So now that I finally finished Crime and Punishment, I decided my next book would be Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. I’m about halfway through the book and there’s a ton I like about the book: as someone who’s already read Hamsun and Bukowski and Fante, I read this book and I can see how this book was so inspirational. It’s pure raw id.
There’s just one problem: when I close the book for the night and wake up the next morning, I don’t remember a darn thing I read! I remember little things, small events and whatnot, but I’m like “wait, what was that thing I read before? What was Van Norden saying about c**ts again?” And I gotta flip back and remind myself. It just completely leaves my brain once I close it, yet I like reading it so I don’t want to just give up because I have no real reason to.
Has anyone else had this problem? Liking a book yet having trouble recalling it? It’s a special kind of hell. Am I alone here?
by oh_please_god_no
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No you’re not alone trust me, I also have another problem forgetting books after I finish them. Now I keep a reading journal that reminds me what I felt about the book and what it’s about
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have read so many books I have to read a synopsis to jog my memory of them. Pretty sure that’s normal.