/lit/ - Literature

>>16527049
>what are the limits of how well-read a person can be within his own life time?
I think Sartre used to follow one book/one day rule, it doesn't seem that impossible given that he was a professional intellectual and one minute is enough for me to fully read and grasp one page of a book, Bloom was obviously very well read, Taleb springs to my mind too
>who is the most profilic reader on this board
Unironically Butterfly

I mean, just to start with, "well-read" does not mean "widely-read."

>>16527049
Jefferson was known as very well-read. Anyone from the Enlightenment period really.

All I know is that it isn't me

>>16527102
what does Butterfly even read other than her meme trilogy?

>>16527174
Shittone of books on Marxist/anarchist theory, I'm more of a right winger and I find her analytic powers formidable and intimidating

>>16527049
Girardfag was pretty well read, actually smart too

The issue isn't necessarily breadth as much as retaining all that knowledge. You would do best to become proficient at memory techniques and have a grasp of where we are in terms of long-term memory preservation. Method of loci, world memory championship, etc. are all probably worth looking into.
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/03/25/how-to-ace-your-finals-without-studying/

The inverse of the limit to being a meme poster on 4chan a.k.a. re____

>>16527204
Link to some representative warosu posts of his?

>>16527049
It's said that Teddy Roosevelt was one of the most widely-read men to hold the office, and was an advocate of turning America into a more well-read society, he even wrote a book about the importance of reading as much as possible.

>>16527154
Doing better than most, anon!

>>16527262
I wonder what killed off reading in the US. Radio? TV?

>>16527204
*Guenonfag

>>16527213
>he thinks memory is an aristotelian formation
You can't start from pieces then add them to some arbitrary group to remember crap. It's top-down.

If i stopped anime and vidya would it be possible to read the western canon in my life-time?

my reading list:
>encyclopedia britannica
>the russian,greek and latin/roman classics
>summa theologica+denzinger
>vedas,mahbarata, and all the translated upanishads and puranas

Anything else I should add?

>>16527154
yes it is not you because it is me.

>>16527049
It's entirely possible to read that list within a lifetime. In fact, if you get serious about reading in your teens, there's no reason you wouldn't be able to master those authors by the time you're 30.

>>16527571
but it's not just about mastering them.
op's pic writes "the complete works of."

>>16527299
Nothing has "killed off reading" in the US. Book sales rise every year.

>>16527593
Yes anon. Capitalism is truth and that has nothing to do w bs manipulations like forced textbook buying and forced uni degrees etc etc

>>16527590
Mastering an author means reading their complete works at a minimum, usually multiple times

>>16527600
Ok, by what metric has reading been "killed," then?

>>16527593
Also mom and pop book stores are everywhere. They didn't just supplant the big chains, they supplanted the monopoly which was held by Barnes and nobles (which don't have coffee, internet and aren't located in a strip mall).

>>16527608
That wasn't me but I don't think people read as much as they did in the early 20th century. Being as fair as possible I think we can at least agree even if breadth lengthened that depth was made more shallow perhaps owing to education. I'm saying that but I don't agree with it. I've heard ppl never read books throughout school and at least in early television there were references to books, which is absent now besides liberal jerk off that is "nerd culture" which Hollywood lovely depicts to use w big bang theory

>>16527049
Reading "the complete works" of anyone out of obligation is a waste of time and not actually something done by well-read people.

>>16527202
>implying it hasn't a dick
>implying it reads
>implying she has intelectual capabilities beyond that of a tadpoles
Stop samefagging, gutterfly. You can't even argue for your shitty democracy when actual non-brainlets counter your tranny posting.

every week I recognise one or two new names in that meme list
sugoi

>>16527202
>>16527102
>implying it hasn't a dick
>implying it reads
>implying it has intelectual capabilities beyond that of a tadpole
Stop samefagging, gutterfly. You can't even argue for your shitty democracy when actual non-brainlets counter your tranny posting.

>>16527629
In the early 20th century, illiteracy was far more common than it is today. More people read today than ever before in human history, and spend more money on books, the vast majority of which is for leisure, not education.
Perhaps it's not as romanticized as it was by the actual Romantics, but that's to be expected with mass culture (precisely the thing the Romantics were disgusted by)