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>tfw you start to daydream while you read but your eyes continue to move along the lines

>> No.3795594

>You think you 'read' a page, miss a detail, and go back.
>The whole page feels foreign.

>> No.3795593

>tfw you start giving distinct voices and faces to characters and you see them in a long monologue when you get those unaware lucid dream.

Van helsing was cool.

>> No.3795601

>>3795594
oh fuck that

I hate it when it happens.

>> No.3795599

>>3795594
I know >that feel

>> No.3795626

>>3795591
>tfw you don'd remember names of characters

>> No.3795633

>>3795626
This happens to me all the time. My inability to remember names has put me in some very awkward situations.

>> No.3795654

>>3795591
This happens all the fucking time to me.

I'm honestly starting to believe that despite how much I love the written word and stories, I find the actual act of reading incredibly tiring and boring.

>> No.3795655 [DELETED] 

>>3795591
>>3795594
>>3795626

How do also you know these feels?

>> No.3795659

>tfw you finally started a book that everyone calls a masterpiece
>tfw you discover that it is actually a shit novel, very third rate

>> No.3795672

>>3795659
>tfw you try to create an epic new maymay but just come across as a cringe-inducing pleb faggot

do you know that feel anon?

>> No.3795707

>tfw you assigned a look to a character in your mind
>tfw the author describes him later on and he's completely different form what's on your mind

>> No.3795710

>>3795672
>maymay

You know, it's not pronounced like that. People are aware of this, right?

Ah who the fuck am I kidding.

>> No.3795740

>>3795672
>>3795710
>maymay

What?

>> No.3795749

>>3795707
>tfw author describes character/scene, and you have a picture of it in your mind
>tfw later on the book there's an image depicting said character/scene and it;s attributes and is completely different manner than what you imagined
Fuck illustrated books.

>> No.3795763

>>3795710
>>3795740
>being this new

>> No.3795779

>>3795707
Oh, I frequently ignore how the author actually describes people. I prefer them to look the way I want them to look.

>> No.3795788

>>3795763
>newfags pretending to be oldfags

>>>/b/

>> No.3795799

>>3795710
mee-mee?

>> No.3795805

>>3795749

>visualise main character with black hair
>halfway through novel
>"[main character] ran a hand through his blond hair"

FUCK

>> No.3795847

>>3795779
....

>> No.3795852

>>3795805
This happened the opposite way round for me with Draco Malfoy.

>> No.3795872

>>3795710

Everyone knows it's pronounced may-ME. Get with the program etc etc.

>> No.3795889

Anyone else try and avoid lying down while reading? I always end up drifting off to sleep. FUCKING NIGHT SHIFT YOU COCKSUCKER BILL I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE

>> No.3795897

>>3795872
>implying it doesn't rhyme with phlegm

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>>3795805
Gee, your life is rough.

>> No.3796048

Sometimes when I'm reading a book in my head I honestly think that, because I'm reading it in my head, I'm not actually reading it at all and I'll probably forget it all and when somebody asks about it out loud I won't be able to tell them about it because I read it in my head so I never said any of it out loud so I won't be able to translate it into like... out loud words. Does anyone else get this? It doesn't actually happen to me, I just think it will.

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3796057

>>3796048

>> No.3796062

>>3796057
That made me laugh but autism runs in my family so maybe I should be worried

>> No.3796078

>>3796048
I have the same problem, but it's part of my OCD. I get the feeling that I never read things through thoroughly enough and need to do it several times, even if I actually got it the first time. I just always doubt myself, involuntarily.

>> No.3796085

>>3795799
meem

>> No.3796499

bump

>> No.3796528

>>3796048
In some languages, like Latin, the vast majority of people didn't read silently because it was too hard.
English isn't like that though, get it together scrub.

>> No.3796548

>>3796528
That's interesting. What makes the language so hard? Is it something innate to the language, or were people as a whole, having less material to work with and all, less skilled readers?

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>>3796548
Reading silently used to be an amazing think for a lot of languages

>> No.3796572

>>3796548
it's not true

>> No.3796580

>>3796560
wow that bear got a cool old man necklace

>> No.3796582

>>3796560
Yes, but do you know why? In enough detail that I can argue it's due to structure of the language, and not social factors.

>>3796572
Right now I don't really believe it is either (I mean most kids now read out loud at first because they're not very practised) , but I'm no linguist, so I asked for greater detail.

>> No.3796584

>>3796580
it's a tumor
the bear smoked too much

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>>3795594
Oh guy, it feels bad.

