Thread: Do you read 100% of your book or do you skip chapters or pages?
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Old 10-19-2022, 04:35 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by HLS View Post
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.
How can you know if something is or isn't essential to the story until you've finished reading the story?
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