I'm enjoying this book enormously, but I just reached part

>>8307464
It varies from book to book. I took a couple of breaks from GR and Mason & Dixon but I read Ulysses pretty much in one shot.

>>8307464
>Anyone else need to sometimes put the Big Novels down for a short period just to "recharge", so to speak?
no

>>8307471
Thanks, I read GR almost a decade ago and I remember reading that book in the weirdest way possible. It took me a few months, and I'd be rereading certain chapters over-and-over like the Major Marvy chases, Franz Pokler, Lyle Bland and the masonic pinball whatever, Byron the Bulb, until I finally finished. (I was 19 and pretty much smoking pot all the time, which, to be honest, kinda helped...)

And I actually thought about M&D in relation to Ulysses, because M&D has many, relatively short chapters, while Ulysses has a handful of very long episodes, and I kinda read it "in one shot", too.

>>8307506
really? or are you just being an asshole?

Not really; I can mostly tackle a well-written doorstopper in one go. In fact, that's helped me immensely to finish them. I usually only read that book at the time (how I finished GR, War and Peace, Moby-Dick [if Moby-Dick counts]) Honestly genre fiction is what I have the most trouble finishing and the need to take a break.

I will say however that I don't think I've ever done two doorstoppers back-to-back. I have had false starts because of this. I can do books that are equally challengingly written but not two books that are over 600 pages. I have to take a break in-between and go for something smaller.

>>8307543
It's weird sometimes. It took me three weeks to read Carpenter's Gothic and 13 days to read J R which is 3 times longer and a fair bit more convoluted.

>>8307543
Thanks for actually giving an answer. I'll probably continue reading, but at a slower pace. I read latitudes and departures pretty quick, and it's not like I don't have other things to do.

>>8307471
Same here, though in the case of M&D it was because I didn't want for it to end