Whenever I consider reading this stuff I remember that there's like five War and Peace worth of words in there and that they are repeated five times. I am not the sort of person who would casually say "tl;dr", but with every point being repeated five times, I feel it's kind of a waste of time.

I mean, the length of those games is not simply due to the mundane discussions that make up most of the games ― it's also because every point is mentioned about five times. I understand that authors sometimes find it necessary to say something more than once to make sure we understand it, but five times is too many.

You should never have to repeat something five times.