>>77058721
The Price of Peace - Keynes

>>77058721
>reading between sets
how do you even focus on what your reading after a set? There’s no you just retain any information anyway after 5 minutes of reading

>>77058911
Bro how bad is your attention span WTF

>>77058911
>5 min in-between sets

Sometimes I wonder if people who obsess over "high tier" literature are just faking it to sound cool. Every few books I read I try a classic and usually they are boring. Moby Dick was the most recent attempt, It was hundreds of pages of geeks on a boat sniffing their own farts. My recent favorites have been Library at Mt. Char, Kara No Kyokai, and Ubik.

>>77059074
Different strokes. I found MD very readable, and all the nautical whaling trivia is interesting. But I couldn’t even get through twenty pages of Crime and Punishment

I’m reading Paradise Lost for pleasure, and Sperm Wars to increase my hatred towards women by redpilling me even further (did not think it was possible).


>>77059074
Depends brother. I thoroughly enjoy Russian classics but Melville was a bit dense at times - opposite to this anon >>77059150

>>77058721
Dont you get sweat all over the pages and shouldn't you be too out of breath to focus on the words? Oh thats right... dyel thread

>>77059199
No i have a helmet with an arm that holds my book infront of my face

>>77059196
Don’t forget to read the last chapter for that white pill

I don't know whether it counts or not, but I got really into audiobooks recently. I like it during workouts and mobility/stretching. Especially the types which are about dudes going out of their comfort zones. Like Total Recall from Arnold was great, anything from Goggins, including the book by Jesse Itzler. Recently I finished one about a guy who said fuck it all and started to live without any kind of modern technology, it was titled The Way Home.
So yeah, these can keep me hyped during workouts.
If anyone has any recommendations in this kinds of topic, please, let me know.

>>77059850
>really into audiobooks recently.
ngmi
let me guess, u listen to podcasts

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It's time for /fit/ to start reading poetry
>b-but all poetry is gay womanly slop about flowers and love
Poetrylet confirmed. Read the Blood-Stirring stuff
>But as they left the dark’ning heath,
>More desperate grew the strife of death.
>The English shafts in volleys hailed,
>In headlong charge their horse assailed;
>Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep
>To break the Scottish circle deep,
>That fought around their king.
>But yet, though thick the shafts as snow,
>Though charging knights like whirlwinds go,
>Though billmen ply the ghastly blow,
>Unbroken was the ring;
>The stubborn spearmen still made good
>Their dark impenetrable wood,
>Each stepping where his comrade stood,
>The instant that he fell.
>No thought was there of dastard flight;
>Linked in the serried phalanx tight,
>Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,
>As fearlessly and well;
>Till utter darkness closed her wing
>O’er their thin host and wounded king.
>Then skilful Surrey’s sage commands
>Led back from strife his shattered bands;
>And from the charge they drew,
>As mountain-waves, from wasted lands,
>Sweep back to ocean blue.

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>>77058721
Got 50 pages into the hunchback of Notre Dame before realizing how topical it was to read a book where the antagonist's motivation is that he can't get over a girl, the month after I got dumped as I wanted things to get serious and she did not.

Finished the book, it's fucking great, turns out everyone's motivation is unrequited love, and the only character that doesn't end up dead or miserable is the guy that can deal with rejection, and knows when to pick goat over girl.

Helped me get over it just in time for valentines day ads to show up everywhere.

>>77058721
I don't read between sets, but I do read a lot outside the gym.
I just finished The Autistic's Guide to Self Discovery. It was really good, and I'm looking forward to the ADHD version coming out later this year.
Now that I've finished that diversion, I'll get back to Ride the Tiger and finish that. Then, I'm thinking maybe something about architecture. I'm very interested in the idea of changing the way we approach housing here in the US to be more sustainable without living like filthy hippies. We could do a lot at the design phase to improve sustainability without dramatic cost increase, like building into the land, planning food forests instead of huge lawns, adjusting positions of buildings relative to sunlight, etc etc. I feel like I should have more "building fundamentals" to get a better grasp of it.

>>77059196
>Sperm Wars
I thought you were jesting bit it's real. Sounds promising, thanks for the recommendation!
The description reminds me of The Way of Men for some reason. I highly recommend it.

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>>77058721
I'm really enjoying it. My first Pynchon novel, and I will be reading more.

>>77058721
>reading between sets
Post body. I'm willing to bet there is nothing about your body that says you lift heavy enough for those kinds of rest periods. Also, anyone who does this looks fucking retarded.
>>77059074
>people who obsess over "high tier" literature are just faking it to sound cool
Yup. The furth from the times they were written in the less believable it is people really like that crap. There isn't a single original classic in existence that isn't mind numbingly borning.

>>77059850
I do this too. You don’t retain it as well as reading but you get the highlights so I try not to listen to anything too dense and save that for real books.

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reading's for fags

>>77058721
>Zen Buddhism: Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki

>>77060449
>There isn't a single original classic in existence that isn't mind numbingly borning
I just read the Illiad and 90% of the book is “Byblos killed demos, then hemos killed temos”

>>77060804
>You don’t retain it as well as reading but you get the highlights so I try not to listen to anything too dense and save that for real books
Same. That's why I rather listen to autobiography kinds of books which are like longer podcast episodes. In regular fiction you usually don't want to miss anything because every single word matters, so for that I either stick to actual books or listen to them while doing nothing else.
I've also discovered there are a lot of dramatizations or audio olays or whatever you want to call them which sounded dumb first but I checked one out and it was pretty good actually. It requires full attention, so it's not for lifting, but it's quite immersive.