How long, on average, do you take to finish a novel? Most books being 300 page/80k words.

I'm slow at two weeks.

>>24474464 (OP)
Who cares how fast you read? This thread is a waste.

Reading a 500 pages book with approximatively 120k words and I'm halfway through after a week and very little reading in the past two days.
It depends on how engaging and complicated it is. I'd probably already be done with it by now if it were easier to read

>>24474464 (OP)
I read sixty pages a day regardless of how many words are on the page or how difficult the book is.

>>24474464 (OP)
i thought you were talking about writing them. for reading, try not to read more than a chapter a day so you can spread out the experience over time. it feels better and stays with you longer. you can read multiple books at the same time.

>>24474464 (OP)
It depends on the book but I usually read at 100 pages an hour, so three hours.

I read 2200 pages in 7 days last week. This is not something I regularly do. I kicked those 5 books asses so hard. Felt fucking great.

I don’t read books I just listen to audiobooks, when I was a kid into reading I could easily finish a 300 page book in a day if it was good, I’d finish books in English class months ahead of schedule and have to pretend I didn’t know what would happen next or what a character intended

You can write a novel in two weeks?! Awesome! My record for a first draft is just over a month.

>>24474464 (OP)
two weeks for a long novel, one week for a short one

>>24474472
I do agree with this message but the delivery was a bit off-putting. I honestly don't know how fast I read because I take my time to absorb as much as possible and that only happens when I'm relaxed and rushing myself would slow down the uptake of information. I'm not into the current trend of "performative reading", which only mimics the act of reading without actually absorbing new information but to impress impressionable people for a short-lived boost in respect that's based on a lie. I'm also extra slow at reading as I'm an ESL.
Yes, I enjoyed my summer break, thanks for asking and yes, I know. Did you guys mess with my battery in my Pixel phone or are Pixels just shit after a while?

>>24474464 (OP)
Depends on the prose of the author. A 200 page book by Henry James will take as long to read as a 600 page Joseph Heller book.

I started timing myself recently while reading Tolkien. I average at about a half a page a minute, or 30 pages an hour. The entire trilogy should take me about a month if I read one hour a day. Suffice to say English isn't my first language.

War and Peace took me 6 months, Ulysses took me 4 months.

I've been starting and stopping the Illiad on and off for 1 year and a half.

>>24474464 (OP)
I read about 1 word / minute. I really try to savor the word and take it in slowly like a fine champagne

>>24478312
>War and Peace
how cruel, why would you inflict that on anybody