What book fixed your attention span, /lit/?
>>25200694I don't read books from negroes
>>25200694That dude just means that the Count of Monte Cristo was engaging enough or easy enough for him to maintain focus or to not really even having to focus because it isn’t very hard.
>>25200694I know there's some Woolf haters on here but for me it was To the Lighthouse. I didn't read a book for probably 10 years until 2025 when I started getting hyperfixated on reading. I read a couple books that were supposed to be easy at first and enjoyed them enough, but To the Lighthouse actually made me stop and re-read paragraphs or entire pages because I thought the language was beautiful but felt I wasn't quite grasping everything. After that it was pretty much a breeze to get through a lot of stuff.I do think To the Lighthouse would bore the shit out of most people though, so I wouldn't really rec that as an attention span fixer. Just worked for me
>>25200717>because it isn’t very hard.Tell that to the girl whose tik tok video thing I saw posted here the other day where she completely nuked it with irrelevant annotations with the caption “I won’t let this book outsmart me” KEK>>25200737That’s a neat little event, I could never get into Woolf myself. I like modernists but I don’t know, she just didn’t stick with me. But she’s amazing, definitely.
>doorstopper of fantastical revenge fantasynot for me
>>25200744>redundancy FUCK
>>25200694What an effeminate zoomer with his little annotation stickers (for a book written for 12 year olds no less), as >>25200717 said, it’s easy as shit and he enjoyed it, watch him if he tries Ulysses next.
>>25200741what would you recommend for a modernist you like? I have a copy of Sound and the Fury that I plan on getting to soon, but as of right now I've only read a few Woolf books for modernists. Like I said I started reading a lot in 2025 so I still have so much to explore
>>25200759Read Petersburg! In translation unfortunately you’ll miss out on some great Russian prose but Bely’s novel is my favourite book written by a Russian. It’s a city novel like Ulysses, based around two central characters of different generations no less. but not as linguistically dense and with a very interesting premise. Of course, Ulysses too, that’s a given (though Woolf is known to have disliked Joyce lol) but you should probably read Portrait of the Artist as Young Man before that, it’s pretty accessible. But you’ve read To the Lighthouse, portrait will be a breeze. Proust of course too, Swann’s Way and Time Regained are my favourite volumes and in translation his prose is very dense with it being probably the most introspective novel ever written, but not difficult. There’s also Musil, who is more philosophical in his works than the others, but he isn’t quite as good a writer as the aforementioned. I’ve yet to read Faulkner myself but I’ve heard great things about all his stuff especially TSATF.
zased. dumas practically invented turkish/spanish telenovelas.
What a fucking slut. No one would watch this faggot's videos if he wasn't so good looking.
>>25200780Dude thats gay as fuck. wtf is your problem??
>>25200771hell yeah, thanks for the recs :). Added them all to my list. Been curious about Proust for a while now, but In Search of Lost Time being something like 4,000 pages has had me a bit intimidated, but people say you don't really need to read them all straight through so I'll just start with Swann's Way and see how it goes.Intrigued by Petersburg, although I feel like I should maybe hit a few of the classic Russian lit stuff first? All I've read is Notes from the Underground and a collection of Turgenev stories. That's a whole world in itself I've barely tapped into...
>>25200694Never had much attention span problems but war and peace and les miserables sort of rewired my brain in such a way I was no longer able to enjoy sci-fi pulp novels which was what I had been reading almost exclusively for years at that point
im fine when i start reading but for some reason i go weeks mid-book where i cant tear myself away from other shit and pick up the book
>>25200717Sounds about right. Despite it being shit I can't deny it being a page turner throughout the whole first partOf course he would be "fixed" only if he was now able to engage the same with novels of actual literary merit as well
>>25200823>I'll just start with Swann's Way and see how it goes.I haven’t read all of ISOLT myself, many haven’t. Those who have, good for them. It’s an endurance test alright. And with Petersburg, you’ve already done well to read Notes as you’ll be familiar with the “superfluous man”, some Gogol is good too, he’s my other favourite Russian, and his short story The Nose gives good insight on living in St Petersburg. Being familiar with the 1905 Russian revolution and familiarity with some early symbolism like Pushkin’s bronze horseman. These are all pretty short stuff and honestly, you only need read up on them and Russian symbolism to have a crack at it.
