If I start a book and after a few pages don't feel like going on, it's not my fault. It's the author's fault.
Those words were once said to me at a party by a literate and book loving friend of mine, and they carried the force of genuine revelation. After years of required reading in school and you-have-to-read-this recommendations that fizzled, he had reached his limit. If a book didn't garb him pretty early, he was out. And it wasn't his fault.
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