nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Oh gosh. Some reader you are. I have a cousin who does that; she just flicks through the pages but manages to read everything properly. If I read that fast, I would be skipping words here and there and would probably not concentrate on it much.

I read just as fast; I skip sentences occasionally, but it's only minor details. I always get the main ideas with enough details.

I guess I can skip sentences and read real fast too. But that would hold true only for novels. Sent, do you read your uni books and other study materials that fast too? Or do you need a longer time to understand them?

I should note that I read considerably faster now than I did when I read Fellowship... I don't skip sentences or anything out, either.

Edit: I'm a lot slower if I'm reading textbooks, but that's because there's loads of maths and stuff, and that's a lot harder to take in quickly.

Sentynel wrote:I should note that I read considerably faster now than I did when I read Fellowship... I don't skip sentences or anything out, either.

That was said for Nero, not you.

yeah, i read my textbooks much more slower too. Depends on whether I know something/nothing about the thing I'm reading. And, I like to imagine some stuff I'm reading too. So, that too slows me down.

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By shift button is getting worst. I think I ought to learn how to use the right hand side shift button.

I'm a quick reader, but not that good. Finished the seventh HP, 759 (US Version) in... about six hours. Just over two pages a minute. Not bad, considering it was from one to seven in the morning :D

A lot of young writers who read slowly assume that everyone else reads slowly too, so they just don't break up their sentences properly. It's the bane of my life (this being my life http://creativewriting.freeforums.org/index.php ).

Personally I like Margaret Atwood's writing style because she's able to break so many rules and still create something wonderful - like the present tense sections of The Handmaid's Tale which never use speech marks. It makes it feel so eerie! Or maybe it was just that way to me.

Another of my favourite authors is Garth Nix, but it still annoys me that he concludes so quickly. In the last chapter of the book, ALL OF THIS will suddenly happen and everyone is like "whoa!" but he's still amazing.

And we all love Stroud. Ah, so quirky. :)