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Originally Posted by tompe
Of course you did not know that. It is a standard technique of authors to spend a lot of time with the first paragraph and the beginning of a book because they know that a lot of people read that in book stores. So you were lucky that the rest of the book held the same standard.
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Good authors *know* that. Bad writers or "deluded" ones don't.
Great openings signal great writing.
Besides, it's still a matter of taste.
But if all the externals (cover, blurb, promo) are promising and the opening grabs me, I can safely buy the book. And I do.
I know my own tastes so I don't need reviewers to tell me that a book is fit to read.