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sinfonia

sinfonia

Arcanist
Jun 2, 2024
443
Has anyone here successfully taught themselves to read?

My working memory is so poor that when I try to read a block of text, it goes over my head. I usually have to reread a sentence multiple times before it sticks. I eventually get very frustrated and give up.
*Read easier books (eg. children's books)
*Trace the lines with your fingers
*Don't put too much weight on individual words or sentences; try to see the bigger picture
 
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ms_beaverhousen

ms_beaverhousen

So, so bad.
Mar 14, 2024
1,336
SS book club when?
This isn't a terrible idea.
Although I just had an image of me being insubordinate and choosing 50 Shades of Grey when it was my turn to choose a title. There were a lot of red cheeks at that meeting😳
 
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JordanF

JordanF

Member
Sep 21, 2023
51
History books are honestly so good, at least when you find the right one. It's nice because there's so many interesting people that were real and had crazy impacts on the world. Right now I'm reading a book on Che Guevara
 
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SoulWhisperer

SoulWhisperer

Severe Medical Phobia « MtF »
Nov 13, 2023
522
Yup, books are a large part of what I consider to be my "essence". From Carl Sagan's scientific thinking, to classic writers such as Dostoevsky, Homer (gotta love the greeks) and Shakespeare. We all know the benefits of reading (improved memory, focus, empathy). But, in my opinion, the greatest benefit is: you become wiser. One good book equals a lifetime of knowledge/experience. When you read The Odyssey, for example, you not only enjoy one of the greatest stories ever written, but you understand what people from the past (greeks, in this case) believed in, how they behaved, what were their worries, their idea of the Cosmos, and you start to compare that to your own ideas and beliefs. You become humble, you become curious, you become wiser.

However, of course, knowing too much is not bound to make you happy, unfortunately.

Do you know Carl Sagan? What you wrote reminded me of one of the episodes from his tv series, Cosmos. Check it out, he speaks in such a passionate manner:

Also, did you get a digital copy of a discourse on voluntary death? If so, could you PLEASE send me the file/link? I've been looking for this book for months now, but the only pdfs I find are made of photos, terrible to read.

Also, what were the books recommended to you on suicide? I've read Suicide, by edouard levé, and it was so intimate I felt it was me he was writing about. (He committed suicide short after writing it, which makes it even more interesting)

I agree with the opening of your reply ✨
Also idk Carl, I just based my thinking off what I learnt from my literature, English, psychology and communication teachers. Some were cool people with cool minds. I'll have a look at the vid after work (if I remember).
For books I only buy physical ones, maybe there's digital copies from Amazon? That's where I get my books mostly but idk how digital books are like
For the books I recommend you can try looking at the list I sent up here in this thread, I commented some too
 
ImnotCTB

ImnotCTB

Member
Jun 11, 2025
25
I don't know if it would be considered books but I read fictions on Royalroad. I drop it when it nears the end so that I can leave it to imagination

Has anyone here successfully taught themselves to read?

My working memory is so poor that when I try to read a block of text, it goes over my head. I usually have to reread a sentence multiple times before it sticks. I eventually get very frustrated and give up.
Don't try to remember the entire thing, eidetic memory is not real. I solve it by automatically forgetting what the imagery looked like and reform it with my own words. I don't really do it consciously, it's just natural.
 
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permanently tired

permanently tired

I'm so close to it all
Nov 8, 2023
251
The books seem so serious in this thread lol. I usually read romance or fantasy. I'm currently reading a webnovel, omniscient reader's viewpoint. It's unlike things I've read before bc it's like I'm reading a game tutorial and diary. I've read the atlas six series (I lost my page in the last book and never got back to it 😭) and the captive prince series in the last two yrs. I usually get thru a book quite fast until I inevitably take a break and then I don't get back to reading it (idk why). I have the house in the cerulean sea on my ipad, but I've yet to get thru a single page. I had a wattpad phase and I've read some good writing on there too. I must be subconsciously longing for a partner cuz I eat that romance shit up. Fantasy bc it makes me feel powerful or I could be, similar to that feeling when u finish a movie and u imagine u were in that universe with powers.
 
