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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Many years ago, I was given a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the rings" trilogy by an English teacher. .....
I had to push myself through aboyut the first 100 pages before the work kicked in. After that, I read the trilogy in a weekend, and have re-read it an average of one a year since.
Years later, I encountered E. R. Eddison's _The Worm Ouroboros_, in a .... I bounced off, till I learned to relax and let the book read itself to me, rather than actively read it myself. ....
If I'd followed your dictum, I'd have passed on both of these, for not grabbing me from the first few pages.
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Dennis
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Which is why I do my best to give any book a few chapters and may even come back to it for a second try at some point. You've got me thinking about Eddison's Worm again, I got about halfway through that one decades ago, maybe time for another shot.
Oh and I just found it here at MR:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11332