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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
I can understand other readers' wanting to pursue a story at higher velocities. But when your interests tend toward admiring how a thing is built as much as (or even more than) its intended function, then reading slowly becomes delicious and revealing. It's like walking in the space beneath the iridescent paper sheet of the ocean.
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Oh, I don't disagree. I didn't mean to suggest I don't savor HOW something is written just as much as WHAT's being written. I'm not in a race or anything. I often pause to think about a particular passage (or ponder allegorical possibilities). But if I'm enjoying—truly
enjoying—a book, I couldn't possibly read only a couple of pages in each sitting (which was the impression I got from the OP). There is a very real line (for me personally) where too many interruptions, or too much time between reading sessions starts to negatively impact the experience.
Perhaps I was also mistakenly associating the "savoring" the OP was implying with the very different (at least in my opinion) "never wanting the book to end" syndrome. Where people simply stop reading--not because they want to digest what they've read, but simply because they're too close to finishing it. I would never consider slowing down simply because the end was imminent. *shrug*