If you can't read a page every 10 seconds, or at least a book a week, should you just not even bother reading? Harold Bloom has read 80000 books at least once, and many more than once in his 90 years, so he claims. I have read 40 and I am 25. I sometimes wonder if reading is the most important thing in the world and my life is a waste because I can't reap the pleasures of it. I read a book a month, sometimes, but really when it comes to intellect and knowledge, mine is miscule. It is a sad and pathetic little modicum of thought, which one could easily toss aside as if it were a penny on the street.
If you can't read a page every 10 seconds, or at least a book a week, should you just not even bother reading...
Nathaniel Garcia
Nathan Rodriguez
>so he claims.
Lincoln Roberts
Why do you want to read ? If you read slowly plan out the books you'll read carefully. Also get into the habit of reading an hour a day.
Eli Perez
I claim to read 999 books in my 20 years of life
>fock off retard
Dylan Perez
just read books if you like it you dumbass. you have nothing to prove to anyone but yourself. nobody in real life is going to talk to you about any high concepts in literature or philosophy unless your in academia
Jordan Cox
your're'are*
Asher Walker
What a useless and, what is more, vain lamentation OP. You feign self-pity but you really indulge yourself; protecting with disproportionate affection the pride you claim you ought not to have. Be humble or be prideful, but at least be consistent about it. Do not be prideful and yet admire your woes, your pitiful self...
Sebastian Williams
Not OP but FP speaking: I don't think that's what he means. His point is more like, "what if I don't even read fast enough to remember the start of the cannon by the end?" or something like that. Personally I think there are some books I've read where I wasn't able to fully appreciate them until I'd read many more. So, had those been the only books I'd read, then you can see the potential problem.
Daniel Watson
It seems to me that reading books' not nearly as important as you make it out to be. Surely an argument can be made that the ultimate goal of humanity is the accumulation of knowledge, however, as an individual, happiness is far more crucial. Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Nathaniel Nguyen
>If you can't read a page every 10 seconds, or at least a book a week, should you just not even bother reading?
Are you really reading slow? Are you _trying_ to read? That could be part of the problem
Sometimes with dense books its better to keep reading even if you don't understand it at first because you will get to a part that is actually interesting and relevant to you so the understanding will click and previous references will make sense.
Same thing with fiction, just keep going and as the story starts to form in your head your interest should carry your motivation forward.
If its not happening maybe the book is boring, get something else, try a different genre.
If you are reading for fun it shouldn't be work, if you are reading to learn and its something you are interested in the work part should be fun. If the book isn't teaching you get a different book.