Buys book

>book it
>Doesn't read buy

>read book
>pause every second to look up definitions
>lose interest

>read one chapter
>one week break
>have to re-read it

My god this me too
Bradbury was right. I'm keeping my future children far away from the internet and most television.

what kind of emotional response is your image trying to convey and how is it connected to your post? please get back to me

Dwarf Fortress.
Tbf you do have tons of reading to do if you want.

>buy books
>get obsessed with reading it, to the point where you just fall asleep from exhaustion at 6am
>finish it
>can barely remember a single thing a day after

Heh
Tfw

>read a page
>start daydreaming
>keep rereading the page

>speedreading
>didn't quite catch the last sentence
>reread it slowly out loud while tracing the words with my finger
>reread it again but this time I whisper it
>continue speedreading

>reading
>check how many pages are left
>want that the boook ends sooner

>writes book
>doesn't read it

>Start daydreaming
>keep reading
>Realize you red like 5 pages, but don't even know what happened in them

>daydreaming
>go over half the page
>suddenly something crazy happens in the story
>"Wait what!"
>actually start paying attention again

>writes book
>nobody wants to publish it
>rinse and repeat
you know who you are

>read new book
>story begins
>book introduces characters
>10 pages and 5 characters later
>confuse all the names and forget who is who

truly patrician method right here, folks

>waste thousand hours downloading books to my e-book
>read one

>buy book
>watch film version

>tfw spend thousands on books
>tfw barely read any of them

I've bought the same book more than once by accident

I notice this mostly when reading news items.
>the lede introduces someone's full name
>other names are introduced in subsequent paragraphs
>several paragraphs explicating the story
>suddenly: "[important quote]," Smith said.
>who the hell is Smith?
>forced to hunt through whole article for the one mention of Smith and what their relationship to the story is again to understand the quote
I know i should just absorb all this as I read but my mind doesn't handle names without faces very well.

I'm unironically the opposite of this now, I'm so tired of videogames that when I start playing them I only want to go back to reading

worse yet
>buys textbooks
>never purposefully uses them

fap break obviously

man, I wasted so much money freshman year. Once I figured out there was a copy of all the textbooks in the library that I could just study for upcoming exams and otherwise just go to class and take notes, I never bought textbooks again. Fuck that racket.

>decide to read alot of my audiobook one day
>lay down and start listening intently
>fall asleep after a few hours
>wake up several chapters later wondering if ive absorbed the info or if im completely lost

Yep. I've had Broom of the System on my shelf for over a year now and still haven't found the will to read it. I'm just so invested in other types of literature atm.

y-you too

Me when reading anything by Pynchon

>reads Thomas Pynchon's books
>doesn't understand it

Gosh I'm losting my sides in this thread. Good work anons

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I'm like this to, or at least at first glance. But then, 3 years later a question related to something I once read reveals in me a wealth of stored understanding.

>resume book i’ve been fake reading for 3 months now
>read one chapter
>spend 2 hours on mbti forums about personality of characters in the book
>sleep
>/lit

>read one chapter
>genuinely enjoy it
>"oh well that's enough for the day"
>do absolutely nothing of importance

This is especially bad when you read Russian novels, there are usually 9001 characters, and on top of that all of them have nicknames, patronymics etc

i find the mess of patronimics actually helpful as it gives more inputs to my mind

user Anonic Anonazov

Nickname: Anonusha

>book is ending
>author takes the time to tie up every loose end and the last chapters consist of 90% characters and events you never gave a fuck about
the few sentences of true resolution are like needles in a haystack

>buy book
>read the first few pages
>give it away as last minute birthday present because you forgot to buy one

If I wasn't taking notes on names in M&M, I would've given up long ago.

Why the FUCK would you randomly decide to address characters by their first and middle name, or last name at other times?

What kind of soy manchild/woman finds this shit funny?

>few chapters away from the ending
>never read the book ever again

>buys book
>reads first 20 pages
>friends come over and marvel at library
>start recommending several based on their interests
user, why are there bookmarks in each book at only the first few pages?

Close enough is enough.

You mean this one?

