https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4kn8ve/seven_incredibly_tough_books_for_extreme_readers/
Have any of you read this pitiful comments section?
hmm what's this 'reddit' site? seems pretty interesting
>>8077854
It's the best possible example of the stifling and soul-crushing aspects of the Heideggerian term Das Man.
>"No Naked Lunch? The only book i've ever given up on in disgust. 2Gross4me."
>>8077874
Yeah! Down with Reddit! We must defend our territory!
use r/literature
>tfw /lit/ will never be that bad
feels good man
these people think they're screenwriters for Rick and Morty or something
>>8077881
/lit/ and /his/ are absolutely infested with these obvious Reddtors. Disgusting.
>>8077841
What kind of notes are in the pic?
My notes never look this good. ;_;
should i kms reddit
>>8077841
and the seven books are
finnegans wake
nightwood by djuna barnes (never heard of this. i thought of looking it up, but then the blog post says it is about philosophy, and nobody needs that kind of shit)
the waste land
the critique of pure reazzzzzzzzzz
fucking atlas fucking shrugged
being and time
war and peace
fuck that
>>8077841
>he will never be able to find his way through this densely noted book
Jesus, this is an extremely unorganized and impractical way of notetaking. Notetaking should never be so dense that you don't even want to read what's on the page. Use page tabs, number them and use a separate notebook to record your notes. Organize the notebook with numbered entries according to your numbered page tabs, use only highlighter and pencil on your book.
>>8078608
Do you have any photos of this method in practice for reference?
Atlas Shrugged?
War and Peace?
Those aren't even tough. They're long, monolithic, and massive novels, but they're not tough. It seems that the author of the blog hasn't heard of Gass, Gaddis, or Hawkes. (I've only really read Hawkes but I've read some selections from Gass and Gaddis.)
>>8078577
Nightwood is a sort of mongrel of Joyce and Faulkner's style. It has a lot of streams-of-consciousness, but it also has perverse, quasi-Southern Gothic characters and some wordplay. It's a tough read, but it's no Finnegans Wake.
>>8078577
Djuna Barnes was an influence on Hawkes (pic related) so I'd say that one isn't that bad a choice. And The Wake is a very fun read if you don't have a stick shoved firmly up your arse. Never read The Wasteland, but the other three are kindof meme-tier though.
>>8077841
A T L A S
S H R U G G E D
>Tough
Oh boy.
Length = difficulty
>>8078748
>reddit is full of size queens
Who would have guessed?
>>8078633
Yes I do
>>8078122
never say never, we are reaching leddit levels of faggotry.
>>8079103
Super Smash Bros. Fanfiction is.
Is it sinful I LOVE the way the book in the OP looks? God I wish I could pull off that "I'm a high-functioning schizophrenic"-look in my note-taking. So /fa/
>>8079402
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com/finnegans-wake-prospectus
It's from this site. An editor working on restoring Finnegan's Wake, I assume.
>>8078970
I love you.
The Joyce hate on there is unbelievable. Wah, I don't get it, too hard. Fucking man-children
>>8078970
Beautiful
>>8078970
If you took this pic- what pen is that? what paper?
>>8079763
>This is a method for when you have to heavily note a book like in OP pic
one should never have to take that many notes on a book. even at the highest levels of the academy, that many notes is just excessive, counter productive, and retarded. you don't learn by taking notes anyway
>>8078970
pig disgusting. faggot handwriting, faggot pen. faggot attention whoring.
>>8078970
That better be some 90 gram Clairefontaine paper, or you're misusing that fountain pen.
>>8078122
>using the feels meme
It already is
This thread consists of fresh Newfag imports from reddit proceeding to sandbag reddit in order to appear "in" with the cool-kid 4chan crowd. I'm on to you, Newfaggots. Shameful display, desu.
>>8080565
Hello, Reddit!
>>8080597
Have an upvote!
Edit: thanks for the gold!
>>8080597
no u
>>8080657
>>8080657
how the fuck did you edit your post
>>8080764
Get a 4chan pass, and you can edit your posts.
Edit: super easy.
Y'all are a gaggle of faggots.
>Youll never be the kind of person who would add another comment to a pun thread on Reddit
>>8081467
gaggle on my dick
what should i read before critique of pure reasoning?
There is a lot of intentional obfuscation going on in Finnegans wake, that's for sure!
>>8080764
>>8077841
The guy who wrote all that shit in the book is a fucking try-hard idiot.
>>8081496
hume, descartes
>>8078970
sex me Anon
>>8078577
>The Waste Land
>long
>anything more than moderately difficult
>>8080764
Get a 4chan pass. You have to put your Credit card number in the name field.
>>8081615
Like this?
>>8078577
>atlas shrugged
>difficult
They're all saying "Finnigan's Wake."
What the fuck?
>>8081893
Fucking shit I mean "Finnegans."
>>8078122
nah man /lit/ has gone really downhill with more faggotry. its only a short while before it becomes cancer
>>8078122
You're right,us all pretending we've read all of these books and are totally not just going off wikipedia articles at best, or just off what they've read other people say.
At least reddit is honest about the fact most of them have never read it, and the people that have generally give about as good discussion of the topics on either site.
>>8078970
eww, that's why ebooks are by far better
>>8081666
>nigger
>666
'sup satan
>>8078970
But you've highlighted probably around or over half of those two pages, might as well read the entire thing at this point.
I try to only highlight thesis and topic sentences or sentences that can perceived as such and so grant an overview, instead of highlighting every key point or clever formulation, and I add extra subtitles aligned with the text so that it's relatively easy to find you way by just flipping through the book.
>>8078577
Is this meme-ing
The Waste Land takes half an hour to read
I read it off RapGenius whilst waiting at a bus stop
>>8078970
>using a highlighter
>taking physical notes
Literally the dumbest shit. Write notes and passages in a word document instead.
>>8078970
>Nigger faggot cocksucker.
Nice.
>>8078122
>Greeks
>Stirner
>Joyce
>David Meme Wallace
>Le Pinecone
All day every day.
Oh, we are great.
>>8080106
Yeah, no memes allowed on 4chan.
>>8078577
Finnegans Wake is just arse though.
That fart sniffing faggot is laughing at you from heaven for thinking you're great fir reading his Guinness soaked ramblings.
>>8082599
That's just stupid.
I highlight, can open the book and just see what I need. Works especially well for an ebook as you can jump straight to them.
Why would you be such a faggy pompous Monsieur and make a whole separate document for notes?
Also, in my ebook reader I can highlight a passage and make a note on it as well.
>taking notes while reading
I seriously hope you guys don't do this
>>8082613
>I highlight
Then you're a fucking reprobate who should be caned.
>>8081903
>redditor damage control
