For me, it's part of the experience. Going too slow for anything written as prose is detrimental - I feel, and this may be a strange way of putting it, 'bogged

For me, it's part of the experience. Going too slow for anything written as prose is detrimental - I feel, and this may be a strange way of putting it, 'bogged down in words', and I'm not actually experiencing the narrative. I feel like I'm spending too much time on "He said" and other connecting words, which pulls me out of the world. It's one of the reasons I prefer books to audiobooks - I can slow down and enjoy the speech/intricate descriptions, but virtually skip over 'functional' words.