If you don't read for hours a day, at a modest pace of at least one page per minute or (at most) two minutes, then you will never, ever get to experience reading. If you can't read the canon in your lifetime, then there is no point in you writing, let alone posting on LULZ. It beggars belief anyone would post on a literature forum without having read all that is to be read, and read deeply.
Even if you are a slow reader, you can read four hours a day outside of work. On weekends, you could read even more. That is at least 120 pages a day, if not more. Across a week, that would be a longish novel, or a few shorter ones. It certainly would be enough for several poetry selections.
Across a year, you should do at least 45,000 pages of reading. If you start reading from 18 until your 60s (when your mind deteriorates slowly, but you will hold onto your faculties if you read a lot), then you would have read nearly 2,000,000 pages in your lifetime. That is thousands of books.
Start now. Before it is too late. If you don't read around 5000-10,000 books, then you have not read the best that has been written, then you can't be said to have read at all.
If you're reading this now, then it means you can read books. Don't be like the rest of the plebeians who languish in obscure ignorance. Do not write if you cannot read the best that has been written, since you cannot be said to be able to think.
Do not respond to me, for it is uncouth for a son of a bondsman, a modern day Caliban, to talk to a superior. This is the final and my most terse of warnings.
I'm quite adamant you have not even read a single glyph nor a masterful sentence of La Comedie Humaine, let alone the entirety of that confounding sprawl of literary permutation. So, do not think you can think nor write yet. For you are a fool inside the shadows of languid idiocy, allowed only to survive in modernity out of others' productivity and misplaced pity.
I'm sorry, I will try my best. thanks for the motivation
Between reading for 4 hours and masturbating for a further 8, I would barely have any time for my shitpost routine.
Maybe if you read as much as Bloom you can write as terribly as he did.
I like how he writes
Speed reading is for cunts. You’re consuming words with no time to digest for what? There’s no prize for reading a million books. Reading at a tortoise pace and rereading is what is most rewarding. Forcing yourself to read a “classic” if you don’t want too is mind numbing and retarded. Some of the best books (subjectively) are not even on most peoples radar. I know this was bait and I like this autistic israelite but STICK IT UP YOUR CUNT!!!
>don’t want too
>drunk phone poster
It takes about 50 books to develop a patrician taste and to form your own style. Anything beyond that is just for leisure.
Wrong. If you are not reading 100 books a year, you are a Normalfag.
Reading 2,000 books and understanding nothing is useless.
Reading 200 books but thinking about what you're reading, doing your research, and trying to really understand the books is a far better use of your time.
>Normalfag capitalized
You don't read.
>8 hours of sleep
>8 hours of work
>couple of hours to eat/make tea
>7 hours to walk around in a circle around my room daydreaming
sorry, not enough time in the day
>couple of hours to eat and make tea
Anon..
>implying going through a traditional japanese tea ceremony multiple times a day is somehow unnecessary
I fucking hate you guys so much.
If you don't read at a pace in which you hear the melody of the words, you will never be able to write anything of value. This is the most important part of literature: the musicality of the sentences.
OP doesn't read. Let alone hear the melody. He scans the texts.