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17556738 No.17556738 [Reply] [Original]

How do you guys manage to read such huge books?

Where do you find the time?

>> No.17556742

I'm unemployed.

>> No.17556750

>>17556738
I read very very fast. I'm also a book reviewer for the Christian science monitor.

>> No.17556755

>>17556738
An hour a day should easily get you to about thirty books a year, even with some of them being quite long.

>> No.17556757

>>17556738
I was a NEET/student when I read these

>> No.17556759

I don’t really see the difference between 200 pages and 1000+. You just read what you read daily and it just takes more days. It’s not complicated.

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Just read 15 pages a day while you drink a couple of cups of coffee anon. They will fly by, especially if you have the capacity to enjoy them. It's a great feeling when your 1/5 the way through a massive book you are enjoying (Moby D for example).

>> No.17556763

>>17556738
Generally in the cushions of the sofa. What ever you need more of, good chance there is some in the cushions of the sofa.

>> No.17556776

>>17556738
I read only for the prose ignoring everything else that is relevant to the story or structure of the novel. .

>> No.17556785

my brain is so fried i can only read acouple chapters before switching to a different book (if not just surfin’ the web for xtra fryin’)

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>>17556776

>> No.17556876

>leyendo una traducción de pynchon y joyce

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>>17556876
This

>> No.17556909

>>17556738
>How do you guys manage to read such huge books?
One page at a time.

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>>17556896
Not doing a translation of Joyce all by yourself.

>> No.17557100

>>17556738
Take all the time you do Jack shit and read. I read for 2 hours before bed while my wife and kids are asleep and have managed to read 11 books so far this year, one being 1300 pages. It’s not tha hard.

>> No.17557172

>>17556738
I don't waste time on bullshit. I don't mindlessly watch TV or YouTube, and I definitely don't waste time on this fucking board. I'm on here for about 20 minutes per day, always as a break from reading. if you're on here for more than an hour day you are truly fucking up on an enormous scale

>> No.17557199

>>17556876
it's not his. That's an old post

>> No.17557235

>>17556738
I read the longest book I've read for a long time (500 pages) last month. So I don't usually read long books.

>> No.17557240

>>17556738
I’m a fast reader and currently only work on weekends. 1000 pages in a week is easy for me.

>> No.17557403

>>17556776
BASADO KEYED UNCLAMPED ROJOPASTILLADO

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>>17556750
>I'm a book reviewer for the Christian Science Monitor
That's very cool fren, one of the few newspapers which I read

>> No.17557579

What some good maximalist autistic literature besides the meme trilogy?

>> No.17557638

>>17557100
>one being 1300 pages
Les Misérables?

>> No.17557746

>>17556738
You just sit down and read.

>> No.17558004

>>17556738
The virgin novella
The Chad tome

>> No.17558069

>>17556738
I tend to read at minimum a chapter a day and have multiple books going at any one time so I don't get bored with a long story. It's tricky though, because you have to get invested into the story and if it doesn't "catch" you within the first couple hundred pages then it feels more like a chore than a pleasure. Plus, sometimes you just aren't in the right place in your life for a certain book, aren't ready for it yet.
I happily read Brothers Karamazov multiple times because I loved it, but it took me three attempts to finally get into Lord of the Rings enough to finish. I did end up loving it though, but I had to be in the right time and headspace for it.

>> No.17559078

>>17558069
this. plus audiobooks for some books above 500 pages.

>> No.17559104

>>17558069
Have you read The Idiot? I'm aprox 260 pages in (Chapeter 3 part II) and finding it really boring and underwhelming to other works by Dosto. Is it worth it to go on?

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17559240

>>17556738
>Spanish
I bet 100 pesos that the translated version is verbose and overcomplicated as fuck.

>> No.17559257

>>17556750
nice refrence tuber

>> No.17559348

>>17556759
You're right but it's still daunting. I get this annoyance about finishing things. I'll keep checking how many pages there are against how many I've read. I read 60 pages in a few sessions but I just see that there's like 600 pages and feel like I'm never going to get there. It's stupid as fuck.

>> No.17559416

>>17557579
the connoisseur's trilogy: joseph and his brothers, zettel's traum, women and men

>> No.17559470

>>17556738
Simple: I dedicated two weeks to reading one book instead of being a rush-chasing hyperactive dork.

>> No.17559626

>>17556776
pleb

>> No.17559628

>>17556738
>foster wallace
la broma indeed

>> No.17559637

>>17556738
PhD student here. Slacking off my PhD, spend the last three years reading whatever I want due to poor supervision. Soon to be unemployed, but the time I stole is mine forever. No regrets.

