/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15227375]

>tfw read 140 pages today
Jesus I'm a fucking God

[Anonymous No.15227385]

>>15227375

But how dense was the prose?

140 pages from an artistically-typset illustrated haiku collection is only about 2000 words.

[Anonymous No.15227387]

Wrote 1400 words today. About average, still better than you.

[Anonymous No.15227393]

>>15227375
>tfw Read 600 pages today

Get over yourself

[Anonymous No.15227405]

>>15227393
That just means you have no life, I just feel guilty if I read that much

[Anonymous No.15227424]

>>15227387

1400 words? Of what?

[Anonymous No.15227450]

>>15227424
Of my absurdist novella

[Anonymous No.15227468]

After a certain amount you’re just ego-reading. You wont remember anything.

[Anonymous No.15227480]

>>15227385
I was a history book written in somewhat plain language, but I took effort to slow down and imprint the events and names into my memory

[Anonymous No.15227504]

>>15227450

Hmm won't take long to finish a novella at that rate. Remember to post it on /lit/ when you finish so we can read it.

[Anonymous No.15227581]

>Can't read too long without getting distracted or bored
>Have to actively force myself to read
>Takes me at least a week to finish a 200-page book
How do I fix my shitty lazy brain?

[Anonymous No.15227603]

>>15227581
Why do you read? Is it just some misguided attempt to make yourself more cultured/intelligent, or do you actually use what you read for something?
If it's just pointless entertainment, why not watch anime instead?

[Anonymous No.15227608]

>>15227581
Read books you actually enjoy instead of meme shit you find on /lit/

[Anonymous No.15227621]

>>15227608
>if you don't enjoy reading a book, that means it's bad

[Anonymous No.15227632]

>>15227603
>Is it just some misguided attempt to make yourself more cultured/intelligent
Well, yeah? I'd like to be less ignorant in general and most in-depth knowledge can only be found in literature. What do you suggest would be a better way?

[Anonymous No.15227667]

>>15227621
If you aren't enjoying a book, it's either bad, or you don't understand it. In both cases you're not getting anything out of it.

[Anonymous No.15227723]

>>15227375

The LORD rebuke thee

[Anonymous No.15227729]

>>15227393
Ha! I had sex with 3 different women and one man today on top of that. You wish you were this psychologically yolked.

[Anonymous No.15227749]

>only have the attention span to enjoy reading 50-75 pages of any book (45 mins to an hour of reading)
>only desire to read when I'm tired as film, internet, music, and games give me more energy and excitement
>by the time I'm tired and start reading, I'm out in 20 minutes so I only end up reading 30 pages at a time
>only end up reading maybe 600-700 pages a year because of this
when I was a kid I'd read 100 pages a night every night what the fuck is wrong with me?

[Anonymous No.15227796]

>>15227667
That's fucking retarded. Difficult or more complex works are always harder to enjoy at the beginning, but after some time and with enough preparation one's able to appreciate and, yes, enjoy the book.

The first time I read Infinite Jest I thought it was fucking pretentious gibberish, but once I got around page 200 I started to understand the idiosyncrasy of DFW and learned to appreciate the book for what it was. By enduring through the harsh beginning of the book I was able to enjoy the rest. If I had quitted as soon as the first couple pages I would have missed the joy I experience by reading the rest of the work.

This can be extrapolated to almost everything. The first time I played Dark Souls, for example, I found it unfairly difficult since I wasn't accustomed with difficult video games and ended up quitting after only the first boss. I wasn't until I gave the game a second try that I was able to pass through the "joyless" begining of the game and began to understand it to the point were it became one of my favorite franchises. The same happened the first time I started to listen to Prog Rock, Jazz or whatever non-normie music I listen to.

Beginnings aren't always full of joy. If anything, the most complex works are
often those that offer the most rewarding experiences. The harder the goal is to accomplish, the more joy it will produce if/when it is reached. Progress requires effort. It's ironic you can't understand something as simple as that.

[Anonymous No.15227809]

>read 10 pages today
How do you do fellow intellectuals.

[Anonymous No.15227824]

>>15227796
*Often the most complex works are the ones that offer the most rewarding experience.

[Anonymous No.15227899]

>>15227796
yea keep pretending you actually understand anything and that reading hard books makes you sophisticated. You don't need to prove that you are able to work through complex stuff and that by doing so you attain a higher form of awareness letting you 'truly' appreciate the human condition in all its beauty. All this is meaningless and only serves to make you look like a pompous fool who prefers larping out of the compulsion to impress an imaginary friend to enjoying anything. Go and idealize suffering some more, maybe you'll eventually realize the futility of attempting to understand anyone's intention behind their art.

[Anonymous No.15227919]

>finally find a good book
>savor it by trying to not read the whole thing at once

Could care less about the length.

[Anonymous No.15227922]

>>15227375
>read twenty pages at best
what the fuck bros
has internet porn done too much to me?
should I read children's books?

