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Anonymous No.24779155 [Report] >>24779261 >>24779702 >>24779710 >>24779789 >>24779827 >>24780005 >>24780019 >>24780205 >>24782293 >>24782373 >>24782380 >>24783493 >>24783507 >>24786352 >>24788730
Have you ever marathoned a very big book in a very short amount of time?
Anonymous No.24779261 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
Yeah I had to read the 9/11 commission report in 3 days once.
Anonymous No.24779335 [Report]
I read Ulysses in about a week completely unintentionally one time.
You have no idea how painful it is to live when your peak experience was about 6 months of asceticism.
Anonymous No.24779398 [Report] >>24779406
I read a Little Life in like 3 days I think
Total fucking piece of shit but I read it to get pussy with this one girl
Anonymous No.24779406 [Report] >>24780033 >>24782261 >>24788718
>>24779398
>get pussy with
ESL
Anonymous No.24779702 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
I read all of “our oriental heritage” by will dirant in like 10 days if that counts.
Anonymous No.24779710 [Report] >>24788693
>>24779155 (OP)
I read the 5th Harry Potter book in 2 days when I bought it on the day it came out.

I spent 5 days in jail and read 5 roughly 400-500 page novels in that time. All detective novels. All sucked.
Anonymous No.24779789 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
I read Dante's Comedy, all 3 parts, out loud in about 1 day about 1 sitting.
Anonymous No.24779821 [Report]
Yes, regularly. I read the first and last pages of each chapter, reading at the speed of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Anonymous No.24779827 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
No, although I have always been interested in trying.
Anonymous No.24779833 [Report] >>24779855
I read most of Rousseau's Confessions in two days then I just got busy and it took me like two months to finish it lol.

You just need to stay away from electronics and be really bored so you have no other choice but to continue reading.
Anonymous No.24779855 [Report]
>>24779833
Too true. one day a week, usually Saturday, I'll have a screen-free day. Its worth trying if you want to know the depth of your screen addiction. But I will tell you this, on a screen-free day, I am more productive than I though possible, and I always get hours of reading done.
Anonymous No.24780005 [Report] >>24780066
>>24779155 (OP)
I had a Russian lit class where we read War and Peace, Anna Karenina, the Brother's Karamazov, Notes, and some Gogol and Pushkin all in a semester, so we went through them quite quickly.
Anonymous No.24780019 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
Allnightered last 300 pages of Great Expectations for school as a kid. Plus the report.
Anonymous No.24780033 [Report]
>>24779406
What if she's his lesbian friend and they both share the bisexual girls they pick up talking about A Little Life? What then?
Anonymous No.24780063 [Report]
If you want to get really autistic, time your reading sessions.
Anonymous No.24780066 [Report] >>24781259
>>24780005
Pretty sure assigning 3,000 pages of reading in a semester would be consider abuse today. My friend teaches high school English and says they read no full books anymore, only excerpts.
Anonymous No.24780205 [Report] >>24782318
>>24779155 (OP)
I fucking hate people who highlight like this.
Anonymous No.24781250 [Report]
I read Stephen King's it in 11 months 3 weeks.
Anonymous No.24781259 [Report]
>>24780066
I didn't read any full books when I was in high school two decades ago. Assigning a book is like assigning a lover, I'll have none of it.
Anonymous No.24782261 [Report] >>24783473
>>24779406
Shut up I was drunk faggot
Anonymous No.24782293 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
How big is big? When I read The Gutenberg Galaxy by McLuhan I was unable to put it down and only stopped reading when I fell asleep.
If a book clicks with me for whatever reason that is the pattern but I find that happening less as I get older.
I am still interested but for whatever reason it does not fill me with passion.
Anonymous No.24782318 [Report]
>>24780205
It's crazy. The effort that should go into thinking about the text goes into "what color would be nice for this passage HMMM?" and getting that line just right. It's just as beneficial as turning pages with one hand while staring at tiktok
Anonymous No.24782373 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
I read the entire Yale Henry III biography in 1.5 weeks. Which is about 1400 pages
Anonymous No.24782380 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
If you mark physical books with ink pen or highlighters, you are a psychopath.
Anonymous No.24783473 [Report]
>>24782261
Don't worry you still are
Anonymous No.24783482 [Report] >>24784092
Read The Fountainhead in five days when I was 19, at my first job, and didn‘t know what to do after work except come home and read for six hours. I regularly think about all the ways I could have put that week to better use if I hadn‘t been young and stupid.
Anonymous No.24783493 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
>did you ever chug away a good wine?
No, I have not; that would be a waste.
Anonymous No.24783507 [Report] >>24785226
>>24779155 (OP)
I read most of Infinite Jest in a single weekend. I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.
Was a bit annoying having to pause the playback to read the endnotes, but it was manageable.
Anonymous No.24784092 [Report]
>>24783482
and, what would you have rather done?
Anonymous No.24785226 [Report] >>24786768
>>24783507
>I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.
Anonymous No.24785704 [Report]
i was supposed to read moby dick over the summer for AP lit back in high school and didn't do it until right before school so i sat down and read the whole thing in one day. i usually don't read very fast and didn't retain much. but i did enjoy it. this was like 12 years ago, i'd like to read it again soon
Anonymous No.24786352 [Report] >>24786402
>>24779155 (OP)
I can read 150-200 pages an hour so every book is completed in a short amount of time
Anonymous No.24786402 [Report]
>>24786352
we are not talking about manga and comic books here bud
Anonymous No.24786434 [Report] >>24788712
I read Crime and Punishment in 2 days beginning on my 17 birthday accompanied by two bottles of wine in my bedroom. That's about 300 pages per day which must be my all time record.
Anonymous No.24786768 [Report] >>24788559
>>24785226
You can judge it all you want, but it's incredibly effective if you want to burn through a book quickly.
I was up to just over a page a minute, probably faster after averaging out due to the half-pages from the beginning and end of each chapter.
Anonymous No.24788559 [Report]
>>24786768
NTA, interesting... I might have to try this.
Anonymous No.24788693 [Report]
>>24779710
>I spent 5 days in jail
Convicted of speed-reading?
Anonymous No.24788712 [Report]
>>24786434
Makes me wish I had nothing to do a
Anonymous No.24788718 [Report]
>>24779406
Reminder that criticism about ESLs generally writing bad English is survivorship bias and that those who write good English often go unnoticed.
Anonymous No.24788730 [Report]
>>24779155 (OP)
Read all of Fall of Hyperion within a single day. I was pissed off that the first book ended on a cliffhanger and I was going on a trip the next day and I wouldn't be able to read so I just sped through the whole thing in a day.