/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12487100]

>be 9
>read 300 pages a day
>be 19
>read 10 pages a day

[Anonymous No.12487937]

>be filthy speedreader
>can read a page in about 20 seconds
>can get through a quarter of a novel in one sitting
>literally just read the first quarter of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men this way, couldn't have taken more than 20 minutes

[Anonymous No.12487950]

>>12487100

>be 9
>read a whole Goosebumps book in a day
>be 19
>read In Search of Lost Time in 6 months

[Anonymous No.12487961]

>>12487950
>read In Search of Lost Time in 6 months
>become slightly gayer each day

[Anonymous No.12487966]

>>12487100
>be 29
>read 0 pages a day

[Anonymous No.12487974]

>>12487966
>be 39
>read -2 pages a day

[Anonymous No.12487975]

>>12487937
Why do speedcucks pretend like anybody cares?
What the fuck do you want, a medal? You're just a retard who misunderstands the entire point of literature and you're wasting my time. Better a human race and kys.

[Anonymous No.12487978]

>be 9
>read awesomesauce thrilling genre fic about knights, wizards, detectives, criminals, adventurers, spies and hungry caterpillars
>be 19
>read mundane ramblings of a degenerate Russian gambler about guilt and faith and 1000-page "drugs are bad" after-school specials by a suicidal pseud armed with thesaurus and footnote fetish
There's your problem.

[Anonymous No.12487980]

>>12487100
Anyone else read the entire Harry Potter in less than 2 weeks when they were 8 and never even approached that profficiency since. I dont know what the fuck did Rowling do to make children read like that considering the fact that shes a stupid fucking cunt.

[Anonymous No.12487987]

>i can legally cum inside people born in 2001
Help bros I'm old

[Anonymous No.12487988]

>>12487100
Speed means nothing without reference to the complexity of the material.

[Anonymous No.12487991]

>be 10
>read percy jackson novels in one sitting
>be 21
>still do the same but with John Williams and Henry James

[Anonymous No.12487999]

Ew gross. Speed reading is actually a sign of low IQ

[Anonymous No.12488003]

>>12487980
Well it's just easy to read and fantasy worlds work for younger people

[Anonymous No.12488004]

Children read fast because that’s what low Iq people do, it goes in and out with no reflection

[Anonymous No.12488009]

>>12487974
>read -2 pages a day
a fellow writer

[Anonymous No.12488013]

>>12488004
>I-I'm not mentally challenged, I just reflect a lot cuz I'm high IQ!!!11

[Anonymous No.12488014]

>>12487999
>>12488004
IQ credulism? Brainlets detected.

[Anonymous No.12488017]

>>12488014
It’s a reference point.
Speed reading is literally for retards or people who read children’s books

[Anonymous No.12488018]

>>12487999
t. guy who takes notes when he reads

[Anonymous No.12488026]

>>12488018
If you don’t reflect on the construction of the work as you read it (which takes time), you are literally just as passive as a television viewer

[Anonymous No.12488041]

>>12488026
>if you don't breathe consciously then you're dumb
Literal fucking mouthbreather >>>/v/.

[Anonymous No.12488044]

>be NEET with all the time in the world
>can really only manage 50 pages in one sitting before having to put the book down
I don't know how all the big boys who read 100+ pages in one sitting do it

[Anonymous No.12488046]

>>12488014
>iq denier
>calling anyone a brainlet
Iq is literally the best predictor of success in life and psicometrics is the most developed field in all of the social sciences.

[Anonymous No.12488049]

>>12488041
No.
You clearly don’t read for the plot or full comprehension.
I can guarantee it.

[Anonymous No.12488050]

>>12488044
50 pages is plenty. Have you tried spacing it out? Do two reps of reading 50 pages?

[Anonymous No.12488056]

>>12488044
It's easy when you're enjoying the book.

[Anonymous No.12488060]

>>12488026
>the only way to "reflect" on something is to write it down physically
I have this thing called a brain, it can hold thoughts for me to go back over. Sorry you have the memory of a goldfish, I guess.
And I was spot on. Notes-faggots always try to call other people retarded. I can spot-recognize words in fractions of a second and you need to sound things out phonetically.

[Anonymous No.12488066]

>>12488056
>enjoying books
What do you read? Young adult? Anything worth reading will ask something from you

[Anonymous No.12488075]

>>12488046
My IQ was tested at 140, therefore you should believe me when I tell you IQ is pseudoscience.

[Anonymous No.12488080]

>>12488060
Well you are clearly fucking stupid because it’s not about notes, it’s about crossing references and doing outside research for context.

