/lit/ - Literature

I’m having difficulty reading. I want to enlighten my mind with topics on philosophy, but I find that I don’t like reading during the day and when I read at night it’s usually late, and I die of boredom or I get sleepy reading the material. I can’t tell if what I am reading is too dense and I’m not able to sift through the meat of the material or if I’m just simply not interested in the stuff altogether.

I’m currently reading Plato’s Republic.

I’ve read some philosophy before, Geneaology of Morals, Fear and Trembling, and some others and I found those to be eye opening, and I enjoyed them.

Does anyone else have difficulty reading some philosophers? Do you just drop them if you find the material to be dense and difficult to read through?