>>25200857>as you’ll be familiar with the “superfluous man”,yep, I got another one of those in the Turgenev collection "The Diary of a Superfluous Man" and realized it might be a Russian lit archetype.Thanks for those recs too, I've had Gogol on the list for a while now. I think it'll be nice to get some more Russian lit in me before hitting Bely, since it will bridge the two worlds of Russian lit and modernists, the latter of which I think might be my favorite style
>>25200857Wait, you read only the first and last volume of ISOLT and you have the gall to recommend them to an anon earnestly asking for recsYou sick dude>>25200823Don't listen to the other faggot. Even though petersburg is good he probably likes it for the wrong reasons and nothing he says should be taken seriously
>>25200878lol well, Petersburg interests me either way because it seems to intersect Russian lit and modernism. Worst case I just read a book and don't like it. I don't take anything anybody here says too seriously. I've gotten recs here I loved and recs I've hated. Just how it goes
>>25200878>Wait, you read only the first and last volume of ISOLT and you have the gall to recommend them to an anon earnestly asking for recsNo, just that they’re my favourites. Don’t be so rude! I read volume 3 and 4 too… And what are the right reasons to enjoy Petersburg if not for the brilliant neo Kantian characterisation of Apollon, of the city itself? The symbolism? The surreal atmosphere? The prose too is very good even in translation.
>>25200931>ugh I'll just skip to the endOpinion discarded. You gigantic faggot
>>25200936I won’t get into this with you. Have a very nice day.
550 trade paperback pages is about my max limit.
>>25200780You would suck his cock in a heartbeat if given the chance.
>>25200694Usually when I find a book I enjoy reading, I will get through it in like 2 or 3 days depending on the length of course and I'll feel so happy. But then I spend the next 6 months or so trying to find something as enjoyable as my last read.
>>25200771What translation do you recommend for Petersburg? The Penguin was done by McDuff who I believed translated a bunch of Dostoevsky, idk about this other edition.
>>25201863nta, i've only read the 1995 translation but many people say the 2009 one is better, so i guess go for that one
>>25201863I only read the McDuff one, I think he done pretty well to get the hallucinatory and musical style down. I’ll have to look into that other one myself.
>>25200759>>25200771Berlin Alexanderplatz is pretty good too, it’s part of that city novel trilogy of Ulysses and Petersburg.
>>25200694I hated that stupid book so, so much. Words cannot describe it. It's the pulpschlock of its day, and it's worse in merit than the pulpschlock of today. I abhor it. It is a trick played on the willing. Fuck it, and fuck that nigger who wrote it.
>>25200838i know that feel
>>25203067>and it's worse in merit than the pulpschlock of today.Hey now, that’s not true. Not that I enjoy it too much myself but it’s better than the shit from today.
>>25200694FIX YOUR ATTENTION SPAN BY WATCHING MY VIDEOS
>>25200694Why do redditors and women love this book?
>>25203704proto-shonen
>>25203704Piss easy to read and gives you still an air of sophistication that comes with reading a classic in a way that contemporary schlock doesn't now that even normalfags have caught on on how bottom of the barrel it all is
Why does /lit/ hate The Count of Monte Cristo so much?
>>25204654Well I don’t. I just hate the normalniggers who treat it like it’s complex “serious” literature just because it’s long, and old, so reading it MUST mean you’re big brain. When it’s just a very fun adventure novel that anyone over the age of 11 can pick up and enjoy.
>>25204654I hate it because it wasted a perfectly good tight plot to start jerking off a coldsteel the hedgehog-tier self-insert fan fiction character and pad the page count. There shouldn't have been a timeskip after the prison escape.
>>25204654The first 200 pages or so are a fun adventure, with even a bit of satire. Then there's another 10000 pages of characters greeting each other verbosely and heaving tea parties. There's not a lot of "social commentary" or whatever beyond some characters being 1-dimensionally bad and rich.
>>25205015Japan seemed to love it so much that they catered towards an entire demographic by rehashing it in different forms in their comic books and cartoons.
Moby Dick for sure.
>>25200694When a book is interesting enough my spastic-ass can read for hours without pause no problem. But boring books lose me very fast.
>>25204654Contrarian wankers
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. This is my first ever post on 4chan. I hope it's really anonymous.
