/lit/ - Literature

>>16584307
Try audiobooks?

>>16584346
I think listening to audio books is great when you're just farming in video games or whatever, but I doubt it'll give me the same feeling I felt back then.

>>16584307
Pickup some beach reading trash tier shit. Get your sealegs before sailing into a storm.

yeah this. >>16584381 try some fun scifi novel or something anon. something like i am legend or cat's cradle.

>>16584307
Try reading manly writers

>>16584381
I thought about this as well. Maybe pay the sci fi/fantasy generals a visit. Maybe I'm just trying to read all those classics, hard, deep, whatever you want to call them, books out of some sense of false superiority complex. To impress random strangers on the internet. Although I really liked C&P and Notes from the Underground.
>>16584388
I already read I Am Legend in my early adulthood, like it pretty much.

>>16584375
Maybe not, I don't actually listen to audiobooks myself either. I wonder if what you miss is just something children inherently have and inevitably lose. I remember reading books for hours and hours on end and being totally absorbed too. I could spend hours playing videogames just wandering around, looking at stuff, tinkering and inventing my own entertainment inside them. I think children are maybe just fascinated easily because they know fuck all and are hungry. And yet I can still read for long periods of time when I'm not distracted by the constant barrage of everything. I know on an intellectual level if I just exercised a small amount of willpower and turned my shit off for a few extra hours a day, I'd fly through stuff I currently meander through. It happens every time I go on holiday. I end up finishing 20x what I normally could in a week or two. I don't know. Turn all your shit off and physically remove yourself from anything electronic is my other suggestion I guess, even though it sounds obvious. Like preferably not even in the same building. It's night and day for me. It helps me remember how sedimentary reading is, there's no eureka of instant gratification. Which is something everyone knows, again. But it's strange to know something rationally and feel such difficulty actually doing it. Good luck

>>16584469
I finished 600 pages of Crime and Punishment in less than a week in my first read, reading over 100 pages in some days. Really liked it.

>>16584307
try webnovels
I haven't read anything in years until I found webnovels
I've read God of Slaughter, Great Demonking, Warlock of the Magus World, Reverend Insanity, Reincarnator, Legendary Mechanic, Soul of Negri.

novelupdates is good for finding stuff, but I read on novelfull

just try reading the book with a audio book

breezed through 100 pages of Ulysses in two days

Be really honest with yourself on what you want to read. You seem to not be reading what interests you. Do you feel satisfied after finishing a book?

it has nothing to do with how much you want or like to read, it has to do with being at ease when you read. if you haven't gotten into the habit of reading you will feel frustrated to sit down with something unstimulating for a long time. the trick is to build the tolerance for it. all you have to do is to sit down with a book and to read for as long as you can, and once you feel like you can't read anymore or become unfocused eat a piece of chocolate to trick your body into believing this is a worth while thing to do. after a while of doing this (3-5 days) you should be able to read for at least an hour a day without any frustration, just try to keep rewarding yourself (i eat a small piece of chocolate for every hour i read).

>>16585105
to clarify: when you're reading and lose focus you should close the book and be done for the day, it's just that you have to eat a piece of chocolate soon after you do.

>>16585076
This is the thing. I bought Murakamis Men Without Women because it interested me a ton, I got The Gambler because it interested me a ton and then I just can't bring myself to read them. I thought I like those complex philosphical works and like I said, some of them are great but Men Without Women is degraded to a fly swatter and The Gambler lies in a box somewhere. I am really interested in philosophical themes, at least I think so, but it is an absolute slog to read them and after a couple chapters I just stop. I think it interests me, but evidently it really doesn't. Or those books just aren't by taste. Truthfully, I don't remember the last time I finished a book. I must be over a year ago now, but after finished No Longer Human, which is a fantastic book, I felt very satisfied. I think me not finishing all those other books is a clear sign of non-satisfaction though. I can't even bring myself to finish them. That is why my final attempt is to hope for the /sffg/ guys to recommend me something light, fantastical to at least get my attention span up to par again. I just started so many books I did not like despite near unanumous acclaim, that I am somewhat frsutrated. I feel like a movie critic who hates movies, if that makes any sense.
>>16585105
I think this may also be an issue. You described it pretty well. No flashy lights, no action, no swelling music, it's just a book. Maybe I fried my senses up with video games and Youtube videos. This upcoming weekend I will sit down and try to read as much as possible. Maybe it's just a hurdle I need to pass and I stop in my tracks before it every time.

>>16585156
You seem a bit like me when I was younger (and probably many other anons on /lit/), who seem to like the idea of getting knowledgeable or well read more than actually putting effort into getting that goal. This doesn't necessarily mean you're larping as some intellectual (at least I don't believe so), but in fact this means you ARE interested, just not in the right way. The solution seems to be pretty simple: being more engaged while you're reading, so that you don't forget what your end goal is (e.g. knowing more or w/e it is).

Personally I tend to be less interested in books I read over a longer period, so I try to be quite consistent in how much I read. My suggestion to you is to start with more modern and shorter books. You'll finish more books, and as a result your satisfaction will rise. Once you get into a good flow of things, you can restart with bigger and 'dryer' stuff. For this reason I read a couple of shorter books after I finished some tome

>>16585156
>This upcoming weekend I will sit down and try to read as much as possible.
i think you should ease into it over the course of a few days, and don't expect much from any one day. do only so much as you can handle.
personally, when i started getting back into books, i spent the first 2-3 days reading the introduction and beginning chapters over-and-over again just to get into the habit of reading and to push my limit. eventually i stopped this ritual and would read for an hour without issue. within a month of doing this, i could read for 6 hours a day.

Although that may sound a little cringe I think you should pick up highschool books like the catcher in the rye or even good childrens books like wind in the willows

>>16584952
Exact same over here man, Was in some cheapo hotel with no wifi during a holiday, ended up finishing a book a day for the 2 weeks I was there then I got back and couldn't keep my interest. Vidya are also boring to me now as an adult

>>16585319
Why should that be cringe, it is several years back but I absolutely loved Catcher In The Rye. I read it in just the perfect moment when I was feeling a similar way and was extremely down. Finished it twice. But you may be right with what some other anons said, I need to pick up easier to read books, maybe young adult novels that are just fun and easy to understand instead of feeling like I need to challenge myself and read hard books which I am too stupid to understand or are a slog.

>>16585350
Yeah exactly. I also lost interest in videogames thankfully, but I'm in the annoying spot of making some token effort reading like <10 pages a day most days and it's annoying, feels like just enough to satisfy my ego but nowhere near as much as I'd actually like. Slumped a fair bit after university for obvious reasons. Glad I still read though, and every 2 weeks or so I get sick of vegging out in front of my computer, and just sit and read properly. Which is nice

imagine unironically liking books lmao

try reading some schizo shit. fun, easy, and somewhat thought provoking