Well, if you think percentage wise, I guess for a given book I'm reading 50-90% of the text. That's far more than a summary.
Emotionally, it's certainly enough to get attached to characters, which is the point. But the way my brain likes to read (it's not a conscious decision, just the way I do it), is to skip a lot of the description, and get to the interesting bits (dialog, action scenes, etc).
I certainly miss out some subtleties, but if you and I read the same book we could have a meaningful discussion about it, probably without you realizing that I likely read it in half the time and only paid attention to about 80% of the content.
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Well, if you think percentage wise, I guess for a given book I'm reading 50-90% of the text. That's far more than a summary.
Emotionally, it's certainly enough to get attached to characters, which is the point. But the way my brain likes to read (it's not a conscious decision, just the way I do it), is to skip a lot of the description, and get to the interesting bits (dialog, action scenes, etc).
I certainly miss out some subtleties, but if you and I read the same book we could have a meaningful discussion about it, probably without you realizing that I likely read it in half the time and only paid attention to about 80% of the content.