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I was 100 pages away from finishing Moby-Dick, but I didn't want it to end, so I stopped reading it. It's been 7 months now and I still haven't finished it. I don't want it to end bros. Does this happen to you?

>> No.20574777

No. In 99 out of a 100 cases I grow restless and just want the book to be done and dealt with so I rush through the final act, even if I greatly enjoy it. It's a sickness, I guess. Moby Dick is one of the few books that never made me feel like that and instead I enjoyed every second of it and only grew more excited towards the end. It's truly a magic text.

>> No.20574780

>>20574749
I know what you mean. When I finished "Don Quixote" I was like, "WHAT? No more adventures with Don Quixote and Sancho? After all this time? How??"

>> No.20574791

>>20574777
My experience with literature has been the exact same

>> No.20574885

>>20574777
im having this exact same issue, it starts of fine, but eventually i just start speed reading to get it over with, how do we fix this ?

>> No.20575541

>>20574749
holy based

>> No.20575976

>>20574749
I recommend using an app called OMBY to finish those last 100 pages. It’s a little silly but it’s a simple puzzle game where you line up the right words to fill in the blank. It takes the text chunk by chunk, so maybe that’ll slow it down for you. I just found out about it a few days ago and have been playing it to pass time if I have nothing to do

>> No.20575993

I am often sad when I finish reading a particuarly engaging book. But I am more likely to rush through it because I can't get enough. I've never put off finishing a book I really enjoyed.

I didn't feel that way about Moby Dick, though.

>> No.20575997

>>20574885
>im having this exact same issue, it starts of fine, but eventually i just start speed reading to get it over with
literally me with any Kafka book

>> No.20576004

>>20574885
Stop looking to the future so much

>> No.20576013

>>20575997
same, I think I might just dislike Kafka

>> No.20576055

>>20574777
literally me. i get all fidgety towards the end of a book because i just want it to finish.

>> No.20576065

>>20574885
what has unironically helped me was buying a kindle and hiding the page count. And for paperfags saying inkpads are inferior , they are the best tool to learning a foreign language.You can save sentences and use monolingual dictionary for unknown words

>> No.20576188

>>20574749
Yes I find I sometimes do this although never to that length of time. Maybe a month max.

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