The first page defines whether you will like or dislike a book. If that first page doesn’t touch you, then don’t bother to read further. Never turn a first page, unless it really captures you. And some first pages turn your world upside down, like this one :   This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books, with glued or even sewn bindings, cloth or paper covers, with beautiful or not-so-beautiful jackets and a musty, dusty, wonderfull smell; when books furnished many a room, and their contents, the magic words, their poetry and prose, were liquor, perfume, sex, and glory to their devotees. These loyal readers were never many…