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I have maybe read 5 books in my whole life....somehow, Its really difficult for me to concentrate for longer than 20 minutes on a book.....its not the lack of interest, I just cant concentrate, and uh....and than I get bored....who else here has the same problem ? |
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only read 5 books, and such wisdom you must be a natural born philosopher... |
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surely you must have read more than 5...i mean it was obligatory in school wasn't it? i don't have troubles with concentrating if the book is interesting...if it isn't my thoughts keep getting away. |
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I didnt count Manuals and School Books...yes, all in all Id say i never read more than 5 books |
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manuals school books |
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"its not the lack of interest, I just cant concentrate, and uh....and than I get bored...." if it isn't lack of interest, I don't see why you'd get bored. |
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so yeah... |
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jesus CHRIST. that looks unappetizing. :( |
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i know.. but if i dont do it, noone will |
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you stupid fucking idiot. have some respect for other people. |
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Right now, I can read 315 english words per minute ! Test yourself Hmmm...what a delicious cunt |
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LOL |
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yeah, guess what ITS NOT FOR YOU HAHAHAHAHA |
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same thing, i have 4 or 5 books near my bed, and i just don't read them - i just never really feel like reading them, and when i do i read like 15-20 pages then stop... sometimes i can see a sentence and not really read it but "rest" over it and think of something else, i stay on a sentence (or paragraph or page...) for 15 minutes without going forward o_O and i only notice i'm doing this when it stops, i'm not even doing it on purpose - talk about concentration... i'm quite ashamed of it, i know i'm missing out a lot. i wonder if i should force myself or just admit that it isn't my thing - probably force myself. |
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So, anyone here tried speed reading ? |
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yeah, didn't improve my reading speed though apparently. or maybe it improved the *reading* itself, just deciphering the characters, but not the comprehension speed - i can read a text fast but i have to read it slower or several times to understand it sometimes especially when it's in a foreign language. |
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like anything else it takes practice. i was never a big reader when i was younger, now i struggle to read much at a time. but i am persevering. presumably you've given up like everything else. |
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I like to stare at my BASEMENT WALL when IM hi on DXM...I can do that for hours |
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I also have problems reading books. I don't have an interest or a desire problem... but when I actually get to the act of reading, my eyes skip around pages, I skip whole paragraphs, and then regret it 10 seconds later and go back which understandably fucking up my flow, my mind wanders after every other line... it's difficult. But once I get a good distance into the book, usually I'm engrossed enough to overcome my ADD-like-symptoms, and I can read speedily and efficiently. I like coffee table books... GLOSSY AND SAUCY. |
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I just can't be bothered reading books, its takes up far too much of my time! |
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yeah, but i seriously wish someone (including yourself) would find a way to shake you or something so you'd be more active and going and not just wallow in drugs, despair, bitterness and all that... i hope you're aware that this state of mind you're in is why some people mock you/hate you on this board : | (i'd need to be "shaken" too, but less than you it seems) |
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don't you have time when you take the train (if you do), or at other times of the day when you wait for something? you never get bored? |
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*shakes Uzim* Pull yourself together man!!!! :P |
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I know, I hate myself and my laziness the most.... |
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I have the same problem as you...it sucks |
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jesus how hard can it be to read a fucking book!? |
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328 wpm... those fucking excersises made me feel physically sick tho.... |
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Very, for those that cannot :P |
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you people dont know what yer missing books >> movies |
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Nahhh, I can watch a film in two hours, and have done with it |
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if the book was titled "c3po and other gay robots of the 20th century" you'd fucking read it |
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HA HA HA!!! |
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damn computers its all their fault theyre takin over the world evil digi bastards! |
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one reason reading is nice is because it can destroy these sorts of attention problems |
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I learned how to read in 1st grade. |
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i love reading, its fundamental. |
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a friend of mine speed reads; he just turns pages, it doesn't look like he's reading. He learned how to read that way from the beginning, he also learned really young like when he was 3 or 4. I on the other hand do still have a little trouble concentrating, though that couldd be because I just finished the "silmarilion" (try that one out..jeesh). I also had some learning disabilities when i was younger i.e. (id est) I read backwards and around and stuff. |
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Books rule! I am currently reading Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. Next up will be The Tin Drum by Günter Grass. |
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Try reading 'house of leaves", its like the IDM of all books. |
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my first score was 500 something, and my second one (after being supposedly enhanced) turned out to be 475. I knew that test/excercises was a crock of shit. |
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read books, monoid. join a library. it might help you out of this endless spiral of messageboard selfreferentialism you seem to go through all the time. it's non-interactive, see? reading books whilst on dextromorphan is pretty worthless, obviously. |
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Books are lovely. |
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i can't anymore., i want to read but i loose concentration very very easily and just can't read., it's strange. |
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It's not strange at all--we're all used to blippy computers, over dramatic films, over exaggerated television and beeping cell phones--hell we even need mechanical reminders to cook properly. Books require you to sit down and use your fucking imagination; contents are set for you sure, but your brain takes it up many notches, so it's nothing like the spoon feeding regular life has turned into. I repeat: books are good at combatting this. |
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i just moved. i am currently in the process of unpacking several large crates of books, most of which i've read. also, in case you haven't noticed, i'm in the process of unpacking my titanic ego into this thread. |
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Unless a book really captivates me from the start (i.e. after a few pages) I cannot be arsed to read the rest of it. It's the result of video gaming culture. |
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& 632 wpm.. it made me kinda queasy. the exercises made me queasy so i stopped. |
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Takes me a while to get into a book sometimes, but I do enjoy it if it's a good book I'm a slow reader though |
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yeah i cant concentrate on novels/fiction. i'll be reading down the page, then start thinking about something else, while actually still reading the words in the book, then i get to the end of the page and realise i wasn't paying attention to what i was reading and have no idea what happend in the book, then i have to start the page again. if i'm reading something informative i usually dont have a problem however. i just can't enjoy a story in book form, maybe if i was a faster reader it would work better. |
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BOOKS FUCKING ROCK!!!!!!!! |
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