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Hi, /lit/, I have a problem.
I love reading. I've always loved reading, but I feel as though I'm not reading correctly. Like I'm not ingesting everything as I should. I only read at a surface level and only after poring over hours of analysis online am I able to begin to understand deeper meanings in literature.

Has anyone else faced this issue and overcome it? I feel like I lack the necessary depth to become a good reader. I want to be a well-read person, damn it. Am I just too fucking dumb???

>> No.2911668

Most likely, no one read bedtime stories to you correctly when you were growing up.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gq__xGVgIbsJ:people.ucsc.edu/~gwells/Files/Courses_Fo
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>> No.2911669

Try reading a really hard book and see how you do.

>> No.2911675

read more

>> No.2911680

>>2911668
You might be onto something.

>>2911675
This makes sense too. Maybe I need more practice.

>> No.2912529

bump

>> No.2914013
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2914013

Read How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren.

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>>2914013
But how do you know how to read a book if the book explaining how to read a book is itself a book?

>> No.2914232

Read, try to make sense of what you read (why is this character doing this and not that ? What is so particular in this description ? Would the last author I read have handled the scene like this one does, etc. ?). But stop worrying, just stay interested. And keep reading.

>> No.2914270

>>2914038

there are a lot of pictures

>> No.2914407

>>2914038
Well they explicitly state that they're essentially writing for people who are on like a sixth-grade reading level and explaining how to read more complex things effectively in manner that isn't in and of itself very complex.