/lit/ - Literature

>>13106191
It depends on your free time and the types of book you want to read. Right now I have 4 going, one is my main book which I read for about 2 hours a day (Diodorus Siculus), two secondary books which I'll read one chapter/section in throughout the day (an A&P textbook plus a guide to automotive repairs), and my fourth is some unimportant civil war history that I read for about an hour before I sleep each night. It doesn't keep things fresh but it lowers your chances of procrastination, since if you don't feel like reading one then you can probably just read one of the other 3.

>how do I min/max
I'd say, have a primary book that you put consistent time into, and then a collection of less important books that you just read one section/chapter of per day. This seems to be optimal. I don't think I'd like to cut it in half and just focus on two important books every day.

>>10046555
I'm not proud of it, man. Common words pass by me sometimes.

>>9967506
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

>>9154368
I do give a shit. I'm an authoritarian.

A few things i noticed in this:
1) The hunger artist craves interaction with others (he would be happy when talking with the guards watching him and showing spectators his ribs) but achieves this interaction through self harm.
2) At the end he says he wasn't doing the act for the enjoyment of it, instead simply because he didnt find a food he liked. I interpreted this as people who ignore their passion and instead capitalize on skills they happen to have are slowly harming themselves and leading to their death where they will be forgotten by history and replaced by the next attraction.
3) The kafkaesque theme i picked up was that people who saw him started assuming he was sneaking food even though the guards watching him knew he didnt. No matter how long he starves himself no one will believe him and the false guilt crushes him.