Yeah, I am the same. There's enough out-and-out sex-fest games on here that I don't mind the odd good-quality slow burn as well.Story is a bigger part for me too(Out of my 6 top AVN's, half of them still has no actual "love-salami" scenes with their LI's). But it doesn't take a genius to guess what our batman-ryan gosling-autistic-giga chad MC thinks and does in a room filled with old rich horny mifs. In my first playthrough I was just interested in bella-nami-mila more. But if I didn't play it a second time I never would've learned noji hides a lot of shit I'll give you that. I didn't entirely skip the book club section but I basically spammed the space key most of the time.
MC being this i-can-manipulate-any-social-situtation type moody emo guy is interesting and entertaining for the most part, but tbh I find it kinda cringe in scenes where this is the sole focus. I much rather see him interact with the characters I actually care about. Of course, that's just my preference.
While, I didn't skip the book club, I realized I'd have to replay the scene and pay more attention story-wise (because Ocean's such a tease).
I am still trying to work out if Ocean slyly made the Panda and the Butterfly book and the book club discussion about it analogous to Summer's Gone and its fandom...