/lit/ - Literature

>>19611117
>>19612148
>vagina

I wouldn't even have noticed the resemblance.

>>16692729
fuck this i'm back on drugs

>>15637774
I cannot draw

I can’t even make sense of books that are called “classic literature”. Even if I try and read the Bible I read a sentence and none of it makes sense, it’s like my mind sees the words and reads them but there’s no meaning being imparted into my brain, there’s nothing happening. I get to the end of the page and I realize I don’t know anything.

I’m wondering how intelligent you actually need to be to even understand this stuff, I literally got a perfect score on the reading and English portions of the ACT, yet if I read any book that’s not super modernized I can’t understand any of it. Then there are textbooks that I read where he same thing happens, I can’t seem to make sense of Control Systems no matter how many times I read the text.

Do you guys have to do this? Some people seem to enjoy reading, are they hypergeniuses who don’t have to read things over and over? Can some people actually understand what’s happening in books like Beowulf or Shakespeare shit?

>try to read a book
>if it’s fiction my mind starts wandering on to some random topic
>if it’s nonfiction I start to debate with the author
>can’t ever make it more than two or three pages

How do you guys do it? I can’t fucking read. The only thing I can kind of manage to read are engineering textbooks.