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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
On the whole, novels tend to devote less words to description than they did a hundred years ago.
I've always assumed this was related to the widespread use of photography and film. Once upon a time, the average reader had never traveled or even seen photographs of distant parts of the world. Now, all you have to do is say "downtown Tokyo" and everyone already has a mental image.
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This is one big pet peeve with me is how less and less descriptions are being made into books. Not everyone knows locations and I love to read about places through others eyes. Paint me a picture with your words. I am finding more and more authors writing becoming more simple and less polished. It reminds me of books a middle school kid would read for fun.
I have no idea what Downtown Tokyo looks like. I could Google it but what if I am reading a book where I have no WiFi. I know of one author going back and re-editing her books to remove descriptions just for the reason you said before releasing her backlist. I for one was very disappointed and have no plans to buy her backlist now.