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I don't think the page count is a good metric here. For me, to comprehend something like this, I have to read, pause, ponder "what is going on?", reread etc. Se
by the__alchemist 4y ago
I don't think the page count is a good metric here. For me, to comprehend something like this, I have to read, pause, ponder "what is going on?", reread etc. Sentence by sentence. For something easier, I can read fluidly.
As a contrast, picture Neal Stephenson novels. Long! But I can read them ~5x faster than an equiv length of GR.
- csb6 4y agoI agree, page count is a bad way to judge books. I was using the parent comment’s logic, which disparaged Pynchon for writing long novels and implied that long novels are less valuable.
- stuxnet79 4y agoI echo your point. Neal Stephenson is an equally deep thinker and leans into the hard-sci side of things but his prose is very lucid. Reading his works is less arduous than you expect. The more I read the more I grow to dislike unnecessarily elaborate writing.