This is a problem with wikipedia articles for movies you didn't understand because they always use first names instead of "her father" etc

(checked)
its been a meme on Veeky Forums for as long as I can remember
that being said it was never funny after the first post in the first thread it was posted in.

Because it makes reading the book more difficult thus increasing the artistic value of it, duh.

Same.

Can I ask how old you are?

My new system is I buy one book for every 2 I finish.

I buy three books for every book I read.

Same
Went from playing 4 hours straight everyday to not find any of them "fun" anymore

Is there a longer book? Plus 2/3rds of it is Jewish history you have to slog through.

>4 hours

eh, the last name thing isn't actually that weird. We do it in the US but don't really think we do, we don't notice it. That it's standard address in the military (and cops) I think trickles into general use, but maybe it's just human nature to an extent anyway. When I worked at a kids summer camp in MI, staff referring to each other by last name was in-group behavior, endearing, even. and these were young hippie bro frat guys, not military influenced in that culture. Or like how /tv/ refers to Natalie Portman as "Hershlag," it's basically a term of endearment even if it's purpose was originally to out her jewishness.It does not seem so odd that other cultures would have a version of this.

The first-and-middle convention might be a rhythm thing, a way of inserting musicality into the phrasing, like how we might name a kid "Jo-Anne" or "Bobby-Joe." We just make a longer first name, but same effect. It just sounds better.

Also, I have a weird middle name and close friends address me by first-and-middle sometimes. The effect is sort of affectionate, if platonic: "I'm close enough to you that I know your middle name," plus it has a rhythm to it, and the unusualness of the name has a certain flair, a certain appeal for them to say, too; they like saying it.

We also have that whole thing of abbreviating names that really makes no sense (diminutives.) Katherine is Kate, OK that's not too hard (even though the T hardens up, for some reason.) But everyone knows that Bob is Robert and Ted is Edward even though they start with a completely different consonant. And then little kids or your intimate friends are Bobby, Teddy, and Katie.

All this must be confusing as fuck if you're ESL, but if you're native, you just grow up with it and never think about it.

>don't read books
buys e-reader

>start reading a book
>kind of getting board of if
>start reading a second book at the same time
>like the second book more
>start only reading the second book
>finish it
>go back to the first book
>forgot everything that's happened
>have to start it over from the beginning
>get frustrated and give up
>never finish the first book

I buy 15 books every time I get paid. That’s why I own thousands of books lmao

You'd know procreation is immoral if you actually read some books.

>buy book
>read 10 pages
>go back to shitposting on 4chins

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCCvN8YDuc

>read south american novels
>901 characters and they all have the same name

whoa! o.o

>read

>Buys book
>Doesn't read it
>Download the same book in epub
>read it

fuck my life?

This is why I'm not buying any more books until I catch up. The days of buying 5 books at a time, reading half of one and then putting the rest on a shelf are over.

At this rate I may not purchase another book all year, it's that bad.

H-how did you know?

t. reddit

>buy a book
onto the shelf it goes
I constantly get people telling me how well read I am

>t. reddit
What is this "t." meme that everyone is posting recently?

>Hides your thread
>Doesn't read it

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>well read
>get called genuinely retarded online

>recently

>Buys book
>Puts it on the shelf
>Never reads it
>Folds it and smothers it to looks like it's been read
>Puts it back on the shelf

>steal book
>read and enjoy it

>read good portion of book
>get attached to a particular character
>look up discussions and analysis online to see if others like the character too
>"...x's death in chapter y..."

you asked for it

If you don't at least try to find shit like this funny you won't do well in any white collar workplace. Shit but reality.

i hoe you realize you're surrounded by a bunch of neets

>the supreme newfag

>being a wageslave
>current year

youtube.com/watch?v=rUC5s5K0Fdc

>buy book
>read 2 pages
>shitpost on Veeky Forums about book

t. missed "t."-op

Kind that makes cuck edits of the reddit logo?

it's the logo for the cuck sub I think so yeah pretty much

>reading the bible
>have to read through the canaanite civil war for weeks before i get to jesus
it's been a dubious journey lads

>desperately trying to justify how your life went so terribly wrong
>WAGESLAVE!! HA! HAHA!