>finishes a book >can't remember absolutely nothing about it

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Anonymous Thu Nov 24 22:40:36 2022 No.21297819 [Reply] [Original]

>finishes a book
>can't remember absolutely nothing about it

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 22:44:33 2022 No.21297832 Becomes less of an issue the more you read. Summarizing what you read after a sesh helps much. Happy reading cuz.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 22:49:08 2022 No.21297852 Becomes less of an issue the more you read. Summarizing what you read after a sesh helps much. Happy reading cuz.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 23:00:03 2022 No.21297892 >can't remember nothing same bro. life is full

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 23:43:36 2022 No.21297991 >>21297819 So you've retained all information?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 09:34:17 2022 No.21299520 Becomes less of an issue the more you read. Summarizing what you read after a sesh helps much. Happy reading cuz.

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 15:11:37 2022 No.21300334

>>21297819
I feel like this was happening to me everytime I'd read a chapter of Inherent Vice. And even though I actually remember the plot quite well I don't really know what the point of it was, which makes me think I completely forgot something important whilst reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 15:13:27 2022 No.21300338 Smart people purge useless inane material from their brain. It isn't beneficial to memorize that which has no utility. Lagan calls it a trash can brain if you do.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:14:48 2022 No.21300822 >can't remember nothing same bro. life is full

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:15:49 2022 No.21300826 Becomes less of an issue the more you read. Summarizing what you read after a sesh helps much. Happy reading cuz.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:32:05 2022 No.21300908 >>21297819 >can't remember absolutely nothing about it So you remember it. That's good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:39:04 2022 No.21300941 >>21297819 >can't remember absolutely nothing about it So you remember it. That's good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:44:08 2022 No.21300959 Becomes less of an issue the more you read. Summarizing what you read after a sesh helps much. Happy reading cuz.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:45:25 2022 No.21300966 >>21297991 >>21300908 That's exactly what I was thinking

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:58:23 2022 No.21301010 Becomes less of an issue the more you read. Summarizing what you read after a sesh helps much. Happy reading cuz.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 18:59:45 2022 No.21301014 >>21297991 >>21300908 That's exactly what I was thinking

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:01:47 2022 No.21301024 File: 3.23 MB, 640x640, awkward-side-eye.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21300959 >>21300826 >>21299520 >>21297852 >>21297832

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:19:39 2022 No.21301095

>>21297832
>>21297852
>>21297892
>>21299520
>>21300822
>>21300826
>>21300908
>>21300941
>>21300959
>>21300966
>>21301010
>>21301014
Are we being raided, or what the fuck is this double posting shit? I have been seeing it for days now and I am really disturbed by it. Are you people bots or what the fuck?? What is happening

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:25:14 2022 No.21301118
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>>21301095
I don't know but I'm >>21301014
and I thought it was just a joke I'd join in on
I saw it as a reference to the OP since he can't remember books he read so we'd have to repeat to him the posts we write to him in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:27:27 2022 No.21301126 >>21301095 Yeah I've been noticing it for a couple months now, seems like bot activity. It has happened to my posts a few times too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:34:25 2022 No.21301147 File: 1.37 MB, 220x367, chad montage.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21297819 >can't remember absolutely nothing Yes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:35:06 2022 No.21301151 >>21300334 capitalism bad

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:42:58 2022 No.21301172 just let it flow

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:44:46 2022 No.21301180

>>21301151
See.. stuff like this. I got absolutely no 'capitalism bad' from it. Not even 'war bad', despite the main characters all being hippies and the war being talked about from their perspective. It just didn't seem like it was criticising anything.

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 22:07:38 2022 No.21301643
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>>21301180
Well, the thing is that the plot is presented purposedly in a very convoluted way. Here's the gist of it.

A bunch of dentists, lawyers and real state developers gang together to monetize hippies and poor people. The idea is to sell them drugs, then sell them treatment for the addiction and a set of new theeth (since heroin makes your teeth fall out) assuming they'll relapse and will be stuck in that endless cycle. The problem arises when the daughters of some of those tycoons fall in that cycle.

In a way, you can say that the book is a critique on how the system, being an amoral entity, fagocites the counter-culture movement to make profit stopping at nothing. The system, if left unchecked will eat everything, including the children of the ones who are benefiting from it. Thus, capitalism=bad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 22:19:00 2022 No.21301676 >>21301095 It’s humans, it’s just a ridiculous trend started by zoomers. It’s basically an alternative to replying “based” to a post. I tried to stop it when it started

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 00:36:49 2022 No.21302077 >>21301095 i've done it a few times, it's just people repeating the previous posts verbatim to be annoying. although it would be funny if it was bots too

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 01:50:08 2022 No.21302282 Eat shit, bitch.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 03:17:01 2022 No.21302499 >>21301676 Someone gets it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 03:56:06 2022 No.21302623 >>21301095 Lurk moar. It's how /lit/ calls out NPC posts.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 10:56:03 2022 No.21303581 >>21301643 fucking retarded sapiens-like book ideology blames capitalism, again, seems like nobody did read Ellul books about technology or kaczynski that mailed bombs to people for you to make ((you)) read

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 17:22:24 2022 No.21304520 >>21301676 >>21302623 so which is it you memers

