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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1864766" data-attributes="member: 3649">I'll give a book a certain amount of space to interest me; that space varies by the author, what the book is about, what other people have said, and other factors.  The biggest factor is my mood at the time. Last night, I was done with my previous book and looking for another to take with me to read at dinner. I picked up three or four books, pondered, put them down. I started 'God Stalk' again because I finally have a collected edition of that and it's two or more sequels - but I discovered I was not in the mood for it.  I've started several books, put them down, then returned to them at a later date. Books I was convinced I would not finish, I finished. I liked them a great deal and afterwards could not imagine why I disliked it enough to put it down in the first place.  Most first readers look at, I think, the first three or four pages of the manuscript. If it doesn't grab them, it goes back into the pile or is rejected. Some, I've read, will spend as much as the first fifty pages but not past that. So the first readers (the people that see a manuscript before almost anyone else, if I recall correctly) do much the same process as y'all do <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I've been trying to think of books that I hated but generally I cannot say that I remember most that I really disliked. I guess I purge it from my memory. Some do come to mind, though.  David Feintuch; Nicholas Seafort series starting with Midshipman's Hope. I found it almost painful to read, even after a couple people recommended him to me. I tried the second book, and then borrowed one other to see if it ever got any better... nope. So he's off my list.  Storm Constantine is one I'll have to get back to. Have the first book, tried to read it, couldn't. Have to try again sometime.  In the past, I haven't been able to read much Cherryh. Fortress in the Eye of Time seems like it will be good, but I've started it twice and can't get very far.</blockquote>

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