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Originally Posted by laughingdragons
I don't like any book that takes that long to get a story going. But that's me.
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It isn't only you, though.
I usually give a book about 50 print pages to "grab" me, with a few exceptions (Tad Williams' novels, for example, which are always a drag in the beginning, but then take off and soar), and if then nothing has happened that has captured my curiosity, I pick up something else. It is why I love the samples at iBooks, even though I stopped buying books there.
I don't think it is a matter of the genre, just of an author's style, and that's fine. I didn't really get warm with the Harry Potter books either, though in case of those it mainly just wasn't the kind of fantasy I prefer. Matter of taste.