u/Ok-Veterinarian-2931

For me it’s second coming of gluttony as seol jihu (kinda spoiler) >!seems like a really perverted guy until it’s revealed midway that he was groomed to act this way around women by his childhood friend and he is really just innocent!< but I just find it so funny how tactless he is and oblivious he is to what he’s doing. I also love how uniquely quirky each character is and how everyone can make you laugh.

I like reading novels but feel like I’m losing too much actual time of my life reading them. What I’ve done is only really read novels whilst doing cardio, my daily steps is meant to be 20k as I live a very sedentary lifestyle. Which gives me roughly 3.5 hours to read. I wanna know how I can squeeze more chapters in that time. Of course I’m not trying to downgrade the quality of the read but I really just think there’s so many great novels that I can spend my life reading and not enough “life” to read them.

Other than the skill of being able to read super fast what I’m currently doing is downloading a ai “text to speech” app which reads the downloaded novels and I increase the speed to a level where I can still read and understand the content which has helped greatly.

Lmk if there’s a better way please!

Edit: I’m not here for karma and don’t need a response like “Just don’t try to read faster and enjoy”, - when reading faster doesn’t logically have an effect on the enjoyment as long as your actually taking in the content. purely wanted advice from more experienced novel readers as I assume as you get more experience and passion you probably try to evolve into reading more content without just degenerating to a point where you are spending diabolical hours of your day reading novels not adhering to basic duties like a job.

Ik im sounding like a dhead but I do not believe answering with “stop trying to read faster” helps this question ykwim?.

After rewatching the show, I started to realise how real Mikey is compared to the other mobsters. Listens to orders by his boss and even puts his boss on a pedestal. Also doesn’t seem too big headed. On top of that he was always stylish and did have the makings of a varsity athlete (aside from being unable to outrun a 60 year old and a chain smoker drug addict). He was solid up until his death where he blamed everything on junior. And the way he talks to his spouse is really funny but also toxic. Junior didn’t have a lot of respect in the crew but the guys who were loyal to him were really solid people.

I started reading manhwa about 6 years ago when I started high school. Over the years I was reading anything and anything but by year 4 I became able to understand that I’m reading slop and should just drop a series altogether. Unfortunately there was a big filtering process where I had to drop manhwas that I was actively reading for a while because I understood they became poo. Now since time has become a limiter I only want to read certain stories. For me personally what moves me is unique plots.
List of common tropes that are abused in the industry and become an instant not read:

\- Modern tower/ floor manhwa, I understand that they drop off very quickly after being entertaining at the start.

\- Demonic power route: just makes it hard to read because of how painfully common

\- no struggle regressions: very predictable plot and is overall just peak slop that is there to farm dopamine by having a mc beat unlikeable arrogant villains

\-“Youngest son”: have great potential but ultimately all fail for some reason.

\-Modern Nonchalant Mc: The most boring pseudo slop possible, they put you in a illusion to not realise you are reading slop

\-Hunters/VRMORPG: golden era has passed

Although these tropes become instant skips, it’s important to note the original works of these are probably not skips.

Let me know what tropes are instant skips for you and if there are any unique manhwas that moved you to read recently.