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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>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
This never happened though...
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I will keep asking this each time you post it: what's the joke here? The only thing remarkable is the 5 pages a day bit.
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I've been off /lit/ for like six months, aren't there any new memes?
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How do I stop subvocalizing?
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>how to be a worse writer and reader for the sake of speed
Son, you what.
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>>7532800
You don't. :')
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QUICK, /LIT/
I WANT TO READ 52 GOOD BOOKS THIS YEAR, AND I NEED TO START NOW
WHAT DO I READ
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start with the greeks
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>>7532694
Melal
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Has anyone read this?
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Yeah, but it's been a long time. I remember I enjoyed it.
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I've had about four false starts with this. I can't get past forty pages or so. Literally nothing is happening.
>le post modernism
>read any way you want!
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>>7532506
>reading serbian novels
evbin
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is there any literature for the cynic with anhedonia?
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How To 69 Oneself
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Anything by this guy
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>>7532501
catcher in the rye
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i'm about 450 pages into this bastard and still haven't achieved enlightenment. on what page do the heavens open up and the face of god reveals itself to me?
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>>7532483
The next page.
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>>7532483
>the brothers brothers brothers karamazov brothers
what the fuck
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>>7532496
these new artsy/ minimal covers are shite
aside from the camus covers those do a good job of telling the reader what to expect
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I have a $100 gift card to Amazon, I've read almost nothing as far as your foundation for general lit goes, what do you recommend?
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American Psycho
Some Thomas Pynchon
I suppose a few classics (Lolita, Catch 22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Honestly the /lit/ entry core is bullshit, just get in the habit of reading literature, not young adult.
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Also avoid penguin editions if you can, they fall apart rather quickly
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yeah not a bad suggestion. i just gave a coworker of mine an old paperback of catch 22. i figured its a good way to get someone into stuff with a little more substance.
OP you would probably enjoy david foster wallace. maybe Mccarthy if you want some stuff with a little more "Oomph" (blood meridian is an ultra violent western and all around classic) Don Delillo is also good and White Noise is fairly easy to read and deals with some interesting themes.
oh and Kafka. Definitely read some Kafka.
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/lit/, I come to you in a time of need.
For reasons which I cannot explain here, I am doing a project, in which I have to create something which represents the theme of a book of my choosing, me being an idiot, I chose Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".
Thing is, only thing I know about this book is the first hundred pages, after which I started reading chemistry textbooks, and the classical epin ayn rand memes, this is due in two days.
Please /lit/, I need your help.
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Create what specifically? Anything? A video? A paper? A diorama?
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My instructor didn't explain this very well, she said we could create pretty much anything within reason that represents the theme, I had an idea, for a railroad game of sorts, a railroad must travel on a track which splits into multiple paths, the conductor must choose which path to go on, one path representing his self-interest, the other representing the interest of the passengers.
Kinda autistic, but, you get the idea.
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>>7532437
Have a game where it's yourself against the rest of the class. Whoever wins gets a candy bar if they cross a particular threshold of points (lets say 25). Basically have a succession of choices that are either/or, with you either benefiting yourself in points or benefiting the class in points. Ask the class which choice you should make. Argue that it's in your self interest to make the choice benefiting you. When they say that's not fair, tell them that's the rules of the game, and since you made the rules, you'll choose how you want. If they decide they won't play, tell them you'll take all the candy bars for yourself. Keep arguing untenable positions that justify you getting everything and them getting nothing unless they obey you.
In summary, just make class a living hell.
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He hasn't finished Winds of Winter, and it's not even his last novel.
It's been taking him an average of 7 years to complete these books, and it gets longer as he gets older and more distracted by fans, cons, events, award shows, publicity, etc.
Face it /lit/, he will never finish A Dream of Spring. You really think he has 10 years left in him? By that time Game of Thrones, the show, will have had 10 seasons (or less), will have been cancelled, and will have been loooong forgotten about.
You will never know how the greatest series of all time, ends. And guess what /lit/? Stannis will always be dead. GRRM will die soon. You're fucking finished m8s. It's over.
How do you feel about the fate of the series filled with the greatest books ever written in the history of civilization.
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You haven't been on /lit/ long enough if you think /lit/ cares at all about asoiaf. All we get are a few annoying /tv/ posters who visit seasonally depending on HBO's schedule; otherwise, gurm gets about as much attention as any other fantasy writer.
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And... The seventh season of GOT will be the last.
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>>7532254
Is that why there are 5 threads that are to do with GRRM and ASOIAF on /lit/ right now?
You just can't admit that ASOIAF is a legendary book series, and that it's better than your philosophical shit.
I mean really, name me one series that has managed to keep up with nearly or over 1,000 pages in each installment. That's right, there are none other than ASOIAF.
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big brother was right all along
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Post your face when you realized Big Brother did nothing wrong.
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What about the faux wars they waged with the other autocracies of 1984's earth; how they dumped resources into a self-perpetuating black hole. And everyone was in on it.
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biggest number wins
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Now post your list of gfs OP.
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>>7532153
breeders leave
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>>7532153
>197 books to buy
>how can i possibly afford dates
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What kind of job can I get with a BA in English?
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how good are you sucking dick?
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>>7531960
If you're monolingual, then I have bad news.
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>>7531974
Not very good
>>7531994
Could I not teach?
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What are some (good) novels or short stories that have characters who become aware of the fact that they're in book?
What about novels or short stories that involve experimental interactions between character(s) and author?
Are there books that execute this well? It seems like it can get masturbatory pretty quickly
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google meta literature
the recommendations you'd get here'd be no different than a ones you'd find on google or wikipediathe concept works better in films desu
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>>7531863
At Swim-Two-Birds
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not exactly what you're looking for, but If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino is extremely meta and playful without being masturbatory
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Anyone reading or has read the book? Currently reading it and while the pace is a lot slower compared to A Storm of Swords, I'm really getting into it.
Doesn't change the fact that it's still very slow-paced, though. Wish it picked up speed.
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AFFC and ADWD are two of the worst books. The plots get a bit convoluted, and they are more boring compared to the other ones. That being said, it does expand the world more, and the interesting parts are indeed interesting.
Also, despite being two of the worst ASOIAF, they are still great books,
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I agree on the interesting parts. The parts where things start to pick up are some of the best, but there's not much of them, sadly. Let's hope Winds of Winter has something more in store.
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Rory Gilmore read a helluva lot of books - and Australian writer Patrick Lenton has compiled a list of all of them. So how many have you read?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/how-many-books-from-gilmore-girls-have-you-read#.jdxnPLe78l
http://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/all-339-books-referenced-in-gilmore-girls#.fqbWvpA2VX
http://www.blackwhitereadbooks.com/#!faq/cxh2
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>“I live in two worlds, one is a world of books,” she said. “I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann’s Way. It’s a rewarding world.”
That's a decent selection.
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>>7531810
>buzzfeed
aint clicking that shit nigga
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>>7531820
generic selection
could easily google "good books" and come up with that list