> "it's okay that she looks 12 because she's a 1000 year old demon" characters.

Thats an odd one to parse. The first time I read something like that was let the right one in.

Its interesting that people only seem to discuss one of the pedophiles in the book.

everything seems like an unreasonable bar to the point it feels like a strawman.

It seems likely this is more about studying and not just simply reading.

No matter your methodology, you wont retain anything even close to "everything" in in a single pass.

Its also very likely many people think they remember far more than they actually do.

Without continued effort it all fades into irrelevance anyway.

Why wouldn't they?

It would be strange to be an author and write characters no one gets attached to

Because of this post, more people will read it, and some of them might post about it.

Is your post part of the AstroTurfing?