you ever feel like you got what you needed from reading and there's no point in continuing. or perhaps that youve simply pushed the boundaries of your own personal taste and there's nowhere else to go
Yes. I have ended up reading mostly non fiction and no longer have patience for any novels unless they're immediately enjoyable throug good writing or suspense or things like that.
>>25467974Let me guess: you stick to a particular trashy genre (probably pulp fantasy) and refuse to read anything else because it "bores" you.
>>25467974the media I consume is largely guided by seeking things that are opposite of what I've been consuming. I get sick of shit all the time and my reaction is to just look elsewhere. I read 4 books in a row last year that were all rich British people saying "isn't the difference between high class and low class interesting??" and so I had to follow those up by reading something with poor Americans or whatever. I mostly lean weird/experimental/abstract with most media but after watching nothing but french new wave or like Charlie Kaufman movies for a few months I had a phase of just watching romcoms.So yeah idk if you actually want to continue reading that's my advice, start reading shit that's drastically different from what you normally like. Read some sci-fi or romance slop or something. Something that you really don't think you're gonna like. It's not always the most rewarding experience in itself but the cycle continues and it guides me elsewhere. It's a good way to end up well-rounded and expand what you find interesting, imo
>>25467992the opposite. if I was into trashy pulp I wouldn't be in this position because there's no bottom to that well I have a specific taste in classic literary fiction and memoirs
>>25468001Those are bottomless wells too. Have you even read all of Balzac? Or Pepys?
I'm not a teenaged twitter tourist, so no
No. I'm one of those rare /lit/ posters who actually enjoys reading itself. For me it is something my soul demands for its health. Can't quit even if I wanted to. My taste, or rather the focus of my taste, will move and shift and evolve, but reading itself will never be done for me.Yeah, it bothers me a little, to see books and reading affected as a lifestyle accessory, or as a source of wisdom and spiritual cultivation to be consumed and moved on from. And by that I don't mean actual technical manuals or histories or textbooks, naturally. I mean people who have this nebulous notion that literature improves you as a person, so they input a certain amount of Dostoyevsky and Pynchon, and then flex perplexed in front of their metaphorical mirror trying to gauge the gains of their exercise. Madness.
>>25467974Luckily there are infinite different other hobbies. It's just finding one you like.
>>25467974It's the opposite, every book hints at another
>>25468673effected*
>>25467974>buddhist monk talks about how he lost interest in bookshttps://youtu.be/lyvd3IkTkFo?list=PLCXN1GlAupG0KbGhsbf0Uo7znzMtL1efu&t=916time to meditatehttps://www.dhammatalks.org/books/WithEachAndEveryBreath/Section0003.html
>>25467974t. read 4 books
>>25468673You type like a fag.
>>25467974>you ever feel like you got what you needed from reading and there's no point in continuingNo, because that's an actually insane thought.
>>25467974>you ever feel like you got what you needed from readingTHISthis is the point you start writing
>>25470654Your shit's all retarded.
>>25467974No lol. There's so much left to read and I can enjoy everything (so long as it's actually good, which most is not) from Shakespeare to litrpg. I'm a fairly quick reader and it would take me decades to read everything I want to read, and there's even more out there beyond that. I am of course prioritizing the best stuff so there's a diminishing returns effect to "deep revelation" but it's fun regardless.
>>25468673>posters who actually enjoys reading itself>Rare This explains a lot
