Predictability.

I just read an article in today's Literary Review supplement of Hindu and liked as it ended - I seem to like lines especially at the end of articles

Anyone who is bold enough to finish this book should be conversant with the art of speed-reading – dropping lines, chunks of text, even whole chapters – because when you turn round the corner of a plot twist you’ll be met with yet another long street of predictable narration.

I had mentioned about my 'fast reading'. I dont remember leaving out whole chapters, but the point is plot-based novels like Hardy Boys or Sidney Sheldon can be read fast because there is no great loss in missing out words. Of course, if we take books like 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco or 'The Joke' by Milan Kundera, we HAVE to read it slowly to have full 'impact' of the words and feel of the writer.