/lit/ confessions

[Anonymous No.23354017]

I've been reading Moby Dick for half a year now and am only halfway through.

[Anonymous No.23354020]

How many hours do you spend reading each day?

[Anonymous No.23354023]

>>23354020
.5-1

[Anonymous No.23354025]

>>23354017
I only read like 100 pages of gravitiys rainbow before I gave up.

[Anonymous No.23354027]

>>23354023
You should try reading something closer to your reading level

[Anonymous No.23354029]

>>23354017
I can't understand why you'd continue to read something if you don't enjoy it. If it was for academic purposes I'd understand; otherwise you're just wasting your time and I have no idea why you'd willingly do that.

[Anonymous No.23354030]

>>23354027

[Anonymous No.23354033]

>>23354017
I read a few chapters of a book and never finish them.
I can't remember the last time I even finished a book cover to cover.

[Anonymous No.23354040]

>>23354017
I keep buying books and never finish the ones in my backlog. I got 75% of the way through Brothers K and C&P a few years ago and don't remember hardly anything about them. 6 months after reading a book I could not tell you anything about it.

[Anonymous No.23354045]

>>23354017
KEK
what book is on the reading list for 2025

[Anonymous No.23354050]

>>23354017
I won't pick up a new book until I finish Faust part 2 but I can only read 5 pages of it at a time before getting incredibly bored

[Anonymous No.23354051]

If I'm not well read should I just start with the /lit/ 100 and go from there? I got absolutely filtered by Absalom, Absalom.

[Anonymous No.23354059]

>>23354051
Start with the entry level stuff. The Republic, Meditations, The lIiad, The Turner Diaries, etc.

[Anonymous No.23354073]

I haven't even finished my two favorite books (Don Quixote and The Idiot) and I can't seem to read anything longer than an effortpost now.

[Anonymous No.23354139]

These days I pretty much have to look up the definition of every single word I use which isn't one of the top thousand most commonly used ones. Some people might consider themselves dumb for this, but I consider it more of an OCD symptom and memory issue thing. Definitely more of the latter. I've always kind of been like this though and I won't deny anymore that there is a chance I'm stupid but it's really more of an idiosyncrasy (I didn't have to look up the definition of that, trust me on that).

[Anonymous No.23354147]

>>23354139
I just looked up the definition to be completely sure. See, I told you it's OCD.

[Anonymous No.23354159]

>>23354017
i haven't actually sat down and read a book in over a year. i only ever listen to audiobooks now.

[Anonymous No.23354162]

Three of the books I ticked off my Goodreads challenge this year I started in 2023.

[Anonymous No.23354462]

I keep having nightmares pertaining to death after reading the Death of Ivan Ilyich

[Anonymous No.23354474]

>>23354023
bullshit

[Anonymous No.23354475]

>>23354017
The first few chapters are almost unbearable and I can see quitting or taking a year to read through them to get to the main story. Same with Tale of Two Cities.
So don't worry about it.

[Anonymous No.23354511]

I've been reading Shakespeare for a year and barely a third of the way done.

[Anonymous No.23354938]

>>23354017
I consistently exclusively only manage to read the great classic writers' short stuff:
* Dubliners, not Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake
* The House of the Dead, not Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov
* The Luzhin Defense not Lolita or Ada
* L'indifférent not In Search of Lost Time
* Bartleby not Moby Dick
* Slow Learner not Gravity's Rainbow
* Interviews with Hideous Men not Infinite Jest
I still consider myself well read and act as if I had read all the classics.

[Anonymous No.23354953]

>>23354511
>reading Shakespeare
Anon...

[Anonymous No.23354957]

>>23354017
I got through it in just over a month reading 20 pages a day, try doing that

[Anonymous No.23354959]

Something that motivated me to learn another language is because I wanted to buy books from that country and to have a shelf dedicated to books in that language

[Anonymous No.23355007]

I've been reading it for two weeks and I'm at chapter 65

[Anonymous No.23355070]

I only read non-fiction, but I listen to hundreds of hours of fiction in audiobooks when I'm working.

[Anonymous No.23355129]

>>23354017
I tried reading The Divine Comedy twice and stopped after Inferno both times.

[Anonymous No.23355134]

i almost never finish any novels i start. i simply dont care for the story or the plot. the only things which concern me are the insight and the style (the reason i read exclusively philosophy and poetry)
the only novel ive finished this year has been lolita, and only because of the writing style

[Anonymous No.23355137]

>>23355134
sounds awful

[Anonymous No.23355187]

>>23354017
I don't read the books anon. I just watch YouTube videos and shorts, read the Wikipedia page to get a sense of the topic and pretend to know shit.

[Anonymous No.23355190]

>>23354938
Better than me pal.

[Anonymous No.23355219]

>>23354045
>what book is on the reading list for 2025

[Anonymous No.23355222]

>>23354017
It took me two months to read Demons.

[Anonymous No.23355228]

I really didn’t care for All the Pretty Horses… Suttree is better.

[Anonymous No.23355324]

I only read ya, sci-fi, fantasy, and romance
I used Spark Notes to get through all the classics I had to read for school. Same for philosophy in college. I got As in both my philosophy classes and never once touched the actual material
I liked the LOTR films but hated the books. I got 100 pages into Fellowship before giving up out of boredom.

[Anonymous No.23355385]

>>23354017
I have no interest in sharing my writing with anyone outside of a few artwhore poets I find irl or on social media, only so I can absorb their compliments and maybe try to woo her and make love with her. This has worked multiple times and I have another in my clutches right now.
My goal is to build my way up to Lady Dakota Warren. Which wouldn't be as impossible as you think.

[Anonymous No.23355400]

>>23354017
Good reading pace for Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.23355664]

I couldn't finish the Stranger. I read this board on the daily though

[Anonymous No.23355672]

>>23355664
It's really sorry though

[Anonymous No.23355687]

>>23355672
am I esl or are you esl?

[Anonymous No.23355696]

>>23355687
Sorry, on my phone. Autocomplete chose "sorry" instead of "short" .

[Anonymous No.23355721]

>>23354017
It took me about 6 years to read through Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.23355748]

I find anything written before WWI unreadable.
>being the eldest by a minute of seven small cousins born in the depths of a harsh winter in the parish of Middling it fell to the lot of my father, in the absence of his own father, to perform the role of pater familias to not only his own family but the spare offspring of any stray orphans left to the mercy of the parish by such itinerant mothers as were passing through of which there were no small amounts in those hard years in the early to middle part of this the glorious reign of our sovereign Victoria to whom I dedicate this account of the my early life and the adventures which befell me when I had come of age and set out to seek my fortune independently of the paternal hearth
No.

[Anonymous No.23355761]

>>23354017
Lol

[Anonymous No.23355766]

>>23354017
I have only read 5 of the lit top 100, Lolita is my favourite so far. I have not read any of the Greeks but I will start with that soon.

[Anonymous No.23355800]

>>23354017
I'm a poser who can't read but collects books. I suffer from seeing rivers in between the text

[Anonymous No.23356103]

I read women writers

[Anonymous No.23356148]

I tried reading lattimore's Iliad and I gave up in book 5

[Anonymous No.23356178]

>>23355400
True. If I'd read it slower the first time, I wouldn't keep finding completely new things on the 4th read through.

The speed reading meme on /lit/ is fucking pathetic, NPC anons trying to ingest text like a LLM instead of reading at a natural pace for the material (24 hours of reading per in-story day)