/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17161312]

I have a ton of books to read but I've never been able to just sit down and enjoy a book. One reading session for me would be about 15 minutes until I put the book down after getting bored even though I could read a graphic novel or manga for hours. How would you guys go about this?

[Anonymous No.17161322]

Read good books

[Anonymous No.17161337]

>>17161312
Just read man, read what you like and also push yourself to read and find value in something. Just dedicate the time everyday and you'll be fine, it's practice.


>His intellectual curiosity was limitless. He fairly lived on the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension.

>He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin or Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Shakespeare, Goethe; and analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel.

>He had trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato. Although the latter did not fit into his system, Hitler was nevertheless able to extract what he deemed of value. He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about willpower.

>His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He spent hundreds of hours studying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists like Clausewitz, or empire builders like Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.

>His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology. The universality of Hitler's knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of the 20th century. A thousand times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, with his mere cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.

[Anonymous No.17161857]

Try light novels or whatever trash gets you going until you get into the mechanics of reading. Then read highschool-tier classics, Vonnegut, Orwell, Heller etc. Once you start to become stuck in the thought-patterns of the book for hours after you put it down, you'll know you're able to get into the groove of a prose style. At that point you're ready for less accessible literature. Kids graduate from picture books every day. So can you.

[Anonymous No.17161863]

try. it gets easier.