/lit/ - Literature

Yes, but not for 6 pages long.

No.
Not everyone has adhd.

sometimes, but I usually realize before six pages. maybe for a couple of paragraphs. also I get obsessive compulsive about re-reading sometimes, even though I understand the essential sequence. I'll try to analyze a page for some deeper meaning which may or not be there for fifteen minutes until I remember that obsessively analyzing while reading typically is typically counterproductive and prevents me from properly absorbing the text.

Only when my mind wanders to other shit. But yeah, I don't think I've ever done it for more than half a page, which I then go back and reread.

>>895590
This happens to me a lot. Sometimes I decide to re-start reading the book just for the sake of it.

>>895588

This. Occasionally I'll space out and realize I've 'read' a paragraph or two without comprehending any of it.

Sometimes when my mind is occupied with not-related thoughts. But I notice that pretty fast, just 2 or 3 sentences after I got away.

it's called ADHD. I've had to re-read chapters for that.

I don't have ADHD but I do this, mostly when I'm worried about something and trying to read to get my mind off it. Usually when this is happening, I just put it down for a bit. When I come back to it, I realize that I'm not just stupid and I can comprehend it pretty easily. This usually happens when I'm trying to read Foucault but I'm in an anxious mood. If i'm feelign that way I'll just pick up something light to read.

If my mind wanders I might read a page or so like this and have to go back and reread it.

sometimes, when I'm reading descriptions, I just read and read, and realize that I don't have a mental image of the description I just read, but normaly it's just for 2 paragraphs or so

That was me the first time I read Neuromancer OP.

I hadn't even realized Linda died until I finished the book.

shit i do that too, i love books but i don't have the patience for them.

>>895697
Neuromancer might not be the best example. I love the book (so let's please not turn this into a Gibson flame thread), but the writing can be VERY hard to follow.

>>895732

No argument there man, but it all came together really nicely though the second time I read it Two seconds after I finished it the first time. I basically picked up on all the juicy little things I missed.

First time though, I was completely lost after only about seventy pages.

>>895734
Huh, that's the same feeling I had. Maybe I should have reread it too.

>>895737

A majority of the plotpoints are hidden away far too much in confusing text, I remember throughout the course of the first reading I missed:

The Flatline being Case's old mentor.
Corto being Armitage.
Molly having a romantic relationship with Johnny Mnemonic.
Who the fuck Riveria was, and why he was in the story.
The significance of the talking head AI.
Who The Finn was.
What the fuck ICE is.

I felt really stupid after finishing it, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who had issues with it.

Happens to me all the time.

>>895745
I got all of that pretty quick. thing that got me was

those stupid flying drone things that Gibson never really seems to describe anywhere in the whole book other than by name until the one action sequence with one involved

also, Jamaicans in space was a wtf moment

>>895778

Well La-Dee-Da Mr. Fancy Reader Man.

Yeah, but only for a paragraph or so.

I generally notice after less than 6 lines, so never 6 pages, but yeah it happens.

The way I keep my mind from wandering away is by anotating a lot. It's impossible to wander when I'm also filling the lines with various symbols.

Fuck yes this shit happens to me a ton. Say I'm in a car, or on a bus, or I'm sitting somewhere and a conversation sparks and I just start listening to it.

Then I'm 3/4 of my way down the page and I realise I've been READING THEIR CONVERSATION.

>>897235
oh my god.

You write on your books?

>>897333

There's more of my writing than the author's in the end.

>>897333
It's not some fucking blasphemy or something

You should see my Poetic Edda, I ran out of space on some pages

OP is autistic.

Not so much anymore.

>>897412

Autistic people have a much easier time at focusing on something like a book.

>>895588
this

>>897388

>writing on the Eddas

as a Pagan, I am horrified

>>897446
I'm an Asatruar, brotato chip

Now go dance naked or stab yourselves with swords or whatever it is you pagans do

>>897457

YOU ARE ONE OF US.

And my horror is not at you reading the Eddas, which I consider to be a sacred text, but WRITING on them. I treat the Eddas like the Muslims treat the Koran - washing my hands before I touch it, not letting bodily fluids get on it, etc

>>897467
>YOU ARE ONE OF US
That entirely depends on whether or not you, and those you consider to be "one of you", happen to not be syncretists, dualists, wiccans, or other similar faggots.

>which I consider to be a sacred text
Nigga better be jokin'. It's a book, nigga, a few pieces of paper with some words which present ideas and concepts.

It so happens that annotating those pieces of paper allows me to correlate and understand their contents easier.