AK <andrei....@gmail.com> writes: > On 09/19/2010 10:32 PM, John Bokma wrote: >> AK<andrei....@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 09/19/2010 07:18 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: >>>> AK wrote: >>>> >>>>> Afaik the idea is that you can read a novel at the speed of half a page >>>>> a second or so and understand it to the same extent as people who'd read >>>>> at a normal rate. >>>> >>>> I've never understood why anyone would *want* to read a >>>> novel that fast, though. For me at least, reading a novel >>>> is something done for pleasure, so reading it at ten times >>>> normal speed would waste 90% of the benefit. >>>> >>> >>> One definite advantage would be that if, say, it takes you 70 pages of a >>> given novel to figure out whether you like it enough to continue, you'd >>> want to read those pages in 2 minutes rather than an hour. >> >> Heh, to me speed reading those 70 pages in a very short while, >> concluding that it's a good book, and start over again would be quite >> the spoiler. Do you fast forward movies as well? > > I honestly doubt it would be a spoiler if it's a good book. Generally I > find that poor books rely on twists and turns while better ones rely on > the fabric of story-telling. Aside from that, though, it's a very > interesting question - I'll try to think of good books and see if they'd > be spoiled by peeking in the first 70 pages.. Starting with children's > books, Peter Pan and Wind in the Willows, I think, would not be. Don > quixote would not be. Crime and punishment - maybe if you get as far as > the murder? Same author's the Devils, I would say you can read the last > 70 pages and it'd be just as good :). -ak
I didn't mean that there are spoilers in the first 70 pages, just that to me the excercise would spoil the book, so, I wouldn't do it. I consider a book like a meal, I wouldn't gobble down food, regurgitate it, and eat it again at a slower pace. Books, movies, family, walks are the things I prefer to do at a normal mudane pace, or even slower, if I can bring myself to it. My favourite books I try to read slow, and enjoy. ;-). Too much of my life is already in overdrive. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
