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Anonymous Mon Feb 18 21:56:34 2019 No.12622955 [Reply] [Original]

>300 pages in
>500 pages to go

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:00:20 2019 No.12622969 File: 18 KB, 480x360, 1550460909949.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12622955 what is don quixote

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:08:31 2019 No.12623002 File: 133 KB, 458x377, 0nS75H0w.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12622955 >still reading novellas

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:13:28 2019 No.12623024 >>12622955 >reading a book while not enjoying it >programming your brain to not like reading

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:15:28 2019 No.12623033 File: 123 KB, 399x404, 1534117951677.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >20 pages to go before finishing book >mfw it still feels like a fucking slog to finish

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:20:37 2019 No.12623054 >>12623033 >20 pages to go >start skimming and skipping sentences after reading the first few words STTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:21:48 2019 No.12623060 >>12623033 I feel like I always muscle my way through the last 50 or so pages of a book simply to finish it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:22:48 2019 No.12623065 >>12623033 >when you reach War and Peace's second epilogue

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:57:22 2019 No.12623236 >>12623024 >programming your brain

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 02:03:42 2019 No.12624022 >>12622955 I hear you, OP. I'm 340 pages into Alexander Hamilton and had to set it down and move on. I'll finish it in March.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 02:39:41 2019 No.12624132 >>12622955 length of the book is never the problem itself. If it's good then the more the better. If it's shit then 120 pages books are hard to finish.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 05:07:28 2019 No.12624523 File: 94 KB, 900x973, 1484281589444.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12623033 >on last page >takes 1 hour to get through one word

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 12:11:53 2019 No.12625820 File: 17 KB, 882x758, 1492555950532.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12623054 >20 pages to go >say, fuck it, and start skimming >reach ending >don't understand it >have to go back and read everything slowly

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 13:52:36 2019 No.12626254 700 pages in, 500 more to go. :-(

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 13:53:21 2019 No.12626256 >Kindle says 5 hours left in book >Actually 10 minutes left rest is endnotes :D

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 13:54:01 2019 No.12626258 >>12624523 >say it out loud to yourself >pace around saying it under your breath