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Originally Posted by tompe
Harold Bloom is claimed to have read 1000 pages per hour. And I have a hard time believing that he could do that and fully experience the book.
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That might explain his
"As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character stretched his legs’. I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times." claim about the first Harry Potter book, considering there's absolutely nothing of the sort in the book itself.
