How do you read a novel? The last fifteen years I've mostly stuck to nonfiction like philosophy and history. I haven't read a novel since high school, and I think the public school system is kind of what killed my lust for literature. For the record, my literature classes were honors level. I just need to get back into the habit but don't know how to approach it.
>>24926988if you want me to read your novel, make me like you first
>>24926990I'm not asking about anything ive written but books like Invisible Cities, Tartar Steppe, Ulysses. Stuff i may have missed in school. And even stuff like Pynch and Delila.
People who say this say this because books to them are boring (because of a notion that one must be "cultured" and that being cultured means reading boring old tomes of praised literature, when it may be the wrong book for you at your current stage in life), the solution to this is to find books you'll like, you can start by taking a stroll in your nearest library and going to the classics section and mucking about, that's what I did
>>24926998ok, well maybe you can check out Sebald. he's the kind of guy stuffy arthoes and /lit/erati like for "good writing" reasons Knausgaard might grab your knob toonot satisfied? how about Calvino or Pessoa, sirrah?
>>24927002I already said Invisible Cities. The idea of a wide expansive world already appeals to me.>>24927001I mean i could its just down the street. I've been there before. Its winter though, might try in the spring.
>>24926988There are different kinds of novels. Some want you to feel for the characters, empathise with them. Some want you to think about the ideas presented there. Some require you to interpret the symbolism, think things through. And some are there just for the love of language, for the beautiful prose.Some do multiple things at once (TBK wants you to feel+think, while Moby-Dick is there for you to interpret it while having absolutely gorgeous prose)
>>24927009ok, but how about Sebald?
>>24927014Don't know him
You open the first page and fucking read, what sort of question is this? If you enjoy it then you don't need to brute force anything to make it a habit.
