/lit/ - Literature

>>19097325
nice floor

>>14194270
>>14194353
brehs. ..

I don't care if its pop-sci schlock I need all the help I can get, its gotten to the point where I'll forget sentences a few seconds after I read them, no matter how much I read and try to improve my concentration this only gets worse after a few hours of reading.
I do nothing all day but read, read and hope this fog goes away. There are brief moments where I'll read a quarter of a page at lightning speed and then the next half I'll spend reading over and over again, having to go back every other sentence to reread what I just read. This doesn't just happen with difficult authors like Fernando Pessoa, or Dostoyevsky, no no it happens with ordinary authors I'll spend 6 minutes a page on genre fiction, just simple sentences slow me down to a stop.

I just want to read, I want to reach the pleasure apex in reading when I'm completely captivated by the prose, uninterrupted, nothing but the syntax entering my brain creating images.
Any books on concentration, speed reading(no infograph please) and maybe a good book on literary theory

Okay so, I have read about 5 books this year. Not very difficult ones, but at least I'm trying. What I find when I get to more difficult authors, like Fernando Pessoa, or Dostoyevsky, is I just don't understand what the fuck they're saying. I have to dwell on a sentences for a while, before I even feel comfortable moving on which has no limit to how long it may take. This isn't just a problem with almost unintelligible authors, who may not make a point that everyone can come to a consensus of, it happens with just your ordinary authors. Maybe I'll be reading 1984, or Gene Genet's Funeral Rites, and realize I have no idea what I just read and have to go back and re-read. This drives me fucking nuts, it's so difficult. I just want to read the fucking book, I don't want to have to keep getting stuck - not even just being unable to interpret what they're saying, but perhaps not even being able to follow along and having no means of connecting the words in front of me together in my head. It makes me feel like I have an extremely dull mind, but I hope that through continuous reading, it will exercise my mind and allow me to become a stronger reader.

>>5992118

Those sandals

I told my best friend my feelings for her the other day.
Coincidentally, the next day her ex tried to kill himself outside her house.

On a scale of 'book of calm' to '120 days of sodom, how badly did I fuck this up