/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18874360]

What are some books you want to have read because you've heard so much good things about it, but you don't want to read because it's too long or difficult or whatever?

[Anonymous No.18874368]

I don't know. I'm reading more than a 100 books at the same time.

[Anonymous No.18874419]

War and Peace
Les Miserables
In Search of Lost Time
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

I've been put them off because I've fallen in to the yearly book count meme.

[Anonymous No.18874425]

>>18874360
I hate reading until I get to around half way through a book

[Anonymous No.18874499]

I hate reading after I'm like half into a book. It just feels like the author is repeating himself and that I already know enough.

[Anonymous No.18874505]

>>18874499
There's absolutely nothing wrong with stopping if you feel like you've gotten everything you needed from the novel

[Anonymous No.18874509]

>>18874360
For fiction, only:
In Search of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.18874518]

>>18874360
Phenomenology of Spirit, or any philosophy in general, I really want to get into it but I have other priorities I am already procrastinating on, and I really want to get to understand it by reading it critically: studying it and taking notes. Right now I'm just reading novels as I don't feel the need to sit down and study them, I can just lightly breeze through the prose to entertain myself.

[Anonymous No.18874587]

>>18874360
In Search of Lost Time
Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.18874592]

>>18874505
Classic loser mentality

[Anonymous No.18874609]

For everyone saying In Search of Lost Time, the key to reading it is to get into a routine. Set aside half an hour each day to read 20 pages and you'll get there eventually. If you try to think of it as a normal novel where a couple of big sessions can get you most of the way there you will never make it. Ideally keep your ordinary reading schedule separate so you don't feel like you are missing out by devoting so much time to one book.

>>18874419
For War & Peace the best advice is to just start it and get a couple of hundred of pages in. Tolstoy's prose is easy to read and the book is full of very short chapters. It feels a lot more achievable once you're into it. For Les Mis you just need to learn to tolerate Hugo's random ramblings about things like Waterloo and the sewer systems of Paris.

[Anonymous No.18874612]

>>18874592
Loser of what? Go back to videogames retard

[Anonymous No.18874644]

Anti-oedipus
I got filtered