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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Maybe it's unadaptable. They've been trying to make a movie from The White Hotel for 19 years; still no success. Maybe one reason the movie is usually worse than the book is that they are such different media.
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I was thinking about your writing a few weeks ago. I was reading "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". Debut novel by a Swedish writer (who died before publication). As I read the opening pages, I thought, "yes, this is how you start a novel. You grab my interest."
Just started another novel last night. "A bend in the River." Again, caught my interest in the first few simple pages.
Versus your novel, which I had to dig down deep, Melanie Oudin-style, to keep going after the first few paragraphs.
Real art to the beginning of a novel. Or rather, the quality of a novel is often apparent in just a few pages.