/lit/ - Literature

if people had the ability to double-jump, would or literature be much different?

>>9612690

This is similar to what I have felt also, actually, in reading philosophical texts. I know there's this idea in Adler's How to Read a Book that goes along the lines on just having an initial imperfect read and going from there, but it's tough for me to see it apply to literature when there is a plot and skipping around isn't much of an option. The advantage of the first imperfect read is that you get a better idea of whatever the author is telling you, I think, whereas rereading 3 pages that don't quite make sense limit your ability to penetrate them

>>9612708

I think you're right, it's just tough because I wonder if I do this compulsively. Part of the issue is that I think I reread so much that I lose perspective of the overall flow of the plot. You are correct in that there is no objective that tells you books should be consumed like movies, it's more of me wondering if my technique is off.

Thank you so much for the protip, it actually broadens my perspective by a lot. I may be more advantaged to read lines as they come and not obsess about memorizing the whole text. Thank you for your words of encouragement, anon!

I finished this last night. I really enjoyed it, at times the characters were very black and white, and I can see how one would find it boring. But train politics appealed to me.
I think Objectivism isn't bad, and has some points that I liked, but I don't entirely agree with it.
One thing really surprised me and that was Dagny straight up shooting a guy in the heart at the end.

>>9245900
GL, cat-sama

write the worst opening to a novel you can
then the ending too if you want

>if you never risk being seen as pretentious, you'll never make anything interesting

do you agree or no?