/lit/ - Literature

Seriously op, it's only about 330 pages long. You can read this in a day. Maybe going at 40 pages an hour (retardedly slow) it will take you around 8 hours. Just read the thing and most likely you will probably enjoy it. I don't know why people have such a huge aversion to reading.

>>2220787
I truely envy you if you could read it in a day. I wish reading was enjoyable for me, but I just can't stand it.

>>2220792
Just find a comfortable reading position and start reading. If the story is anything remotely entertaining which is what it seems like, then you will get engrossed in the story. Just don't read in any public places or near your computer.

>>2220792
330 pages takes you more than a day? that's like, learning disability speed dude get it checked, they give you speed.

>>2220792
is that s'posed to be louis ck?

>>2220812
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

>>2220812
yes
>>2220811
Well shit nigga, if I decided to devote an entire day to it then I could. But I would get fucking sick of reading after a few hours, also I have other shit to do.

>>2220819
It really isn't that hard to get into reading but like anything else if you approach it with a completely negative attitude you aren't going to do anything.

>>2220804
> If the story is anything remotely entertaining

It is. There's even an audiobook for 1776 which made it more fun. Colonials were drunk during the campaign of Boston. They would overcharge their cannons (occasionally) and ended up blowing themselves up. It frikin' blew my mind. Little to no discipline, people wandering around drinking all day, shitting where they like, etc.

>>2220828
keep talking please.

>How would you characterize the colonials – their attitudes, their values, their beliefs? Consider what they were believed they were fighting for. Also, were there differences among colonials depending on where they came from, or did the similarities outweigh the differences?
one of the possible topics

>>2220833
Dude, I'll be a bro and get you a Megaupload link for the audiobook but Jesus, you can read and listen to this in two days.

Also this: George Washington is not a good general. You'll see how horrible he did in New York--a bunch of Polacks even stormed up a fucking hill and defeated Colonial troops. You never attack a position like that..

>>2220839
thank you, an audiobook I can deal with.

>>2220828
war was awesome back in before the 19th century

seriously, 17th century warfare was pretty much indistinguishable from anarchy. there was maybe some kind of order during pitched battles, but even that was shaky.

>>2220843
It's going to take me a while to upload this so be patient.

>>2220845
take your time. Thanks again.

WHY WOULD YOU READ THIS BOOK?

It is not good. You can tell its not good history by how well it sold.

I know, i know, most history is unreliable or a small slice of a bigger picture. but the scholarship represented by this book is practically nonexistent.

ALSO, 40 pages an hour? For a book that is primarily factual? (not REALLY but supposedly)

No. Fiction, yes. Non fiction reads slower. Text books might take a half hour to do 10 pages, something like 1776 wont be that extreme but its nothing like reading fiction

>>2220853
>It is not good. You can tell its not good history by how well it sold.

Oh you have to be kidding me.

>>2220846


duuuuude shut the fuck up already.

you fucking jesuit piece of shit

>>2220853
deist to the rescue with another dumb opinion

>>2220860
hey hey woah woah woah. let's not insult the good name of the jesuits now.

>>2220860
I never seen a better example of mad before.

>>2220866

do you even realize what the fuck is trying to even forcibly want to begin to say in even the right amount of speaking before it's as much as?

>>2220871
yes

>>2220856

>>2220871
Yawn

>>2220853
I'm sorry but you are absolutely retarded if you can't read a text book on history at faster than 40 pages an hour and comprehend everything. But judging from the quality of your post you probably are. Also if you didn't notice this book isn't a textbook.

>>2220877

I am going to find you and rape your nigger asshole if you keep following me around yawning

>>2220881

I address the fact that it isnt a textbook, i was using it to illustrate that the more factual a book is, the slower the reading goes. Our minds can naturally comprehend, imagine, and create mental narratives. The more factual, the less personable, talking about characters or concepts that we might have fuzzy mental pictures of, slows comprehension. Philosophy texts for example.

If you can't read a textbook at 40 pages an hour and comprehend everything, you're normal. If you can, thats exceptional. Try reading a science text book at 40 pages an hour, a week later take a practice test at the end of the chapter. Tell me how that goes.

>>2220875
lol you did it.

No one knows what intertextuality means, and the context of his post didnt give me enough information to decide it. See:wikipedia

>The term “intertextuality” has, itself, been borrowed and transformed many times since it was coined by poststructuralist Julia Kristeva in 1966. As critic William Irwin says, the term “has come to have almost as many meanings as users, from those faithful to Kristeva’s original vision to those who simply use it as a stylish way of talking about allusion and influence.”

Suck on my dick

>>2220895
I made it a point to mention history textbook. Math and Science are not within the scope of this board I thought this is understood around here.

>>2220842
If I could do what they did back then, I would have signed up for the army six years ago.

OP, here's the MU link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LUISBCZ7

>>2220909
you are a gentleman and a scholar.