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Originally Posted by Ned
I assume you really want to know?
I can tell the style from that - too many books are close to illiterate and badly written, which I can't put up with however interesting the story may be.
Some people can put up with bad writing, bad grammar and the like I cannot.
Then I can also tell if they are likely to have anything interesting to say - if I'm not even vaguely interested after the first page, or it reads as derivative, I have so much other stuff queued up to read that I go no further. Occasionally I continue to page 2 - e.g. the second page of chapter 1 - to check but rarely further.
Sometimes I'm wrong of course and a good first impression leads to a poor book which I abandon later rather than sooner.
That's all I'm going to say. It works for me  |
I have read books where I might have stopped after the first or second chapter. But I've read or was told that it does get better, I've kept going and some did get better. Some not so much.
But usually, I give it the first or second chapter as I could not decide after 1 or 2 pages. But I can see where you are coming from and I'm glad it works for you.