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If I like a book I tend to plow right though it. For instance I've been reading the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind novels which are approximately 600 pages each (give or take, I've never seen the paper books) and on a weekend I can read the whole book in one day, a working say it can take two or three days. Most of the novels I read are shorter, but I can read a book a day, sometimes a book and a half, depending on what else is going on.
Now if I don't like a book, I'll give it a few chapters and if I still don't like it I won't bother with it. Life if too short to read books I don't like. (Twilight doesn't count. I had a car crash fascination with these book. I just wanted to find out if they got worse...which they did.)
Now if a book has a lot of unnecessary stuff put in there, like overblown angst or mental whining, I tend to skim though that. For instance I was able to read "Twilight" in a very short period of time due to unnecessary drivel about how divinely perfect Edward is. I think it took me a few hours to read the first book.
Of course there are the books I read very quickly, just to find out what happens in the end, then I go back and immediately reread, to savor the book. I did that with Confessor (last book in the Sword of Truth books)
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