/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2917730]

>not reading at least 3 books at a time
>in the year of our lord 2012

[Anonymous No.2917764]

I'm always reading that many.

Which 3+ are you reading at the moment?

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2917770]

>in the year of our lord 2012
That's the troll.

[Anonymous No.2917776]

-Dharma Bums
-Monkey Wrench Gang
-Tropic of Capricorn

[Anonymous No.2917863]

Reading moar than 3.
>Blood Meridian
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Science Firsts
>Ulysses
>Ulysses: Annotated, notes on James Joyce's Ulysses [if that counts, and since it's as long as Ulysses is I'm counting it]

getting me some /lit/core on

[Anonymous No.2917887]

> A Clash of Kings
> Dexter by Design
> The Host
It's like you're note even trying. Have you given up?

[Anonymous No.2917891]

>>2917776
I hope those are the three your trashcan are reading.

>>2917863
>too much autism to compute

>>2917887
He said reading, not watching.

Man, I just owned all three of you. Does that count? Does owning three four chan users in one post count?

[Anonymous No.2917892]

>>2917863
>reading all those dense-ass books at once

[Anonymous No.2917894]

>Dreams, Jensen
>Walden, Thoreau
>Moby Dick, Melville

[Anonymous No.2917896]

i'd rather not read more than one thing at once. i don't want to have to decide between three different books every time i sit down to read.

[Anonymous No.2917911]

>>2917891

[Anonymous No.2917945]

I used to, but it left me with a propensity towards abandoning books halfway in order to pick up the next book, and then repeating that process.

What do you think is wrong about reading one book at a time, one after the other? Just curious.

[Anonymous No.2917977]

>reading 3 books at a time
>not reading one book every three days

[Anonymous No.2918121]

>>2917892
>breeding all those space-ass lazers at once

[Anonymous No.2918135]

>>2917945
I think it's hard if not impossible because the internet (and 4cHAN in specific) has set the bar of stimulus so high, that we are unable to focus or keep attention for long enough before getting bored and looking for the next thing.

Think about it. You're in a thread for a few, maybe five, minutes and then get bored of it and move on to the next, and there's all those multiple threads on multiple tabs you have open. The whole internet is like that, engaging your imagination completely for about five minutes and then off you go.

I tell ya man, this internet...

[Anonymous No.2918136]

What the fuck are you doing you utter plebs? One book at a time. You think you're edgy or something?

[Anonymous No.2918138]

>not being 2 book at the time one fiction one non-fiction master race

[Anonymous No.2918141]

>>2918135
> I think it's hard if not impossible because the internet (and 4cHAN in specific) has set the bar of stimulus so high, that we are unable to focus or keep attention for long enough before getting bored and looking for the next thing.

Who's this 'we' you're talking about? I must know this to make sure to never have anything to do with 'you' in my life.

[Anonymous No.2918175]

>>2918138
>not just alternating between fiction and non-fiction each time you finish a book

[Anonymous No.2918179]

>>2918175
>being enslaved by the preference for fiction or non-fiction of your no longer existing self of the past
>not choosing in this very moment what you want to read

Consistency is slavery.

[Anonymous No.2918184]

>>2918179
If you're being consistent about not being consistent, you're still being consistent.

[Anonymous No.2918187]

>>2918184
I'm not though.

[Anonymous No.2918231]

I read one book at a time.

[Anonymous No.2918279]

Harrison Internal Medicine.

ACL Clinical Medicine.

Marcondes Basic Pediatric Medicine.

[Anonymous No.2918437]

I usually read 2-3 books:
1. fiction
2. fiction, but in foreign language
3. non-fiction