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That comment about slow burns in my book club got me thinking
Last week someone in my group said they 'fast forward through descriptions' in books and I was stunned. We were reading The House in the Cerulean Sea which has tons of slow scenes, and half the group loved the pacing while the other half wanted to skip to the plot. How do you guys handle books where the buildup is long but the payoff is huge? Have you ever dropped a book club pick because it was too slow?
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jakeb811mo ago
Fast forwarding through descriptions is wild, it's just a book not a movie.
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leehall1mo ago
Fast forward through descriptions? That's literally how you miss all the good character stuff though. DNF'd a book club pick once because it was 100 pages of setting up a world I didn't care about yet, no regrets.
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brianm661mo ago
Man my buddy skipped the first fifty pages of Dune and then complained it made no sense.
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