>> No.3796613

>>3796582
>Yes, but do you know why? In enough detail that I can argue it's due to structure of the language, and not social factors.
I'm not that guy, but I know. The reason is that back in the day they didn't have spaces of punctuation.

itsreallyhardtoreadawallofobtuseforeignlanguagetextwhenitiswrittenlikethisforpagesandpagesonendandnotevenprintedjustwrittenoutinsomebodysbadhandwritingonanimalskins

>> No.3799132

>tfw when you read while drinking and the next day you try to continue where you left off, but you slowly drifted into oblivion so there isn't a page where you left of but about a spectrum of 'lesser known pages' spanning about thirty of them
>when you go back to first of them you feel like you're re-reading and bored
>if you don't you have no idea what's going on

>> No.3799231

Reading Pale Fire while sleep-deprived.
Out of nowhere Nabakov is describing a cat's eating schedule.

>> No.3799247

>tfw you're not sure if you enjoyed the relationship depicted in the book because it was well-written or because you could vicariously experience a relationship via the male protagonist

>> No.3799265

>reading a book that has an eerily similar mindset to your own
reading Chants of Maldoror while I was watching a lighthouse was a mistake.

>> No.3799282

>>3796048
This is one of the worst and best things about reading. If I'm not totally focused I tend to reread every passage in fear of missing something. However, this leads to me enjoying the book more.

>tfw have to search for word in dictionary even though you have an idea what it means but want to be absolutely sure about the writer's usage

>tfw end up going on an endless wikipedia-like journey through the dictionary where the etymology of one word leads to another cool word and you ultimately forget your original purpose

>> No.3800784

>>3795594
How do people manage to remember long parts of books verbatim?

>> No.3800794

>>3796613
And how did they come to have them? Works like the Oddisey, were they edited later on, to adapt them to an easier-to-read grammar?

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3800816

>not working within the dialectics of aesthetic inattention
hermeneutical cripples please leave

>> No.3800849

>>3799132
iktf
same thing happens when I start a book and come back to it later

>> No.3801478

>>3799231
Nice.
Sleep deprivation is great for creativity.

>and forCdre

>> No.3801490

>That feel when you're reading in bed, and then you fall asleep, still holding the book, and you dream that you're reading, and then you wake up and you realize that the last 5 pages you read don't really exist.

>For an example, in the waking world, Dune doesn't have a section where Paul decides to become Arrakis's best private detective by opening a bar and grill in Arrakeen where people come to tell him their troubles. Nor were any of Jules Verne's heroes captured by refugee pygmies fleeing religious persecution in Narina. And Charles Dexter Ward wasn't actually trying to summon ponies, either.

>> No.3801532

>>3801490
That sounds great.
I once fell asleep while reading "The Sound and the Fury" and I dreamed I was writing 4 reviews on Faulkner for different magazines. And still while dreaming I thought: "damn, I'm going to be a Faulkner expert after this".

>> No.3801571

>tfw you fall asleep while reading and you dream that you continue reading but then wake up when you realize the plot doesn't make sense

this has happened to me more than once.

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3801614

>tfw you look up a word in the dictionary, think it's a really useful word, and forget it despite the author returning to use it
>tfw your copy of the book is too valuable for you to be relaxed while it's in your hands/bag
>tfw the book is amazing but left unfinished
>tfw you will never read the book in it's original language

>> No.3801695

>>3795591
>tfw reading the a name of something for the first time and imagine it pronounced differently than the proper pronunciation
The proper pronunciation never sounds radical.

>> No.3801699

>>3801490
I did something similar to this as I was reading IJ recently. It differed though because I wasn't still reading but writing; writing glorious twenty-seven page sentences in the style of DFW.

>> No.3801716

>>3800784
you don't remember the page verbatim, but you certainly remember if you consciously read it a few seconds ago or not

>> No.3801844

>>3796048
Reading in your head was once considered heresy. Some religious type started doing it and people got all kinds of mad.

>> No.3801882

>>3801614
>tfw you will never read the book in it's original language
Just kill me now, or die in my sleep already.

>> No.3801917

>>3799247
>tfw ;_;

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3801930

>tfw you start reading a book and promptly start thinking up a story that uses a similar aspect, whatever
>can't read book anymore
>can't finish own story
>am thoroughly fucked

>> No.3801934

>>3801882
Now that's just an excuse.
You can learn even dead languages.

>> No.3801937

>>3801930
>that GOAT tier Amstell

>> No.3802037

>>3801937
Except he isn't even the best host of that show.

>> No.3802086

>>3802037
buzzcocks is not a good show

>> No.3802412

>>3795599
tfw >can't greentext

>> No.3802425

>>3801937
grolsch 4 lyfe faget