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There's no fucking way there are people who will read this in less than 10 hours, wtf

>> No.21632969

>>21632961
Maybe not on a first read-through (even then, if you're reasonably well-read you could probably do it in half the time).

>> No.21632974

obviously.
the calculation of 9:11 minutes is based on the premise that you'll read an average of 250wpm unerringly without a single stop.

>> No.21632979

>>21632961
How many pages?

>> No.21632992

>>21632979
500. I read about 20 pages/hour

>> No.21633032

i checked the lengths of some audiobooks for C&P. most are 20-21 hours. the abridged version is 3 1/2 hours. that's uhhh.....pretty fuckin abridged

>> No.21633314

>>21633032
"abridged" is the stupidest thing to ever exist. it's for people who read books just to say "I'm so smart I read this book" but they are too much of a faggot to actually read it and too much of a bitch to lie completely.

>> No.21633389

if you cant read at least 60 pages an hour you are an illiterate brainlet.

>> No.21633404

I assume it's taking a generalized reading speed average and applying it blindly to text no matter the source material. Shitty search result.

>> No.21633417

>>21633389
I read Kant at 150 pages an hour

>> No.21633448

crime and punishment is a casual read, even when slowly reading and digesting the material.

>> No.21634325

>>21632961
It's also almost certainly wrong, because it extrapolates page count and not the number of words per page (although sometimes it is based on the audiobook length, so I could be wrong in this instance)

>> No.21634331

>>21633448
It's certainly not.
If you didn't take time to reflect on the deeper philosophical messages you've barely read the book.

>> No.21634475

>>21632961
Duh..I Speed Read Hegel with Duh...Reading Glassing On...Duh...I have Read Phenomelogy of Spirit Duh...In Less Than 1 Hour...Duh

I hope you Die at the same Pace

>> No.21634517

>>21634331
>murder bad
>napoleon evil
>God good
>pussy good
ez

>> No.21634549

>>21632969
>>21632974
>>21632979
>>21632992
>>21633032
>>21633314
>>21633389
>>21633404
>>21633417
>>21633448
>>21634325
>>21634331
>>21634475
>>21634517
subvocalizing fags itt

>> No.21634610

>>21634549
speedreader itt

>> No.21634662

>>21634610
You will never be on Stanley Kurbrick's level

>> No.21634722

>>21632961
Crime and Punishment is written like your generic young adult book. So you should have no problem reading 50 pages an hour if you not a retard

>> No.21634809

>>21633314
The abridged version of Journey to the West I presume is a must. Since JttW spends a lot of time recapping what happens. Monkey goes to the space gods and tells what has happened at home, monkey goes back home and has to tell his subordinates what happened in space etc.

>> No.21634901

>>21633389
If you blaze through Crime & Punishment at 60 pages an hour you haven't read it. It's not a videogame speedrun dumb zoomer

>> No.21635220

>>21633314
Or maybe the author was retarded and needed 200 pages to make a 5 page point

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>>21634901
>If you blaze through Crime & Punishment at 60 pages an hour you haven't read it. It's not a videogame speedrun dumb zoomer

>> No.21636560

>>21633389
rude

>> No.21636565

>>21634549
i cant understand a sentence/paragraph at all unless i vocalize it in my head. i dont know why.

>> No.21636574

>>21632961
The people who read this in 9 hours are literally braindead. Their eyes gloss over the words through a dead stare of vapidity, and their nonexistent mind does not even register the words they are reading. It's similar to when they awaken in the morning: their eyes open to look up at the ceiling and despite the eyes conveying sensory information, the brain is not registering anything

>> No.21636591

>>21633032
Many audiobooks are any an annoying slow pace.
I tend to listen at 1.5X or 2X.

>t. long-commuter

>> No.21636599

>>21636591
>Many audiobooks are at* an annoyingly* slow pace.

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>>21632961
>There's no fucking way there are people who will read this in less than 10 hours, wtf

For an atheist or agnostic, Crime and Punishment is a philosophical grenade that takes a while to blow up in your mind, long after the initially cryptic coda with Raskalnikov in prison. I put the book down 6 months ago, but technically I'm still "reading" it.

I'm not sure what it even means to measure the length of time the book was physically sitting in front of my face, I would say that's in fact a gross misunderstanding of what it is to experience such a profound work.