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Originally Posted by Heather Parker
How do people (readers and authors) feel about a lot of description in a book generally? I tend to get a little bored if it isn't necessary for the story .....
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I personally skim through descriptions that I don't think will matter to the story. That's why I hate Dickens..... SOOoooo much description. And when I skip the huge portions of description, I find myself in another city entirely and can't figure out why!
But then -- I have a physics background. I'm used to reading the text book with an eye for the equations -- and nevermind the background of the people involved! I was only once asked in a test, about the person who discovered XYZ rather than how to calculate PQR!