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Originally Posted by neilmarr
An author who can't impress you with his/her story, characters or style in a first chapter doesn't deserve your attention for a second chapter. Reading time's too precious to waste. It's the author's job to interest you, not your chore to complete what an author wants to put your way. I'd rather throw away or delete a book after a few disappointing pages than see it as some kind of marathon challenge that takes up valuable time that could be better spent on a more deserving work. Good authors with worthwhile offerings will grab you within five hundred words and hold you spellbound right the way to an unwelcome *The End*. Neil
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An author can certainly impress and still be tough going. Thomas Mann impressed the hell out of me with the first pages of "Joseph and his Brothers", but I still haven't managed to get into it, after several tries. Nor some of his other books, but I still like the little I've read
I recently read a book that it took me four or five tries to get into. I loved it and I couldn't put it down once I go over that stopping point.
Some books needs time. It's a bit like art, I think. Especially modern art. It sometimes takes time and patience for it to reveal itself, but great experiences hide there.