I just broke a major personal taboo: I skipped and skimmed my way through a novel. Gasp! (Those of you with truly exotic piercings and kitchen appliance fetishes are rolling your eyes about now) Ive always been a reader, and Ive felt it part of the Readers Code that if you start a book, you finish it. Period. Skimming a book and then claiming to have read it strongly felt like cheatingclearly a transgression. How could I accurately describe exactly how awful a book was if I didnt slog throug