/lit/ - Literature

I had to go to the office Monday and Tuesday this week.
I couldn’t read all day. I managed to read for less than an hour last night and the night before after over a year of reading several hours a day.
I hate it

>>13836463
>movie
God....no....

>>11657973

you're right OP

>tfw Mary Shelly published Frankenstein when she was 20
>tfw I'm 24 and have never been published
>tfw Murasaki Shikibu and her daughter wrote a 1200 page masterpiece that invented the novel and I've never written anything over 500 pages
>tfw JK Rowling effortlessly manipulated liberals to sell her books that she knew were trash for more than a decade
>tfw Sylvia Plath had realized that intellectuality was a curse and had the courage to kill herself but I don't

>finish book
>realize I don't remember almost anything except the most crucial plot elements and some arbitrary details that had stuck out to me
>can't even remember the names of most characters
>mfw

don't even tell me to take notes because getting through a book is challenging enough as is

am I doomed to be a brainlet forever? does this improve with time?

>daughter found the veneral dictionary

>audiobook switches narrators midway through
>new narrator is significantly worse than the earlier one

>can only read one letter per day