I know your pain; it took me 8 hours to read and analyze a damned 400 pg book on the History of the Czechs and Slovaks. My only excuse is that my reading was slowed as I tried to figure out the pronunciation of several Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, and Slav names and places. My 500 words on that is mostly crap - and 12 hours late.

YOu're not lazy; you merely lack focus on things that don't immediately interest you...so it takes longer.