Fairy tail, Moby Dick for about the 50th time, look homeward, Angel, desolation angels, the latest drizzt book, the silmarillion for the 50th time, the grapes off wrath probably for the 20th time, ancient lights, Paradise Lost for the 3rd time, why do we exist. I actually like non-fiction a lot better
Thinking of getting it. God, there are so many books. How do you prioritize what you read btw? Or do you just read whatever you like at the moment?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Well, I once used recommended books from lists but now I just read whatever strikes my fancy. I like a lot of different genres and subjects so I am never without something to read. If it's good or not is a whole different ballgame. Now, if the book doesn't capture my interest in the first chapter, I generally won't finish it. Life is too short for bad literature
8 months ago
Anonymous
What are some famous books that didn't really did it for you right from the first chapter?
8 months ago
Anonymous
The Winter is Our Discontent was like that to me. It was halfway through the book before I realized that it was a bank heist Well worth the read
After so many books, one loses track of them all but I suspect you would know nothing about that
8 months ago
Anonymous
Sorry dude, an impressive claim made on an anonymous image board is doubtlessly going to be interrogated to ascertain its validity. I don't poke holes to insult, but to uncover the truthfulness of the story; naivety gets you nowhere online.
8 months ago
Anonymous
It's ok. Why would I lie tho? I have no identity here. What do I gain from lying?
8 months ago
Anonymous
homies lie here all the time about reading books or giving their opinion on books they never read. I’m not that anon but extremely skeptical too. I suppose it’s possible to skim that many pages if you’re “reading” 12+ hours a day, or Stephen King tier books. I’m doubtful that you can read GR and Ulysses in the same day and get anything from it. Don’t act surprised when far fetched claims are met with skepticism
8 months ago
Anonymous
I honestly don't care so believe what you want
8 months ago
Anonymous
You forgot to mention the part where he claimed 188 IQ
That's about 6 standard deviations from the mean, it's like claiming to be 8 feet tall. You should know he's probably LARPing from that alone.
8 months ago
Anonymous
But I’m also 8 ft tall though..
8 months ago
Anonymous
Based Olympian god come to earth to shitpost on IQfy. Do you have a preferred type of animal sacrifice btw?
Last night she said
"Oh, baby, don't feel so down"
"Oh, it turn' me off when I feel left out"
So I, I turned 'round
Oh, baby, gonna be alright
It was a great big lie, 'cause I left that night, yeah
>Oh, Tennessee, what did you write? >I come together in the middle of the night >Oh, that's an ending that I can't write >'Cause I've got you to let me down
No, I'm unskilled labor. Irish trash (76%) or so I've been told
8 months ago
Anonymous
1 mostly physical though I do own some kindle books
2 it's in the thousands by now
3 I have but I doubt I'll ever fit in such a place. An iq test (it took three days to take) taken at thirteen put me at a 188 IQ but I know that's way off. I just take tests well and have (had) a 98% eiditic memory. My grasp of things seems squarely average. It took me thirty days to read Moby Dick the first time. I bet I read each page 16-30 times just to understand it. I know a lot about boats and whaling now, at least. My favorite chapter from Moby Dick is the Specksnyder! I love that book
>unskilled labor >super-genius iq but too humble to believe it >Irish ancestry
I see, I see.
1. Do you read mostly on kindle or what do you do with all of the books when you're done with them?
2. How many physical books do you own?
3. Have you considered grad school/academia? 1600 pages per day is probably a lot more than the average PhD
1 mostly physical though I do own some kindle books
2 it's in the thousands by now
3 I have but I doubt I'll ever fit in such a place. An iq test (it took three days to take) taken at thirteen put me at a 188 IQ but I know that's way off. I just take tests well and have (had) a 98% eiditic memory. My grasp of things seems squarely average. It took me thirty days to read Moby Dick the first time. I bet I read each page 16-30 times just to understand it. I know a lot about boats and whaling now, at least. My favorite chapter from Moby Dick is the Specksnyder! I love that book
If you’re as old as you say you are, the IQ test you took might’ve been the old ones of chronological age over mental age, which sometimes inflates scores.
