/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12238037]

How do I read this?

[Anonymous No.12238290]

>>12238037
It teaches you as you go along. I gave this to my wife’s son when he was is four. He is know six and has read the complete Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.12238293]

>>12238290
There's no way to get started though. This book should have had an explanatory video for its first section.

[Anonymous No.12238295]

>>12238037
>read book
>read book again, but more carefully
there, I just summed up this "classic" for you

[Anonymous No.12238307]

>>12238290
Lmoa>>12238293
Thats not what its about

the Chicago professor and co-writer / author of the Encyclopedia Britannica of Western Society didn't intend on the title to be sarcasm.
"How to read" books are important because they give you perspective from people who have dedicated their lives to reading the most books they can

[Anonymous No.12238317]

I no longer read secondary literature written by Jews. They have a tendency to package the obvious for the consumption of timid goyim. See also: Bloom.

>>12238295 sums it up. Read a book quickly, read it again slowly, and write short summaries of the individual sections.

[Anonymous No.12238318]

>>12238307
My biggest obstacle to reading is being a brainlet.
When I read passages from philosophy or anything slightly challenging I just can't fucking understand what they're saying. It looks like meaningless jumble.

[Anonymous No.12238593]

>>12238318
Active reading. The book will teach you that. You cannot understand something just by looking at it. You have to engage with it. You have to affirm that you know what every word is referring to. If you read the sentence "It was dull and gray" you have to mentally replace, as you read, "it" to what it's referring to. If you don't that sentece is completely meaningless, and there's no point to reading it.

It's tedious but less tedious than the skimming you were taught in school that always ends with you realising you haven't even subvocalised a single word for multiple pages.

I really can't reccomend the book more. It should be the first book you read. It should be taught in elementary school.

>>12238295
Sounds like you should read it again.

[Anonymous No.12239639]

>>12238037
Adler wants you to read how they do in law school, which is take a lot of cases on a single topic and synthesize their holdings or reconcile them.
Adler instead of legal cases did this with Great Books, and his goal was a Great Conversation among the great authors for the most important topics such as God and Virtue.

[Anonymous No.12239660]

I’m reading this next—I’ll apply the books rules and may post on /lit/

[Anonymous No.12239705]

>>12238037
Read it and find out

>>12238290
>wife's son
kys

[Anonymous No.12239787]

>>12239660
Good anon, I look forward to your thread

[Anonymous No.12239795]

>>12238290
lmao
My favorite types of bait are the subtle ones. Or at least more subtle than a brick to the face, as 99% of baits on here.

[Anonymous No.12239801]

>>12238290
How about your wife’s boyfriend?

[Anonymous No.12239806]

>>12239660
>not starting with the greeks
On your path there is only demise, anon.

[Anonymous No.12240555]

>>12239795
the wife's son subtle-bait is an old and repetitive as shit meme, just like CIA guy
and I still laugh to both of them every time

[Anonymous No.12240687]

>>12240555
>old
Wife's son got forced by election cycle rebbitors just over 2 years ago. Baneposting is over 8 years old. Kys.

[Anonymous No.12240717]

>>12238037
>>12238290
What should i read after specifically for understanding philosophy

[Anonymous No.12240719]

>>12240687
wife's son is definitely older than election cycle /pol/ though.