/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5306977]

Do you remember what you read?

I read Candide a few months ago and already forgot almost all of it. I only remember that he went on crazy adventures, that Pangloss got screwed, and that I found it had many poignant lines, but I don't remember them.

It feels like a waste of time when that happens.

[Anonymous No.5306996]

Then keep a fucking book journal. Every time you are done reading just write down what you want. But knowing my generation, we are lazy shits.

[Anonymous No.5307016]

>>5306996
Goodreads is good for that

book-journal + instant narcissistic gratification

[Anonymous No.5307029]

>>5306977
Cultivate your garden, Anon.

[Anonymous No.5307039]

>>5306977
Compel yourself to memorize lines. Working on your memory is never a waste of time. Also this tend to happen less often when you reflect a lot upon what you read.

[Anonymous No.5307074]

>>5307039

This is good advice. I've been memorizing a long book in another language and now I find my memory is better overall for texts. If I try to memorize poetry, it is a lot easier and though, review is always necessary the more I practice the more it sticks easily. If you increase your memory like this, you don't even have to try to memorize everything, you'll just remember things easily even if you're not trying. I would recommend trying to memorize some poetry you enjoy with a good rhyme and rhythm.

[Anonymous No.5307106]

>>5306977

"I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Anonymous No.5307118]

>>5307106

Did you have to look that quote up or was it memorized?

[Anonymous No.5307139]

>>5307118
I had it more or less, but I'm not putting someone else's words in quotation marks without confirming it. Plus, my looking it up fits with the quote itself and the thread. (Of course, this being 4chan I suppose that's considered the opposite of the thing to do around here.)