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Re: Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period?

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Post by harperlee » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 6:52 AM UTC

0xffff2 wrote: post #85

harperlee wrote: post #83

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How quickly do you read!? That’s 1.8 books per day! Assuming a book is 240 pages, that takes me about 6 hours if it’s not too dense prose, so for me that would be a full time job with quite some overtime and weekends, assuming I don’t get tired. Honest question, there’s a couple assumptions in my napkin calculation :)

I think you did the division backwards. By my math that's 1.8 days per book . I'm guessing OP reads pretty fast, and 1-2 hours per day spent reading isn't outside the realm of possibility. I would probably read 2-3 times as many books, except I'm a fairly slow reader and since I read for fun I have pretty much zero interest in reading faster.

Haha that makes loads more sense, thanks!

Re: Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period?

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Post by dsr_ » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

0xffff2 wrote: post #85

harperlee wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How quickly do you read!? That’s 1.8 books per day! Assuming a book is 240 pages, that takes me about 6 hours if it’s not too dense prose, so for me that would be a full time job with quite some overtime and weekends, assuming I don’t get tired. Honest question, there’s a couple assumptions in my napkin calculation :)

I think you did the division backwards. By my math that's 1.8 days per book . I'm guessing OP reads pretty fast, and 1-2 hours per day spent reading isn't outside the realm of possibility. I would probably read 2-3 times as many books, except I'm a fairly slow reader and since I read for fun I have pretty much zero interest in reading faster.

Yes, this. I do read quickly, and I typically get 2 hours or so a day to read.

FWIW I don't read slower when I need to absorb serious content, but I do reread repeatedly -- flipping back and forth to make sure I understood the argument, critiquing it in my head, and so forth. Pleasure reading doesn't get that treatment unless I catch the author doing something egregious.

Re: Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period?

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Post by Kaibeezy » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 6:12 PM UTC

perl4ever wrote: post #88

Kaibeezy wrote: post #43

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It takes long, hard work to accumulate the knowledge and experience to be able to consistently say things that matter. It’s impossible to fake, and an astute crowd will always spot it. The Luke-in-Yoda’s-hut scene pops to mind.

I wonder how many people in this thread had heard of Georgette Heyer but not "The Luke-in-Yoda’s-hut scene". Even after looking up the script, I have no idea what you are saying.

The commenter above asked: "But how does one gather a reputation such that whatever I say will be read mindfully and not just dismissed right out when I start to make reasoning leaps all around? the most direct way is to simply repeat what other people with a reputation have said; to preach to the choir."

Yoda challenged Luke by telling him he was too old to begin the training, and that a Jedi "craves not" things like adventure and excitement. People have varying degrees of awareness about how much work it is and how long it takes to gain meaningful knowledge and experience. They are impatient, they want shortcuts, they think "likes" are important, they give up. Luke says: "you want the impossible", but of course it's not impossible, just profoundly abstruse.