/lit/ - Literature

>>21263753
Dunno, didn't bother reading it.

>>19975251
>how to read a book
Glad to see I'm not the only retard who bought that book. Au fait, vu que tu parles français, j'ai du mal à savoir quelles éditions sont meilleures que d'autres. Connais-tu de bonnes éditions françaises surtout pour la philo ?

>>19697908

What's the best way to increase your comprehension ?

>>19553644
Meh, never bothered reading it

>>16357063
roll

Is it a bad habit to start a book and drop it halfway through? I just can't seem to stop doing it.

Currently readind The Lies of Locke Lamorra. It's pretty good for now.

I've got one at least I'll check if I can find any more.

This is notes for 'How to Read a Book' which is in your chart

>>14995457
>>14995061

>>14984720
here you go

There is a good place to get recommendations about good and varied non-fiction books?
I only get YA-fiction and self help shit in youtube channels.

Which books should one have to read before even being allowed to post on /lit/?

Does anyone know of any good books on how to separate classics from shallower works? Or how to develop an aesthetic sensibility? Even something on "how to read the classics". I'm looking for something to help with my reading of the classics and to provide further justification and thus motivation for continuing.

>>11660361
Why do you sound like you haven't read it yourself?

the book summed up by pic recommends reading one time through a work without getting bogged down to look every little detail up or taking a lot of notes. I've quite a bit of classics but just now I started reading Aristotle (Ethics), which I was extremely excited to do and I was wondering if it is worthy taking notes on the very first read.
I am not going to read his works twice right now (but will do in the future), so, is it enough, specially in regards to philosophy, to understand the text and have the reference in my head of where to look up when I need it in the future or should I be taking notes and trying to memorize as much as I can of it?
Share your methods

Hey /lit/ I have ADHD and I literally can't read books.
I get bored after I finish the first chapter, and then I have to force myself to continue reading the book, and it takes a LOT of force to do that.
It's really not enjoyable.
Because of this, I have only ever really read a few books in my entire life and it took a lot of effort to sit through every single one of there.
However, I have read the summaries and metadata to a huge number of books and ideas.
And I'm certain I understand them at a truly deep level - without reading them.
Much more than most people who just read it superficially and don't really think about it.
It's at a point where I held book presentations in high school about books I didn't read and everyone was convinced that I did.
I'm 22 now, and I will finish my Master's degree in Applied Mathematics this year. After that, I'm probably going to go into AI research thus I am not really dependent on reading literature for my career, I have no problem with scientific papers from my field.
(Before you ask, I had a lot of problems with listening to classes in Uni but I managed to work around that by learning from scripts. I can and did learn the content of a script for a passing grade in 1-2 days of half distracted learning)

So my question is, what do I miss from literature?
There are a lot of books I would like to be able to read but "can't", it's sad.
Is reading about books and summaries actually good enough, or is there important content that I will just never have access to like that?
Is there a way for me to read books despite ADHD?
Any Ideas or suggestions are welcome.

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>>10123182
>book is 80% aimed at scientific/academic readings
>retard comes babbling about it on /lit/

nice. very nice.

if you are only interested in literature and wondering this book is worth it, don't even bother, it is perfectly explained in pic related.