What's the threshold? Can you articulate it, or is it more of a feeling to match your mood, or something like that?
nkiruanaya
joined 1 year ago
That's nice and easy. I didn't say it in my post, but I too will commit to reading the first 100 pages before deciding whether to go on or abandon it.
Too restrictive? Yes maybe so. There are always exceptions which I haven't verbalized in my post.
Nevertheless, I fear if I used your method, in total I'd spend years reading samples. It's good it works for you though.
I read so much, I just don't have time to invest in reading samples.
UPDATE: I've been wondering why the down votes. I suspect there is tone in my response which I did not intend. I get a lot of recommendations I want to weed through to find something I'm interested in. I couldn't possibly read all the samples. That's all I'm saying.
That is interesting and a good way to do it. What about authors you haven't heard of? How do you filter those?