If you want to hear about a willful misreading that puts Menocchio to shame, you should contact me sometime. Just provide a punching bag
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Just different strategies. Yours means you can be familiar with a much much higher number of texts than most people can/will, and that offers all sorts of possiblities for synthesis, making connections and finding criticisms. Best to play to your strengths, right? Keep on reading like you like to read, and just focus on increasing the amount you do of the opportunities it offers re: linking/mixing up ideass.
I hate to do this, but since it's school stuff..."how has it affected". Just a slip of the finger, I'm sure.
I read fast too. My solution? Read everything twice (or more) if I have time and want to. Otherwise, at least I got the gist. And people always accuse one of reading things "wrong" if one doesn't agree with them. The number of times I got told that by my philosophy prof/grader was large. And IRRITATING.
But now I can't correct it, since you pointed it out! *pouts* Not that it will be too terrible, since my volume is racking up and we're only on the third day of three weeks. I like spelling errors, they humanize us?
That said, I'm glad other people read fast. And "wrong," although I don't get told that too often. Just by obnoxious pedants. Like philosophy graders.
hahahaha. that's funny. i read trashy fiction hella fast, and i can skim fast, but poetry (and the re-reading process it requires) have taught me to dial the reading pace down to glacial. i wouldn't sweat it. nobody reads anything that carefully the first time around.
and seriously, lauren, who the fuck even exists to tell you what you should get out of reading? reading is not for other people! reading is for you! reading is your bitch!
See, I think reading is your bitch one day, but you're reading's bitch the next, when, say, you re-read Donne (or dead-Baudrillard) for the umpteenth time and realize that you were wrong about everything the other times.
That's what makes it fun. And frustrating. And fun.
Yes. TASP essentially ruined me academically as well, and given that my experience with this school has been one long TASP...well, let's just say I have found things that aren't intellectual to occupy my (albeit small) free time with.
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I read fast too. My solution? Read everything twice (or more) if I have time and want to. Otherwise, at least I got the gist. And people always accuse one of reading things "wrong" if one doesn't agree with them. The number of times I got told that by my philosophy prof/grader was large. And IRRITATING.
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That said, I'm glad other people read fast. And "wrong," although I don't get told that too often. Just by obnoxious pedants. Like philosophy graders.
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and seriously, lauren, who the fuck even exists to tell you what you should get out of reading? reading is not for other people! reading is for you! reading is your bitch!
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That's what makes it fun. And frustrating. And fun.
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