Have you ever marathoned a very big book in a very short amount of time?
>>24779155Yeah I had to read the 9/11 commission report in 3 days once.
I read Ulysses in about a week completely unintentionally one time.You have no idea how painful it is to live when your peak experience was about 6 months of asceticism.
I read a Little Life in like 3 days I thinkTotal fucking piece of shit but I read it to get pussy with this one girl
>>24779398>get pussy withESL
>>24779155I read all of āour oriental heritageā by will dirant in like 10 days if that counts.
>>24779155I read the 5th Harry Potter book in 2 days when I bought it on the day it came out.I spent 5 days in jail and read 5 roughly 400-500 page novels in that time. All detective novels. All sucked.
>>24779155I read Dante's Comedy, all 3 parts, out loud in about 1 day about 1 sitting.
Yes, regularly. I read the first and last pages of each chapter, reading at the speed of Sonic the Hedgehog.
>>24779155No, although I have always been interested in trying.
I read most of Rousseau's Confessions in two days then I just got busy and it took me like two months to finish it lol.You just need to stay away from electronics and be really bored so you have no other choice but to continue reading.
>>24779833Too true. one day a week, usually Saturday, I'll have a screen-free day. Its worth trying if you want to know the depth of your screen addiction. But I will tell you this, on a screen-free day, I am more productive than I though possible, and I always get hours of reading done.
>>24779155I had a Russian lit class where we read War and Peace, Anna Karenina, the Brother's Karamazov, Notes, and some Gogol and Pushkin all in a semester, so we went through them quite quickly.
>>24779155Allnightered last 300 pages of Great Expectations for school as a kid. Plus the report.
>>24779406What if she's his lesbian friend and they both share the bisexual girls they pick up talking about A Little Life? What then?
If you want to get really autistic, time your reading sessions.
>>24780005Pretty sure assigning 3,000 pages of reading in a semester would be consider abuse today. My friend teaches high school English and says they read no full books anymore, only excerpts.
>>24779155I fucking hate people who highlight like this.
I read Stephen King's it in 11 months 3 weeks.
>>24780066I didn't read any full books when I was in high school two decades ago. Assigning a book is like assigning a lover, I'll have none of it.
>>24779406Shut up I was drunk faggot
>>24779155How big is big? When I read The Gutenberg Galaxy by McLuhan I was unable to put it down and only stopped reading when I fell asleep. If a book clicks with me for whatever reason that is the pattern but I find that happening less as I get older.I am still interested but for whatever reason it does not fill me with passion.
>>24780205It's crazy. The effort that should go into thinking about the text goes into "what color would be nice for this passage HMMM?" and getting that line just right. It's just as beneficial as turning pages with one hand while staring at tiktok
>>24779155I read the entire Yale Henry III biography in 1.5 weeks. Which is about 1400 pages
>>24779155If you mark physical books with ink pen or highlighters, you are a psychopath.
>>24782261Don't worry you still are
Read The Fountainhead in five days when I was 19, at my first job, and didnāt know what to do after work except come home and read for six hours. I regularly think about all the ways I could have put that week to better use if I hadnāt been young and stupid.
>>24779155>did you ever chug away a good wine?No, I have not; that would be a waste.
>>24779155I read most of Infinite Jest in a single weekend. I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.Was a bit annoying having to pause the playback to read the endnotes, but it was manageable.
>>24783482and, what would you have rather done?
>>24783507>I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.
i was supposed to read moby dick over the summer for AP lit back in high school and didn't do it until right before school so i sat down and read the whole thing in one day. i usually don't read very fast and didn't retain much. but i did enjoy it. this was like 12 years ago, i'd like to read it again soon
