/lit/ - Literature

>>18385734
I've got my eye on these books
>Space Trilogy (Lewis)
>Mars Trilogy
>First & Last Men/Star Maker
>Space Odyssey Saga (Clarke)
Which of these are genuinely good and woth reading? I've got a huge backlog but I'm in the mood for some Sci-Fi. I keep hearing how F&LM is very "epic" but whatever passages I cam across seem like dry descriptors to me, not some epic philosopical poem.

Everywhere I hear how everyone translates everything they read on the paper into images, scenes and such. That they use familiar voices to portray the characters and imagine them in their heads. And I ask; isn't that so tedious? I can read the description of a room and create a mental image. But if I set to create a whole scene in my head, the pace will be slower; like a movie. If I'm reading American Psycho, and have to concentrate to imagine every scene with Christian Bale, hear his voice as everything is said, do the same with Price and Theroux, pace each sentence according to the emotion and so on and so forth, I'll be done next Christmas. Hell, sometimes you don't even know how the scene will play out until you've read it, so you need to backtrack to make the "actors"/characters in your head have the appropriate expressions, manner of speech and vocal tones. Dim the lights, change the atmosphere, generally direct a whole production inside your head.

I'm just curious if you go through all this trouble or if you just read the book. Cnstruct a mental image in a flash and move on, rather than play an entire film inside your head. Because, again; pacing. A 5-Hour book will be turned that way into a 15-Hour Miniseries. I suppose if you like a bok well enough and you have ample time, you can do it in order to make the experience more immersive. But I find it easier to just read. No voices, no tones, just information absorption. I construct images as the words fly by, and by the end I'm left with the more memorable aspects. I suppose I just feel that it's wasted time when life's so hectic. I have 20 1K-Page Textbooks next to me, and in just a month I created a 14 Book Backlog, just out of some very entry level Classics that I'd never read. If I give the same attention to every book, then I'll die before I've even done anything. On one hand I feel like an unimaginative retard reading like this, but on the other I can't see the point of turning "The Phantom Of The Opera" into some sprawling stage production inside my head, wasting 10 hours on it, instead of just getting through in a fraction of that. I like creating mental images of how weird things are described in say, a Sci-Fi or Horror book, with weird creatures and places, just for the fun of it. But translating banal and everyday instances into proper experiences just comes off like a waste. Otherwise, what would be the point of films?

So, what's your take? Do you just read the books, or do you absorb the information and create perfectly paced films inside your head?

>>16298102
Milton's Lucifer is just pathetic enough to be able to identify.
>>16298295
>all this projection
He's a hypocrite, he's greedy, he's power hungry, he gets wrecked the moment he goes against God and he's a sore loser. Who can't relate to this? I literally said
>without any of the redeeming qualities
Satan being Prideful is a flaw. He's also got other flaws. I, and many others, relate with the flaws. It's just memespeak you sperg, don't look too much into it.