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10750214 No.10750214 [Reply] [Original]

Do you guys remember books you've read? Like can you recall the names of characters in a book you've read within the past 2 years? Or even like basic plot points? I feel I like I have an easier time remembering the plot of movies than I do with reading. Like I can barely remember the titles of the books I read two years ago, let alone the basic plot.

>> No.10750993

>>10750214
>reading for plot in the first place
Full plebeian move there, champ

>> No.10751002

>>10750214
I'd remember more minor character names if they weren't Russian and retarded

>> No.10751014

>>10750214
It takes some time for me to remember the name all the books I've read 2 years. There were very few, but still it takes time. And yes, I can remember the plot, not in details but I can. Usually I member the main-core idea the book had. If I want details I'll just open the book again and look for them.

>> No.10751237

>Ivan's father struck him on the head with his sceptre. Boris Godunov, who was present at the scene, tried to intervene but received blows himself. The younger Ivan fell, barely conscious and with a bleeding wound on his temple. The elder Ivan immediately threw himself at his son, kissing his face and trying to stop the bleeding, whilst repeatedly crying, "May I be damned! I've killed my son! I've killed my son!" The younger Ivan briefly regained consciousness and was reputed to have said "I die as a devoted son and most humble servant".

>> No.10752406
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>>10750993
What do you read for if not plot?

>> No.10752975

I try to remember images within the books I read if nothing else. For American Psycho I remember Bateman envisioning the Sudanese migrants crossing the desert with no water. For Lolita I remember Lolita playing tennis. For Breakfast of Champions I remember Trout releasing his pet bird. Stuff like that helps me keep books in my memory when plot points are long gone (I have a pretty poor memory)

>> No.10752997

Sort of. Sure, I might forget things every now and then, but I mostly remember stuff that I enjoyed.

>> No.10753259

>>10750993
>not just living in a deontological impressionistic fugue state
Plebs why?

>> No.10753276

>>10752406
the emotions and thoughts provoked by the act of reading

>> No.10753280

>>10752406
For the ideas, characterisation, and style to name just three.

>> No.10753330

>>10750214

I have always been terrible at remembering plot points of finished books, games, movies and tv series. Especially with my roommate and his near autistic memory of minor scenes in every garbage fucking show he has watched.

>> No.10753503

Why even bother reading if a year later you're unable to recite your favorite passages to fellow intellectuals? fuck

>> No.10754140
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>>10753276
>>10753280
But doesn't the plot drive all those things? In a fiction book, the plot is the glue that holds those things together. You would never read a novel that was 100% characterization.

>> No.10754153

>>10750214
i identify with troublesome male characters only so usually just protagonist but yes im not a brainlet i remember plot and prose

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>>10754153
>>10753503
I honestly think all the drugs I've done throughout my life have negatively affected my memory capacity.