>> No.17559649

>>17559637
Unironically based and academia-pilled. Take all the money and time you can from them

>> No.17559749

>>17556776
Truly based esthete

>> No.17559773

I work on rotation basis, meaning I work for 56 days with almost no days off, and then I rest for the same amount of days, I can do whatever I want during those free days so I chose to read during that time.

>> No.17559832

>>17556738
It’s taken me 3 months to read 600 pages of 2666. Just read when you feel like reading (in your free time of course. Wouldn’t want to piss off your owners little pup.)

>> No.17559911

You just set your pace and keep going.

If you want to walk a thousand miles, start walking and keep going. Doesn't matter how fast or slow you go or how many breaks you take. Either you get there or you die.

I feel like there is a spiritual lesson in this.

>> No.17560021

>>17559348
This goes away the more you read. I used to do that too, but now I don't count the pages anymore, I just focus on the content of the book.

>> No.17560113

>>17559911
>>17560021
The problem for me with long books is if I take too many breaks the information doesn't mesh together too well and it's almost like I have to read it again if I want to really get it.

>> No.17560133

>>17559348
Sounds like you're doing a chore, not enjoying an art. No idea why you would even bother reading. You're probably best doing other things.

>> No.17560149

>>17560133
Some books are literal chores to get through, but you have to deal with them otherwise you get the constant bullshit from, for example, Marxists who always tell you to read Capital. That book is such a pain to slog through, but it has to be done to have any chance of being able to shut them up.

>> No.17560176

>>17560149
>Reading 19th century historiographic cult nonsense.
Might as well read Freud with a serious face.

>> No.17560253

>>17559832
>tfw it took me 5 months to finish 2666

>> No.17560389

One word at a time.

>> No.17560415

>>17556738
I read very slowly (mainly because I enjoy it that way) and I only read from the time I go to bed until I fall asleep. I read a book a week (~500 pages) that way, usually.

>> No.17560518

>>17560149
You have to learn to read better. Speed reading is a real thing, and there are guides for it.

OP it depends on the work you are reading. Some things will take more effort, especially older texts that have an odd cadence and prose. Once you get a rhythm you will likely fare better.

Make sure your reading environment is solid too. Look up saccades - many people don't realize how little distractions in the periphery ruin focus.

The best I ever read and studied was out in nature, in a comfortable and quiet atmosphere, looking down at a book with nothing distracting happening around me. People reading at libraries get distracted often by others mulling about, and little noises can detract from your focus more than you likely realize.

Analyze your reading habits first to see if this is a problem at all. Also, make time for your reading regular (similar to eating) and you should begin to feel it become habitual, second nature, rather than something you dread going through.

Also practice skimming certain texts for key ideas. Generally you can find all you need to know about a paragraph in the first and last sentences. Details in between can sometimes be skimmed (if you're used to speed reading) and you can move on with the gist. Unless you're going to be doing trivia nights or getting tested on material, you don't need to go slowly over every word with a fine-toothed comb. Many people do this and it's why they trudge through books.

Finally, I'd recommend looking into ephedrine and caffeine as a supplement stack taken prior to studies or intense reading sessions. 200 mg caffeine, 25 mg ephedrine (sold as Bronkaid in the states at most pharmacies, you need to get it over the counter, but it's not a big deal) taken prior will help immensely with memory retention and focus. If you're sensitive to drugs take 100 mg caffeine and 12.5 mg (half the Bronkaid tablet) ephedrine instead to gauge your tolerance and the impact it has on your own personal physiology.

>> No.17560529

>>17560253
I started that book a few times and never got through it. The prose was okay, and I still want to read it eventually, but it never grabbed me much.

I read Stephen King's IT and the full, unabridged The Last Stand way quicker. IT was paperback, The Last Stand was on my Kindle.

I have 2666 as a paperback, which is my preference for reading leisure material.

>> No.17560808

>>17560529
you should read The Outsider by King

>> No.17561135

>>17557638
No ‘Words of Radiance’. I know it’s pleb tier but I’m reading them with my son to build his confidence and enjoyment in reading.

>> No.17561186

if you really want to /finish/ a book, set a daily limit. for me, it's 50 pages everyday, so i spend at most 90 minutes a day reading. if it's a doorstopper, take a break and read shorter books in between.

i think it's important to be honest with your experience with the book. if you don't understand a specific sentence or passage, don't keep glossing over it until you think you get it, just move on. as long as you understand what's generally going on, you should be fine. don't get bogged down by aesthetics as your first run through a book shouldn't be a close reading. every author just wants the book to be read, and if you wanna delve deep in the details, do it after you've actually completed reading it once.

>> No.17561283

>>17560808
I watched the HBO miniseries. It was great. How does the book compare, assuming you watched it.