Reading

zsazsa-stl · September 2013

When you read a novel do you read every word or do you skim for major plot points?

hmonkey · September 2013

it depends on the book.

for lighter fair like the preston & child novels, i skim.

but i read every word of michael chabon. when i was reading "cavalier & clay," i stopped many times just to process.

VarunaTT · September 2013

I read really fast, so I'm reading every word but I don't stop and think each word individually. If I decide I'm getting bored, I might start skimming and if it stays boring, I won't slug through it anymore.

zsazsa-stl · September 2013

I read so slowly that I've been wondering if I'm doing it wrong.

Maybe I should quit moving my lips. <-- kidding (at least I think so)

AuntFlo · September 2013

I read every word of a novel. I mean, that's what they're there for. Right?

That's like watching a movie on fast forward. (Which is fine for porn, of course.)

My step-mom does the speed reading thing and can get through a Harry Potter sized novel in less than a day. I don't understand how she gets any joy out of it. But it served her well for law school.

GBCK · September 2013

I'm more like Varuna.

But I'll also say that I do read all of the words, but Idon't read all of the words on a page in order. This is *not* intentional, and it's actually, from some testing I had done once-upon-a-time, related to a mild LD that I told them not to bother to diagnose me with.

As I have less and less time to read, I have less patience for really bad literature and I'm more likely to say "this is boring" and quit.

hmonkey · September 2013

GBCK said:
As I have less and less time to read, I have less patience for really bad literature and I'm more likely to say "this is boring" and quit.

TEAM GBCK.

It better be good or it's going to be donated.

baconsmom · September 2013

I read every word. And I hold no truck with boring novels, or badly edited ones, or badly written ones. I'm on to the next.

I read fairly quickly - I can do 100-200 pages in a day - but it's not speed reading, it's just how I process words.

H reads super slow. Our enjoyment of books isn't any different, just how many we get through in a year.

kerbohl · September 2013

I read every word, except for romance novels or books of essays. And yes, sadly I read books of essays for fun . . . I read one recently on the show "Firefly" and all its academic qualities. Good times.

Romance novels I read when I need to laugh at bad literature, so I just skim, mock it, and move on. I have yet to find a well written one, but then again I haven't been searching that terribly hard.

alikatt17 · September 2013

I read fairly fast and read every word. I usually read about an hour and a half a day because I'm on the train that long, so I can get through an average sized novel in about 4 days. Except most of the books I've read this year have been beasts.

amaryann210 · September 2013

I read fast, but not speed reading. I like to think I read every word, but sometimes I catch myself and have to go back. I'm reading the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, so sometimes I get a boring one and it slows me waaaaaaaaaaaaay down. Books from that list are the only ones I won't give up on. I like being able to check them off

fmbyo · September 2013

It depends on how interesting the book is. The words stop making sense if I'm bored, but if I'm into the book I read and absorb every word. I'm still not a fast reader though.

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