/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13503094]

Today I read 267 pages, felling pretty comfy. How's your reading going anon's?

[Anonymous No.13503097]

Ok I'm starting the pages general RIGHT NOW

[Anonymous No.13503201]

>>13503094
zero

[Anonymous No.13503204]

If you read more than 20 pages in an hour, your brain is 100% not processing the information properly. I bet you're one of those speed reading faggots who thinks he's Good Will Hunting and can read and absorb all information on a page in 10 seconds.

[Anonymous No.13503224]

Read "On The Shortness of Life" and "Of a Happy Life" by Seneca. 171 pages total. Feeling pretty comfy also. Gonna read "Of Anger" later.

[Anonymous No.13503243]

>>13503204
I usually read a book more than once, that's how I absorb information and that's how I learn languages. For example, I read a book and there are a lot of words and concepts I'm not familiar with, so I search the meaning of some of it or just jot it down somewhere to learn more about it later, then I go back to this same book and read again, but now it will an easier read than before.

You absorb/learn things by repetition.

[Anonymous No.13503251]

>>13503243
>but now it will be
Fix'd.

[Anonymous No.13503542]

>>13503224
Seneca is one of the few authors with whom I feel in profound peace and connected to while I read him. Do you get that feeling too? Such a comfy sage individual. Irrevocably based and immortalised through his work.

[Anonymous No.13503569]

>>13503204
cope, cumbrain
professors read 700 wpm, which translates to about 90 pages every hour

[Anonymous No.13503570]

I liked these threads more when the number was lower :/

[Anonymous No.13503587]

>>13503094
Based and bookpilled.

[Anonymous No.13503610]

>>13503542
Yes, that's how I feel.
I was feeling really down for being such a cumbrain, but then I read "Of a Happy Life" and I'm better now. At least I'm trying to get rid of these intrusive sexual thoughts.

>..."You talk one way," objects our adversary, "and live another." You most spiteful of creatures, you who always show the bitterest hatred to the best of men, this reproach was flung at Plato, at Epicurus, at Zeno: for all these declared how they ought to live, not how they did live. I speak of virtue, not of myself, and when I blame vices, I blame my own first of all: when I have the power, I shall live as I ought to do: spite, however deeply steeped in venom, shall not keep me back from what is best: that poison itself with which you bespatter others, with which you choke yourselves, shall not hinder me from continuing to praise that life which I do not, indeed, lead, but which I know I ought to lead, from loving virtue and from following after her, albeit a long way behind her and with halting gait. Am I to expect that evil speaking will respect anything, seeing that it respected neither Rutilius nor Cato? Will anyone care about being thought too rich by men for whom Diogenes the Cynic was not poor enough? That most energetic philosopher fought against all the desires of the body, and was poorer even than the other Cynics, in that besides having given up possessing anything he had also given up asking for anything: yet they reproached him for not being sufficiently in want: as though forsooth it were poverty, not virtue, of which he professed knowledge.

[Anonymous No.13504680]

>>13503569
I've been tested as being able to read 1000 wpm with 100% comprehension, but that pace isn't enjoyable for reading literature or appreciating the work fully.

[Anonymous No.13504720]

Is speed reading really that bad? I have always thought the faster you read the more you get out of it. Maybe i should reread some more books after I'm done with them

[Anonymous No.13504757]

I read 20 pages of Nietzsche and didn't understand any of it so I think I actually read 0 pages today.

[Anonymous No.13504763]

>>13504720
Whenever I speed read I forget the contents of the book I read a lot faster.

[Anonymous No.13505083]

>>13503094
How do you even keep track of the pages, do you go back and count when you're done or are you keeping track while you go along?

I've been reading for an hour a night recently, and about 10 to 15 minutes when I take a shit.

[Anonymous No.13505217]

>>13503094
I read about 10 pages per day.

[Anonymous No.13505233]

>>13503094
I read half of the page today then fall asleep

[Anonymous No.13505537]

I went to a play so I haven't touched my book all day except to put it in my bag this morning. Might read some before bed. Well done OP and the other readers itt. (Even you Nietzsche anon)

[Anonymous No.13505582]

not much lately. I read some French (few pages of Le Mur) to practice. Still making my way through the Sot-Weed Factor as well. Those are usually 20-50p bursts.

[Anonymous No.13505598]

>>13503094
I've spent all day cleaning up and vacuuming and haven't gotten any reading done yet.

[Anonymous No.13505602]

>>13503204
20 pages an hour is really slow unless you're reading kant or something. are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.13505643]

>>13505083
Just keep track as I go long subconsciously

[Anonymous No.13505680]

>>13505602
I read 20 pages an hour when reading Infinite Jest. The plot is easy to follow but the language used in the book is fucking jarring

[Anonymous No.13505838]

>>13503094
I tried reading but the book was shit and there was a part where the characters fucked. I instantly stopped and cumbrained (broke my 3 days nofap). I tried nofap but I'm just beyond help, my last hope is a bullet in the head.

