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Plotinus is great. Personally, I find his stuff about the mystical experience to be more accurate than other parts of his work, but he's definitely worth studying.

Appreciate the response -- do you recommend an investment in the Loeb set of 7 books?

What are your thoughts on pausing on Plotinus for now and jumping straight from Aristotle to St Augustine?

>What value exists in dedicating time

Take notice of what subject matter made you lose focus. Start reading again from there but surrender yourself to the text.

Set time aside to read and realize it's important to stay focused.

If you really can't stay focused then put the book down, but understand that you can build up your focus with practice.

>>8429408
Pop amphetamines m8. Not bullshit.

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>>8429408
>ADHD

end ur life

The last two LotR books, took me around 2 months each (but I was also reading shorter book in this period). Infinite Jest also took a long time, 3 months in total.

LotR took a long time most because I was kinda bored and not really into genre fiction, but I kept reading 1st because I just can't drop books and 2nd because some aprts were actually good, but far between

I read IJ really slowly, trying to keep up with the crazy timeline, and after 2 hours of reading I was through around 60 pages or so

>>8429399
Ulysses because it's boring as hell so I just read other books in the meantime

I've been reading The Bible for 3months now, still only at like 60%, I don't think I've ever read a book which took me this long.

>>8429308
I enjoyed it.
I prefer it to Catcher in the Rye, considering they share the same moral resolution.
The Bell Jar isn't as dorky or juvenile as Catcher and explores both a broader and deeper psychology.

>>8429308
I loved it. a shame she an heroed before writing more novels. anyonead Johny Panic?

>>8429336
i just got Johnny Panic out of a little free library a couple of days ago. excited to start it. I read some of her collected diaries earlier this year but had to stop after a point because they were too dour.

>>8429275
Granted I'm only 250 pages in, but even if it ends on a cliffhanger it'll be a good read, so far it's a 9/10. Much better than IJ.

Dfw literally got off on not fulfilling the reader, so im not sure what you expect from the novel he died before he could finish. Literally one of the notes for the pale king says 'Things threaten to happen but nothing ever happens.' Infinite jest has an ending, after 1000 pages, that occurs 'off the page,' that you have to piece together yourself, and if you werent paying attention then you have to read it again (and no its not as simple as reading the first chapter again, theres a lot more to it than that). His first novel, broom of the system, ends in midsentence, lmao. Dfw is literary orgasm denial porn for husky bearded grad students who wear khakis and lust after japanese girls. A confirmed hack

>>8429340
such poor, not thought-out buzzword spewing, rofl

inb4 you actually get people to believe this

>>8429236
>falling for the introvert/extrovert meme

grow up.

>>8429276
Agreed. Self-help books like these are only constraining, explore your normality through other literature.

>>8429236

>I think I'm different
>buy same book as everyone that thinks they're different

Try rereading.

Sometimes.
In particular I remember feeling that way when I read an introduction to Latin literature. After finishing a page I wasn't able to repeat anything I've just read. Their biographies, dates and oeuvres became a confusing mess.
But I'm rereading the book right now, half a year later and I'm surprised that most of it stuck.

>>8429202
This happens to me constantly, you've just got to address it and reread it, as >>8429209 said. Focus, focus, focus.

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>dude

>>8429185
really enjoy the idea, would read. my only thing is that it seems more like the premise to a movie.

>>8429185
>They couldn't even appear in a different spot.
I would say up to this part ^ was very interesting and metaphysical. It sounds like it would make for a good read as a short story/novelette.

I don't like the twist, I think it spoils the potential

are you 12?

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>>8429172
I never read any animorphs but apparently there are some pretty heady concepts in it.

http://www.bogleech.com/animorphs.html

I mean
I liked reading through the series in 4th and 5th grade.
I doubt I'd really enjoy going back through it now, though.

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TROLLED

>>8429097
Do you have no sense of fun or adventure?

it doesn't its trash like all of pynchon
except GR

>>8429069
The surviving fragments of Sappho

>>8429069
Wittgenstein

>>8429069
Nausea - JPS

>>8429017
I didn't know about this. I'm at 1.4 and I've got to say that is pretty comfy.

>>8429080
Sadly it turns to shit during the timeskip (you've got like 12 arcs to go though) so just skim when you get there until you get to the final boss, which is fucking amazing.

>>8429082
Does it get feels? Coz it looks like it gets feel. Other than that I'm enjoying it so far.

read we by yevgeny zamyatin

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>>8429011

>it would be really amazing if there were a book which actually makes you have a nervous breakdown,

t. corny teenage edgelord

>>8429073
>t. corny teenage edgelord
I really don't like it when people use these sorts of words, it's meaningless and annoying. Unless of course, that's what you were going for.

My 8th grade P.E. teacher made us watch this in class. I honestly thought it was all bullshit.

>>8428983
Okay... So what in the hell is this book about?
I never read it and never cared to. I remember years ago it became a thing and everyone had a copy. I didn't give a shit. Don't even give a shit enough now to research it. What is the secret? What's it about? and why did everybody waste their time?

>>8429234
self help book about how positive thinking can change your life

John Green ? More like John MEME!!!

There's something smug about knowing that one of the greatest writers to have ever lived is right in front of you. I see Green being mocked, but so was Nietzsche in his day.
We are witnessing the unfolding of a legend, mark my words.

200 years from now people will be reading John Green while most /lit/ writers will fail and will be erased from history.

Feels good to be alive.

>>8428968
yes