Well I was just pondering when I thought how fast do people read books. I read the cradle series last month in under 13 days. Constantly binge reading it. I have alot of time so it didn’t seem a big deal. Then I remembered in 2019 when I first picked up WoT I followed many people who were reading for the first time or reading it and I discovered it took most of them a year or so and I read it in under 4 Months. That time I was doing my last year in college and had many exams.

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    One time I was working at an art festival and didn’t have anything to do until it was time to take tents down so I read all of Stephen King’s Desperation in like seven hours. It was the mass market paperback and was around 800 pages. Yeah, I can’t read that fast anymore now I’m happy if I can do 100 pages a day

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    1 year ago

    depends. i read most high fantasy like half month, but i read most contemporary 3-7 days. i remember i finished A Little Life in 5 days

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    In like 5th grade I reach the whole Cirque Du Freak series in 12 days. I would check out a book from the library, read the entire thing in a day, and then repeat and read the whole series in 12 days. I probably could have read them faster but the school library would only let us check out one book of a series at a time (students at the time were trying to check out all of the Harry Potter series so they didn’t have to wait to read them).

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    1 year ago

    The last book I read in a single day was The Employees by Olga Ravn, but that books is about 120 pages.

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    I read the Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante in 10 days or so. I don’t usually read series, and if I do I space them out on purpose (I’ve read 4 Witcher novels over 4 years, spaced out), but with Ferrante I was just completely absorbed.

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    I literally just read The catcher in the Rye the day before yesterday and The Great Gatsby yesterday. Also read Crime and Punishment in less than a week but I took my time with it. I gotta say, all were disappointing. Where is this great literature I’ve heard of? I’m an intelligent person and I’m looking for something truly inspiring but I haven’t found anything that lives up to the reputation it has yet.

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    I read one book per day for all of alex verus series and finished the entire thing in two weeks. Granted each book is pretty small, but that’s the longest series I read in such a short amount of time.

    For a single book, I read oathbringer which is like 450k words, in a single 24 to 30 hour binge. I didn’t sleep, I was reading while eating and what not.

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    1 year ago

    I re-read the first Harry Potter when i was 16. I started at 22:00 because i couldnt sleep, finished it at 05:00 when my mom woke up.

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    I read the entirety of Project Hail Mary in a single setting. Started off with a normal bit of background music, then decided to listen to the entirety of Everywhere at the End of Time. Good decision, and good book.

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    The last Harry Potter book took me one rainy Saturday and Sunday night. I don’t think I even went to bed that weekend. Just dosed off on the sofa. Coffee kept me going that time. I never matched that pace again in the past 16 years but I do read quite a few books within 1-2 weeks. Others take me years of on-and-off reading to finish.

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    1 year ago

    i mean it’s not much but i read the twilight series in 3 days when i was in high school 😅 past that usually the fastest i read a single book is 10 hours or so