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>fucked up my attention span so bad that i can not read more than 2 pages

>> No.16597743
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Did you fuck up your attention span or are you reading something that isn't interesting to you?

>> No.16597768

>>16597743
It's really hard to tell at this point.

>> No.16597790

>>16597768
Easy to tell. Does that which you read, no matter how little of it, move you emotionally, intellectually?

If it doesn't then it doesn't interest you. If it does then it do

>> No.16597796

>>16597726
>read 2 pages of Nicho ethics before sleepy-time
feel like a dullard desu

>> No.16597805

>>16597790
Yeah, that's the point of a novel, to move a reader in two pages. You don't read, either, clearly, so... Everyone in this thread back to PlayStation. Fucking chinks.

>> No.16597824

>>16597805
Oh wow, you're an actual retard huh?

Yes, a novel should catch your interest in some way, even within only two pages. If it's boring it should atleast add to the greater context, and if it's not boring then wonderful.

Choke on my nuts

>> No.16597828

>>16597805
>gatekeeping reading books
back to the middle ages with you grandpa

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>>16597828
>gatekeeping

>> No.16597857

>soijak
>no YOU are the one who doesn't read books
Kill yourself

>> No.16597870

>>16597805
Imagine putting words into someones mouth that they never even implied just so you can get mad at them.
do you have a REEEEEE quota to meet or something?

>> No.16597902

I was recently in the same boat OP, until I found another writer that fit the unspoken standards I was ashamed to have for prose (very short. written in an informational style. a bit neurotic). You should still challenge yourself to read the greats even if they're not exactly your thing, but if you also don't feed yourself with the kind of literature that's entirely 'your thing', you'll burn yourself out and stop reading entirely.
What are you reading right now that you're having trouble getting through?

>> No.16597955

>>16597828
>>16597870
you have to go back

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>>16597955

>> No.16597964

>>16597955
You have to stop being a pathetic whimp about whatever nonsense elitist standards you set for your world

>> No.16597984

>>16597796
I had the same problem with that book anon. Well written and very interesting but not exactly gripping. Not every great work has to speak to you.

>> No.16598008

>>16597902
I am currently reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarty. It is a good book (I think) but you described it pretty well, it burns me the fuck out for some reason. I've been off lit for quite a while now, so maybe I should just read some rather light fantasy adventure or something.