/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19063860]

>he doesn't read abridged version of book to save time on filler ideas.

[Anonymous No.19063869]

Reading abridged versions means you’re missing out on the full story anon

[Anonymous No.19063871]

>>19063860
I do this with philosophy

[Anonymous No.19063875]

99 times out of 100, the parts they cut are almost always the best parts of the book.

[Anonymous No.19063876]

>>19063869
Do you remember every paragraph of the last book you read or just the general ideas behind it? I didn't' think so.

[Anonymous No.19063892]

>>19063876
novels don't have "ideas". They are stories. LMAO. Bugman speak.

[Anonymous No.19063910]

>>19063860
>he reads at all

[Anonymous No.19063913]

I read a 150 page abridged children's version of Moby Dick and enjoyed it just as much as someone who read the real thing.

[Anonymous No.19063926]

>>19063892
This. Out of the millions of novels in history, there's maybe half a dozen that genuinely are worth reading front to back.

[Anonymous No.19063927]

>>19063860
The fuck's so funny, whore?

[Anonymous No.19063948]

>>19063860
i exclusively read wikipedia articles of books

[Anonymous No.19063966]

>>19063927
she saw your penis

[Anonymous No.19064171]

>>19063913
Based

[Anonymous No.19064200]

[Anonymous No.19064221]

>>19064200
which is better

[Anonymous No.19064247]

>>19063966
I have a vagina tho

[Anonymous No.19064339]

>>19063860
Damn, I knew a girl like that. But she was short with blonde hair and green eyes. Thanks for reminding me on that missed opportunity, which I think about every week. It's been nearly 3 years. Oh god, why am I like this?

[Anonymous No.19064345]

>>19063913
>Illustrated Classics patrician
By the way, not only is it abridged, but it's heavily rewritten so children can easily read it, and so all the adult stuff is made more appropriate.

So you basically read an infantilized version of Moby Dick. Most likely Ahab didn't even die in the end of your version lmao.

[Anonymous No.19064400]

>>19063913
>enjoyed it just as much as someone who read the real thing.
How would you know? Those pages describing the whiteness of the whale were amazing. You missed out bro.

[Anonymous No.19064410]

>>19063913
I bet you didn't even spend an entire chapter learning about whale biology, missing out on those mental gains. You literally paid someone to keep you a midwit.

[Anonymous No.19064446]

>>19063860
Face of creature which shits from her anus and like the smell of her own farts.

[Anonymous No.19064485]

>>19064221
Monke of course

[Anonymous No.19064491]

>Not just reading plot summary on Wikipedia

[Anonymous No.19064559]

>>19063876
>Do you remember every paragraph of the last book you read
Doesn't matter
Do you remember any single note of the last song you heard? But you do remember if you liked it or not

[Anonymous No.19064720]

>>19063926
I have no idea how you would abridge a postmodern novel that hops between characters and locations. The jackpot novels have three or four interwoven plot threads going at the same time.

[Anonymous No.19064748]

>>19063860
Fuck dude. Why'd you have to remind me of her?
Also, I read the abridged version of Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra. It's much easier to get a tighter grasp on the core ideals without going over the minutest detail.

[Anonymous No.19064755]

>>19063860
I'm off to the feels thread on /gif/. Good job OP

[Anonymous No.19064774]

>>19064345
Jesus fucking Christ...spoilers you dumb nigger

[Anonymous No.19064932]

>>19063913
>>19064345
I remember I read a small illustrated/abridged version of 80 Days Around the World when I was 11 or 12. It was in our classroom bookshelf, and my friend read the Moby Dick one. It was small, blue cover, and it was in comic book format in black and white. It was enjoyable, but even then I could tell a lot of the "dialogue" could have been handled by brief exposition.

[Anonymous No.19065722]

>>19063876
>he memorizes rotely
>he can't access the visual memory he created of the scene subconsciously in his head and the events of the scene which should be easy to access if he felt the scene as if with emotional significance
and to think you're probably one of those fags who practices speedreading, sometimes i think some people just scan the words on the page, not as narrative, but just as individual words and then flip the page. they want to "read" the book to say they read it or something. fucking hylics.

[Anonymous No.19065801]

>>19063860
Stupid cunt making my cock ache

[Anonymous No.19065807]

>>19063860
That's a lovely cabinet.

[Anonymous No.19065812]

>>19064410
As someone who loves that book, a big part of my enjoyment came from the whale lessons. It made everything look so much more real, and was interesting in general.

Seethe, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.19065830]

>>19065722
This is when you realize the rise of aphantasia has everything to do with reading rates dropping off. It's also why speedreading is a thing - these people can't visualize the written word, they just intake information.

[Anonymous No.19065846]

>>19063875
name 1 (eine)

[Anonymous No.19065891]

>>19065830
I think that's somewhat skewed because it's not like widespread literacy suddenly made everyone actually interested in reading. Most people never bother to pick up a book after they're done with their schooling.

[Anonymous No.19065937]

>>19063860
This webm is just painful.

[Anonymous No.19066259]

>>19063860
>letting other humans simplify shit for you
That's pretty gay anon.

[Anonymous No.19066263]

>>19063860
By Jove, I love zoomer posting tho lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Anonymous No.19066397]

>>19065812
I'm not a brainlet, I too enjoyed those chapters. I liked the historical context it provided as well as it letting us have a snapshot of early 1800s biology. I just like to bring it up because it filters pseuds.