[lit-ideas] Re: Opening lines

From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:03:30 +0100

The page with the reviews and extended blurb?  Yes, I do that, to decide
whether to borrow it from the library.  
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  From: Julie Krueger 
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  I'd jump to something approximating the middle of the book, read a line or 
two, flip to the back page and read it (which I nearly always do anyway....).  
That should decide it for me <g>.

  Julie Krueger


  On 7/29/07, Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    I haven't read _Earthly Powers_ (perhaps the length
    put  me off, perhaps there were some bad reviews) but
    if I'd decided to, the first line wouldn't have made
    me stop reading.  (I'm not quite sure why it would, 
    why it would be thought off-putting.  I suppose if it
    were the first line of a novel by a new writer or an
    established writer I didn't like, it might, though
    I've never, I think, stopped reading just because of a 
    first line, as opposed to a very boring long first
    paragraph.)

    Judy Evans

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