I read several books every nite when sleeping
I put the books under the pillow and when I wake up surprise all the words are in my head
I am not sure how this happens
Are you on a death row?
How many years your lawyer has claimed you? What prospect on a big day? What's your take on the happy meal?
I've heard that if a person gets a lifetime sentence he turns into a lazy sloth but if you put him on a green mile, he can chugg down the whole library in a no time and its such a sad scene on the big day for we are losing an self made intellectual we will never be ourselves...
I read 1600 pages a day, mostly classics now. AMA ig
Last night she said
"Oh, baby, don't feel so down"
"Oh, it turn' me off when I feel left out"
So I, I turned 'round
Oh, baby, gonna be alright
It was a great big lie, 'cause I left that night, yeah
>lawyer >Bro bro bro why don’t you become a parasite bro. Bro bro bro just get a meme degree bro cause you read real good and page number high bro you gotta be a parasite
I read 50-60 pages(max) per day. I spend most of my free time shitposting, I think I can up that number to at least 100-150 if I actually read instead of browsing this shithole
>188 IQ >couldn't understand Moby Dick without reading each page 20 times
At least make your bait consistent.
I was really stoned in my defense
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He has to sleep so he’s probably only awake for 2/3rds of those minutes so OP is literally asking us to believe that he’s consistently knocking out pages of shit like Ovid’s Metamorphoses and War and Peace in like 20 seconds or less without having to stop, reread, highlight or take notes.
Believe it. Don't. I don't give two flying tin shits and you can take that to the bank
>188 IQ >couldn't understand Moby Dick without reading each page 20 times
At least make your bait consistent.
He has to sleep so he’s probably only awake for 2/3rds of those minutes so OP is literally asking us to believe that he’s consistently knocking out pages of shit like Ovid’s Metamorphoses and War and Peace in like 20 seconds or less without having to stop, reread, highlight or take notes.
Do you have preference for book size and fontsize? Do you go out of your way to meet those preferences or is it just "if it's good I'm happy otherwise whatever"?
Do you feel like a slave to the authors you read? I mean, you spend all day internally reciting words that aren't yours, imagining stuff according to someone else's prescription. Don't you often disagree with the author's sense of poetry, or opinions, and regret reading their stuff as if a blank page would be more valuable?
I've read so little books in my life, I have legitimate trouble focusing and getting into a story. Non-fiction is a bit easier, but also hard. When I read my mind wanders off quite easily, if the book is bad, I start thinking of something else. If the book is good and genuinely thought provoking, I need to stop and think about each sentence, I end up thinking of something else again. I often get lost in fictional stories, not understanding character's relationships, descriptions and having to go back to when the author first mention them to understand. Sometimes I don't understand if a scene is tragic or comic, if it's something like a big revelation or if it's something already mentioned before that I simply missed. The internet fried my brain and I'm a lousy reader. My reading history includes a lot of prefaces, introductions and first chapters of a bunch of books I've left unfinished.
Even if this was real, reading 1600 pages a day defeats the purpose of a book. They are a journey and part of your life for a week or so. Reading something like Les Miserables, W&P, or Proust (a 2 day read for this guy) in a day would deaden the experience
How much do you actually retain? Can you remember a majority of the specifics of the book you read five books ago?
Even I was younger, about 98%. Now I'm lucky to remember 50%. I've read a ton of crap books
Peh... Even reading the classics can't take a fool out of you. Oh, lord. Someday, kid, you'll stop saying 'crap.' God help you.
Blow it out of your piehole, grampa
You never know.
You may retain more than you know. Being able to access it though...
CAPTCHA: SPGHTR
Last 10 books you've finished?
Fairy tail, Moby Dick for about the 50th time, look homeward, Angel, desolation angels, the latest drizzt book, the silmarillion for the 50th time, the grapes off wrath probably for the 20th time, ancient lights, Paradise Lost for the 3rd time, why do we exist. I actually like non-fiction a lot better
>look homeward, Angel
Is it good?
Yes, I liked it a lot
Thinking of getting it. God, there are so many books. How do you prioritize what you read btw? Or do you just read whatever you like at the moment?
