>start reading
>1 hour later
>only 60 pages read
>start reading
>stentence doesn't make sense
>have to read it over and over again to understand it
>finally move onto the next sentence
>repeat the same process
>forget what the first sentence was about on the way
>realize it took you 20 minutes to read two sentences you don't even remember
>give up reading for the second time this month
The book I tried to read was Brave New World because it was the first book in the /lit/ starter kit.
I'm never going to be a reader, am I?
>>7449954
>60 pages in an hour
That's fine, retard.
>>7449968
Start with the children's section
>>7449977
Enjoy never truly reading then, pleb.
>>7449968
what was hard for you to understand in brave new world? is english not your first language?
While reading IJ I was averaging 50 pages and hour. Most stuff I sit at 60 to 80 pages/hour. 60 is honestly the most you should be getting. If you're getting over 60 you should be rereading the material (which we all ought to be doing anyways regardless of pages/hours).
When I was ten:
>reading all day every day
>those shitty goosebummps books, reading multiple a day
>reading those Redwall book one-a-day
>in 5th grade get tested and score highest reading level in entire school
In eight grade my parents finally got us satellite television.
>stop reading, almost entirely because enchanted by the glowing idiot-box
>realized what was happening but didn't care because distracted by yonder glow
After graduating high school I tried to start getting back into reading properly. Really got back on track for a while but the urge only come every once in a while few and far between.
Last year I was out cycling helmet-less, and a crashed and suffered pretty bad head trauma, got diffuse axonal injuries out of it. Now my attention span is abysmal, and my memories fall away entirely in about a two or three month period without regular reinforcement.
But I'm trying to get back on track, I really am. I'm reading Lord of the Rings and trying to get good at taking notes so that I don't forget the whole damn book a year from now. No Country for Old Men after this.
No Country for Illiterate Men, really.
Because not reading would put my soul at hazard. And I won't do that.
>>7449968
A brave new world is awful garbage anyway
>>reading over 10-15 pages per hour
>>actually understanding the material
pick one
>>7450046
>While reading IJ
>>7449954
>be 15 year old me
>try reading Kants "Kritik der praktischen Vernunft"
>heard it's hard to read
>get the "original" version because reading aid is for pussys
>thefuckamIreading.jpg
>never got past the first 5 pages
>>7450393
Pleb.
>>7450393
Lol, I remember reading Nietzsche as a teen and thinking I could tackle other "hard" philosophers
Tried reading some Hegel and got my dick smashed off and physically REEEEE'd and threw the book I had taken out of the library against the wall in impotent rage.
>>7449954
This is basically what happened when I tried to read War and Peace for a thesis in middle school. Literally the most boring and dense book I've ever read.
>>7450598
are you joking? its literally written to be read at a young age "between 10 and 15"
>>7449954
> start reading
> 3 hours later
> 2 pages of poetry
> actually get something out of it
Can we just stop making all these "I'm insecure about my reading powerlevel" threads? It's embarassing.
>>7450614
This, I literally do not know of an adolescent who hasn't read War & Peace.
>>7450152
yea I feel you I love reading and wish I spent more time doing it but after I get home I spend hours watching useless youtube videos or streams. Really hard addiction to break.
>>7449954
> tfw 5 pages an hour deep read master race
how does it feel to know i've read the book at least 3 times by the time i'm done my first read?
>>7450627
i don't think i've met anyone so divorced from reality, no adolescent who hasnt read War & Peace? where the fuck do you live with this ideal land of well read children? I have YET to meet a person who has read an entire dickens book other than my family and maybe two or three individuals besides, let alone war and peace. or even know what war and peace is.
>>7450639
I have yet to meet an adolescent that doesn't think books are gay, lame, retarded, waste of time, or a combination of all these.
>>7450587
>Tried reading some Hegel and got my dick smashed off and physically REEEEE'd and threw the book I had taken out of the library against the wall in impotent rage.
/lit/ alright
20 pages per hour here
>>7450241
If you're an illiterate retard, maybe
>>7450680
Same.
Who cares how fast you read? As long as you aren't a wage slave you have all the time in the world to read.
>>7449954
> implying 60 pages is too slow
> mfw either you're mechanically reading or you read books with a large typeface
> implying you could read Rushdie's Satanic Verses in 10 and a half hours
>>7449954
>3rd year of Undergrad
>start close reading of Ulysses with companion
>four hours in the library
>barely a dozen pages in
>learn more in those four hours than I have in three years of assigned Victorian wankery
>mfw Homer, Heraclitus and Hegel all come together in this mad Irishman's magnum opus
>mfw I literally had a dry orgasm derived solely from literary pleasure
>mfw Joyce's symbolism and prose made me believe in god
>Timing your reading like some sort of insane person
Relax.
>>7450810
this is what I want to achieve to be honest
>>7450836
>not timing your activities
Woooooooooooooooooooooow found the NEET
>>7449954
Yeah that happens to me mane
>>7449954
That's really not bad. You can finish a 300 page books in a few hours. Dont sweat it.
>>7450711
>defending Brave New Pleb
Hello reddit
>>7450810
Ulysses is pleb tier
>>7449968
try reading finnegan's wake
>>7451467
>>7449977
these are troll threads
knowing that the average poster reads 20-40 pages per hour, they post
>tfw I can only read 100 pages an hour
hold me /lit/
and they intend to stir shit up by making other posters feel insecure about their reading speed
>>7450639
My girlfriend read W&P last summer in the 10th->11th grade, as a summer assignment on world literature.
I read 20-30 pages in an hour depending on the book. This goes down to 5 pages if it has hard to understand content.
Some people say you get faster as you read. I try to read consistently but nothing really changes.
My friend can read 40-50 in an hour. And he reads less than I do.
Reading slowly is not much of a bother but when you have little time to read it can be troublesome.
>>7450241
I bet you're one of those 1984 faggots.
>>7451467
> :')
>>7450647
Where do you live?
>>7450152
Best of luck!
>start reading
>read 60 pages
>check the time
>it's been 3 hours
>>7449954
Reading slow is only bad if you're reading an airport novel.
>>7451724
>Reading slowly is not much of a bother but when you have little time to read it can be troublesome.
I'm a slow reader but I only ever get to read while commuting nowadays, it fucking sucks, I liked to be able to spend all day reading and now I'm lucky if I get comfy reading at all.... Kill me.
>>7450152
the No Country movie is much better
>>7450619
I d
>>7452524
The movie IS good, I'll admit. The Coen brothers are good at what they do and I definitely won't be able to un-Bardem Javier Bardem from Chigurh, he was just so good at being a . . . uh, like Ed Tom puts it in the preface, he's just good at playing that "living prophet of destruction."
Plus, Carla Jean sure is pretty.
>>7450639
I'm yet to meet a person who has not read dicken's entire works by age 10. They are children's books, after all.
I take it you don't live in Europe?
>>7453131
This. Hell, in my country (England), we read Chaucer (untranslated) by year 6.
>>7453142
It is customary for Danish students to finish their elementary school with a thesis on Hegel.
>>7453156
Never heard of that happening outside of England. In England we either write on Locke, Hume, or Plato once we've started secondary school.
>>7450810
How? First dozen of pages is nothing but hamfisted Muh Homer xDD and hardly anything else
>>7449954
>reading based on pages and not on comprehension
You have much bigger problems.
>>7450639
It's a nabby reference ya dingus
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
>>7454747
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