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Originally Posted by Scott Nielsen
I suppose the reading material will also play an important factor. I don't mean just between non-fiction and fiction but between fiction and fiction as well. I imagine it's an awful lot quicker to read romance or crime/thrillers than something of a more serious nature (you know what I mean, I didn't write that to try and belittle anyone). It certainly takes me longer to read Platonov than le Carré for example.
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I wonder if the reason is because stories like Mysteries and Romance...Once you've read a certain number of them, you can sort of "predict" what's going to happen and therefore don't really need to fully comprehend every last word of the text. Non-fiction on the other hand... Sometimes even missing one detail of what's going on can hamper your ability to understand the rest of the information.