# Strange (In Your Opinion) Reading Habits

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 3, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-in-your-opinion-reading-habits/527485 "2010-02-03T03:54:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-in-your-opinion-reading-habits/527485/21 "2010-02-08T14:49:33Z")

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“Dream sequences” in novels: I usually skim over them. I _think_ it’s because I consider them irrelevant, not sure.

When I hit one of these, I just think, “Ah, shit. He/She’s dreaming again!”, and go on past.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-in-your-opinion-reading-habits/527485/22 "2010-02-08T14:51:44Z")

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I don’t read as much fiction as I’d like to, simply because the first time I read a book of fiction (particularly by an author I haven’t read before), I have to read it at one sitting. Front to back.

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**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-in-your-opinion-reading-habits/527485/23 "2010-02-08T15:08:07Z")

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> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> “Dream sequences” in novels: I usually skim over them. I _think_ it’s because I consider them irrelevant, not sure.

I do the same thing much of the time. Usually dream sequences just end up being the author going “look how _bizarre_ this is!” I’ve never read one that even vaguely resembled an actual dream.

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**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-in-your-opinion-reading-habits/527485/24 "2010-02-08T15:43:01Z")

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> [@Night\_so\_be\_it](#):
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> I have to cover the last few lines of practically every chapter in every book because if I don’t then I’ll involuntarily read them before I’m meant to.

I do the same thing! Particularly if the chapter ends halfway down the right-hand page, and if it’s one of those books with a mini-cliffhanger at the end of every chapter.

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