I feel like I can't remember much of anything related to

>>9923858
No and no.
Thats super natural. The point in reading shoudent be knowing word-by-word of work, it should be a expirience where you not only enrich yourself, but also understand what said author would think of a specific subject.
This is specialy irritating in philosophy, where pieces of shit will call you pseud for not knowing every fucking obscure word in some work, while these same retards forget the point of reading philosophy in the first place.

Dont fall for the "if you cant remember, then you are pseud" meme, this is just elitist garbage. Enjoy yourself, thats the most basic tenant of literature ever.

If you remembered everything you read, I assume you would not keep a library then.

I can't speak for anybody else but I forget most of what I read except for two or three things that may have really affected my worldview. What matters is: did the book change the way you feel or look at something/yourself? Did that remain with you? Then perhaps you've not 'forgotten' the book after all.

>>9923871
Oh yeah, I forgot to mencion, if literature was about learning by heart word for word of some book, then we all would be a bunch of haffez of several books.
Even schoolars of some authors dont know word by word of their area of expertise, why should you who is just a casual reader or enthusiast?

>>9923873
This.

>>9923873
>>9923876
Thank you for your input. I feel stupid not remembering things even if I know it's irrational.