Do you skip pages while reading a book?

MichellemyBelle · Post by **MichellemyBelle** » 08 Jul 2014, 17:12

Unfortunately it is a sure sign that I am just not into the book. Recognizing all the time sweat sleepless nights and blood an author puts into their creations I hate not finishing. So yes I tend to skip over a particularly laborious book by a page or two.

flowergirl4801 · Post by **flowergirl4801** » 08 Jul 2014, 18:27

I won't skip pages but I will skim quickly through a cheap romance novel to get to the good parts. Particularly if the plot is not very engaging.

ekline94 · Post by **ekline94** » 09 Jul 2014, 11:27

I will skim pages that are just going it to extreme detail of something that seems like it means nothing. But I have always regretted it when I talk to someone who has read it and I don't know what they are talking about.

Kellie123 · Post by **Kellie123** » 11 Jul 2014, 01:59

I find myself not skipping whole pages but a couple sentences at a time. If I feel the story isn't engaging or holding my curiosity I'll skip ahead to at most a paragraph later. Whenever I do i feel like I'm going to miss something pivotal in the story!

Qew · Post by **Qew** » 11 Jul 2014, 22:11

speedesch2 wrote:I love reading and read every word, cover-to-cover. I find it difficult to skip pages or chapters, it's an injustice to an author's hard work.

Barabas_T wrote:I never skip anything, I am too afraid that I'll miss something important.

Platonov wrote:If you feel like skipping a page, skip the book. De Quincey once said the sign of good writing is when the reader feels he has to underline everything.

musiclover182013 wrote:I always read every word. I'm not sure I see the point in reading a book if I don't actually read the whole thing. Just my personal opinion though.

Can I say the somewhat hilarious exception to all of those is the terrible, terrible John Galt rant at the end of Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand is a good story teller but, in response to you guys, sometimes the author isn't the greatest source of integrity, especially when they have an agenda.

Also

sybil1reader wrote:Yes! I just finished a book by a surgeon and he went in depth describing different medical procedures and I skipped all of that because I just wanted to know about the characters and how the plot was going to evolve.

In the same vein as the extensive biological description of those mammoth beings in the last His Dark Materials book, something a bit more dryly scientific I would say is a welcome change from the usual literary flourish but it does tend to kill the pacing.

Kamehamaggie · Post by **Kamehamaggie** » 11 Jul 2014, 23:55

When I have the urge to do this, it tells me either of two things.
1. The book is not that great. I'm probably just trying to get through it and see what happens next. When you're enjoying a well written book you don't rush through it. You try to absorb every word and sometimes, at least for me, I find myself rereading sentences if I am really loving it.
2. I've been reading too much of the same genre and it's all just started to blend together. To remedy that, I try reading a different genre next time around.

TheOnionFlower · Post by **TheOnionFlower** » 12 Jul 2014, 11:29

Oly with non-fiction, where Im trying to find out specific information. If a fiction book is so boring that I want to skip pages then I'll put in down and find something better.

salberson 10 · Post by **salberson 10** » 12 Jul 2014, 12:55

I might scan a few to get to a good part but I always go back! Every word is important!

-- 12 Jul 2014, 13:55 --

I might scan a few to get to a good part but I always go back! Every word is important!

DickDatchery · Post by **DickDatchery** » 12 Jul 2014, 14:33

Very rarely. There are so many good books out there, I don't feel a need to read any that aren't consistently good. Of course, sometimes a book will be recommended or hugely popular so I'll try it, and then find I'm not enjoying it. That's about the only time I skip pages--when I'm considering giving up on a book and want to see if it gets any better later. . .

volpe-rossa · Post by **volpe-rossa** » 12 Jul 2014, 18:34

I've never skipped, but I've skimmed - but usually I skim again just to make sure I'm not missing anything too important so I generally tell myself I might as well read-read it at that point.

Melpomene · Post by **Melpomene** » 13 Jul 2014, 08:46

epends on the book ^^ I did it with a Harry Potter book once. I didn't really think it happened anything in the book so I skipped some pages, then a chapter and it still didn't happened anything. I just had to understand that maybe Harry Potter was not my kind of book. I did read it whole book though. ^^

Hannaa_Campbell · Post by **Hannaa_Campbell** » 13 Jul 2014, 08:58

pheeew! I thought I was the only one! I skip pages when the book is boring, very boring. Kutos to you for admitting it !!

Danielsduo · Post by **Danielsduo** » 14 Jul 2014, 19:04

I would be lieing if I said no. If I'm really not into a book or feel its dragging, yes, I skip a page or two,,or three..five..ten......whatever it takes!