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>I only read 18 pages today

>> No.6523312

>its perfect weather for reading outside but my library books aren't in yet

>> No.6523325
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6523325

>I read 18 pages today

>> No.6523343

>>6523306

How big's the book, though? If it's like 1000 pages, come on guy you gotta step it up.

If it's like 200 pages, no big deal mate.

>> No.6523348

>tfw I cleaned my room today

>> No.6523361

>>6523348

>Moving in 3 weeks
>Need to pack up my shit
>Haven't even started

Also, I'm going for a book a month this year. I've filled my quota so far, how many books do you guys read a year?

>> No.6523368
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6523368

>not seeking tranquility of soul

>> No.6523373
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6523373

>read 50 pages of dense prose today and will read 50 more before bed

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>>6523368
>Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.
>Stop the excuses and the procrastination.
>This is YOUR LIFE.
>YOU AREN'T A CHILD ANYMORE.
>The longer you wait, the more you will be vulnerable to mediocrity and regret and shame.
>You know you are capable of better.
>And rouse yourself from the daze of unexamined habit.

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>didn't read a single page today

>> No.6523429

>>6523306
>I read 3 whole pages today
>of a pure mathematics paper

feels good man

>> No.6523441

>>6523306

>read 65 pages today
>absolute garbage given that the book is 3000 pages
>consider the 6 weeks I will spend reading it and feel joy given that it's one of the best things I've ever read

>> No.6523463
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6523463

>tfw 200 word essay due tomorrow

>> No.6523471

>>6523463
>200 words
That's nothing. Are you shitting me? I've written 4chan posts longer than that.

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>>6523471

>> No.6523476

>>6523471

Not many it seems.

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6523478

>only read 22 pages and it wasn't even difficult

>> No.6523479

>>6523463
Prompt? I can probably write it for you for free

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6523482

>finished "Steppenwolf" and can't bring myself to start reading the Kafka book I ordered

Shits depressing yo

>> No.6523511

>>6523482
i know that feel bro.
have been reading sickness unto death, and i only want to drink until i get a coma.

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6523535

>even if I read a hundred pages a day, it'll take me twenty years to read the entire canon
>forty years if interspersed with non-fiction
>by which time the opportunities in which to apply my wisdom will have long passed
I think it's time to drop everything and adopt the literary lifestyle.

>> No.6523579

>>6523441

What book?

>> No.6523586

>>6523535

>100 pages a day

I'm a fairly slow reader, and I can do that in 4 hours, less if the pages are smaller.

>> No.6523627

>>6523586
It's about three to four hours for me (though less for dense non-fiction and history texts of course), but that's about all the time I can spare. I'm considering dropping my internship and hobbies and sticking to a strict ascetic regimen of twelve hours of reading a day. If I did that, I could cut that forty years to about thirteen years of intense study, meaning that by the age of ~35 I'll have spent less than a third of my adult life, and yet have the entire literary canon and essential history, business, general non-fiction, contemporary etc. reading behind me, which I expect will more than make up for the lost fifteen years of career building. In fact, if I sleep for six hours a day, then that would only occupy only two thirds of my time, leaving me at least some light study or part-time employment to fall back on.

>> No.6523630

>>6523627
>(though less for dense non-fiction and history texts of course)
less pages for an equivalent amount of time, that is.

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6523766

>read 90 pages yesterday
Feels good

>> No.6523935

>>6523306
>still not realizing it doesnt matter if you read or not

philosophy 1
pleb 0

>> No.6523984

>yuropoor
>9 a.m
>reading the Inferno by Dante
>still at Canto III, bilingual edition, reading both tuscan and native tongue
>280 pages
>2 weeks left to read it

how do I step up, /lit/ ? computer holds me back from reading

>> No.6524012

>>6523984
just uninstall computer

>> No.6524349

I read 350-400 pages yesterday. I can only read on Sundays because of work.

>> No.6524363

As a general rule I read 50 pages a day if the book is absorbing and 25 if I'm just trying to get through it. With philosophical works I'll sometimes spend a few days just contemplating a page or two to digest the info. I'm reading The Society of The Spectacle and you need to really think about it for days to get a grasp of what Debord's trying to get across.

>> No.6524367

>>6523361
c`mon man, I work fulltime and have a 1yo child, I still manage to read 5 books a month.

