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I can agree with the whole "describing physical attributes." I'd rather come up with an image myself than have it told to me in detail. I only want to know physical attributes if it's relevant to the story somehow, i.e. a really muscular guy would need to be described so that some later feat of physical strength would be believable.
Also, and this applies mostly to sci-fi and fantasy, books that come up with all sorts of silly made-up words, which loses me because if every term is made up, it becomes impossible to tell what is going on. The biggest culprit I've noticed was Steven Erikson, I think he name was. I read the first book in his series, about 10 pages, and put it down because not only did he use bizarre names and places and events every sentence, he also referred to a bunch of terms that were made up and were simply distracting.
I think authors try too hard to create this all-enveloping world for their readers that they over-do it by trying to have some new and unique term every other line.
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