[Anonymous No.12488084]

>>12488049
>no
>ure dum hehe
I told you to go back to your cuckshed and "reflect" there, mouthbreather.

[Anonymous No.12488089]

>>12488084
what are your favorite books then, retard?
You probably couldn't even read a page of the books I like.

[Anonymous No.12488091]

>>12488066
>>enjoying books
/lit/, ladies and gentlemen

[Anonymous No.12488108]

>>12488089
>my books can totally beat up your books
Leave and return when you're over 18 years old.

[Anonymous No.12488109]

>>12488080
Hey, hey anon. Maybe, hey, maybe if your notes-taking method for reading, and your spend five hours a page method, hey, maybe if they worked so great, you'd remember Hamilton's Mythology and Biblical passages well enough to not need to spend 2 hours on wikipedia re-learning them every time you come across a reference.
I know your mommy said you were a smart guy, anon, but you can't argue with results.
If a five year old sat through a lecture on gravitational physics, he'd need to take a lot more notes than would a 20-year-old.
Let's see if you can cross-reference that with any other logical comparisons and come up with some comprehension about what I'm hinting at. I know you need a few hours so I'll wait.
What's your color-coordination system for dogearing your 53-volume set of personal notes for the western canon?

[Anonymous No.12488112]

>>12488108
go watch television you child.
You're missing the point of literature.

[Anonymous No.12488113]

>>12488066
Are you saying I can't enjoy Shakespeare? Faulkner? James? Melville?
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.12488115]

>>12488075
Nice appeal to authority :^) none of the totally irrational hypotheticals that have lead you to being a dumb egalitarian relativist would even have occured to you if you weren't smart and felt guilt others obviously are not. If you ask simply the question "why" in regards to all historical grievances that have resulted in impotent attempts to attack IQ there is only one clear answer :^)

[Anonymous No.12488124]

>>12488112
See >>12488112 coping brainlet.

[Anonymous No.12488127]

>>12488115
I'm appealing to someone who puts stock in one authority with that very authority. I myself discount the "authority" completely.

[Anonymous No.12488138]

>>12488060
subvocalizing goes-with heightened understanding of association and oratory skill
>>12488075
lol iq is correlated with g, they’re measuring how well people do on g loaded activities brainlet

[Anonymous No.12488148]

>>12488109
That's a terrible analogy.
It's not that reading is literally difficult, it just takes time to do it right. Notes and research can help anyone regardless of age.
The more work you do, the more you'll understand.

[Anonymous No.12488171]

>>12488113
If you are reading those works without doing outside-reading for context, you are literally a pleb.
sorry.

[Anonymous No.12488179]

>>12488127
*tips fedora*. You're not a loser because IQ is bullshit, it's because you're a miserable little faggot.

[Anonymous No.12488218]

>>12488148
reading comprehension is actually physiologically impossible for stupid people, give moby dick to a low verbal iq “human” and they will never finish it or will never get anything out of it. There are biological differences in cognitive capacities that become clear as day to anyone who is intuitive and observant. There were boys much wealthier than me in my classes who simply could not read out loud without stuttering, mispronouncing words or failing to grasp the rhythm and logic of the syntax they were looking at and it showed in every single long syntactically complex passage, never understood the allusions or abstractions and could not explain the plot even if you helped them to do so. This is a fundamental difference in competence, and whole populations suffer from these deficits

[Anonymous No.12488233]

>>12488218
>reclusive beta faggot who buried his nose in the books 24/7 was better at reading in school than chads who were busy sniffing stacies' braps and rawdogging drunk chavettes
>m-muh biological differences
You were not special, anon, just weak.

[Anonymous No.12488244]

>>12488148
John can do x.
Jack can do x, but faster.
Who is smarter?
Sorry this makes you question your own assumptions about yourself and your place in the world, I know your entire identity rests on the lynchpin of your being "smart" and "high IQ". It must hurt to reassess yourself.
Maybe you have some notes on that somewhere.

[Anonymous No.12488246]

>>12488218
this is true, but it does not mean that everyone who reads slowly is having a difficult time with comprehension, often times it might be their own minds engaging in a sort of "dialog" with what they're reading. These conversations could begin with notes (more often than not, only mental), which unless you're literally a passive brainlet, will inevitably lead to further research.
It's better to do than to not is how I feel.
I've met many people who claim to have complex works and yet couldn't tell me a thing about them beyond the most basic plot points.

[Anonymous No.12488252]

>>12488244
That's literally how a child thinks.
Your brain is a Mcdonalds.

