Do you ever feel like you're just too stupid for the book you're reading?

Not stupid, but I just can't focus like I used to. I have to reread paragraphs sometimes because my mind will wander or my brain is constantly looping music in the background.

I can totally empathize with this. When I got back into reading I'd be hearing the words in my head but thinking of something totally else. After a few years of trying it went away, it also helped me to read things I actually was interested in rather than what I felt obligated to because of its "importance,". Yes, I am Low Iq.

Sometimes.

This book right here made me cry because it's so fucking full of nautical cant that I literally went pages and pages without understanding a single sentence.

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With math, yes. With fiction, I blame the author not myself.

How egotistical can you be

yeah

I scored a 35/36 on the ACT reading portion. If something is entirely convoluted, it's probably bullshit, a bad translation, or heavily Math/Science.

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That's not the best example, it's pretty easy to follow

>convoluted
>heavily Math/Science
I'm not saying you were using an exclusive 'or' but STEM fags usually can't write worth a shit and end up making bad science.

What the fuck is he on about?

>WHAT IF MYTHS WERE REAL????

>more smarter

Gifted Mind by Raymond Damadian has some challenging parts, but he writes well. Pic related.
Trying to be smart. Instead of saying "The Hindus believe", he jumps into foreign words.

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Ironic given that your post reads
>end up making bad science

Like lol bro. Like rofl.

I'm posting on Yea Forums.

I started reading Pynchon's GR a couple days ago and I'm averaging two pages a day on my large monitor.

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>large monitor
Understanding Pynchon should be the least of your worries

it's only 32inch nothing crazy

They're normally pretty clear, it just takes a lot of pre-reading to get the references. The difference between science and humanities is that science is actually difficult, words have a lot of meaning encoded within them. With humanities, you can just say "like Solomon..." and reference the story of solomon, and that's basically their equivalent of density. When you unpack it, the difference between an educated and uneducated humanities major is that the educated one has read more children's stories. Of course I'm glossing over a lot of other aspects, but most of it deals with stories, which are considerably easier to grasp than abstract ideas with dense physical meaning.

No. You'll get there eventually. You can't understand everything on first reading either. Sometimes you need to go away, read some secondary material and give it a careful re-read.

Godtier cover design

>identifying muh themes
Is this really how people read books?

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Overall no, but that's because of the fact I read mostly history books and middle-level theology. I felt like an ass when reading Saint Gregory Palamas' treaty about the Procession of the Holy Spirit, though.

How do you read books?

I just take it in, there's no analysis as such. Words, images evoke a response and then I think awhile.

I often feel I am too smart for the books I read, and then I stop reading and imagine my own, better version of that same book.

The make several mistakes in this page.
Lilith is never mentioned in the Bible. The story of Adam and Lilith come from the Talmud. Atlantis is obviously located in the Atlantic Ocean. There are probably more, but these are the ones I know about.

Kek. Based delusion-chad.

by reading them. sort of like how you "listen" to music, if youve tried that before.

you lacan't

no, all books are easy to me. how low is your IQ that you find books "hard"?

>literal ghost of his mother attacking Stephen
Not him but the remorse theme wasn't very subtle. .

welcome to this shitty board/zoomers and millenials in general

ha

Yep, this is me. I've strongly considered taking ADHD drugs just for this but I'm scared of what might become of me.

meds, now

Based retard

A few people told me I've got ADD, but I dont think it has impeded me in any severe way. If anything, its helped me filter out bullshit I'm not drawn to on an intuitive level.

>Remorse of Conscience
u mean agenbite of inwit

Once
>4th grader
>be ESL
>look in the school library for something to read
>teacher hands me Wuthering Heights
couldn't get through the first few pages

Except that was mostly cohesive. Just because you don't know words like 'hyperborean' or whatever doesn't mean the author is retarded. I'm steadily begininng to think this series of posts are bait

It's how I watch movies now. My brain thinks it's fun to turn over details in set design and world-building and whatnot, and I do sometimes apply it to things like books or video games. It just lets me get to a more surface level within the world the author or whatever is trying to build

You are reactive rather than interpretive. No higher than an animal.

I bought GR in my teens because of Yea Forums memes almost 10 years ago. My interests shifted pretty wildly not long after. Right now I'm reading niche comparative religious texts on Manichaeism in Ming China. GR is still on my shelf, unread.

>then I think awhile
He's just saying he doesnt analyze and list out themes like its a high school essay (which is whats pictured in the OP image misunderstanding Joyce). He just has personal reflections on the literature. Im thinking user is based

I'm not sure I'd hand a middle schooler Withering Heights, let alone an elementary student

Stupid not so much as completely green in the area -- French Revolution by Carlyle jumps right in and speaks of many matters and individuals as though they are familiar to the historically lacking (in european post rome but fixing it). also a lot of words i've never seen used; used the way they are; and probably wont ever see them used again. but the picture he paints keeps me in check.

Sometimes I catch myself boiling the entirety of the treatise or whatever down to some basic points then I will assure myself it couldn't really be that simple. Kant's critique of pure reason can't really boil down to a drawn out explanation on the limits of human understanding based on the senses and what the senses can experience. Surely it's not a book that essentially pissed in the cereal of the utopians and idealists of the renaissance who following Newton and other's systemisation of knowledge of the physical world assumed that progress was eternal and it was only a matter of following our Blessed Science.

No i need to read more than the prologue because there has to be more i don't know

How the fuck is a book "hard"?
Like nigga, just read lol

I sorta get this feeling with Bolaño but I think it's because the guy doesn't give you anything to hold on to, making you feel lost. I don't think he's all that

Also higher math books are the definition of filtering

send it to me

>suboptimal saccades

Yeah sometimes I don't really get sentences. I understand what the sentence is trying to say and I get the idea, but I get lost in the grammar and can't figure out by what mechanism the sentence is saying what it means. This only happens with long-winded writers. I could go back and reread the sentence until I get it on a literal level but I usually don't feel like it

Oops don't know why this was a reply, I guess I really am retarded