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6524404

>tfw you realize that over the last week you've spent more time reading sissy captions on /gif/ than literature

>> No.6524419

>>6524404
kek

>> No.6524427

I thought you guys enjoy reading why do you count through the pages?

>> No.6524444

>>6524427
To know how much you've read. Why else?

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6524452

>Tfw wrote six whole lines of verse yesterday
not bad

>> No.6524483

>>6523441
Proust?

>> No.6524489

>reading Infinite Jest
>only have time enough for 20 pages each day
>tfw never going to finish

>> No.6524493

>>6524444
What for?

>> No.6524496

>be NEET
>read 418 pages today

>> No.6524498

>studied french for two hours
>read poetry for an hour
>will read non-fiction for one or two hours after i've showered
>maybe some more poetry
>finally in the evening before going to sleep i will read a novel for at least two hours

god bless neet life

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>>6524493

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>>6523306
>Read 0 pages today because I'm in law school and have to prepare my exams two months in advance
>unless we count 40 pages of sociology
>will read 20 pages of confessions over a coffee after 1 hour and 45 minutes of studying
> the problem is I may easily fail any exam
>even if you know a lot, 90% needed for this exam
>I fear that I will be stuck studying in college for the next 8 or so years
>already failed my first year once
>at least I can into existential dread

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>>6523463
>tfw 100 posts of shitposting due tomorrow
>still 99 to go

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> have to hand in my thesis on wednesday
> still have to write 500 words or so and clean up everything
> tfw academic language is fucking dry and I can't make a coherent text

well at least my English is better than average here in Belgium

>> No.6524531

>>6524498
>showering
dont pretend to be a neet

>> No.6524545

>>6523482
I always feel like this, I just push on through it, freeing myself of that pain by replacing it with the refreshing prose of the next author, making for an incredibly exciting read. At best I'll stay away from a book for a day if the last one I read makes me feel nauseous, however if the next book that I attempt to read makes me feel like I'm a lamb that has been through a meat grinder and then stitched up again, I'll usually give myself a few extra days off and replace the void with other media.

>> No.6524558

>>6523476
Good banter m8, subtle yet witty.

>> No.6524566

>>6524498
neets are probably the person in wich poetry can resonate the less

>> No.6524569

Theres this thing I really hate about books.
every single moment you are aware which page you are on, and how many are left ( might just be an estimate)
You never ask yourself if there are 2000 pages left because you know the book only has like 800.
I fucking hate that. japanese porn games don't have that problem.

>> No.6524571

>>6524404
>implying that doesn't count as literature

>> No.6524585

>>6524444

>pleb detector detecting pleb

>> No.6524598

>Had the day off yesterday and read a 350 page book in one go
Try smoking weed

>> No.6524599

>>6524598
> smoking the grassy jew

>> No.6524640

>>6524503

>law school

iktf. I made the mistake of starting IJ during school and it's taking me fucking forever.

>> No.6524786

>>6524566
retard

>> No.6524921

>>6524498
>NEET
>studying easy tier language
>only two hours a day
Nigger there are literary corpus's such as Sanskrit that you will never have the time to learn for to read in the original but now as a NEET you can. You should plow through French as fast as possible then pick a linguistically foreign language with a rich history so you can be one of the few who will be able to enjoy it in the greatest form.

Git gud

>> No.6524937

>>6524640
I've read 25 books this year so I think I'm doing ok in that department. Also will probably pass the year and 1-2 subjects from the second.
Not horrible since I have 5 more months to do that, but I have to play it safe.
also I've read the 1500 pages long City of God

>> No.6524948

>>6524921
Which would you reccomend?

>> No.6526162

>>6524367
anyone can read some shitty science fiction/fantasy novels 5 times a month, or romance novels

>> No.6526181

>>6524498
What do you do to study French?

>> No.6526204

>>6523361
Last time I moved, i packed everything the night before while tripping on acid. You'll be fine take a hit and pack a few boxes bra

>> No.6526207

>>6523407
watch porn all day

>> No.6526225

Do you guys cunt your daily pages for each side or both sides? It feels a bit like cheating having read, for example, 30 pages but only having advanced 15 in the book size.

>> No.6526427

Read 500 iphone pages today, no idea how many real pages that is