[Anonymous No.12488256]

>>12488075
My IQ was tested at 141 so you should believe when i tell you that if you dont reply to this post or your mother will die in her sleep tonight

[Anonymous No.12488266]

>>12488244
Blacks would rule the world if this was true anon.

[Anonymous No.12488277]

>>12487100

>Be 44
>Be locked up for killing 60 people

[Anonymous No.12488323]

>>12488277
1.36 people a year isn't even that bad. I think about killing people more often that that. >>12488252
>input: anon said something I disagree with
>output: call him a meany poo poo
>reflection: this single line is not enough to constitute a sound post, he won't think I'm smart enough
>search: things associated with childhood
>processing
>supplemental output: mcdonalds

[Anonymous No.12488360]

>>12488323
You are clearly a fat dumb fag is all.
It's about your approach to world.
Efficiency =/= Quality.

[Anonymous No.12488362]

>>12488360
maybe efficiency is the wrong word, it's lower than that.

[Anonymous No.12488376]

>>12488360
Your entire view rests on the fact you don't think someone can read quickly and maintain reading comprehension. Let's set that straight.
And you're retarded because you don't even realize that you could be incorrect on that.

[Anonymous No.12488387]

>>12488376
You are only proving my point.
You're so stuck on the power of your speed-reading you can't even acknowledge the simple fact that putting MORE time in, can only help regardless of your assumed level of intelligence.

[Anonymous No.12488407]

Before
>only read 10-30 pages a day, generally a chapter a day
After (literally 2 weeks ago, I didn't even try it just happened)
>average 40-50 pages a day, have particular days where I read 80 or 110 without trying
I don't know what happened but that's pretty nice. Finished a 300 page book (Neugroschel's Kafka collection) in a week, and if I didn't have school I could easily have finished it quicker. Read the last 70 pages of The Great Gatsby (reread) in one sitting and then the last 40 pages of Philosophy: The Basics in the same day. I have had anomalies in the past, like when I reread Gulliver's Travels in one sitting when I was 13 and when I read the last 100 pages of Catch-22 in one go but now I'm consistently reading more pages a day with the same level of retention and appreciation of the writing (i.e. not speedreading)

[Anonymous No.12488459]

>>12488323
Anon I love your argumentative prose. Please stay here, it truly is a work of art.

[Anonymous No.12488721]

>>12487987
Ugh.

[Anonymous No.12489007]

>>12488459
Women will never be as interesting as anon

[Anonymous No.12489024]

>>12488721
Zoom zoom bitch

[Anonymous No.12489040]

>>12487100

I used to read 19th century novels that I can't even begin to approach now. The language is just too dense. There's also the fact that I had no computer or friends, and books were all I had. A couple years ago I made myself read IJ because of /lit/, but I haven't read many books cover to cover since. Mostly wikipedia articles and various technical documents.

[Anonymous No.12489387]

>Work 10 hour days 6 days a week
>Get home, go work out, make dinner, do general chores
>Shower, watch a movie or something with waifu
>Lay down in bed, get about 5 pages into my book before I pass out
>Been trying to reread LOTR for the last 6 months
Being an adult is slightly gay sometimes bros

[Anonymous No.12489397]

>>12489387
You are a sad man and you lead a very sad life

[Anonymous No.12489533]

>>12488218
will smith could read moby dick nigga you gay and wrong

[Anonymous No.12489542]

>>12489533
But floyd mayweather can't read harry potter

[Anonymous No.12490925]

>be 29
>only read company financial reports and market analysis

[Anonymous No.12491040]

>>12488256
Where is immunity dog when you need him.

[Anonymous No.12491075]

>>12487100
>tfw read 200 pages of Beiser's struggle against subjectivism today
>tfw the system of german idealism will never be complete

[Anonymous No.12491557]

>Be 13
>Read animal farm in 2 hours
>Be 20
>Read 1984 in 4 months and skip the last few pages because of boredom
I think internet ruined me

[Anonymous No.12492116]

>>12491557
>I think internet ruined me
you are not the only one

[Anonymous No.12492144]

>>12487978
>read mundane ramblings of a degenerate Russian gambler about guilt and faith and 1000-page "drugs are bad" after-school specials by a suicidal pseud armed with thesaurus and footnote fetish
literally my two favourite novels

[Anonymous No.12492172]

>>12492116
javascript was a mistake

[Anonymous No.12492229]

>Be 14
>Read 'The Way of Kings' in a week.
>Be 21
>3/4 way through 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' in 2 months