[eviks]

> And then most of us shut up because the real world is messy

That's rather ironic because you both can't do that with a fantasy of a simplistic world of "first line bad = whole book bad"

> more or less likely

In the real messy world the correct answer is "you have no clue" neither when it comes to the whole universe of books nor to the specific subset of books that were accepted for the competition.

But I'm aware of the allure of the simple nature of a fantasy world where there is a very simple way to judge the quality of any art work, and where such quality is necessarily uniform, so a tiny sample is fine.