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Originally Posted by andyh2000
I skim the poetry and songs in Lord of the Rings - no-one's got time to read five pages of elves singing about gold.
Andrew
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Dwarves sang about gold, not elves.
And it's not true no one's got the time to read the songs in LoTR; I sure did, and I don't think I'm the only person in the world to do so.
That said, I do sometimes skim the ending of a book when I have a chapter or less left, and then go back and read it properly. Not always. Otherwise I never skim anything; I may DNF if the book is boring enough for me. It's also not unusual for me to finish the first book of a series and decide not to continue with the rest, because it just was not good and/or interesting enough.