I have an interesting way of reading books, I call it the "authentic experience" method.
For example, when I was reading 1001 Nights I would read each night until I finished a story, and then stop no matter how much I wanted to continue. This helped me experience the excitement of the king to hear the stories of Schaharazade.
I read the majority of Infinite Jest while high/ hung over/ on acid. This allowed me to feel what wallace was grappling with re addiction, withdrawal, and altered states of mind.
Next is Baron in the Trees (Italo Calvino) Which I will read in its entirety sitting in a tree.
Overall it helps me connect more to the characters and make the stories feel more real and understandable. What do you anons think? What other books could I do this with?
Matthew Thompson
So funneh xD
Grayson Moore
You should try not eating for 3 days and then read Hunger by Knut Hamsun.
Josiah Richardson
Good start senpai. If you're not method reading you might as well not read.
Me? I've been reading Finnegans Wake while asleep for the past 14 years of my life. I have literally been unable to read another book since FW just repeats over and over again. I firmly believe I am having one of the most authentic literary experiences one could possibly have.
Daniel Rivera
>I read the majority of Infinite Jest while high/ hung over/ on acid. This allowed me to feel what wallace was grappling with re addiction, withdrawal, and altered states of mind.
Man I wish I had access to drugs rn so I could try this
Nolan Murphy
>tfw "authentic experience" reading Divine Comedy
Easton Green
>What other books could I do this with? Italo Calvino's If On a Winter Night a Traveler.
Produce the same obstacles that the reader in the book faces when trying to read the next chapter. It'll be a wild ride.
Nolan Campbell
I read Sophocles' Theban Plays while sleeping with my mother. Would recommend
Logan Flores
Read 1984 while visiting North Korea.
Connor Phillips
my reading suggestion for you is one flew over the cuckoo's nest. Get a lobotomy.
John Perry
for the love of god, don't read lolita
Henry Roberts
do the equivalent but with Groth of The Soil instead, he would actually get something out of it. also it's a much better book
Elijah Cooper
Nice to meet another method reader. >reading crime and punishment >commit double homicide
Grayson White
Not bad at all.
Bentley James
Read The Stranger and go shoot an Arab.
Blake Williams
Yeah, I do the same thing. Makes for a better experience. Currently reading 120 Days of Sodom.
Noah Robinson
I only eat flat bread and drink watered down wine while reading the Greeks. I took amphetamines for a year solid while working my way through PKD.
Julian Gomez
Go to prison and read House of the Dead.
Get a job/internship in the insurance industry and read The Castle
Anything Herman Melville on a boat
Fishing with weights or floaters/Old Man and the Sea
Logan Hall
underrated
Leo Gonzalez
Method reading is the master race, good to see it mentioned here.
Eli Cox
the actual authentic experience is having your browser on the facebook of a girl youve met twice and a list of all the people who have ever wronged you posted on your wall
Juan Hughes
>have to meet a girl >she has to actually READ ayy lmao
Sebastian Scott
Yeah, that's probably the hardest part of the entire ride for most. Setting fire to a publishing house would likely be easier.
Liam Lewis
I read Oblomov while browsing Veeky Forums.
Jaxson Ross
>oedipus the king >lolita >the sound and the fury >catcher in the rye
Parker Wright
I got a lot more out of Hunger, but I've only read the Knut Hamson books once each. Growth of the soil, for me at least, dragged on much longer than I wanted it to.
Then again, I don't think I've liked any family epic so it's just not my taste.
Benjamin Walker
Why did you like Growth better?
Jackson Mitchell
American Psycho has been working wonders for me so far.
Carter Bennett
>this pleb probably still read Aladin and Alibaba
Gabriel Harris
If you use your imagination you could method read lolita and catcher in the rye at the same time.
Jason Foster
>Method reading Renaissance literature/The Plague >Not in a Zika-infested Latin American country fucking everything that moves
Top kek
Anthony White
desu senpai, different user, but kinda weird you say that
i'm in southern mexico recovering from zika rn reading dante and fucking every mexican chic that moves
Alexander Bell
then you would have something better to do than read ij, or maybe the other way around
I do like to semi align the books I'm reading with the seasons.
Ethan Ortiz
>Growth of the soil, for me at least, dragged on much longer than I wanted it to. it's the complete opposite for me, every time i finish i wish it kept going for another generation at least
i'm not sure why i didn't enjoy Hunger a lot, i guess i didn't have much interest for the character. it's shorter than Growth but it felt much longer to me
Jace Perry
- going to read Hunger - will read only when hungry sure
Gavin Robinson
Underrated post.
Owen Smith
I rather like this.
Jaxon Baker
I did this with Hamsun's Hunger (it also helped that I was too lazy to prepare food). It really does help.
Henry Howard
Why dont you read The Divine Comedy and go to hell?