Stories which build more slowly deliver a richer experience, but you have to give them time. You don’t get a cliff-hanger on every page (although Dickens and Hardy, with their episodic approaches, did pretty well for cliff-hangers), but you will be rewarded by imagery and prose which reaches into your soul. I’m happy for whatever brings people to reading, but I hope they will grow to love the more languid stories alongside the high-octane ones.