Much appreciated :D

Between the King Killer Chronicles and Lord of the Rings is ideal. But even then its personal preference

Its not that they are particularly slow, just slow relative to new books. New sci-fi and murder mystery seems overly dramatic and chaotic compared to the writing of Asimov and Agatha Christie.

Fantasy and sci-fi. Maybe this pacing trend is particularly strong in these genres, so it's a generalisation.

have any good new book recs?

book-tok hasn't been fruitful, and even literary magazines aren't promising.

Inbetween. I've noticed that adult books tend to be really inconsistently paced, while YA is just rushed in general.

is there any way to recover? authors can't afford to make slow paced books if only a handful of people read them. And social media isn't going away anytime either.

yeah, this is what I was thinking. Any old books I read now have survived this long only because they are well written, so poorly paced new books haven't had enough time to be weeded out.