Zen and Qdoll gave some tasty tips and insight into this worthy topic.
Doing some writing of my own, it is an unwritten law to do at least some fact-checking if not 'real' research before taking a baby out into public. Another rule is to try sticking to what I know. If I don't know much about a Fantasy or Sci/Fi plot the real digging begins from my well-stocked browser menu bar of specialty websites, libraries, and online software tools (such as rhyming suggestions for a word).
So, what do I do when my reading hits a wall where an author disregards these rules and resources?
I stop.
It usually ruins my flow of reading and jars my literate senses. I love it when the opposite thing happens. I recently saw a Stephen King novel that I snapped up among the few paperbacks displayed at my grocery store. I got the strangest sense of Deja' Vu as I began reading.
"My goodness! I already have this book." I'm halfway through re-reading a great author.
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