Well I was just pondering when I thought how fast do people read books. I read the cradle series last month in under 13 days. Constantly binge reading it. I have alot of time so it didn’t seem a big deal. Then I remembered in 2019 when I first picked up WoT I followed many people who were reading for the first time or reading it and I discovered it took most of them a year or so and I read it in under 4 Months. That time I was doing my last year in college and had many exams.
Back in 2007, the movie for The DaVinci Code was coming out and some friends were planning to see it one evening. I was going to be seeing it with them around 5pm, and early in the day I decided I didn’t want to see it without having read the book first. So I grabbed a copy midday and just binged it in a handful of hours. It obviously helps that Dan Brown writes propulsively readably. But I wrapped it up shortly before I had to leave for the theater.
Series-wise, I couldn’t say. Lots of series of different lengths that I’ve had a go at. One of my favorites, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, I read in grad school, mostly between classes and assignments. I just had a copy of whichever book I was on with me at all times on campus, and whenever I had a spare moment I would dive in. And I got through the full 12 novels in a pretty brief span – maybe about a month. It makes me think back fondly on that school year, because of its association with reading that series.
DB books are so goddamn formulaic but they’re also incredibly fast to read.
I read Da Vinci Code last year, Inferno and Angels & Demons this year, planning on readying Origin and Lost Symbol next year.