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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
That is a pretty nebulous statement. How would I know what someone else experiences? Their are many things in life I don't appreciate or value or experience in the same way as some people I know. My mother will go on for hours about the intricacies of needle work in a quilt, a friend goes out and watches the sunset most nights until the sun goes down, while other friends spend a fair chunk of their free time watching movies, sports or even soap operas.
One of my main sources of enjoyment is reading and while I may not experience books exactly as you or anyone else I do experience them. Why else would I read several a week every week. My enjoyment is high enough that I experience an endorphin release prior to even starting a book I am looking forward to.
Many people read more and faster than I do, but I am not presumptuous enough to think that they are not deriving as much pleasure and/or experiencing the book as much or even possibly more than I am. Why else would they read so much? Just to store meaningless streams of words in their brains perhaps? Not like reading fast or a lot will win any popularity contests. More than likely it will only earn them thinly veiled contempt from the very slow and therefore 'better' readers.
Helen
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I commented an example about recall. And the comment was something that is nearly trivially true. The example did not say the pages was read. It said that the person looked at pages and could recall them.
And also note that I wrote fully experience a book. Some people here seems to read only for the plot and of course they do not fully experience the book if they ignore everything but the plot. But nothing wrong with that if you like to read that way. Why do you think I had some value judgement about different ways to read?
Except that a person like Harold Bloom that writes about book could be expected to fully experience them before writing about them.