasing decisions. Reviews and recommendations can tell you if you *might* like something, they can tell you whether it is worth the next step, which is reading the sample. Reading samples does not imply mediocrity.