Thread 24779155

Have you ever marathoned a very big book in a very short amount of time?

>>24779155 (OP)
Yeah I had to read the 9/11 commission report in 3 days once.

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.

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

>>24779398
>get pussy with
ESL

>>24779155 (OP)
I read all of “our oriental heritage” by will dirant in like 10 days if that counts.

>>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.

>>24779155 (OP)
I read Dante's Comedy, all 3 parts, out loud in about 1 day about 1 sitting.

Yes, regularly. I read the first and last pages of each chapter, reading at the speed of Sonic the Hedgehog.

>>24779155 (OP)
No, although I have always been interested in trying.

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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>24779155 (OP)
Allnightered last 300 pages of Great Expectations for school as a kid. Plus the 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?

If you want to get really autistic, time your reading sessions.

>>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.

>>24779155 (OP)
I fucking hate people who highlight like this.

I read Stephen King's it in 11 months 3 weeks.

>>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.

>>24779406
Shut up I was drunk faggot

>>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.

>>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

>>24779155 (OP)
I read the entire Yale Henry III biography in 1.5 weeks. Which is about 1400 pages

>>24779155 (OP)
If you mark physical books with ink pen or highlighters, you are a psychopath.

>>24782261
Don't worry you still are

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.

>>24779155 (OP)
>did you ever chug away a good wine?
No, I have not; that would be a waste.

>>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.

>>24783482
and, what would you have rather done?

>>24783507
>I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.

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

>>24779155 (OP)
I can read 150-200 pages an hour so every book is completed in a short amount of time

>>24786352
we are not talking about manga and comic books here bud

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.

>>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.

>>24786768
NTA, interesting... I might have to try this.

>>24779710
>I spent 5 days in jail
Convicted of speed-reading?

>>24786434
Makes me wish I had nothing to do a

>>24779406
Reminder that criticism about ESLs generally writing bad English is survivorship bias and that those who write good English often go unnoticed.

>>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.