/lit/ - Literature

>>22924584
Since you said any form of discrimination, doesn't that mean that one shouldn't support your own beliefs, since you discriminate against those you deem to be "fascist", "racist", "transphobic", etc etc? Also nice black and white thinking at the end, really adds too your tolerant thinking.

>trying to read a book
>spend 15 - 30 minutes on one page
>"maybe I didn't parse this right"
>"maybe i didn't read between the lines at this part well enough"
>"who is this character again and what did they just say a paragraph ago?"
>"now i forgot what happened on the previous page"
>reread page after feeling eternally unsatisfied on how I've not connected to the author's brain properly
>completely read a basic sentence wrong
>missed obvious detail
>by the end of the week I've spent an inordinate amount of my lifetime poorly reading barely a chapter
>joe schmoe's cursory summary on youtube or a book review is effortlessly more vivid and connected to what's happening in the book than whatever my bag of bricks brain thought it read
I don't think I can be one of the people who can say they're literate or God forbid "well-read". I'm fucking 25 years old and an AP student in middle school could run laps around my ability to process information.