Quote:
Originally Posted by caleb72
I'm a bit like this too. However, it doesn't always happen immediately and it's not always successful.
For example, last night while I was reading A Town Like Alice, I started the chapter knowing there was about 50 minutes of reading ahead of me. If the story visualisation is not going well, I'll notice the 49m, the 48m, the 47m and so on. Last night, there was this blur in my memory where I was reading the words, but I don't really remember them. I do remember a conversation between two people, a recounting of events from one character to another. I saw them both sitting in a flat doing this. Then I noticed the screen at one point and saw that I had 2m of reading left.
I find that even in a book I'm really enjoying, not every chapter will be like this. For some, I notice the reading every step of the way. At other times I'm not really sure what happens, but one or two chapters have just passed and I "experienced" whatever happened rather than read it. I consider this experience to be reading "nirvana".
|
This is what I mean. If I can't get into that "reading nirvana", then it's not a good enough book (or, if in a series, I'm getting to the point of wanting to read something else), and it'll become hard to finish.
Quote:
|
To the OP though, I do appreciate the sentiment of reading quickly to get through more books because they are so available. I actually feel under stress to read more because there's so much to get through. My excitement in experiencing a whole new range of authors that I couldn't find in my local bookstores has almost being replaced by the horror that I can't read them all. Amazon, eLibraries, independent authors. It's amazing - and tragic at the same time. The most shocking is that I'm having trouble to committing to books I really want to read just because of the size. 1200 pages? That's 4 books in one!
|
So true! I want to read this, and that, and classics, and reread a few series, and..... AAAARGH.
Music is so much easier. You can switch genres, styles or artist every 74 minutes, or if you need to, every 3-5
