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I don't have any thoughts or opinions of my own when reading
I'm able to follow a chain of reasoning/plotline/etc. but I always remain completely indifferent and lacking any viewpoint of my own
what do?
should I just give up?

>> No.11047544

>>11047496

If you naturally take on the substance of whatever you're engaged with, maybe you're a poet.

Here's John Keats in a letter to a friend:

A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity - he is continually in for - and filling some other Body - The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute - the poet has none; no identity - he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures.

>> No.11048347

>>11047496
Learn to use reason

>> No.11048379

>>11048347
how?

>> No.11048469

>>11047496
I sort of have the same problem. Not so mich when I’m reading fiction but when I read philosophy.

>> No.11048543

>>11048379
By thinking

>> No.11048557

>>11047544
>have poet personality
>not good at poetry
what do?

>> No.11048584
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11048584

>tfw can't think critically
>tfw get convinced by whatever is the latest literature i've read

>> No.11048599

>should I just give up?

No, you have to read more

>> No.11048623

>>11047496
I'm a brainlet aesthete and only read for the beauty of an authors style. I very rarely think about what i read on a critical level.

>> No.11048626

>>11048557

Do what everyone else does in that position - become a novelist :)

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>>11048584
i even have to read user comments under news articles to develop an opinion on the things ive just read about

>> No.11048671

>>11048543
h-how?

>> No.11048687

>>11047496
Why would you need a "viewpoint"? You're reading/experiencing a work of art. That's all that's necessary.

>> No.11048706

>>11048687
because I'm no longer able to experience aesthetic beauty

>> No.11048731

>>11048671
By using your noodle, silly.

>> No.11048733

>>11048706
>no longer
Well that's something different. I'd lay off books for a while if I were you. Try to get into a different art form maybe.

>> No.11048768

>>11048733
>I'd lay off books for a while if I were you.

This. Sometimes all you need to rekindle that passion for something is to spend some time away from it. Its weird.

>> No.11048783

>>11048768
I haven't read a whole book in over a year
during which time I often read two chapters of a book at most before I lose interest

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>>11048783
That sucks. there have been times in my life where I've spent a longer time away from books than a year, only to come back to them with a newfound curiosity and passion for them. these days i only read what appeals to me and sparks my curiosity. I don't feel duty bound to reading only classics in the same way that i did when i was a bit younger.

>> No.11049207

>>11047496
I'm the same with film as well as books. Really the only time i'll hate something is if it's boring, unintentionally nonsensical or needlessly convoluted.

>> No.11050930

>>11048626
right in the ego, because I’m doing this