mattie lubchansky: i love when people are like “great book! i read it in two hours!” cool that took two years to make and broke my body and mind entirely

i love when people are like “great book! i read it in two hours!” cool that took two years to make and broke my body and mind entirely

I wish they'd lie to me and tell me it took them eight months to read

i have great news for you about my Exhausted Parent's Reading Schedule

same

Returned *Manhunt* to the library in defeat - reached the renewal limit after many-x reading a couple pages, going "I'm not in a good emotional space to hurt right now and there's a lot of dishes in the sink", then leaving it for a week or two I think I will finish it next fall 😅

I’ll always tell you that…because I have severe ADHD. I ain’t finishing shit in an hour

If it makes you feel any better I'm only three dissociative episodes into Cuckoo but I'm loving every bit of it

I will not apologize for my reading comprehension speed.

Manhunt took me almost a year to read cause i wanted it to last forever.

I interviewed Jordan Crane a while back and he had a positive take on that whole situation. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

no for sure! i’m just blowing off a lil steam

what if i read it 8000 times

acceptable

"this thing that took me years to make was consumed in 3 hours" and yet I keep fucking doing it why

p a i n

I read it in two hours but then I ate it and digested it for much longer

"I mean, not how I would have written it*, but not bad I guess" *they haven't written anything longer than a reddit post since high school

As dyslexic person, who has to read every word, sometimes more than once, who laughs in the face of speed reading, I've got your back.

If it helps any, the time it takes to read is inversely proportional to how good it is. The 100k word stuff I’ve ripped through in a couple of hours is the stuff that sticks with me.

Yes, this. If it's that good, that well written, I basically devour the book. maybe not in two hours anymore (that was in my 30s) but if I finish it in a couple days or a week, you know I'm buying it, shelving it, and referring it to everyone.

the O in "comics" is a screaming mouth

For me at the least , I've only ever read a book that quick if I was thoroughly enjoying it to the point of losing track of time completely and being so engrossed by it. 😅

In apology for how quickly I read your book I spent four hours reading this post

lol gotta love comics

All right I’ll read slower

"i am writing slowly as i know you are not a fast reader"

Read it in two hours, think about it for twenty years

Your such a proficient leader,quick scanning and processing text to comprehend and assimilate information ate an accelerated pace😳 you must minimize subvocalization 🤔

"But $3.99 is so expensive for your little book."

If I take the time to sit down and finish a book quickly, it means I didn't just like it, I LOVED IT. It means I couldn't put it down. It means I put aside other projects and chores just for that book.

Yes but here’s the thing I can’t read

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