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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
The last fiction book I quit reading was because the author had the characters doing very unrealistic things and he had thrown in unnecessary nudity.
It was obvious what group of "authors" he had been listening too.
Sorry, in a thriller I do not need to know what the protagonist is wearing or not wearing unless it is relevant to the scene.
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Sometimes, though, in a mystery or thriller, what seems irrelevant turns out not to be--turns out to be a clue. I've read books where an author will offer descriptions of clothes or decor, and one of those seemingly throwaway descriptions is important. But if only that one important one was included, the reader would pounce on it and pick up the clue way too early.
Even what seem to be unrealistic things might not be. I read a thriller recently where a character's therapist was influencing her to do some things that seemed to be kind of far out to overcome her phobia. I was getting annoyed, but I don't abandon books, and eventually it turned out that there was a reason for therapist being so odd--he wasn't a therapist at all.