tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post1694562727411412964..comments2024-01-06T00:28:45.062+08:00Comments on Bibliobibuli: The Society of Slow Readersbibliobibulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-16184971113447028012008-04-05T22:33:00.000+08:002008-04-05T22:33:00.000+08:00I am unfortunately a fast reader. 100 pages an hou...I am unfortunately a fast reader. 100 pages an hour.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes I read so fast I've no idea what has happened, and then I start getting sick of reading, and I try to put the book down but I can't tear my eyes away from the page. Stupid habit. Forces me to reread books I've just finished.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-14258106799050620562008-04-05T22:31:00.000+08:002008-04-05T22:31:00.000+08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Eli Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02217688802242970218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-63125047329207784752008-04-04T17:04:00.000+08:002008-04-04T17:04:00.000+08:00For me, it largely depends on the book. Some books...For me, it largely depends on the book. Some books with good pacing and captivating stories would just breeze by but some books that are so uninteresting to me (though you have to finish it because you've already read it halfway), would take about a month to get through.<BR/><BR/>And what a wonderful book-blog Sharon. I stumbled upon yours from Silverfish. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-2947401868123525142008-04-03T20:44:00.000+08:002008-04-03T20:44:00.000+08:00True enough! I am trying to read slower actually :...True enough! I am trying to read slower actually :) I think I've been influenced too much by the ratrace that I've been rushing through books like a speed-reading machine.savantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11298564303784032379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-9759128465625347232008-04-03T17:28:00.000+08:002008-04-03T17:28:00.000+08:00I go fast through long descriptive paragraphs - es...I go fast through long descriptive paragraphs - especially of scenery.<BR/><BR/>I linger when its about a character, or the character's feelings.<BR/><BR/>I read dialogue over several times.<BR/><BR/>Kundera, I read slowly cos he's brilliant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-25518128915413003252008-04-03T16:16:00.000+08:002008-04-03T16:16:00.000+08:00It also depends on the type of book you go to afte...It also depends on the type of book you go to after the last one.We discussed this at your place, Sharon. It also helps speed up your reading considerably when you go from a prose heavy, "lengthy paragraph-long chapter" literary book like "Love In The Time Of Cholera" to a page-turning thriller. It normally takes me a week to get through one of those mainly due to my working schedule as I am a relatively fast reader, but after Marquez I zipped through 2 Police Procedurals in the span of 4 days!KayKayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14658249157364728825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-47267053918644375582008-04-03T14:30:00.000+08:002008-04-03T14:30:00.000+08:00Thanks for sharing this. What a comfort. I feel a ...Thanks for sharing this. What a comfort. I feel a bit less guilty now, or at least no longer ashamed. I am a slow reader too, around Kundera's speed of 20 pages an hour.dreameridiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14124953269206273794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-74171186665536412902008-04-03T07:57:00.000+08:002008-04-03T07:57:00.000+08:00yes, you guys are right about the depends what sor...yes, you guys are right about the depends what sort of book. i occasionally enjoy a book i can really zip through. i have managed a novel in a couple of hours but it was more to take in what it was about than to enjoy the experience<BR/><BR/>james - i know what you mean because i once taught speed reading and found my own mental processes greatly speeded up too. i can still gut textbooks really quickly, but it just doesn't work for the kind of fiction i enjoy which has to be read unapologetically slowly.<BR/><BR/>i think one of the greatest gifts we can give our students is to enable them to choose the appropriate speed for text and purpose<BR/><BR/>james - y'know you are very welcome to guest blog a piece here about any aspect of your book you think my blog readers would like to know about ...bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-69603015059958487002008-04-03T07:49:00.000+08:002008-04-03T07:49:00.000+08:00I have the opposite problem, I read too fast to th...I have the opposite problem, I read too fast to the point that my wife reminds me at the airport to read as slowly as possible, because there are no more books to read once that one is finished...However for students and people who'd like to read more books then I'd suggest coming to the activity hall in PWTC on 13th April to find out about X-Treme Speed Reading. Either that or buy the book from stand: 3156 (Hall 3) Check out the details at:<BR/>http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/Lit/booklaunch.html<BR/><BR/>James<BR/><BR/>P.S. Sharon with the price of books in KL, its probably a good thing you're a slow reader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-68330742223495001732008-04-03T06:40:00.000+08:002008-04-03T06:40:00.000+08:00I'm a pretty slow reader too. But it depends on th...I'm a pretty slow reader too. But it depends on the type of book. I rip thru airport novels but plod thru the literary ones.Tunku Halimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087930969089932074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-76985402497580996482008-04-03T01:02:00.000+08:002008-04-03T01:02:00.000+08:00I'm a really slow reader, too, though I agree with...I'm a really slow reader, too, though I agree with Anonymous above that it does depend a bit on what one is reading. I can read Dorothy Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse fairly quickly, and I can read a newspaper article or an informative piece of nonfiction faster than almost anyone I know and still get the gist. But I read most fiction and poetry oh so slowly, and I wouldn't want it any other way :-) .<BR/><BR/>- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-84194658291348956352008-04-03T00:45:00.000+08:002008-04-03T00:45:00.000+08:00Some books you read slowly, and other quickly. I t...Some books you read slowly, and other quickly. I think I read Ulysses at about a sentence a minute (if not slower :) )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com