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 22:12:36 2022 No.21305579 >>21301643 Wow. How did I not catch that? at all?? It basically felt like random things happening one after another. I really do need to reread that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 22:14:34 2022 No.21305589 >Adler, Mortimer J. - How to Read a Book, 1-567-31010-9

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 22:45:15 2022 No.21305704 File: 81 KB, 1080x1331, 4D17441E-8902-48A8-B90E-4247DB314D37.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >finished book >immediately logs it onto Goodreads for posterity Got you covered king

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 06:19:58 2022 No.21307252 >>21301095 Yeah I've been noticing it for a couple months now, seems like bot activity. It has happened to my posts a few times too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 06:25:12 2022 No.21307263 >>21304520 i've done it a few times, it's just people repeating the previous posts verbatim to be annoying. although it would be funny if it was bots too

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 06:26:14 2022 No.21307266 >>21297819 >>can't remember absolutely nothing about it Oh, that's good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 06:29:22 2022 No.21307274 >>21297991 >>21300908 That's exactly what I was thinking

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 06:46:01 2022 No.21307309 >>21301095 People with dementia

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 06:52:19 2022 No.21307325 >>21301095 People with dementia

Anonymous Sun Nov 27 07:59:50 2022 No.21307473
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>>21305704
>almost finished book
>enter it into goodreads as finished
>lose all interest in finishing the last chapter
>never get around to it
I've almost reached my yearly goal of 12 books, but I'm really gonna have to grind through these last 10 before Christmas.

Anonymous Sun Nov 27 09:37:04 2022 No.21307654

>>21297832
>>21297852
>>21297892
>>21299520
>>21300822
>>21300826
>>21300908
>>21300941
>>21300959
>>21300966
>>21301010
>>21301014
>>21301095
Are we being raided, or what the fuck is this double posting shit? I have been seeing it for days now and I am really disturbed by it. Are you people bots or what the fuck?? What is happening

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 09:46:11 2022 No.21307683 >>21297819 >be Oedipa >settle back

Anonymous Sun Nov 27 10:29:02 2022 No.21307767

>>21305579
Because the plot, as I said, is purposedly presented in a convoluted way throught the eyes of a paranoid pothead and never really pierced together, except in a sort of allegoric way near the end of the book. The inherent vice of the title can be interpreted as the destructive consequences the system has that are an inherent part of it.

But now that you know, I'm sure you can see it on a reread if you're inclined to do so. A lot of postmodern literature requires an active reading from the audience, like putting the plot together themselves. If you wanna train yourself to be a more analytic reader, I'd suggest giving a shot to minimalism, like Carver, Cheever (to a degree) and Hemingway's short stories.

And don't forget to enjoy the process.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 16:41:46 2022 No.21308634 >>21301095 Spooks are using 4chan and data fingerprint to train AIs and make Dead Internet Theory a reality

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 17:53:03 2022 No.21308912 >>21307654 Wow. How did I not catch that? at all?? It basically felt like random things happening one after another. I really do need to reread that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 17:55:00 2022 No.21308928 File: 46 KB, 1080x1080, Gbb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >finish a 1000 page book >extract 3 sentences worth of wisdom from it

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 17:58:02 2022 No.21308937 >>21297819 >read book >can't remember anything except i enjoyed it >read book again >it's just as good the second time >and the third >and the fourth >infinite enjoyment feels good bros.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 18:00:16 2022 No.21308946 File: 64 KB, 487x603, zizek review.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >don't read any books >just read other reviews >post my own reviews of the books based on secondhand info I can gather >3,097,642 followers

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 18:05:57 2022 No.21308962 >>21308937 That's how you determine your favourite books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 18:53:12 2022 No.21309180 File: 1.87 MB, 640x480, 1657533687621.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pray for me lads, it's another note-taking block before I continue reading again.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 18:59:59 2022 No.21309201 >>21309180 You read?

Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:03:25 2022 No.21309220
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>>21309180
Siri? Begin notetaking.
>Holden is an utter faggot, and his rosy prose will not trick me into liking him. We'll see how he shapes up in the second half of Chapter 1, but I [...]

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:53:04 2022 No.21309422 File: 3.24 MB, 181x144, 1540496597202.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21309220 Absolutely correct.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 20:44:01 2022 No.21309604 File: 633 KB, 675x693, steve.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21309201 Wish I could, notes go for fucking ages in comparison with the length it takes to read the shit you're taking notes on

>>	I Sun Nov 27 21:29:37 2022 No.21309832 File: 16 KB, 405x475, 4A1BED57-FA8A-4019-85A8-DDC8E4EE11CE-405x475.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reads a book So exhausting can't read another one for months

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 21:34:14 2022 No.21309848 >>21297819 based, integrating the knowledge is more important than remembering it

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 21:35:12 2022 No.21309854 >>21309832 I start reading in autumn and stop around Christmas. Then I forget how much I enjoy reading until next autumn.

Anonymous Sun Nov 27 22:26:14 2022 No.21310034
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>own expensive study in my house
>it's packed to the brim with books I've collected over the years
>wife leaves me alone whenever I'm in here
>haven't read a book in over a decade
>most days I just sit in my armchair or workdesk and stare at the wall; the peace and quiet is worth it
>when wife wants to talk about a book she's reading, I claim I've read it and manage to navigate every conversation via reading the sparknotes summary
>wife always says she's impressed by how well I understand the plots

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