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Cracked myself up rereading that because I'm the exact kind of person who would skim right past the good stuff and miss half the book. I mean, I've done that more times than I want to admit, just racing through pages to get to the action and then wondering why the story felt flat. It's like my brain gets impatient and forgets that the whole point is to actually experience the world the author built. Your point about L'Amour and his real geography is a good one though, especially since I've never even been west of the Mississippi, so I'd probably mistake a cactus for a tumbleweed if I saw one. Maybe the secret is just to treat every book like a slow travel guide and pretend I'm on a road trip instead of just reading.

That's the kind of hard lesson that sticks with you. It's funny how the simple, boring advice is usually the stuff that saves you the most trouble down the line. We all want to think we know better, but the old timers earned their experience the same way you just did.