Well, I once used recommended books from lists but now I just read whatever strikes my fancy. I like a lot of different genres and subjects so I am never without something to read. If it's good or not is a whole different ballgame. Now, if the book doesn't capture my interest in the first chapter, I generally won't finish it. Life is too short for bad literature
What are some famous books that didn't really did it for you right from the first chapter?
The Winter is Our Discontent was like that to me. It was halfway through the book before I realized that it was a bank heist Well worth the read
>the grapes off wrath probably for the 20th time
If your retention rate is 50% you'd know how many times you've read it.
After so many books, one loses track of them all but I suspect you would know nothing about that
Sorry dude, an impressive claim made on an anonymous image board is doubtlessly going to be interrogated to ascertain its validity. I don't poke holes to insult, but to uncover the truthfulness of the story; naivety gets you nowhere online.
It's ok. Why would I lie tho? I have no identity here. What do I gain from lying?
homies lie here all the time about reading books or giving their opinion on books they never read. I’m not that anon but extremely skeptical too. I suppose it’s possible to skim that many pages if you’re “reading” 12+ hours a day, or Stephen King tier books. I’m doubtful that you can read GR and Ulysses in the same day and get anything from it. Don’t act surprised when far fetched claims are met with skepticism
I honestly don't care so believe what you want
You forgot to mention the part where he claimed 188 IQ
That's about 6 standard deviations from the mean, it's like claiming to be 8 feet tall. You should know he's probably LARPing from that alone.
But I’m also 8 ft tall though..
Based Olympian god come to earth to shitpost on IQfy. Do you have a preferred type of animal sacrifice btw?
i'm an hour
Last night she said
"Oh, baby, don't feel so down"
"Oh, it turn' me off when I feel left out"
So I, I turned 'round
Oh, baby, gonna be alright
It was a great big lie, 'cause I left that night, yeah
Based and Casablancaspilled
I wonder if JC reads at all, I wouldn’t be surprised if he read non fiction but I hope fiction too
>Oh, Tennessee, what did you write?
>I come together in the middle of the night
>Oh, that's an ending that I can't write
>'Cause I've got you to let me down
Name one book
Donkey shot
How do you kill distractions?
I set aside time to do nothing but read but distractions can still happen obviously. I read about 12-16 hours a day to hit 1600 pages a day
Are you a neet? If so, based
No, I'm unskilled labor. Irish trash (76%) or so I've been told
>unskilled labor
>super-genius iq but too humble to believe it
>Irish ancestry
I see, I see.
Do you take commonplaces?
Not regularly but I commend anyone who does
Favorite ancient historian?
Wow, never been asked that before. Herodotus
1. Do you read mostly on kindle or what do you do with all of the books when you're done with them?
2. How many physical books do you own?
3. Have you considered grad school/academia? 1600 pages per day is probably a lot more than the average PhD
1 mostly physical though I do own some kindle books
2 it's in the thousands by now
3 I have but I doubt I'll ever fit in such a place. An iq test (it took three days to take) taken at thirteen put me at a 188 IQ but I know that's way off. I just take tests well and have (had) a 98% eiditic memory. My grasp of things seems squarely average. It took me thirty days to read Moby Dick the first time. I bet I read each page 16-30 times just to understand it. I know a lot about boats and whaling now, at least. My favorite chapter from Moby Dick is the Specksnyder! I love that book
>188 IQ
>couldn't understand Moby Dick without reading each page 20 times
At least make your bait consistent.
If you’re as old as you say you are, the IQ test you took might’ve been the old ones of chronological age over mental age, which sometimes inflates scores.
This is the opposite of frying your brain on electronics. It’s hard but you are frying your brain on books. I am very skeptical though
Are you gay,?
How can there be nothing, "outside" this universe?
What's beyond the nothing?
WHAT?!
>It's a ball
What's outside the ball?
Or better yet, how small can one shrink?
God, I loved Robitussin DM
keke
Ant-Man in real life
As a former cinemaniac (4-12 films a day)... 1600 sounds like a fricking blissful vacation.
4-5 movies a day is nothing, done it several times w/o trying. 1600 pages is mindboggling, best I've done is 300 maybe.
OP, do you know of any good modern
or just horror in general that is overlooked/underrated/
good modern horror*
How do you stay comfortable for such long periods?
