That's valid. James Patterson is one of my favorite writers, and I literally gobble up his work, and I have a seperate question for the masses about him But first, I will say this, yes, there are an endless supply of books, so you can't spend too much time on something that just isn't right for you. I will sometimes skim over some paragraphs, but I've just personally never skipped pages--to each his/her own. If it's like you said, and when you got back to the original POV it was like you never left the story, then that's a forseeable action. Like how some people skip Prologues, which I don't understand because they are a part of the story as a whole. But we've discussed that before.
Now, James Patterson. I read recently that he doesn't write his own books anymore. He says he has too many ideas and not enough time. So he has a team of writers that write for him. He gives the ideas, and they are written by this team. If you look at his newer books, they're always: James Patterson and Howard Roughan, or James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. I don't think he does this with the Alex Cross series, though. So, what do you guys think of a writer who doesn't write his own work, at least not all of it? And do I not have all the information on this?
PS: I read this in a friends blog on MySpace, Writer Leonard Hilley Jr. Author of Predators of Darkness. He said it was in the Jan. Issue of The Writer(?) magazine. I have to check if that was the publication.
There's a lot of books out there to read, so I don't have the best attention span if one's not quite pulling its weight.