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Originally Posted by maddz
I don't find battle scenes boring per se, but I usually end up wincing at the author's grasp of tactics... And don't get me started on descriptions of sword fighting.
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I feel the same. I read the first in a series called The Death Merchant back around 1972. I remember the main character was a "martial arts master". (a much over used term). Every fight scene description used Japanese to describe each move the character made. For example, the character throws a mawashi geri. Unless you studied traditional Japanese karate or spoke Japanese, you would not know what they were doing. It was also very boring even knowing what techniques they were supposedly throwing. I remember thinking that the author had just picked up a martial arts book and was choosing each technique, regardless of whether you would actually use them in the combinations described. I never read another of his books. If you are going to describe something and you do not know anything about it, ask an expert to proofread that section.
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