52 Books In 52 Weeks: Week One Underway Come Join Us! [Start With Old Man And The Sea]

[Undefeatable]

Kindle solves all

Real niggas don't fuck with Kindle, Kobo, Nook, or any other e-reader on the market.

 

[BEAM]

Don't mean to offend anyone but if you're not retainin' information, it's not really speed readin'.

Speed readin' only good for studyin' anyway

Tbh, most people aren't very good at reading.

They can read, and I'm sure they read things all the time. But as soon as we bring up one advanced technique, niggas start making excuses. If you can't ( yes, can't ) read 50+ books a year, alright; But it's because you're not good enough at reading ( speed, comprehension, memory, etc ) to do so, not for any other reason. It is what it is.

Don't have the time? Learn to speed read, then you'll have the time.

Can't find anything interesting to read? You're bullshitting, stop it.

Think about how much more you'll know by the end of the year if you read one new book every week.

You can not want to do that, but there's nothing negative to be said about those that do / can and the techniques they use to do so.

 

[blacktux]

i dont think it has anything to do with ability to read man. It has more to do with the why.

Why read 52 books unless you can retain the information to the point you can have a deep conversation or write something on the subject.

Better to spend a whole year reading a book that shifts your perspective and changes your life. Took me 4 months to finish "stokely speaks"; and its not because im a slow reader.

 

[kzzl]

I wouldn't be surprised if the total amount of words you people go through on the IC and other media could equal up to a lot of books.

Just something to think about.

 

[atribecalledgabi]

I wouldn't be surprised if the total amount of words you people go through on the IC and other media could equal up to a lot of books.

Just something to think about.

This exact reasoning is what kickstarted me into believing in need to read more. I'd rather forget shit from a good book and take mad long to recall it than be able to rattle off a lot of the dumb shit that I've committed to memory for no reason on here.

 

[BEAM]

@blacktux

Nah, the technical element is def there, and we are talking about keeping a certain pace, correct? We've gone from 52 books a year to way less ( one in your suggestion ), why? Because niggas are making excuses, and now getting upset that someone who can do what they can't/don't can see thru those excuses..

Interest and intention don't come with the skills necessary to actually read faster and still be able to focus thru the material. We can process info much more swiftly than we're trained to, but unless we're taught/learn to break thru those barriers, excuses will arise when weaknesses are exposed.

If you want to spend an entire year on one book, that's you. But understand, that's you. Others don't need that long and would like to reflect on more material, adjust our lives and persoectives faster..

If you read slow or it takes you longer to get what you need out of a book, then you need a damned good excuse in order to respectfully evade a valid criticism coming from someone who reads more / faster than you. You're not not slow just because you didn't think you were.

 

[atribecalledgabi]

12 books a year, 1 a month is more feasible for me.

Ima up this to 24. 2 a month sounds good.

 

[Negro_Caesar]

I want to start reading again this year. I haven't read a real book in like 5 or 6 years. I just don't know what to read. Anyone got any suggestions?

 

[Paprika]

i dont think it has anything to do with ability to read man. It has more to do with the why.

Why read 52 books unless you can retain the information to the point you can have a deep conversation or write something on the subject.

Better to spend a whole year reading a book that shifts your perspective and changes your life. Took me 4 months to finish "stokely speaks"; and its not because im a slow reader.

Staying with this method of thinking will keep you reading one book per four months. There's no progression in that. Now if you keep a book on the side like the Bible that you read in piecemeal along with a main book that's fine.

With this one book you are limiting your knowledge to one source. Just like in research papers, your thesis or argument is as strong as your sources. If you can articulate the Stokely speeches perfectly, but someone brings up Thomas Sankara, Papa Doc, or Meles Zenawi how does Stokely help you understand what they are saying.

With the increase in your ability to read books you don't have to question why should I read 52 books, it's a natural decision. The pursuit of knowledge is a why if you needed one.

 

[Paprika]

Finished Revolutionary Suicide and am on #Girlboss, a pretty interesting and funny read so far. I was reading it during breakfast this morning after my morning papers and went through the first 40 pages.

I'll drop a recommended list of books later tonight after work.

 

[atribecalledgabi]

I want to start reading again this year. I haven't read a real book in like 5 or 6 years. I just don't know what to read. Anyone got any suggestions?

One thing that worked for me when I started back reading again a couple years ago was i started off small. Read comics/graphic novels, short stories, easy fiction reads (less than 200 pgs)

 

[Paprika]

I want to start reading again this year. I haven't read a real book in like 5 or 6 years. I just don't know what to read. Anyone got any suggestions?

Try out The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. It's 120 pages I think. A book everyone should read actually.

The theme of the book encapsulates the 52 Books in 52 Weeks perfectly.
https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/hemingwaye-oldmanandthesea/hemingwaye-oldmanandthesea-00-t.txt

Or use the link in the spoiler on the first page to get it in a desired format.

 

[zzombie]

You don't need to speed read to read 52 books in a year just don't read too many 200 plus page books

 

[atribecalledgabi]

Yall should get on goodreads if you're not already

It's basically imdb for books.

 

[(Nope)]

I can't do this while school is in session, but over the summer I always try and read a book a week.

@Paprika goat thread!

When I was an adolescent, I dropped out of school and started reading everything I could get my hands on. Couldn't officially get books from the library because of a past due book I had long since lost, so I would steal them and then put them in the drop-box when I was done. My routine was some: sell drugs, steal book, read book, define all words I was unfamiliar with, return book, throw my name up in paint somewhere, sleep (rinse and repeat). I swear on everything the reading I did kept me safe. I learned how to think critically, understand and define my environment, and understand people in a way I previously hadn't. You can be stuck somewhere, but books will take you places, give you perspective to work with, and introduce you to new things. Reading is edifying!

 

[blackrain]

I read 125 books this past year, going for 150+ this year.

Speed reading has always worked just fine for me; But I didn't learn to skip over any words or info, only to read entire lines at a time and to not need to repeat the words in my head as I'm reading.

Niggas aren't too busy to read, they just don't / aren't good at it.

Or people just take in information differently so speed reading don't work for everybody....

 

[T. Sanford]

I been slacking on my reading for awhile but I just peeled back the pages into this real estate book that I didn't get to finish

 

[BEAM]

Or people just take in information differently so speed reading don't work for everybody....

Okay, hence not being good at it. If "differently" is still slower, then you still read slow, or take in information slow. Take your pick.

If we weren't talking about a goal of reading 50+ books a year, speed reading wouldn't be such a pertinent topic, but we are.

 

[Reigns]

I'm in on this. I tell myself to read more all the time. I only got around to about 4 books last year. I try to mix it up: "self-help" book then an "entertaining" book. I just didn't know what to read a lot of stuff I want to learn and read about it's overwhelming. ThreAd is bookmarked and I'm starting the old man and the sea. Good thread.

 

[playmaker88]

There is actually a lot of shit i been wanting to read. as far as book

Marc lamonts book.

This book called complicity about the Norths complicity in the slave trade(Been wanting to read this for years)

Always wanted to read $40 million dollar slave

What i have been reading is a bunch of articles.. Smh i still havent gotten around to reading .. Ta-Nahesi Coates articles on Reparations and Barack.. one has to prepare for Ta-Nehisi.. need to throw on some jazz and just get into it.. but been tryin to do 10 things at once.. surf the net, watch the news and sports