hey, this is only 80 pages, this won't take lo-

>>8435913

i read it in one sitting

i think you are supposed to. it gives the "life in a second" afterbook vibe

>>8435918
I don't like doing that at all, I need to contemplate what I'm reading to make sure that I'm understanding it before I go on. A lot of times when I read something I feel like I don't really understand it, so I have to re-read a paragraph multiple times, just so I feel confident in the absolute that I have fully understood what I've read and wouldn't need to go back and re-read.

>>8435922

Same here. I need to digest the prose itself or else... why not just sparknotes book, you know?

I fucking hate how time consuming it is tho. 15 pages per 1hr is fucking slow.

>>8436002
>>8435922
Read it in one sitting quickly; then reread it. It'll take a lot less time having "grasped its unity"; you have a wider context in which a certain part might make sense. I suggest reading "How to Read a Book".

>>8436037
>I suggest reading "How to Read a Book".
by what author?

>>8436043
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. It mainly applies to non-fiction, but there are sections on how to read fiction as well; the rules of reading fiction are just permutations of the rules of reading non-. It's a great book, but reading by its rules is difficult.

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>>8435913
I did not like it very much. It didnt give me as much, as narciß and goldmund or steppenwolf gave me.

>>8435913
I read this really fast actually. I don't get why everbody bitches about it so much. It's a nice little book about life, change and humility.

I don't think it's the masterpiece some people claim it as, but it's a pretty decent book. I was forced to read way worse shit in high school lit (looking at you ethan frome).

unreadable after it was caught up in its own babble about halfway through. not a bad book though.