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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are too many alarming assumptions in your scenario.

Given their claim I would assume @[email protected] will have a much faster reading speed.

Their collection quite likely contains shorter genres (novellas, plays, poetry) and might also contain fast reads (trashy fiction, collections they were published in themselves and skim read the rest to be polite, etc).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I indeed have a faster reading speed. I intentionally switched to English for reading (not my native language) to slow down the reading speed.

But I rarely read novellas or plays - I prefer proper books. When I was a kid, of course I read childrens books which were absolute quickies. But I did not include them in my count.

I can easily read The Lord of the Rings between lunch and dinner, and still enjoy Tolkiens play with languages, or tell you where to find a specific scene.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You are very very fast!

I encourage you to read more novellas! Some really great writing is in them. For example One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, I Am Legend, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Ah Q, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, The Third Man, and many many non-famous ones, like ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've already read more than half of those.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

They were just examples. My point is that novellas can be just as good as full length books!