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How Do I Up My Reading Comprehension?
So I've been facing a huge problem lately: I'm buying way too many books that I cannot understand. And I don't mean like I don't understand its themes or messages or whatever. I literally cannot *understand* them—they're incomprehensible to me. To give reference, these particular books are Mason & Dixon, some of Shakespeare's plays, To The Lighthouse, The Remains of The Day and some dialogues from Plato (esp. The Symposium. Their speeches about love go right through my head.). I just feel like my reading level's too low to really comprehend them because it's not like I have really bad reading comprehension overall: I can read and understand more contemporary works such as Tsukuru Tazaki and even reading older classics like Frankenstein and The Brothers Karamazov (Garnett trans.), I can understand perfectly fine. I've tried paraphrasing passages with AI just to understand, but that feels like cheating. I want to understand it on my own without any external help.
Perhaps it's a matter of style? Mason & Dixon *is* written in faux 18th-century prose, and To The Lighthouse very notably in stream-of-conciousness. Maybe I'm just far too inexperienced to read them? I'm only a few months into this reading hobby after all and I haven't even been awfully consistent with it.
Though, I think it's pretty understandable to not be able to understand these authors judging by some posts I've read (esp. Woolf and Pynchon), however I am looking for advice on how I could somehow 'build up' to reading them? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!
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So I've been facing a huge problem lately: I'm buying way too many books that I cannot understand. And I don't mean like I don't understand its themes or messages or whatever. I literally cannot *understand* them—they're incomprehensible to me. To give reference, these particular books are Mason & Dixon, some of Shakespeare's plays, To The Lighthouse, The Remains of The Day and some dialogues from Plato (esp. The Symposium. Their speeches about love go right through my head.). I just feel like my reading level's too low to really comprehend them because it's not like I have really bad reading comprehension overall: I can read and understand more contemporary works such as Tsukuru Tazaki and even reading older classics like Frankenstein and The Brothers Karamazov (Garnett trans.), I can understand perfectly fine. I've tried paraphrasing passages with AI just to understand, but that feels like cheating. I want to understand it on my own without any external help.
Perhaps it's a matter of style? Mason & Dixon *is* written in faux 18th-century prose, and To The Lighthouse very notably in stream-of-conciousness. Maybe I'm just far too inexperienced to read them? I'm only a few months into this reading hobby after all and I haven't even been awfully consistent with it.
Though, I think it's pretty understandable to not be able to understand these authors judging by some posts I've read (esp. Woolf and Pynchon), however I am looking for advice on how I could somehow 'build up' to reading them? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!
#entertainment
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