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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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>>7316842
Nice OP.
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>>7316842
>Read various books at the same time.
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I pay prostitutes to read to me
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Ok, uhm... Hi /lit/!
I'm new to this board, and the reason I come to you is because I want to develop a good reading habit. My gf and I want to start this "book club" kind of thing, where we read the same book and we discuss it while we make weekly progress on it.
I would like your opinion and recommendations, we're both light readers, meaning we've read books before, but they're mostly your typical commercial books, you know Harry Potter, DaVinci Code, Memoirs of a Geisha, World War Z, you get the idea.
I did browse the wiki, but I don't know where to start, which is why I come to you in seek of help
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>>7316824
Start with the Greeks.
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Read Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men would be a good start
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>>7316824
Start with Don Quijote, the first bona fide novel. If you can't handle that, you're not /lit/erary enough.
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So there's a lot of wish fulfillment romantic literature for women, but what's the equivalent for men?
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>>7316806
Escapist fiction
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>>7316806
Pornography
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>>7316812
That's too broad. I mean with a focus on wish fulfillment.
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I havent read much of King's work. I can buy this for really cheap. Ive read some reviews and it seems to be that diehard fans are not liking pic related. Heres the thing though, I havent always agreed with the taste of these fans, and I've found things that they dislike to my liking and vice versa, so Im thinking I might like it. anyoje here read it yet? or perhaps it might be too early and no onoe has. in any case I like short story collections and I've been thinking of getting Everything's Eventual by King. is it worth it? only 8 buckaroos.
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Stephen King is a horror writer
>>>/x/
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>>7316675
His short works are usually good, OP. As for his other books...The Dark Tower saga, the Stand and It are pretty good. Also Bag of Bones is also quite good because his writing style in this one particular book is amazing.
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>>7316713
I want to read some of his other important stuff like It, Misery, and the Stand before I dive into Dark Tower. thanks anon.
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Verdict?
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>>7316582
What is this?
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>not writing "You gotta beliebe"
DroppedSeriously OP, what on earth is this thread about? What book is that? What is your question? What is your starting point for a discussion?
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Apparently this is Trump's new book.
http://time.com/4089157/donald-trump-book/
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Why do I find him so easy to relate to despite never having been religious?
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>>7316528
We all have things we worship.
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Everybody worships.
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he's not religious in the book.
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I'm about to JIZZ ARGGHHHH
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/r9k/? /b? /s4s/?/his/?
what you doin' here boy?
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a yukio mishima thread?
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Hey don't make fun of my patron Saint baka desu senpai
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So I'm halfway done with reading Confederacy of Dunce and noticed pic related as been mentioned all throughout the book.
Is it worth a read even if I have yet to read any of the Greeks?
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Wait, are you implying that you started confederacy of Dunces without having done the Greeks?
How can you understand any of it?
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What am I in for, /lit/?
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Repentance with the french revolution in the background
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>>7316251
PRISONER 24601!!!
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>>7316968
>repentance
you mean the general theme, or this obscure georgian film? if the latter, you have nice taste
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/michel-houellebecqs-submission.html?
Knausgaard reviews Houellebecq
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>I took Huysmans’s best-known book, “Against the Grain,” with me to my daughter’s gymnastics practice and sat on the benches, drinking coffee from a plastic cup and reading while she somersaulted about on the mats below along with perhaps a score of other 10-year-old girls, in a harsh and glaring light as one hit song after another blared out of the public address system.
What did he mean by this?
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janitor m8 please
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>>7316227
this was really good, thanks for sharing senpai
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Do you think authors are compensated rightly these days?
Average prices by edition
>hardcover $22
>paperback $14
>digital edition $14
Sales volume by edition
>paperback: 50% of the total copies
>hardcover: 25%
>digital: 25%
Average royalty rates: 15%
Average agent fees: 15% of your royalties
(28+22+14)/4*0.13(1-0.15)=2.04
You get roughly 2 bucks per each copy your book sells.
t. a worker at a publisher
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No. Especially considering that most authors are dead now. The contemporary writers are still getting raped. You have to figure out a way to make money outside of the actual craft. Sort of like YouTube. You can't rely on views for revenue. You have to use those views to generate it via merch, movie deals, products, talks, guest work, etc.
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>>7316255
>YouTube
I heard you get $4 per 1,000 views. Is that correct?
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>>7316224
that is why you self publish once you've made your breakout
musicians do it all the time. they release one good album and get cúcked by the publishers, then start their own record label and release the rest of their albums via that
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Hey guys, I am 22 and I have read a lot when I was a teenager. I am a very cynical and a person of critique. I am also a non-native English speaker, and I am trying to get through ''The Last of the Mohicans''. It is really difficult for me, both the language and all the descriptions, with 2 page long descriptions of how some man stood. My attention span is very bad (I have bi polar). How would you suggest reading this book or should I not read it? How would you rate it guys?
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>>7316054
>non-native English speaker
Deport yourself.
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>>7316061
I live in my home country, in Eastern Europe :)
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>>7316054
>I am a very cynical and a person of critique
sounds like me
I'm nihilistic with a wicked sense of humor
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Do you know any books that helped you overcome anxiety and depression?
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>>7316039
the trial
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Nietszche
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>>7316051
really?
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I finally finished reading this (Longfellow translation).
I recognize the genius behind it and it's obvious Dante was intelligent and very well read but I really can't say I overly enjoyed it.
Would a different translation or more knowledge of Christianity (and its many notable contributors) increase my liking for it?
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Reading up on it might do it. It should include relevant information about Christianity.
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>>7315982
fanfic doesn't belong on /lit/
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Clive James' translation if you want a more bombastic, modern translation that takes a lot of liberties with the source text
John Ciardi's if you want a perfectly serviceable translation with great notes on the deeper allegorical meanings of the work
The Hollanders' translation if you want each cantica in seperate , aesthetic at volumes brimming with academic commentary. Probably the dryest of the three but still very enjoyable.
A lot of the reason the Divine Comedy is so popular is because Dante is very intimate with his reader, addressing him directly and inviting us to go along with him. In a sense, the best readers perform a bit of their own moral inventory as they accompany Dante along. If you read this not as a dusty old poem but as a great work of moral fiction, and really sit on and contemplate the horror of Hell and the beauty of heaven, it s one of the most powerful poems I've ever read. Approach the historical figures present in the poem not as boring historical figures but real actual people who lived who did some fucked up shit and were saved by the grace of their faith in a better life.
Not to mention Dante's language always shines through
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Hey /lit/. I've been lurking on and off for the last couple years, and I've found so many great books because of you guys. This Christmas I'd like to give back, so I'm planning to send out a stack of books to some random /lit/izens.
This thread is for planning logistics and to figure out who'd like to sign up and join in.
I don't recall ever seeing this before on this board, so the first thing I'd like to find out is if it's been done before and how it worked out.
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>>7315890
I'm sorry, how would this fit better on /his/?
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>>7315921
it's a meme