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Originally Posted by HLS
Some authors overly "pad" the story and make it too wordy. Like Neil Stephenson for example. I loved Seveneves but there was a long long chapter that was all technical jargon and not essential to the story so I skipped over it. it was so tedious.
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Those are my favorite parts! I'm currently reading
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson, and his digressions about martial arts, the border disputes between India and China, the engineering of lowland dikes and levees, etc. are fascinating. If he left those parts out, I'd be googling them anyway. But he did the research for me, which I appreciate.
Anyway, back on topic, I only start skipping if I am about to DNF a book.