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gnatsaredancing t1_j1ldsmx wrote

>Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, why does this happen?

Because times have changed. A lot of older books were written for people who lived slower lives. For a lot of them, books were the only look at the greater world they got. So far more time was spend on explanations, descriptions of people, objects, locations and so on.

People today are use to being a high speed information sponge that never turns off. You'd bore them with descriptions like that.

Along the same lines, a lot of 19th and early 20th century novels were written as serialised content for magazines. The writers intentionally padded it to keep their pay check going.

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ilikedirt t1_j1mcraq wrote

The serialised content part made so much sense when I finally realized 😆

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dragon-snapple-01 t1_j1n8nbr wrote

This. I notice the same thing with TV shows & movies. These days, scene cuts are used to keep it moving and ads are built to catch attention in a short time span. Books are not immune to this effect.

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