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Well for me the start is the real deal, after all, how can you be motivated to reach the middle or the end if the start is boring. Also, if the middle gets long winded I also give up.

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The end is important also.. I've had disappointing endings... where it seemed the *author* got bored, or maybe in a hurry, and just rushed through a half-baked ending. Leaves ya feeling cheated.

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Roz

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I like the start and middle parts the most... mainly because the start can dertimine weather or not the book is worthwile and if so, the middle becomes captivateing.

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If the books has a meaningless begginning then I just quit, like this one book I read, firts 7 Pages made noooo sense, so I put it in my bookcase, and never read it. If you like the End, then thats fine, endings are good. But the time the book gets your attention is the middle, without a beggining the middles useless, but the middles the best...

Jesse Hamshaw

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Exactly the same for me. And I find it rather annoying at times. I mean, when there are some multi-volumed sagas, I have to read them all, I just have to. And it is really annoying, especially with series like Dune, which keep getting worse and worse.

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The Beginning, Middle Or End?

The middle is what I like most. That is usually when you can relate back and hope for the future.

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I can usually tell fairly quickly if a book is going to be good or not. I like beginnings because my imagination can run away with me before the characters become what the author wanted them to be. Middles are great as well. As a writer, I appreciate the development of characters, plot, relationships, etc. I especially like reading the middle books in a series. I like endings least because they are so often unsatisfying. More often than not, I feel like Romeo, asking, "O! Wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?" More than once, I have thought, "Please, Sir -- May I have some more?" According to Magaret Atwood, the only authentic ending is that everyone dies. I'll buy that.

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I tend not to mind if the beginning of a book is a bit slow as sometimes the scene setting is very important but not so attention-grabbing. I always find that the end of a book is the best bit. The most action tends to happen here and everything comes together. I especially like the ends of books that have a sequel or are in a series as you can read on and find out what happens next.