I am working on Neal Stephenson's REAMDE. I say "working on" as opposed to "finishing" since it's more of a side job than a casual read. You don't really make progress, you just sort of periodically put another hundred pages between you and the front cover, without really budging how far down the binding your bookmark is.
REAMDE is sort of like if someone looked at the average globe-spanning complicated plot and action scenes of a Bond movie, and said, "I guess it's alright, you know, for a short story."
To answer your question, I am changing my metric from "books read per trip the library" to "trips to the library (to renew my loan) per book."
Yep. Stephenson takes me a while. I kept track whilst reading _Quicksilver_ and it ended up taking me 50 days, with the baseline being 50 minutes a day on weekdays during my commute, and the odd extra hour every now and then when I had a bit of time to spare.
REAMDE is sort of like if someone looked at the average globe-spanning complicated plot and action scenes of a Bond movie, and said, "I guess it's alright, you know, for a short story."
To answer your question, I am changing my metric from "books read per trip the library" to "trips to the library (to renew my loan) per book."