/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17870811]

>read a book
>forget most of its ideas a month later

[Anonymous No.17870823]

>>17870811
You're suppsed to read physical books and take notes. Otherwise it's just passive reading.

[Anonymous No.17870829]

I personally like the experience of vaguely remembering a handful of details from a book you read several years ago. It's similar to remembering a dream but different enough to be a unique sensation

[Anonymous No.17870832]

> Goldfish posting.
You watched too much T.V. as a kid. I've seen this happen to a lot of people. I guess you are destined for the slave class now desu. Sucks pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.17870837]

>>17870829
this. Sometimes get annoying when youre talking to somebody about the book and trail off as your memory fails though

[Anonymous No.17870845]

>>17870837
I often wonder what people did about this before you could just google the basic details of a work so you don't look like an idiot when discussing it

[Anonymous No.17870861]

>>17870811
It just means it wasn't worth remembering

[Anonymous No.17870865]

>>17870861
or that OP is a retard (more likely)

[Anonymous No.17870905]

>>17870845
>I often wonder what people did about this before you could just google the basic details of a work
People had better memories before google became a crutch that allowed us to remember without remembering.

[Anonymous No.17871027]

>>17870861
>>17870865
>>17870811
>>17870845
One must remember what is worth remembering and revise if he wants to continue remembering. This is why you should be picky with what you read because if youre just going to read it once then youre spending time with a one dimensional idea (aka inferior books)... and imo you should rarely read fiction because it interferes with useful information

[Anonymous No.17871031]

>>17871027
t. bugman

[Anonymous No.17871037]

>>17870811
This was me until I stopped spending 12 hours a day in front of a screen and switched to a ketogenic diet. I remember every blink now and am only slightly schizophrenic at worst.

Not even kidding, look up how keeping your body in ketosis improves your memory. Sugar is bad for your brain.

[Anonymous No.17871070]

>>17870811
Read it again faggot

[Anonymous No.17871098]

>>17870811
>read a paragraph
>forget everything and have to reread it

[Anonymous No.17871524]

>>17871027
Christ what a shitty post. Yet not even a shitpost because it was sincere. Just a shitty post

[Anonymous No.17871539]

>>17870811
So read it again.

[Anonymous No.17871628]

>read book
>forget everything about it in a year
>except for the single throwaway about something lewd
I have the mind of a child. Anyone else?

[Anonymous No.17871855]

>read a book
>forget that I even read it
>nonetheless absorb its wisdom
werks for me

[Anonymous No.17871928]

I couldn't tell you fuck about the novels I read years back except for some names and the general storyline, and yet they persist in the memory as an emotion of sorts, like a lived experience. If you go on a hiking trip, bond with your friends, and get attacked by a bear, years later you won't be able to tell the particulars of the road, or the clothing you wore, or the food you ate, yet the event would remain forever relevant in the recesses of your memory. After all thats what books ultimately are, the experiences of other men, hopefully great men, intensified through the use of literary language and fictional characters.

[Anonymous No.17871933]

>>17870811
Write them down then, take notes, write your thoughts down once you've finished the book.

[Anonymous No.17871980]

read pic related

[Anonymous No.17871986]

>>17870811
>read book
>make notes
>read books about book
>reads books that influenced the author
>read book again
>write an essay on the book
>do this for all the author’s books
Everyone wants to pretend you can just read a book once and move on, breezing through the canon with a chapter or two a night while boasting on lit about not needing secondary lit because the ideas of hundreds of scholars are just obvious to someone with a gigachad IQ on first glance. Not going to happen, faggot. You must Do The Work.

[Anonymous No.17872036]

>>17871986
Maybe I don't want to suck each book down to bone marrow. Maybe I don't want to become an assfucked grumpy academic obsessed with Shakespeare. Maybe I'm cool with just, you know, reading books for pleasure.

[Anonymous No.17872140]

>>17872036
That’s fine too

[Anonymous No.17872153]

>>17871980
>read a book 3 times just to read it once
Op just annotate your books and read secondary scholarship/watch lectures about it, plus write essays on the subject matter

[Anonymous No.17872333]

>>17872036
>Reading for pleasure
Anon...

[Anonymous No.17872359]

>>17871986
Based

[Anonymous No.17872414]

>taking notes
>writing in margins
Is /lit/ full of females these days? Fuck off with that woman shit, I bet you cucklords also decorate your books with colorful stickers and write a fucking essay to express your feelings

[Anonymous No.17872454]

>>17872414
You’re an idiot who doesn’t retain any of what he’s read

[Anonymous No.17872486]

>>17872333
Reading for the pleasure of self-development?

[Anonymous No.17872495]

>Make a post
>Forget what i posted 5 minutes later

[Anonymous No.17872496]

>>17872414
Fucking based.

[Anonymous No.17872517]

>>17870811
>he doesn’t create an extensive personal index on the third reading, binded and shelved, without annotating or destroying the original text
Don’t worry, me neither but I’ll get to it some day[\spoiler]

[Anonymous No.17872519]

>Make a post
>Forget what i posted 5 minutes later

[Anonymous No.17872737]

>>17871986
True and hardworking pilled