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Originally Posted by issybird
Mandatory if you want to avoid being spoiled.
I wish they’d put spoilery stuff in an Afterword, but at least I’ve been burned sufficiently that I know to leave it until I’m done.
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I got burned by one of those when I was young and didn't know any better. After that I skipped them
I've also been burned when I've just finished say, book 3 in a series and the excerpt from the next book turned out to be not from book 4, but from the most recently published book, like Book 7 or something, so just reading that one chapter gave away spoilers for what happened in the books in between.
I also skip:
Overly long descriptive passages (like when the characters in Kellerman's Alex Delaware series drive somewhere - I don't really need to see everything they pass along the way)
Detailed sex scenes
Detailed descriptions of a murder or mutilated body
Chapters of a thriller mystery told from the point of view of a psychotic killer. The first time or two I encountered this it was sort of interesting, but got old fast.
Action scenes like a fight or chase - as someone else said above, it's hard to picture those. And even if I'm watching a video I fast forward through them because they just aren't that interesting to me. Also gambling scenes like a poker game.
When the detectives in a mystery are rehashing all the clues to date. I have a pretty good memory for things I've just read and don't need the reminder.
As others have said, if I've decided a book is a DNF I may skim through what's left or skip to the last chapter or two to see how it ends.