Reading for enjoyment

>>9554286
How do you find out what you like to eat/watch/listen to/etc desu? It takes time and work on your part. You'll get there.

>>9554297
What do you do when you feel forced reading a book, do you just stop reading it until it interests you again?

>>9554302
I'll spoil it for myself, read what greater minds wrote about the work, take some time off from reading it, approach it from a different angle, investigate my distaste and force myself to articulate what it is I dislike, any number of different things. It can be a rewarding process.

Read collections of short fiction by multiple authors to gain more exposure. & Wait for books to make themselves relevant to you, instead of reading classics just because others say you ought to.

>>9554332
>Read collections of short fiction by multiple authors to gain more exposure. & Wait for books to make themselves relevant to you, instead of reading classics just because others say you ought to.
Do you have any recommendations of short fiction?

>>9554302
If you think it's worth finishing, then finish it.

But you don't have to aim for 100% comprehension of every passage. Practice your speedreading. When you're done you'll still be glad you finished it, and if you ever want to reread it in the future then you can aim for greater understanding then.

BNW is so short I would recommend reading it just so you can understand all the cultural references. It's really a thought-provoking novel about how a hedonistic society can be just as disturbing as a totalitarian one. Quite relevant in today's world, I would say.

Or just put it down and take your soma.

>>9554466
>But you don't have to aim for 100% comprehension of every passage. Practice your speedreading. When you're done you'll still be glad you finished it, and if you ever want to reread it in the future then you can aim for greater understanding then.
>>9554446
I appreciate your advice, I am going to start reading it tomorrow morning instead of using my phone when I wake up.

>>9554286
I e-mail old English professors and classmates. Fun way to keep in touch and find new stuff to read if I feel too lazy. I try to finish a book if I start it. I don't mind reading crap though.

>>9554502
I've always had issues focusing, only if I find something I really like I can read it in days.

I don't know how best to describe it, but I like authors who attempt to describe fundamental truths about humans in a very oblique way. My favourite writers are Dante, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Donne, Montaigne, Browne, Carlyle, Melville, Beckett,
(Hart) Crane, Gaddis. A constant preoccupation with biblical scripture and focus on language filtered through a romantic sensibility, I guess.

Any reccs?

>>9554286
YOU MUST BE SO GLAD YOU'RE A BETA

You notice things you like when you read. As you read lots and lots this naturally grows and you inevitably turn into a pseud who only enjoys underground erotic realism written in soviet Russia between 1954 and 1961

>>9554302
I felt the same way with Catch-22. The prose was great, but there was nothing happening. Ultimately, I was on a 10-hour flight to Singapore with nothing to do. I read all of it in that flight, and I'm glad I did, because it was beautiful.

Brave New World was one of the first books that I seriously read as I came onto /lit/. It is an amazing example of a dystopian society based on human evolutionary psychology. The 'soma' drug is fascinating. To this day, years after having finished the book, I still wonder if the people there were happier than we are today. They didn't know that their happiness was artificial- they were genuinely happy.

I highly suggest you read it, brother.

>>9554297
That is what my uncle said when I protested his advances..