Do you only read in English or in other languages too?
An easy chair helps
what does your chair look like?
Brown lazy boy. Those are amazing chairs
I read several books every nite when sleeping
I put the books under the pillow and when I wake up surprise all the words are in my head
I am not sure how this happens
Are you on a death row?
How many years your lawyer has claimed you? What prospect on a big day? What's your take on the happy meal?
I've heard that if a person gets a lifetime sentence he turns into a lazy sloth but if you put him on a green mile, he can chugg down the whole library in a no time and its such a sad scene on the big day for we are losing an self made intellectual we will never be ourselves...
Nope
That's like 2 pages a minute. I didn't even know that was possible. Anyway, why don't you become a lawyer/doctor/professor?
It's possible but OP is probably missing a bunch of stuff by speedreading.
I don't speedread necessarily. I've been a reader for 49 years so that helps. My speed jumped prodigiously around age 31
He's probably on speed
Go to bed Julian
I'm not
>lawyer
>Bro bro bro why don’t you become a parasite bro. Bro bro bro just get a meme degree bro cause you read real good and page number high bro you gotta be a parasite
I read 50-60 pages(max) per day. I spend most of my free time shitposting, I think I can up that number to at least 100-150 if I actually read instead of browsing this shithole
what is you retention rate?
Poor now but I suspect that is because of age tbh
what is the thickness of your glasses?
Not too bad
I'm aware, thanks
I was really stoned in my defense
Believe it. Don't. I don't give two flying tin shits and you can take that to the bank
There are 1440 minutes in a day
>minute a page
He has to sleep so he’s probably only awake for 2/3rds of those minutes so OP is literally asking us to believe that he’s consistently knocking out pages of shit like Ovid’s Metamorphoses and War and Peace in like 20 seconds or less without having to stop, reread, highlight or take notes.
I'm aware, thanks
Do you have preference for book size and fontsize? Do you go out of your way to meet those preferences or is it just "if it's good I'm happy otherwise whatever"?
I don't
Gently skimmed the thread—how is a 49 year old managing to read for half a day?
I spend 16 hours a day doing it and I'm 52
How? Average work day is eight hours. Unless you work nights as a security guard, I don't see how it's possible. Maybe there's something I'm missing.
I read on my days off, first off
OP: I read 1600 pages a day
You: I only read on my days off
Is this a larp? Of course it is.
I didn't say only. Try reading comprehension
Do you feel like a slave to the authors you read? I mean, you spend all day internally reciting words that aren't yours, imagining stuff according to someone else's prescription. Don't you often disagree with the author's sense of poetry, or opinions, and regret reading their stuff as if a blank page would be more valuable?
Nah
I've read so little books in my life, I have legitimate trouble focusing and getting into a story. Non-fiction is a bit easier, but also hard. When I read my mind wanders off quite easily, if the book is bad, I start thinking of something else. If the book is good and genuinely thought provoking, I need to stop and think about each sentence, I end up thinking of something else again. I often get lost in fictional stories, not understanding character's relationships, descriptions and having to go back to when the author first mention them to understand. Sometimes I don't understand if a scene is tragic or comic, if it's something like a big revelation or if it's something already mentioned before that I simply missed. The internet fried my brain and I'm a lousy reader. My reading history includes a lot of prefaces, introductions and first chapters of a bunch of books I've left unfinished.
How do I develop the habit of reading?
>I read 1600 pages a day
literally impossible
It's possible - I do it frequently. I am 55 on disability benefits with dreams to become an academic some day.
Why do you dedicate so much time to the thoughts of others? Have you no ideas of your own you want to spent time meditating on and perfecting?
Even if this was real, reading 1600 pages a day defeats the purpose of a book. They are a journey and part of your life for a week or so. Reading something like Les Miserables, W&P, or Proust (a 2 day read for this guy) in a day would deaden the experience
hey Harold, how's the weather in hell?
This moron is literally LARPing as Manny on goodreads (plebs)
It's pretty fun binge reading fantasy or fiction books all day. You don't want retention so much as you want an escape.
Do you have a life outside of reading 1600 pages a day?
so you re-read Infinite Jest every day?
I read 1601 pages a day.