/lit/ - Literature

>High school, write an essay about social and economic equality in Finnish class
>Title: <Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels>
>liberal as fuck; arguing about income distribution, widening wealth gap, cuts in education, basically pissed off venting
>I return it, teacher finds me in the hallway a couple of days later, shakes my hand, tells me it was the greatest essay she had ever read by any student in her 30 year career. Gave me A+++
>I was 17.
>Read it again when I was 25.
>naive, overly simplified, incoherent structure...
>only good thing about it is that it flows well, a bit like angry rap lyrics

>While reading that essay, I also stumbled upon something I wrote when I was 9-10
>A poem where every line starts with the letters of ABC, like A = line, B = line etc
>fucking surreal, perfect flow, rhymes, brilliant
>mfw I peaked early and it has been downhill since

Anybody else here struggling with ADD?

It's ruining my ability to finish books. I go to library and see a thousand books that I want to read, so I borrow them, bring home, start and then stop, either because there are other more interesting books or because I'm distracted by other activities.

I can read better with medication of course, but since I only have time to read at night and don't want to fuck up my sleep rhytm, I have to do without chemical assistance.

A couple of times I've thrown my hard drive cable away so I would have absolutely nothing else to do other than read books. I finished I, Claudius that way. But now I have a new cellphone that has internet on it. And it's way more entertaining to read about books on /lit than actually reading a book. Fuck me.

If you have problems with being distracted from reading, what techniques have you used to overcome it?