I wouldn't want to know all those tiny details in most books. Maybe on occasion, but otherwise I assume they're happening and want to get on with the story and the interesting stuff. However, LKH describes so many things on an subatomic level, the stuff she leaves out ends up being super glaring.
There's actually a lot of stuff about food in the books, though. And about how other people have to force Anita to eat it, or that she avoids eating until she's so ravenous that only fast food will do. Then she tells us all about that food. In Dead Ice LKH felt it necessary to inform us that Anita's stable of strippers didn't eat carbs at night. There are details that make the world more real, and then there are details that make the world more annoying, and LKH gravitates toward the latter.
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Date: 2015-08-23 09:36 pm (UTC)There's actually a lot of stuff about food in the books, though. And about how other people have to force Anita to eat it, or that she avoids eating until she's so ravenous that only fast food will do. Then she tells us all about that food. In Dead Ice LKH felt it necessary to inform us that Anita's stable of strippers didn't eat carbs at night. There are details that make the world more real, and then there are details that make the world more annoying, and LKH gravitates toward the latter.