>>24796537
>analazing
The only cure for you is death.

>>24796541
In my defense I will say that english is not my first language but yeah I agree, that was a bad mess up

Yeah man you just say fuck it and keep going. Usually not being 100% on what a small section of the book is saying won't ruin your overall experience.

Hey, I'm going to assume this post was made in good faith.

First step is to get off /lit/, everyone here is insane and the way people here talk about books would scare any normal person away from books forever.
Second step is to find something you're personally interested in, rather than just reading a classic that someone tells you to read.
Once you read a couple books that aren't the deepest thing ever, you start to get into the habit of reading. The harder stuff becomes more manageable. I hadn't read in years and tried picking up Blood Meridian and couldn't get through it. A year or two later I picked up No Longer Human and really enjoyed it, and after another year of getting back into reading went back and read Blood Meridian and later Moby Dick. I wouldn't have been able to handle the latter if I hadn't started with the easier stuff.

>>24796537
I couldn’t read actual books for a little while because my life was very stressful at that time. Couldn’t stomach them and that was distressing to me. I eased myself back into the habit by reading manga instead. Eventually my love of actual books came back, I ordered a big stack of books off of Amazon, read them all in a month, and I’ve been reading a book a week more or less ever since.

Start at the level you are actually at, not the level you think you should be at.

Take ADHD medication and go from there

>Max out blue light filtering apps on devices
>FLUX for desktop
>reduce trash carbs and do not abuse caffeinated products (strips B1, which gives the shakes, anxiety and functional ADD)

Read outside. Read non-zero daily.

>>24796545
Portuguese?
>>24796537
Start with easier american high school lit and go from there

No one here understands anything they read either because everyone here is a psued and ESL.

>>24796646
>Portuguese?
Actually yes, what gave it away?

>>24796556
>>24796581
Thank you, I'm trying to get into reading horror again, I used to read a lot of Stephen King's books and although I still have some sort of trouble understanding a few things I did overall enjoy the experience. No Longer Human seems really interesting too

>>24796586
Good point. I do enjoy reading manga from time to time and I don't struggle as much as with reading books. Sometimes I wonder if I'm really low IQ and if there's any reason for me to keep trying but even if it's pointless I still want to keep trying, it would be nice to notice some improvement

>>24796537
Start with simpler books and gradually build your way up. You want to read Homer's simple metaphors before you tackle Milton's fucked up syntax. You want to read Austen and Dickens before you get to impressionists like Conrad and FMF. Late Melville, late James, late Joyce, and Pynchon will fuck you up regardless of how well you prepare so only get into them if you enjoy the process of feeling confused and gradually coming to understand just what the fuck they are trying to say.

>>24796581
I remember trying to read Conrad and Melville in my high school years and only feeling confused why they're venerated so much. Fast forward a decade later, give them another try, and I now enjoy Conrad a fair bit and Melville is my favourite novelist.

>>24796686
>psued

>>24796537
Sounds like brain fog. There is a cure for it but people will say it's disinfo

>>24796537
It's always funny seeing posts like these because many people start off like this when they have no substantial literary experience or education prior to picking up a book for the first time. I was similar, and after minimal but recurrent effort put in through the years I've now attained a degree of expertise in English literature and poetry. It's only a matter of study. Of course intelligence and innate talent matter, but being unintelligent and untalented (which you should not immediately assume you are when you've barely tried) does not restrict someone from comprehending complex things, it just requires more effort.

>>24796686
to be fair you don't really need to understand what you read anymore. We have ChatGPT. Just ask for a summary, unc

>>24796537
ever think to yourself maybe you're not ensouled

stop trying to analyze what you read and just read it. the only thing that matters is if you can understand what is happening at a basic level. if there is anything deeper in the text it will emerge naturally. i suggest to start off by reading genre fiction, like fantasy or science fiction. that way you can focus more on the plot and understanding what is happening, which is the skill you need to develop to read regularly.

>>24796537
This will sound like a brainlet cope, but IQ is becoming quite overrated, especially when it comes to issues like the one you just described. Comprehension is a skill. And while general intelligence does play a "general" role, it isn't usually the performance bottleneck, especially in cases where you seem to write just fine. The issue is not brain computation power, but practice. Read more and you'll be able to understand better. Maybe you're predisposed to read poetry, maybe prose, maybe philosophy and maybe math equations. Or maybe you just got carried away reading translations of French and Russian authors, many of which can be an atrocious reading experience.

TLDR: keep reading, it will improve.

>>24796537
you don't need high IQ to read
it's a skill
start with something simple like children's books

>>24796741
>Start with simpler books and gradually build your way up
Unironically old advice. Computer screens and video games are the main culprits in our lower attention spans, so it takes work to undo the damage. I always recommend the Little Prince as a starting point

>>24797897
*good advice

>>24796537
Probably, yeah. I watched a video of a man with 70 IQ (mild mental retardation) who said he'd gotten smarter by reading books. He didn't sound stupid at all, I'd never have guessed he had a low IQ. Also, what kind of books are you reading? Just pick the ones that you find interesting and if you don't understand a paragraph, simply skip it.

>>24796537
There are people that are dumb and maybe you fall into that category of not being able to digest a paragraph or a complete thought. There are a few of those people. But I don't think you are, even if you're you shouldn't think of yourself as such. Reading is a muscle that you train and our modern environment is set up in ways to drive ourselves away from reading.

Short form content, fast food, spectacle movies, drugs, it's all barriers to read. Remove them. Let yourself be bored.

Then, start to read some stuff you like. Slop. Nothing hard, something that turns pages on its own for you. Fantasy, historical fiction, romance, I don't care. Something. And if you read enough genre fiction, you will want to read something more. Read some short stories from authors that only fags on /lit/ care. Pick and choose.

You are ready to read.