/lit/ - Literature

>find the collected shorter fictions of Tolstoy at a thrift shop in great condition and buy it
>decide to go buy every Everyman's Library Tolstoy editions except the Cossacks (and other stories) which I bought from Penguin and Resurrection from Oxford
>haven't read any of Tolstoy's books
>reading about his theory of Aesthetics I'm a bit worried that it's all going to be serious moralising rather than just interesting stories with lots of characters and immersive descriptions
I am dumb
At least they look good on my shelf

How do I stop being a passive reader?

>>21401176
>don’t know how to read book
>try to read “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler
>can’t read it because I don’t know how to read book
What a big help, thanks a lot.

>>20776129
why is it "οὐ" and not "μή"?

I'm being filtered by Lucas after having read Matthew and Mark. What's going on.

>>20112908
>implying the most virulent ideas aren’t actually the most powerful
If reason was so amazing then it would compete better in the marketplace of ideas. But it doesn’t, and so it deserves to forgotten. Down with rationality! Up with idiocy!

>>18746959

How can I reliably get myself into a flow state for reading?
I often find myself reading a book with my eyes, but my mind’s eye is wandering elsewhere. It’s like having a lazy eye for a mind’s eye.
How do you do it /lit/?

>>18053507
Mmmmmmmm yenmy yabambega

>>18042731
>it's loud, the sound and noise is/was loud and my penis was loud against my genes.

>feminists worried about losing their last name
>it's their father's

Have any anons successfully increased their reading speed? Trying to read a lot more but get discouraged because it takes me a long time. In an hour I might get through 20 pages of average-difficulty fiction.

which philosopher comes to mind immediately?

>>15216535

>>14953216
my culture is not your decoration

Use the same skills developed by meditation while you read, redirecting attention and keeping focused on one thing

Books that deal with the topic of inferiority? About being less than everyone, being less intelligent, etc. Mainly looking for fiction.

This entire thread is retarded arguments between SJWs and racists.

I had a dream I received a picture book in the mail. A picture book about rocks, very slim and one of those tall books. Supposedly I ordered it on-line, no idea what that was about, but the book wasn't half bad, lots of shiny rocks.

Cam-moo

>tfw product of the public school system

to read book you have smart

>196 books on Amazon wish list

Hi, so I very liked reading as a kid but now i can hardly read a chapter. any ways to be more focused?