Parallel Reading

[Anonymous No.16164944]

Do you read several books at the time?

If so:
- Do you put any thought into the assembly?
- Post current set

If not:
- why?

Also rate, discuss, recommend based on others sets

[Anonymous No.16164955]

>>16164944
Yeah. This is what I'm currently reading. Personally I just like picking up what catches my interest.

[Anonymous No.16164975]

[Anonymous No.16164998]

>>16164955
> Rise & Fall of the Third Reich
> Satanism and Demonology
> NIV Student Bible

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[R. No.16165063]

No I don't read multiple books at a time. I find if I do, my concentration to each is lowered, thus in turn lowering how much I ultimately enjoy the book. As such, I only read one book after another. I find it best for myself.

[Anonymous No.16165065]

I'll normally read a few at the same time as long as they're different enough.

Couple of different non-fiction books; one that I want to properly study and remember, one that is interesting.
Maybe two fiction at max, one long and one short.

[Anonymous No.16165119]

No, I tend to focus on a particular book and neglect the other(s).

[Anonymous No.16165128]

Of course, every /lit/ bro reads a fiction and a non fiction book. I'm reading Odyssey and Rousseau's discourse on inequality.

[Anonymous No.16165137]

>>16164955
What e reader is this?

[Anonymous No.16165168]

>>16164944
Yes, I often have to read a dozen books some semesters (the pain of being an English literature student). I don't have a photo of my current stack because next semester hasn't started yet, but here's a stack of books I had to read for my spring semester a few months ago.

[Anonymous No.16165183]

I usually do and they occasionally line up. At the moment I'm rereading The Cruel Sea and reading The Battle of the Atlantic, the temptation to reread the novel was too great when I started the non fiction work. I also read a short story collection and a collected journal entries or letters or similar but those are usually somewhat random.

[Anonymous No.16165220]

>>16164944
What goes well with pic related? Not terribly insightful (500 pages for brain lazy stupid or brain effort smart), but some of the experiments are interesting (depending on how much faith you have in social "science"), so I wanna finish it despite the boredom.

[Anonymous No.16165399]

>>16165220
Read the oxford handbook of sports and performance psychology. You can google chapter names in google books to read em

[Anonymous No.16165414]

>>16164944
One book on history or some other semi-dense subject to read at home and before bed, one random easy to read to keep in my backpack for reading on the train/bus/breaks.
From my experience you can probably tackle 3 books at once, but not any more than that.

[Anonymous No.16165441]

>>16164944
I just pick up whatever i feel like reading. Current set: Art of War (boring), Doctrine of Fascism + Fascism: What it is and how to Fight it and Growth of the Soil (pretty good).

[Anonymous No.16165449]

>>16164944
You mean starting a book without having finished the other? For me it is the only way to go, I'm currently reading Being & Time (again) and Aeschylus's tragedies. I can have up to four parallel readings, if more than that I may progress too slowly.

[Anonymous No.16165628]

>>16164944
I usually read 2-3 books at a time.

>Do you put any thought into the assembly?
As long as they're not too similar, anything goes. I would generally not read two books of the same genre, or by the same author at the same time.
>Post current set
The Books of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes

[Anonymous No.16165633]

>>16165628
>reading w*men

[Anonymous No.16165651]

>>16165633
And ancient sodomites.

[Anonymous No.16165652]

>>16165220
It's boring anon, I'm reading it and the unique reason to continue it, it's because I find a copy in portuguese and I'm learning Portuguese.

[Anonymous No.16165711]

>>16165652
Qual o motivo? Apenas interesse no idioma?

[Anonymous No.16166205]

>>16164944
>(((The Authoritarian Personality)))

[Anonymous No.16166693]

I'm always reading like 10 books at the time. The Handmaids Tale, The Unfathomable Ascent, The Second World War (by Churchill), the second world wars (VDH), World War Two (Norman Stone), Churchill, Hitler and the unnecessary War, Hitler (A.N. Wilson), Lenin (Dimitri Volkogonov), Stalin: New Biography of a dictator, the man who would not be Washington, the war that forged a nation, and an Explain like I'm five book in german

[Anonymous No.16166800]

>>16166693
>The Handmaids Tale
based
>The Unfathomable Ascent
?
> The Second World War (by Churchill)
cringe
>the second world wars (VDH)
cringe
> World War Two (Norman Stone)
cringe
>Churchill, Hitler and the unnecessary War, Hitler (A.N. Wilson)
cringe
>Lenin (Dimitri Volkogonov)
cringe
>Stalin: New Biography of a dictator, the man who would not be Washington, the war that forged a nation, and an Explain like I'm five book in german
cringe

Score: have sex incel

[Anonymous No.16166828]

>>16166800
t. Idiot who does not appreciate history

[Anonymous No.16166897]

I read one fiction and one non-fiction book as was suggested to me by several people on this board. It works wonderfully for me. At the moment I'm actually reading three books but this is because I'm reading the bible alongside the other two and I pick it up throughout the day to read a chapter here and there.

[Anonymous No.16167019]

>>16164955
Are you from BC? That first nations book looks interesting.