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Re:“Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV by david-gpu on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:17PM (#25143223)
> You can't _really_ binge a book like a TV show

What do you call reading a book cover to cover in one sitting? It can take as long as watching a whole season of a TV series.

Re:“Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV by abruzzi on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:22PM (#25144011)
I can completely read Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle' in about 3-4 hours--just a nice afternoon. When I read Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' or Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow' it can easily take me 3-4 months (though if binged, it would probably take a month), not just due to length differences prose style. Vonnegut is conversational (Pynchon's 'Crying of Lot 49' is almost as easy as Vonnegut's books) Rushdie and Pynchon are (usually) dense and complex. So some books will take most people a lot more time than just binging GoT end to end. But some aren't much more than a long movie.