#but anyway. it is very funny. i don't use those metrics cuz i know i have a very different opinion than many but like | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

essektheylyss · 2 years ago

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I gotta be honest, the pacing notes on storygraph reviews are truly fucking useless to me.

I can only presume it is deeply subjective and that's the problem with it, usually having more to do with an individual reader and what books they're reading that they're comparing it to, because that is the only way I can explain Voice and Phenomenon, a literal Derrida book, being labeled "medium-paced" while a 130 page prose poem diptych that I read essentially on my commute is labeled "slow-paced." Like, WHAT.

#tbf i think pacing in nonfiction is a useless metric because 98% of people cant identify why it is the way it is but #like i can explain to you why certain nonfiction is quick or slow etc just as i can for fiction but #in fiction there is a far more instinctual thing to it in that you can tell when a story is off pacing-wise #but that's not as instinctual in nonfiction cuz the story is generally not as straightforward #i guarantee there IS a story but even that is difficult for many people to like. actually identify.#but anyway. it is very funny. i don't use those metrics cuz i know i have a very different opinion than many but like #yeah if you're reading a TON of philosophy imo derrida is actually very readable. fight me. absolutely medium-paced #and if you are picking up random pretty looking nature books you are gonna be a little offput by Robert Macfarlane #who gets real heavy into the linguistics elements which can complicate things #BUT ANYWAY i digress.#megs is reading

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