I have found that the density of content certainly adds to or detracts from the ability to read at a rapid pace. When I sit down with a Raymond Carver short st

I have found that the density of content certainly adds to or detracts from the ability to read at a rapid pace. When I sit down with a Raymond Carver short story, the shorter sentences and clear descriptions allow me to absorb it more quickly and move on. I tried to read at the same pace with authors like Thomas Pynchon or David Foster Wallace (and Hemingway) and found myself re-reading the same paragraph four times. For me, it isn't nessecarilly that I want to speed read a novel, it is just that I have trained my brain in other ways to absorb the most crucial aspects of a text/problem quickly and jump ahead (at my own detriment). Thanks college!