/lit/ - Literature

people are fucking wimps jeez

>>20219455
Just start readin it. Im reading the count of monte cristo and its been pretty amazing so far. Been reading like fifty pages every time i open it. Sometimes more.

by reading them

Don't be afraid to use marginalia, highlights, and whatever notes you need to grasp what is going on at any moment. And remember you can always put it down and restart another day if it feels too overwhelming. Do that for lots of doorstoppers and eventually you'll get through one.

>>20219455
A large book should make you excited not scared.

>>20219455
>1. infinite jest
cringe

Don't read it all at once

I try to alternate longer books with several shorter books. Helps me keep up momentum to finish the doorstops.

>>20219455
Get a short story or novel anthology. Jack Vance Tales of the Dying Earth or an anthology of the works of HG Wells are a good place to start. I find reading large hardbacks easier and more enjoyable since large glued paperbacks are a pain in ass to keep open and breaking the spine sucks.

>>20219502
monte cristo is an easier read than many books a quarter of its length, non-stop kino ride from start to finish

>>20219455
Unintentionally, e-readers. I see the page numbers, but don't really feel like the book is particularly intimidating because it's digitized.

>>20219888
my life is finite and there are a thousand books to read

>>20219973
usually I prefer short books, I had to pause Max Weber's Economy And Society because its fucking just over 400 pages of feudal sociology

>>20219455
Imagine, if you will, the large and dense book you are starting is the same as a relationship you want to build. It takes time. You build upon a foundation you start and live with this new experience in your life. Take your time if that's what it takes, but get comfortable with your new relationship with the book or author.

>>20220694
Read deeper not wider

>>20219455
would you post the original image without the green streaks, sire? Also, do you have any other book list compilations? Thank you, sire

>>20221121
my gut tells me that quote needs more context

>>20221853
there is a shitload of charts here

https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ

>>20220694
A lot of great books are rich enough that you pretty much have to study them like the Bible if you want to get everything you can get from them. Of course, if you don't like it then don't feel the need to finish even the rest of the page you're on.

>>20221865
this is fantastic, tyvm

>>20221874
also
https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts#Top_100_Aggregate

>>20219455
Don't be one of those faggots who decides, 'I must read x amount of books this year,' and just fucking read.

There are heaps of great books that are long. If you skip all of them then you'll be an illiterate, limp-dicked faggot of a reader.

>>20221894
>Don't be one of those faggots who decides, 'I must read x amount of books this year,' and just fucking read.
i feel exposed
i feel naked

>>20219455
I used to read big books exclusively when I was younger since I saw it as getting my moneys worth

>>20221894
literally me it's so over

>>20219455
By reading them.

>>20219455
By reading them.

>>20221893
this chart has to be fucking bait

>>20225155
why?

>>20225602
No one here reads, that's why.

>>20219455
This board must have been retarded in 2014

>>20225602
Harry Potter?

I have to force yourself then you don't like it

>>20221862
If you've read at least the foreword to the Leviathan, you'll know that this needs no context. Hobbes keeps repeating through his famous work that if all readers do is to repeat the author's thoughts, they are just as bad as (or worse than) the ignoramus who know nothing.
It is better to read little and rumiate a lot than to read a lot and think little.

>>20220002
I started reading it like three days ago. Im on page two hundred. At this pace ill be done in week or so with count of monte cristo.

>>20228131
we have to do things we don't like sometimes in order to grow

>>20219455
Read War and Peace or Anna Karenina. You'll end up wishing they were longer because they are so good.

>>20219455
Just do it