@bibliolater@bookstodon I've found that the more I've enjoyed reading a book nowadays, the slower I read it towards the end. Because I literally don't want it to end.
I suppose there's a page-limiting-factor to that. CRYPTONOMYCON wasn't a linear novel. I had to assemble the puzzle pieces of the story as I read. So the last chapter didn't feel like I was racing to the end but just one more piece put into place to finish the entire story. Same for any William Gibson novel.
I never finish THE JINN AND THE GOLEM because I didn't want to story to end. Some years later, I'm listening to the audiobook and marveling at the author's ability to create the feel of 1900 New York.
All of Child's REACHER novels had the narrative drive to push me to finish them. I wanted to find out how it all turned out. Even the epilogs offered some tidying of loose ends.