[Anonymous No.13505848]

>MAGA
???

[Anonymous No.13505862]

>>13505848
Make anime great again.

[Anonymous No.13505923]

ive tried reading but had to stop because everything in my life is COPE

[Anonymous No.13505933]

Got 40 pages read of thirst for love by Mishima, finished off “Charmides” and took some notes.
Also read a bit of persuasion by Austen. The books I’m reading seem random, but I’m taking a break from the idiot by Dostoyevsky.

[Anonymous No.13505939]

>>13505838
Try Permafap

[Anonymous No.13506305]

>>13505602
it's not that slow for non-fiction

[Anonymous No.13506565]

>>13505083
>Start reading at page 67
>End at page 89
>Quick maths
>????
>Read 22 pages.

[Anonymous No.13506608]

>>13504680
How did you learn to read that fast?

[Anonymous No.13506654]

>>13503204
It depends on what you're reading, I can demolish a pop intro book to any subject at a rate of 80-100 an hour while taking notes and of course a fiction novel even faster

[Anonymous No.13506912]

I was reading Plato's Sophist and got to the part where the visitor tries "patricide" of whatever against Parmenides and forgot that what he was saying was supposed to not make sense and kept going back and confusing myself to the extent that I was stuck on about the same 5 pages for about 30 minutes. I finally made it through and sped up but then I got pulled away. Being midwit is shit t b h

[Anonymous No.13507019]

>>13506608
I've been reading ever since I learned how. When I was a kid I went through the school library reading every nonfiction book they had because I was obsessed with learning new things. Wanting to get to new things pushed me faster until it was habit. I read everything as fast as I could until I learned to enjoy fiction in highschool.

[Anonymous No.13507048]

>>13503094
I just finished blood meridian, only took six months.

[Anonymous No.13507153]

I started Hunger by Knut Hamsun today and I'm enjoying it so far so I can't complain.

[Anonymous No.13507173]

>>13507048
I started it a year ago, I plan on restarting this summer considering I only got around 20 pages in. I just can't get over the punctuation and fucked up grammar. I've been reading Faulkner lately though so maybe that will help.

[Anonymous No.13507398]

>>13503094
Finished the Melancholy of Resistance today, probably the best book I've read all year.

[Anonymous No.13507517]

>>13507398
What other books do you like? A cursory glance at the book you mentioned seems interesting, I'm wondering if I'd like it.

[Anonymous No.13507528]

>>13503094
I don't count pages, that sounds ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.13507571]

>>13506565
Please refrain from posting jezebels, good sir. This is a literature board.

[Anonymous No.13507585]

>>13507517
Some of my favourite writers are Melville, Keats, Coleridge, Tolstoy, Swift, Cervantes, Celine, Robert Burton, Clark Ashton Smith, Dostoevsky, Beckett, Goethe, and Kafka.

[Anonymous No.13507586]

>>13505923
Just come to realize that literally everything is cop, anon. Money is cope, having kids is cope, even buddhism is cope.

"Cope" is a non-word used by zoomers when they have no argument and resort to flaming.

[Anonymous No.13507597]

>>13507019
How big is your brain?

What is your job and have you ever been laid? Are you happy? Please be honest with us.

[Anonymous No.13507607]

>>13506608
>>13507597
imagine believing in a 1000wpm reading speed.

[Anonymous No.13507680]

>>13503542
>Seneca is one of the few authors with whom I feel in profound peace and connected to while I read him.
Robert Graves is the author that fits that's spot for me. Often when I read him I find a sense of synchronicity with what he is writing and what has happened or will happen in some respect over the course of that week.
To sound like a mother at an Oprah book club I feel he and I are "kindred spirits".

[Anonymous No.13507681]

>>13507585
Alright, I'm reading this book once I'm done with my current reads. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.13507768]

>>13507680
How do I take the Graves-pill?

[Anonymous No.13507800]

>>13503094
My personal best is a little over 200
It was a book by Jung, I think his one on dreams? Interesting but fairly dense, at least by my feeble minded standards

[Anonymous No.13508006]

>>13507768
I started with Goodbye to all that and then moved on to his poetry.
Understand the man and you understand his work.
After that I moved on to his fiction. I found King Jesus to be most impressive and well worth the effort. The White Goddess also helped further my understanding of Graves and his motivations.
Principally it is his poetry which moves me day in day out.

[Anonymous No.13508072]

I read Stoner in a day, that's what? 250 pages? Usually I take a lot longer, it's pretty embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.13508561]

>>13505838
If you expect me that porn makes me a nigger you really are on some shit

[Anonymous No.13508576]

>>13507586
Cope

[Anonymous No.13508587]

>>13503610
Intrusive sexual thoughts brother, I have been through that, now I am almost healed, stay strong.

