My novel Ishmael was a slow starter.
Very few of them went on to sample any of the la.
But, though I didn\'t stop with Ishmael, most of my readers did.
The rest of the meal was still to come -- in Providence, The Story of B, My Ishmael, and Beyond Civilization.
Ishmael was just the first course, however.
But those thousands told tens of thousands, the tens of thousands told hundreds of thousands, and the hundreds of thousands told millions.
In its early years it had only a few thousand readers.
My novel Ishmael was a slow starter