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15092647 No.15092647 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw just read a book in 20 minutes that takes normal people 2-3 weeks

what's the fastest you ever speed-read a book?

>> No.15092709

>>15092647
Could you write a deconstructive essay on each sentence in the book?

If not, then you wasted 20 minutes.

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15092720

>tfw just read a book in 20 minutes that takes most people a year
>tfw I retained none of the information and couldn't even tell you what the book was about

>> No.15092721

you guys are reading books?
i just eat them with spaghetti

>> No.15092779

>>15092721
based

>> No.15092786

>>15092647
I read no longer human in two or so days, and I read fundamentalism and Catholicism in 3(it's 320 pages long)

>> No.15092801

>>15092647
I read about 350wpm before I start getting fucked by retention, since it's lockdown I've been reading about a book a day but going to dial it back to no more than 5 a week for the sake of retention after lockdown it'll be 2-3ish a week

>> No.15092843

>>15092786
no longer human is like 90 pages right? thats like a comfy 1 day read if you have nothing else to do

>> No.15092867

>>15092647
I read fiction about 300 wpm, less if its a classic. I read an edition of Hamlet with tons of footnotes, probably took me 5 minutes a page the first 2 times I read it.

For philosophy, depends on how dense it is. Re-reading Plato can be a 300wpm breeze. Hegel's phenomenology took me 10 minutes for some pages.

Speed reading is an absolute fucking meme. Follow the pace of your understanding.

>> No.15092895

>>15092867
Marcuse said that a page of Hegel should take 6 hours aprox

>> No.15092904

>>15092647
when i was a kid i read the entire hunger games trilogy in one night and then went to bed at 5 am and basically snoozed my way through every class

>> No.15092914

>>15092904
that could easily be explained because the writer was female

>> No.15092940

>>15092914
hey! that's rude! she's not retarded because she's female!

>> No.15092966

>>15092895
10 minutes was a low ball, but I also read Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, and lots of other philosophers prior to reading Hegel so it felt easy to follow his rationale for things because I could map his concepts to the concepts of his influences. Granted, I could have been missing a lot, and I intend to re-read him, but my main goal in reading Hegel was to understand his rationale for rejecting Kant's noumena, which I still believe is a useful concept. The absolute abstraction of Hegel's system doesn't really inspire me as much because I'm going for a much earthier Aristotelian focus on immanence and phenomenology

>> No.15092974

>>15092966
also Marcuse was full of shit so who cares about what he said

>> No.15092984

>>15092966
hey on the issue of Hegel rejecting Kant's noumena, i'm currently reading the Logic of Science is i think that isn't the case, i think that's the oposite of what he's doing at least at the "end"

>> No.15093000

>>15092974
I wouldn't know I haven't read any post 1900 philosophers directly.

>>15092984
Can you explain? My impression from the phenomenology was that consciousness had nothing outside of itself.

>> No.15093005

>>15092984
Though Hegel slightly implied that something akin to 'noumena' existed now, but was slowly being absorbed into consciousness and which would be completely absorbed when consciousness achieved the end of history.

>> No.15093073

>>15092647
not sped read, but the two books I read in one day (excluding poetry) are Tuesdays with Morrie and Shoplifting from American Apparel

>> No.15094299

>>15092647
>just read a book in 20 minutes

Do you have any idea what it was about?

>> No.15094324

>>15092647
I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia.

>> No.15094362

>>15092647
The more I like a book, the slower I will read it, because I love to reread passages that are particularly brilliant or beautiful.