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6779364 No.6779364 [Reply] [Original]

How much of a book do I have to read to say I've "read" it?

>inb4 all of it

>> No.6779369

>>6779364
Just the wikipedia section entitled "plot" really

>> No.6779375

First 2 pages and the back cover tbh.

>> No.6779380

>>6779364
All of it. Sometimes you can forgo the foreword if it's written by somebody other than the author and you'd rather develop your own take on it first, but that's the only exception.
If you read to tell your friends and the internet that you've 'read x book', you should go back to Reddit.

>> No.6779394

>>6779369
>>6779375
thank you

>>6779380
nice meme, contrarian.

>> No.6779396

Fiction - All of it
Non-Fiction - Everything you didn't already know.

>> No.6779402

>>6779364
What I usually do is this: I look at the cover, form an opinion on that. After I've done that I see if there is an index, if there is I glance over it. Proceeding, I just start glossing over the pages, read a sentence here and there, just go throug the book very quickly. After you've gotten a quick taste of the book, honestly, all you have to do to have 'read' it, is just look for a summary. Websites I really like to use for this are sparknotes and shmoop, but wikipedia can also suffice!
Now go on, my dear friend, and start enjoying the world of literature!

>> No.6779407

>>6779364
Was this not posted yesterday?

>> No.6779416

>>6779407
>yfw OP posts this every day as a commentary about repeating things when you don't do them properly

>> No.6779425

>Introduction
>Author's Note
>Preface
>Main Body (you can skim short lengths of this)
>Epilouge
>About the Author
>Back Cover

>> No.6780714

bump

>> No.6780749

memes

>> No.6780753

>>6779364
The book part.

If it's a bad book, at least 2/3rds.

>> No.6781154

all of it man.

don't be lazy.

>> No.6781160

>>6779364
Skim the title and you're golden

>> No.6781203

>>6779364
at least half of the book, man...if you don't like it, anyway, after the 50 first pages, you would know...and then you can just pretend you didn't like it.

>> No.6781376

>>6779364
Go to bed, Tai.

>> No.6781411

this is some 420hardbait

>> No.6781418

you're not in school anymore, no one is going to punish you for only pretending to read the books you say you read. You can say whatever you want to say, whenever you feel like it. And just like school, if you can talk the talk, nobody really knows the difference.

But it's like they tell you in school: you're only cheating yourself.

>> No.6781788

one forth of it, had you stated that you already were on at least the last segment of the book, you 'd ''practically'' know what the entire subject is about and therefore gain some sort of half-assed ''read'' entitlement.

>> No.6781810

3-4 times.

5-7 times if it's a short novella.