[Anonymous No.15228047]

>>15227632
No most indepth knowledge and wisdom can only be found in deep meditation

[Anonymous No.15228174]

I don't understand those that criticise others for finding reading difficult. In digesting complicated texts, it can be a slog and be painful. You just have to get through it.

[Anonymous No.15228262]

I'm wondering, does anyone find Hannah Arendt a slog?

[Anonymous No.15228283]

I had a friend who read furiously , he read a game of thrones book in 2 days

[Anonymous No.15228309]

>>15227375

[Anonymous No.15228325]

>>15228283
I read the first Game of Thrones book in a week when I was 12. That goes to say nothing. A 600 page Harry Potter book for a 11 year old is also nothing.

It's when you get to books with excerpts that English literature teachers find hard to understand, that you start to slow down.
The first half of Notes from the Underground took twice as long to read as the second half.

[Anonymous No.15228336]

During this quarantine I've cruised through the Histories of Livy and Polybius, Arrian's Anabasis, and currently halfway through Appian. Also finished reading At the Mountains of Madness, and I play piano and exercise daily. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

[Anonymous No.15228349]

>>15227632
>in-depth knowledge
I'd suggest not bothering your peasant brain with such things.

[Anonymous No.15228361]

>>15227899
cope

[Anonymoos No.15228380]

>>15227405
Hello, wage slave

>>15227393
Based

>>15227450
Do us a favor and don't publish it

>>15227468
Cope more

[Anonymous No.15228387]

>>15228380
literally a fucking crab

[Anonymous No.15228645]

>>15227899
Nothing of what you said was coherent. You're just coping because you don't have the patience to try to understand complex works of art. For you anything that requires doing any thinking isn't worth it. You can't understand that people find joy by working through a difficult goal, be either writers, athletes or scientists. You're doomed to mediocrity and will try to bring down, like a crab in a bucket, anyone who try to better themselves in any way. If anything, you're the antithesis of what you so hard try to defend which is not only ironic but distatefully pathetic.

[Anonymous No.15228838]

>>15227899
>projecting this hard
oof

[Anonymous No.15228863]

>>15227581
>Takes me at least a week to finish a 200-page book
That's really good, it takes for me one month to finish a 200 page book

[Anonymous No.15229220]

>>15228325
>Notes from the Underground took twice as long to read as the second half.
While it wasn't that extreme, I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one who felt this way.

[Anonymous No.15229294]

>>15227899
big yikes

[Anonymous No.15229525]

I would make more time for reading, but I must make time for video games and studying languages.

[Anonymous No.15229528]

>>15228645
shut up pseud and have sex

[Anonymous No.15229534]

>>15227385
purple prose isn't a mark of quality

[Anonymous No.15229560]

>watched a 30 minute youtube video on nietzsche today
Feeling enlightened

[Anonymous No.15229582]

>>15229560
I watched the new pewdiepie video on stoicism, same xD

[Anonymous No.15229584]

>>15227899
kafka pajeet is that you?

[Anonymous No.15230276]

>reada a book for an hour
>reward myself with 12 hours of vidya and porn
Feels good to be so literary

[Anonymous No.15230480]

>>15229294
>>15228838
>>15228645
>>15228361
stop larping

[Anonymous No.15230581]

>>15227749
You read 30 fucking pages in 20 minutes? wtf?

[Anonymous No.15230583]

>>15229534
Nobody said it was

[Anonymous No.15230641]

>>15228336
Based, what are you working on on piano?

[Anonymous No.15230653]

I read 2 pages in the morning

[Anonymous No.15230667]

>Why, yes, I simply read the introduction and immediately grasp the themes without needing to read the primary text. How did you know?

[Anonymous No.15230688]

I just finished 2666 by Bolaño. It was the first longer fiction book I read since Harry Potter, kek. Took me 5 weeks to get through the 1180 pages

[Anonymous No.15232084]

>>15227919
this, I rarely read more than 20-40 pages in one sitting. especially if it's dense

[Anonymous No.15232093]

>>15227375
> finished the alchemist in two hours
Step aside brainlet hack non-sex-having pseuds

[Anonymous No.15232107]

>>15227393
based fast and prudent reader

I average 70 pages an hour and 3 hours daily, but I wish I had the patience to read more.

[Anonymous No.15232152]

>>15227393
Wow really that’s it?
I readed 800 pages today

[Anonymous No.15232174]

>>15230667
https://youtu.be/BATPzXjmV_s

[Anonymous No.15232556]

>>15232174
basado

[Anonymous No.15232731]

>>15227899
>t. 70iq incel

[Anonymous No.15233283]

>>15232174
holy...based...

[Anonymous No.15233443]

I remember times when I would just buy a book and read it whole over one night without even realizing it
Now I don't even remember when was the last time I actually finished a book

[Anonymous No.15234149]

>>15230641
Early Genesis. Love me some Tony Banks, working on the song One for the Vine currently. My goal is being able to play and sing it simultaneously.

