ATD: first sentence

[malignd at aol.com]

  <I used to work in a bookstore, a couple of different times, often 
watched the customers pick up a book, leaf through to and look at the 
first page, then quickly close the book and put it down.  I assumed 
they only had time to read the first sentence or perhaps a bit more 
before choosing to move on.>

A couple of different times ...  I assumed ... or perhaps a bit more ...

 From the On-line Journalist.  And why is it again that you work on-line 
and not for a news organization?



pynchonoid:
> << The first sentence may be the most important in
> any novel, because if the
> reader doesn't finish it and move on, no way she's
> reading the book. >>
>

somebody else:
> While this is undoubtedly true in theory, one might
> wonder how many people
> toss a book across the room after one sentence.
>



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