Effective first words. Haunted by "If on a winter's night a traveler," by Italo Calvino, I find beginnings of stories more easily pleasing than endings. These words of Banks hook me immediately. Contrary to what happened to you with Roberto Bolaño, though, I had to work my way through the García Madero part of The Savage Detectives before I began to fall in love with the novel.
Effective first words. Haunted by "If on a winter's night a traveler," by Italo Calvino, I find beginnings of stories more easily pleasing than endings. These words of Banks hook me immediately. Contrary to what happened to you with Roberto Bolaño, though, I had to work my way through the García Madero part of The Savage Detectives before I began to fall in love with the novel.
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