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Originally Posted by Shawnski
I think the only novel of THAT length that I have read is War And Peace. And it certainly wasn't a one sitting read. Most novels are of the 450 or so page variety (paperback for reference). So you are saying that you can read a typical paperback in about 2 hours 15-40 minutes?
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yup.
The 705 page book "The Great Hunt" by Robert Jordan took me one 3 1/2 hour flight to finish.
I read like a mad man, I guess it's a skill I just always had, I'm able to skim over a sentence and understand it without having to think about what it meant while reading the next, I guess immediate recognition is the key so that you can just move through the book fluently. One thing that I guess is something you could work at to increase the speed of your reading is skim over a page and then write down what you thought the page was trying to discuss see how close you are, for some it would take practice but once your able to get that down reading quickly becomes a cinch.