No, the bottleneck is not just the verbosity. I am learning new, interesting things. But they are buried in so much verbiage that at times you don't feel safe rushing through it... you don't know what interesting nugget you might have missed. So, I have to read the whole blessed thing to realize that I did or did not miss it.
So he wants to just blast through the book and not think about a single thing he has read? Is this representative of the average Reddit user?