Has anyone else been seeing the discussion over people only reading dialogue in books on social media? is this true? How is that even possible to do and have any understanding of what is going on?
by Nice-Definition-8360
Has anyone else been seeing the discussion over people only reading dialogue in books on social media? is this true? How is that even possible to do and have any understanding of what is going on?
by Nice-Definition-8360
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I’m just sad that people think skipping over most of a book is the only way to read 30+ books a year.
I could totally read 30 books a year if I didn’t spend all my downtime reading Reddit. But I do, so I only get through like a book a month.
You literally can not read a book that way. No different to just reading odd page numbers.
Ngl it would be funny to read some books this way. Like hearing some gossip through an open window
I really don’t think this is a widespread thing tbh. This just feels like rage bait and a couple of weirdos.
I just saw a reel about this earlier and I was absolutely flabbergasted. But also it kind of makes sense, I guess? BookTok and whatnot.
Can we normalize “set whatever goals work for you, and stop worrying about what other people are doing”?
I typically read a book a week. I have no idea if that’s normal or not, but I can promise you, it’s slow compared to a lot of my library patrons, but also, *it’s not a competition*. I don’t care how many books other people read, and I’m not setting my reading goals based on what other people think.
“Some people only read the dialogue” sounds so ridiculous and fake. Has no one read a book? That’s not how they work.
Sounds like people on social media made up to rage bait. Also 30+ books a year isn’t *normal* but it’s far from impossible. It’s not even particularly difficult unless you’re choosing exclusively doorstoppers.
My vote is fake engagement bait.
In one of my books, there’s a chapter with an extremely pivotal plot/character event that also has exactly three lines of dialogue. These yutzes would be completely lost.
No one does this. There was one girl on tiktok two years ago and the anti-bookish crowd just parrots it. Same as how they think that booksta and booktok only read 150 page eroticas.
If quantity is all that matters, just read chapter books, or even picture books. You could do 100 of those in a year, and just think how impressed some strangers on the internet will be!
Hmmm I hope this is genre fiction where it’s more about the adventure than the finely crafted prose – I definitely have been guilty of this at times but not in a meaty well written story.
But it’s better than reading zero books and probably not actually sustainable so I don’t see any need to try and convince anyone they are wrong if they do it.
Have I seen it? Yes. Do I believe anyone other than a minuscule minority is actually doing it? Absolutely not.
It feels like rage bait based off one Tiktok no one has even seen (or shared), combined with the unfounded disbelief that, yes, some people are actually reading 30+ books a year and doing it very easily.
I’m confused about that but secondarily confused at the person who thinks that it isn’t normal to have a reading goal that isn’t 30+ books a year.
I used to do this in middle school. I was a C student through and through