It took me four hours to read Aristotle's 21-page "On

Not at all. People flex on here as if the object of reading is to read quickly, and as if they can all do it, but a really good book probably takes years to read.

>>9435312
>organon
dude, i feel you. particularly because my edition (great books of the western world) is so poorly formatted, i could not read the organon for the life of me.

i'm telling myself it's sour grapes and that i probably now more logic than aristotle did while i fuck off to "metaphysics" and "politics".

>>9435312

Nah, this means that you have a good grasp of what you're reading. Some books can be swallowed in one bite, others need to be chewed, and some need to be digested. Adler and Van Doren argue that only a competent reader can realize how little they understand. Read it a second and even a third time over.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

>>9435336
Metaphysics is basically impossible to understand without a deep understanding of Aristotlean logic. You will probably be alright with Ethics and Politics, though

>>9435352
Anyone else /howtoread/?
It really is as difficult as learning any other skill.

>>9435408
define difficult. there are rules to be learned like any other skill

>>9435371
Really? None of the secondary literature I read on said something like that.

To OP, that speed is not out of the ordinary for difficult philosophy.

>>9435715
Well people make out on this board as if though everyone already knows how to read or else they're retarded, but it's a skill that most people never develop.

Depends on if you spent that time thinking or trying to understand what the sentences meant.

>>9435748
Well most people aren't going to be on a fucking literature board or reading Aristotle so I wouldn't worry about it.

I feel the same with virtual everything in my life. Talking to people and not paying attention to what they're saying, not saying the right things because I'm not paying attention, reading things on 4chan (and anywhere else) with very little thought behind what's actually being said. I feel like it's hard to concentrate and really understand meaning.