At a minimum, this series "will probably go down as the most compelling opening-round series," Albert said.
I think "they" also say that if you want people to read what you write, you should summon a compelling opening.
Robert Bradley, who led his group Blackwater Surprise in a brief but compelling opening set, understands the worth of more unsettling emotions.
From the compelling opening sequence, in which he pits himself against the rock face in a lonely mineshaft, Day-Lewis eats up the scenery and dominates the screen.
As a heart and lung surgeon, Dr Nikki Stamp has seen a few cases herself, and the phenomenon provides a compelling opening chapter to her first book, Can You Die of a Broken Heart?
I won't spoil A Serious Man for anyone who hasn't seen it yet – except to say it has the most compelling opening scene you could wish for, and one of the most startling closing images.
I have rarely read a more compelling opening to a novel but the brilliance of this book is really in the way Harry learns to fend for himself, growing up while trying to find food and shelter on a daily basis.
It's a compelling opening scene, the endless lines, the empty faces, so many fates hanging in the balance, and opportunists like Bruno moving through the sea of humanity like sharks.
These glimpses of lookalikes and rumoured sightings quicken the pulse of a plot that otherwise ambles, for however compelling its opening scene, And Now You Can Go has no interest in becoming a thriller.
Finalist: Jessica Bruder, a journalist who reports on economic justice and an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School, for NOMADLAND: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (W.W. Norton & Company), a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy that focuses on a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans.
