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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9603987">I tend to reading out loud in my head. Part of this is just being dyslexic I learned to read that way, but even now that I can read faster if I want to, I find it helps me to hear how the author wants the words to sound as I am reading (it is one of the aspects of reading I enjoy I think). That said, I am not averse to spending time with a long book. I loved Dune, and Lord of the Rings is Long (the Condor Heroes books are insanely long if you read the full trilogies, as are most of Jin Yong's other works). I also read a lot of fan translations online and many of those can be quite lengthy. And to be fair, I did enjoy Way of Kings. I just got to the second book and I was like "Do I honestly want all these POV chapters ahead of me". It is more about the combination of this particular style and length for me than just the length if that makes sense. I think i was just getting a bit tired of so much American media being told through POV characters at a very slow pace (that game of thrones approach). At the height of all that, I just went back to some Arthur C Clarke and was so good to return to that style of pacing.</blockquote>