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As a reader, I don't enjoy getting bogged down in too many details. I think an author should supply just enough to feed the reader's imagination.

I'm good as long as it makes sense to the story and it isn't Charles Dickens

I am a visual reader (and writer) and tend to lean toward wanting more description. I want to see what is in the author's mind. Take me there. Put me in the scene.

It is such a subjective thing - but I think it really depends on the kind of book, or even the type of scene. It if it is a romance novel or a nostalgia drenched moment, I need a lot of description. If it is an action driven story or a thriller sometimes descriptive passages can get in the way and bog down the pacing.

One time an editor gave me notes back saying "this needs less Tolkien and more Stephen King".

Thoroughly enjoy the intensive descriptions in say a Nora Roberts book. She describes everything so you can picture the scene perfectly as the story progresses. However, I have also gotten very disgruntled reading a book that seemed the author was trying to meet her page quota by giving page after page of description for a single room, person, item or emotion, then repeating portions of the description later in the book. As in Laurell K. Hamilton's last few books in her Anita Blake series. I felt two thirds of the book was more description than actual storyline...drags out a story too much only to meet word quota.