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   A. Tina Hall to mbottorff@lshelby.com   
   Re: To be interesting   
   30 Jan 15 03:00:00   
   
   From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org   
      
    wrote:   
   > A. Tina Hall  wrote:   
      
   >> Someone once quoted a bit from a book to me in rasfw, that was very   
   >> interesting. Too bad that was the only such bit in the book and the   
   >> rest was disappointing.   
      
   > Yet another very valid point, IMHO.   
      
   > I'm not going to read 100K words I don't like just because I liked   
   > the first 20.   
      
   That's yet another point. (The quoted bit I mentioned above was from   
   somewhere in the book, not the start.) You're right though. I've dropped   
   enough books because I had no motivation to read on. Only with the   
   vampire stories I dragged on through to the end.   
      
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