You can speed-read War and Peace or the unabridged Les Miserables, I suppose--just as I'm sure you could spead-eat a fillet mignon or rib-eye steak, but why would you want to? What of savoring the subtle and surprising flavors, letting each bite settle a moment on your tongue while you lean back and roll up your eyes in gratitude? True, there are certain foods you have to eat quickly, cause the only way you can choke it down is if you don't taste it first--but that's no argument for the food's quality.
Same with reading: occasionally folks will recommend me a book "that's really easy!" and is something that "you could probably read in an afternoon real fast!" But if a book's chief selling point is that it can be read real fast, I'm afraid that doesn't really recommend it. A book must be capable of being read slowly, delectably, or not at all.
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