After much lobbying from readers, Patrick Kurp has plunged into Burgess's "Earthly Powers": http://is.gd/mMJzSI
@dg_myers @matthunte My suspicion is that the opening line overshadows the novel. An occupational hazard for novelists.
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@HeerJeet Cyril Connolly's "page 99 test" is a better way to take a quick reading of a book's temperature.@matthunte - End of conversation
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Simon Leys's example of a novel that gloriously sustains its brilliant opening is "Moby-Dick."
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