Nabokov's Good Readers and Writers

Wow, this was an interesting article. I felt like Nabokov's point of view on reading and writing was thorough but...a tad bit overboard. I mean come on, is it really necessary to do half the stuff that he talked about? I felt like he was on point with the arguments of when literature was created. But still his ideas on fondling details and basically reading with a magnifying glass was a little far-fetched if you ask me. The idea of having to read something twice just seems like too much. If I don't catch something the first time, then obviously i'm not that interested in the book and clearly don't want to read again...plain and simple. You don't need a certain type of imagination to read a book (well), you just need a brain and reading skills. Why stay a little aloof  in a story than actually think. Have ideas about what's going to happen and make predictions, it makes reading a lot more fun to me. Not being able to predict and staying in the dark the whole time is just stupid.