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SoulWhisperer

SoulWhisperer

Severe Medical Phobia « MtF »
Nov 13, 2023
522
I occasionally go to the library to get games from, but I've been thinking about getting books from there too. There's a category for books about suicide there, so I should probably try reading some of those despite that the books are in Finnish which isn't my native language, but I need to get better at it anyway.
The closest library I have is owned by a very mean old woman so I avoid it, I'd rather build my own collection anyway
SS book club when?
I actually think it'd be pretty fun
History books are honestly so good, at least when you find the right one. It's nice because there's so many interesting people that were real and had crazy impacts on the world. Right now I'm reading a book on Che Guevara
History is cool too, it helps you understand many interesting things and views of the past and if you know much and enough you can even try to predict some things, so I've been told
 
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karakoltriste

I hate psychiatry
Apr 30, 2025
147
Yes, but depression make it difficult... I like read YA novels and books about anarchy, antipsychiatry, classism, sexims and other political and social topics.
 
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SoulWhisperer

SoulWhisperer

Severe Medical Phobia « MtF »
Nov 13, 2023
522
Yes, but depression make it difficult... I like read YA novels and books about anarchy, antipsychiatry, classism, sexims and other political and social topics.
Interesting topics indeed
 
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Aergia

Aergia

Wizard
Jun 20, 2023
622
I actually think it'd be pretty fun
I've loved multiple recs I got on here. I think SS-coded literature is a thing. Psychological fiction is discussed a lot here, for instance.

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.
—James Baldwin
 
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FoxSauce

FoxSauce

Emotional unstable like and IKEA table
Aug 23, 2024
499
I tried to like for example wattpad. Ofc ik what kind of unholy stuff is in there but some stories are good.

Dang I havent sat down and read something.

Ik its a short story but lobe the story of Tala tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

I love the story my sister read it for a class presentation and I gave it a read and it was amazing.
 
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psp3000

psp3000

Enlightened
May 20, 2023
1,471
took an opportunity to get back into reading books so then I can probably win some money and various other rewards from a summer reading event

and I also agree with others in the thread that there should definitely be an SS book/reading club

[v] the perks of being a wallflower
[v] Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
[ ] Tuesdays with Morrie
[v] On suicide a discourse on voluntary death, Jean Améri
[v] Johnny Got His Gun
[v] No longer human osamu dazai
[v] Girl In Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
[ ] Rich dad and poor dad
[ ] Thinking fast and slow
[ ] The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley, by Shaun David Hutchinson
[v] Suicide Notes, by Michael Thomas Ford
[ ] The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior, by Kees Van Heeringen
[v] Why People Die by Suicide, by Thomas Joiner
I have some of these on my To Read List on Goodreads ! very nice list !

have you read or heard of

Or Not To Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes by Marc Etkind

or

Suicide by Édouard Levé ?

also some of Yukio Mashima's (Kimitake Hiraoka)
novels
 
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SilentSadness

SilentSadness

Sleepy.
Feb 28, 2023
1,389
I exclusively read manga, and not much. The only thing I get from it is escapism.
 
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SoulWhisperer

SoulWhisperer

Severe Medical Phobia « MtF »
Nov 13, 2023
522
I've loved multiple recs I got on here. I think SS-coded literature is a thing. Psychological fiction is discussed a lot here, for instance.


—James Baldwin
I can't recall the exact excerpts/quote, but I recall reading somewhere that anything that's happened has happened before and that the only people to reach out for new things are philosophers, something like that. It had a much better meaning but I can't recall the source sadly
took an opportunity to get back into reading books so then I can probably win some money and various other rewards from a summer reading event

and I also agree with others in the thread that there should definitely be an SS book/reading club


I have some of these on my To Read List on Goodreads ! very nice list !

have you read or heard of

Or Not To Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes by Marc Etkind

or

Suicide by Édouard Levé ?

also some of Yukio Mashima's (Kimitake Hiraoka)
novels
I didn't cuz I hardly know things unless they get recommended/shown to me but I'll definitely take a look, I have about 230 euros of coupons left I can use to buy more books ❤️
 
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thereisnoneed

thereisnoneed

Member
Jan 23, 2020
86
it gets harder finding things that can catch my interest, there was a time 5/6 years ago where i could read for 4 hours a day relatively easily.
 

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