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I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
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>>8088202
Thanks for the peripheral vision thing senpai. Maybe I'm a pleb for not knowing it already but whatever.
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>reading is a competition
Why do people feel the need to use speed reading strategies? Using your peripheral vision hurts your comprehension and appreciation for the writing. Would you watch a TV show at 1.5x speed? Stop thinking of reading as a chore or something to boast about and just enjoy yourself.
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This shit isn't that complicated. Eat, piss, put your phone and computer far out of reach, sit in a comfy chair w/ a book and read for x hours.
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Are you a spiritual person, /lit/erati?
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Depends on your definition of spiritual. My spirituality more or less belongs in /x/, by traditional standards.
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No I'm a materialist
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>>8087902
i am a religious person but without a religion. i hold onto the things i was taught as a young catholic but i have abandoned the church because the idea that an all-knowing and all-powerful god could be such a dick is too ridiculous.
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My name is Anon, and I'm an addict.
This is getting out of control, /lit/. I've been reading during every free moment but I'm still buying much faster than I could possibly read. How do you all fight the temptation to keep buying all the books you want? I always justify it by saying "I'd buy them eventually anyway" but it is out of control. My current backlog is now around 100 books.
This is just this week's haul (minus four more that aren't with me right now).
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>>8087720
Fucking 4chan and the rotated pics.
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I just stop buying books, you fucking idiot.
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>>8087726
lol this is fucking retarded.
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Just finished reading pic related. Where's my prize, /lit/?
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>>8087497
the prize is a hopefully slightly expanded conciousness, as will happen after reading any great work of fiction.
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There'll be a letter in the closest waste bin.
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Zizek is called "the most dangerous philosopher of the West". Who is or was the most dangerous philosopher of the West in its entire history?
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Karl Marx
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>west
you're thinking most dangerous philosopher for the west
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>>8087343
>johnny foreigner from some irrelevant balkan shithole
>western
yeah ok
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The most dull-witted things a person has told you about books.
I'll start : You could have read the Bible 2 times already instead of wasting time on normal books.
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There Bible is the most literarily significant book
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>>8087200
>Books makes you smarter.
>People that read are more tolerant and express their ideas coherently
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The only reason that would have been dull-witted is if it were in fact not true that the amount of other books you had read did equate to reading the bible twice.
Suggesting books isn't dull-witted, it's a matter of taste.
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What should I read next lit? I have a looooot of stuff to read.
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>>8087179
ooooohhhh! Rand and Dostoyevsky on the same shelf.
>So deep
>End yourself
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>>8087179
OP, did you just go out and buy the edgy college student philosophy 101 reading list?
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>>8087179
Hahaha!! Kill yourself, fagit!!
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Can you guys recommend me books about gender dysphoria and longing to become a girl?
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infinite jest. it's a little-recognized aspect of mario incandenza's character
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Nah, that usually doesn't happen in books. It's the other way around usually. Why would the smart and powerful male want to be the frail and petty female? It wouldn't make sense. It wouldn't be genuine.
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>>8086993
Thailand ladyboys?
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Does any translator do a better job than this?
Ch8 book 8 (the Karamazov brothers)
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Constance Garnett omits the soldiers line.
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>>8086399
What translation is it?
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>>8086988
Avsey.
Memes aside, P&V seems to do poorly.
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>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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>There are people out there that unironically think that the world of Ice and Fire is an example of deep worldbuilding
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First for Paul Atreides Muad'Dib, emperor of the universal Imperium, lord of Arrakis and the spice Melange, leader of the Fremen
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>>8086378
May Shai-hulud devour your soul.
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These are always interesting. Literary trivia thread.
Russian surrealist writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and his wife lived in separate apartments on opposite sides of Moscow, as he felt living together would "kill the poetry" of their relationship.
While living in France, Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school after he became too big to fit on the bus
Nathanael West died in a car crash while on his way to F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral.
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>>8086221
oblig Cervantes and Shakespeare died on the same (calendar) day
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>>8086221
Homer was actually a black woman.
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John Keats beat up a butcher's boy who he found abusing a stray cat
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Wanna get into politics, can you guys recommend me some entry level books?
A friend , recommend me pic related,The Prince by Machiavelli and No Logo by Naomi Klein, are these good entry points?
Thank you
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Wasn't erich Fromm a literal cultural Marxist from the Frankfurt School of White Genocide?
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Escape from freedom is great but I wouldn't call it a political work nor entry level.
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>>8086066
Well, what could you recommend me then? Entry level or not.
I just asked for entry level books, because i've never read a book aboult politics, but im not scared of difficult reads.
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Who is the male protagonist you most admire?
I havent read much but I have never come across a guy in any book who is totally worth emulating. I'm tired with tragic over-philosophising romantics, who is it that bridges the gap between internal struggle and material contentment?
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Musashi
This should be required reading for young men IMO
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The main kid in In Praise Of Older Women
Doesn't over-think, doesn't stand in his own way, is outgoing, is knee-deep in the vagoo, has normal and adult relationships
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Ahab
Dr Faustus
Macbeth
True men run themselves into the jaws of hell in a desperate chase for power or revenge.
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Bookzz is shit what is a good tracker for ebooks
No private trackers pls fuck that drama
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MyAnonamouse maybe?
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>>8085040
myanonamouse is fine, but oyu have to fiddle around with VIP torrents that you can only get by acumulating points as you seed torrents
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>>8085516
>Invites: 4
>Bonus: 99999
are you a pleb?
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The Canon Is Sexist, Racist, Colonialist, and Totally Gross. Yes, You Have to Read It Anyway. 2016-05-26 03:32:26 Post No.8084701
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The Canon Is Sexist, Racist, Colonialist, and Totally Gross. Yes, You Have to Read It Anyway.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/05/24/yale_students_want_to_remake_the_english_major_requirements_but_there_s.html
>the current year
>still forced to read dead straight white males
I mean C'MON, it's TWO THOUSAND AND SIXTEEN. I thought we were more progressive than this.
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But a lot of the canon is overrated and not applicable to our student's lives. Nor do we try to make it that way. A skilled professional could, but mostly it boils down to empty talking about symbolism and making kids hate books
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>>8084701
Oy veeey