I read alot of fantasy and have read so many fight scenes between two equally matched opponents. I know it’s going to go back and forth for a couple of pages so I sorta skim that part until I see the paragraph that says something like “landed the fatal blow”, then I continue to read normally.
Or sex scenes. They carass, they touch, I get it, no need to read every word lol.
by flanman1991
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Same as you, actually. Because sometimes when I try to follow the fight scene, I find it’s written in a way that’s really hard to visualize (ie doesn’t quite make sense), so I don’t spend too much time trying to figure it out.
I’ll add passages that describe the scenery, or clothes a person is wearing if it goes on for longer than a few sentences. Unless the scenery description is just so well written it’s like poetry; but I find books like that few and far between.
For me when I read non-fiction, I tend to skim the index. Not much creative writing there.
If I don’t want to read what the author wrote, then I choose a different book, one that I *do* want to read.