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2285349 No.2285349 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/ what do you do to keep from loosing motivation in your books? it seems every time i try to read any sort of book longer than 300 pages, i loose interest, and even though i loved earlier parts of the book, theres nothing i can do to cinvince myself to pick the book up again.
This has happened with:
ulysees (joyce)
The odessy
atlas shrugged
war and peace,
brothers karamazov
and more....
Its mainly long "classic" books that this happens with, but it has happened with biographies too.
Also inb4 adhd

Pic unrelated, sinking of the blucher.

>> No.2285359

it's "lose" not "loose"
idiot

>> No.2285360

>>2285349
You might just lose sight of the goal you had in mind when you started the book. Usually that is the incredibly satisfying ending and the claim that you can make to others of having read something.

You really should finish the Odyssey. It is quite a journey.

>> No.2285366
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2285366

why do you read books to begin with? ask yourself that and meditate on what you find. or perhaps we here at 4chan can help, mwaaahaha.

not only to tell people that you read something, which is kind of superficial, or just that the ending is good, because what if it isn't, i'd go for the total interpretation of the text and the new "body" that you've acquired from seeing reality through the eyes of the author; to pick up more "colors" to paint your world with.

oh, and >>2285359 is silly if he/she couldn't figure out what you meant by that, silly people, there are. surely he'll comment on how many a's i put in "mwaaahaha".

>> No.2285416

With long books I find them best tackled on a train journey with regards to the last half, that way I can read fairly undisturbed whilst I whittle away the last few hundred pages of a tome (managed 3 Neil Stephenson books in a row in 2 weeks like this).

>> No.2285447

judging by your terrible writing, maybe you're just not literate enough to fully appreciate those books. just saying.