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Lee asked Barnes to read the first and second paragraphs of the book aloud.
The third paragraph of the book starts with a yawn: "Their war began several days ago".
Until recently, I had never made it past the first paragraph of the book.
(The first paragraph of the book contains the phrase "I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier").
Sample it for yourself: the fifth paragraph of the book is a single sentence running, or perhaps dawdling, to 264 words.
Even in the very first paragraph of the book, Rosamund pretends she can hardly remember the name of the boy she first spent the night with – in a hotel – and then at once reproaches herself for pretending.
The third paragraph of the Rolling Stone series starts in classic field-dispatch fashion: "The war began twenty-four hours ago". The third paragraph of the book starts with a yawn: "Their war began several days ago". The magazine pieces are punchy; in the book, the tone has been neutralized and the author's voice is not nearly as present.
Within the review I included the first paragraph of the book because it was one of the best paragraphs I had ever read.
I was, as it happened, the first of us to read "The Pale King," and well before I'd finished it I found myself calling Maureen and Susan and saying, "The first paragraph of the Wallace book is more powerful than any entire book we've read so far".
So ends the first paragraph of the first book in Richard Rhodes's four-volume epic.
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