[Anonymous No.13508803]

>>13503094
Pretty bad I keep getting glued to the computer

[Anonymous No.13508821]

>slip the introduction
>skip the preface
>speedread the first chapter
>skip to the end chapter and read it
>get a sense of who dies, who marries, etc
>speedread the rest of the book, skipping dream sequences, physical descriptions
>look out for mentions of main characters and read a few sentences to get the jist of their narrative
>finish the book and google it to make sure my understanding of the plot was correct
>go on Goodreads and find the most liked quotation from the book
>repeat it a few times internally until I've memorized it
>post on /lit/ about terrible and overrated the book was

[Anonymous No.13509584]

>>13503094
Yesterday I read The Marquise of O...about 50 pages. Great short story. Highly recommend Henrich Von Kleist.

[Anonymous No.13510749]

>>13503094
honestly depends on the book, I recently bought lord of the flies and well through half way through it in one day of light reading. Each page has an incredibly small amount of writing on it. 100 pages in an hour or two whilst on a book like the iliad it would take me an hour or two to read 30

[Anonymous No.13510754]

>>13503094
I wrote 30 pages of a trilogy.

[Anonymous No.13511099]

I was a cumbrain until about 7 months ago, finally noticing improvements in cognition. Hadn't read a full book since graduating high school, I'm 23 now. Read about 12 books or so in the past 7 months, I was doing about 20 pages an hour (non-fiction). It was common for me to have to re-read a page because I would completely blank out and start daydreaming.

It gets better bros, just hang in there.

[Anonymous No.13512088]

20 pages of The Wandering Earth which is the minimum I've set per day.

[Anonymous No.13512112]

>>13511099
Thanks, anon. I’m pleased that you’ve improved so much

[Anonymous No.13512125]

52 pages. Was feeling like shit this morning for skipping church but I picked myself back up later on in the day. There’s always tomorrow to improve and being harsh and overly-critical on myself is only going to make me perform worse.

[Anonymous No.13512127]

Finished slaughterhouse five today. I started it yesterday. Good book imo, the ending was fucking with me a bit and had to take a break but it was a good book nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.13512131]

>>13512127
Isn't that a reddit book?

[Anonymous No.13512148]

>>13512131
I don't know, tbqh. I found it when I searched for more books by vonnegut. It was funny, easy to read, also has aliens and "time travel" in it and makes the philosophy behind it surprisingly easy to understand. So I guess yeah, it might be a reddit book.

[Anonymous No.13512155]

>>13512148
sounds reddit.

[Anonymous No.13512170]

>>13503094

go back

[Anonymous No.13512172]

Goodreads says my average is 127 pages per day. I know it's more than that because I only mark books I finish and a lot of the books I have read have smaller page counts than they should.

[Anonymous No.13512173]

>>13503204
this is my pace reading stoned lel

[Anonymous No.13512935]

Read 60 pages of Proust. I'm on the last book from In Search of Lost Time, so I'm going slowly. I'm also gettin really emotional about this thing, it was a beautiful ride and I get sad everytime I remember that is ending :(

[Anonymous No.13513049]

Got through 50 pages of this French book I’m reading. It’s not much but I notice myself improving and picking up new grammar. Feels good :)

>>13508072
Speed reading fiction serves no purpose imo. Unless you’re in a literature program and have to get through 1000s of pages a week, take your time and enjoy the journey.

Non fiction is really where you should speed read if possible.

[Anonymous No.13513130]

>>13503094
>267 pages
that sounds mathematically divided from the total pagecount

[Anonymous No.13513633]

>>13505083
I mean you'd know what page you started on so.

[Anonymous No.13513687]

When your proudest attribute is how quickly you can consume greater people's work. Pathetic. You're not smart for amassing a collection of consumption. You're literally no different than those grandmas who read every book churned out by Patricia Cornwell and take breaks to do word searches. Go produce something.

[Anonymous No.13513697]

Just read two chapters of Sapkowskis Narrenturm. And the day just started :-)

[Anonymous No.13513730]

How do you even speedread non fiction?
If I won't read it slowly I won't remember anything from it if its a text book.

[Anonymous No.13513745]

>>13513687
Sir, this is a forum about reading and discussing literature, we rarey produce anything more worthwhile than the avarage /tv/ consumer or /pol/ack.

[Anonymous No.13513748]

>>13513130
No, it sounds like he wasn't counting and just read as much as he felt comfy reading.

[Anonymous No.13513944]

>>13513748
I bet the book is exactly 800 pages and he wanted to read the first third. He even rounded properly, hence 267 rather than 266.
I only make this observation because it's what my OCPD brain would do. I tend to divide things into thirds.

[Anonymous No.13513947]

>>13513748
I bet the book is exactly 800 pages and he wanted to read the first third. He even rounded properly, hence 267 rather than 266.
I only make this observation because it's what my OCPD brain would do. I tend to divide things into thirds, and so numbers like 267 stick out to me.