"meticulous reading" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of reading carefully and thoroughly, paying close attention to detail and not missing any important information. Example: "John always impresses his professors with his meticulous reading of research papers. He never misses a single detail and is able to provide insightful analysis of the texts."
Through my meticulous research (tried reading the relatively simple directions and ended up calling my friend Manuel, demanding he skip his matinee of West Side Story and help this Maria out), I was able to start this baby up.
"The Endgame," Michael R. Gordon and Gen. Bernard E. Trainor's book on the later stages of the Iraq war, is a meticulous record of the daydreams and nightmares that war represented, and should be required reading for anybody considering another such exercise.
I suspect "Kalkwerk" would be more engaging if you weren't continually distracted from the meticulous mise-en-scène by the necessity of reading the copious translations.
With the film's projected 2011 release, you might be reading about this feverishly anticipated feature from the meticulous Mr. Malick at the next Cannes... or Toronto.
"Galbraith's First Law", read the meticulous red and blue cross-stitch: "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue".
They read his meticulous Yelp reviews and watch the videos he posts of the views from his hotel room at the Trump Soho.
Personally I stop reading reviews at the first mention of words such as "splendid", "magisterial", or "meticulous".
Aaron is a meticulous, gifted reporter; Tom is a charismatic presence on camera who self-admittedly doesn't understand the news that he's reading.
Practitioners keep meticulous digital records of things they do: how much coffee they drink, how much work they do each day, what books they are reading, and so on.
The clincher was that Trottier wrote his answers in meticulous longhand that Sather could read and comprehend.
At a dedicated Web site, you can read Green's meticulous account of the find and then download an ingenious computer application that allows you to listen to Moyer's performance (expertly, sensitively done) while following along in the Schumann score.