[Anonymous No.15234261]

>>15227899
That was extremely sad to read, you must have had a terrible education or a tremendously low IQ

[Anonymous No.15234485]

>>15227796
God damn this is exactly what I need to tell my friend. Ffs, I didn't 'enjoy' Moby Dick for Crime and Punishment for awhile during reading, but towards the end I could not stop crying from both books. Imagine if I just ate combos and watched a shitty TV show instead.

[Anonymous No.15234702]

>>15227796
Reddit as fuck

[Anonymous No.15234708]

>>15234485
>Imagine if I just ate combos
Nigga are you talking like pizza combos?

[Anonymous No.15234758]

but what about tomorrow?
what is the glory of a day in a life of mediocrity?

[Anonymous No.15234786]

I read the fourth Eragon book in 9 and half hours when it came out, it had a total of some 800+ pages.

[Anonymous No.15234840]

>>15227581
>1 wk per 200pg book
Thats great
More than i read

[Anonymous No.15234859]

I measure how much i read by the weight of the pages
I usually read around 14 ounces a day depending on page size

[Anonymous No.15234872]

>>15234786
You are like a little baby
I read those in one afternoon
I read fahrenheit 451 in 2 hours

[Anonymous No.15234873]

>>15234859
that's a shitty metric
The best is measuring by character count
I read 1000000 characters in 2 h

[Anonymous No.15235052]

>>15227919
Oh man are you me?

[Anonymous No.15235078]

>>15227729
>>15227729
I always knew /lit/ is full of Chads.

[Anonymous No.15235101]

>>15234149
>Early Genesis
quite based

[Anonymous No.15235173]

>read 1600 pp/day

[Anonymous No.15236296]

>>15234261
My IQ was tested when I was 11 years old and came in at 144. Subsequently I skipped two grades and became a pizza chef after graduation. Your pathetic attempts at shielding your frail ego through circle jerking isn't even amusing.

[Anonymous No.15236383]

>>15236296
Not him, but chances are the time of your birth to that test is the same as your post was is to that test. Post an achievement from the last decade

[Anonymous No.15236400]

>>15236383
>Not him, but chances are the time of your birth to that test is the same as your post was is to that test.

[Anonymous No.15236403]

>>15236383
My achievement is making delicious pizzas on a daily basis. This is what I chose to do and it is infinitely more rewarding than jerking yourself off over reading big books with lots of words.

[Anonymous No.15236408]

>>15236403
You understood what he meant in that first sentence? Can you translate?

[Anonymous No.15236419]

>>15236403
Hello, homecook pizza chef here. How does one achieve the grainy texture that some pizzerias have on the bottom of their dough? Do you just sprinkle cornmeal on the peel before building the pizza?

[Anonymous No.15236426]

>>15236403
>chose
I can choose to work at a minimum wage place as well. Post apartment

>>15236408
If you can’t read that first because of one word was inserted out of place then you’re retarded. I’m phone posting in between sets so you’re lucky I even bother putting periods

[Anonymous No.15236441]

>>15236426
>one word
That sentence reads as if somebody had a stroke in the middle of it.

[Anonymous No.15236457]

>>15227899
Uuuuuuuuuuh, /lit/ forever blasted the fuck out?????

[Anonymous No.15236466]

>>15236408
He estimates me to be 22 years old.

>>15236419
try putting it in the lower third of your oven instead of the center

>>15236426
I don't care much about possessions or money. Doing what I like is more important to me so the minimum wage does not bother me.

[Anonymous No.15236499]

>>15227581
I'm reading a 300 page book now. Been over a month, not 200 pages in yet. You're doing fine anon

[Anonymous No.15236501]

>>15236466
>Doing what I like is more important to me so the minimum wage does not bother me
You know there’s a whole spectrum between loving your job while making a low amount of money and hating your job and making a lot of money. It sounds like pure cope. There’s many jobs that would enjoy that pay much better

>I don't care much about possessions or money
>I don’t care about having a family and passing anything onto my children

[Anonymous No.15236580]

>>15236501
I don't know what you want me to say, obviously I am not perfect and getting a job at a better paying restaurant where the cooks don't sling coke all day is somewhat harder than you'd think. As to the whole children thing, my fiancee is yet unsure if she even wants any.

[Anonymous No.15236842]

>>15227375
>published an article today
Shut up dumb frogposter

[Anonymous No.15236855]

>>15227393
>he hasn't read ∞ pages today
lmaoing@ur life rn

[Anonymous No.15237999]

>>15234859
>reads the original Rosetta stone

[Anonymous No.15238004]

>>15227375
Rupi Kaur doesn't count

[Anonymous No.15238316]

>>15227581
Keep reading, you'll get better at it.

[Anonymous No.15238331]

>>15236842
May I see it?

[Anonymous No.15238376]

>>15227393
PFFFFFFTTTTT
you think that’s impressive? I read 4 of the first Harry Potter books today. It was about 1600 pages in total. You’re nothing special and your shit stinks

[Anonymous No.15238424]

I honestly don't get you guys that count the pages you read or even get anxious about it.
You guys just seem like pseuds to me that just wanna say you read classical books but you don't really enjoy them. Slow down and appreciate the prose god damn you.