Girl went on a mission, fell asleep but I can’t remember quite why, it was something about a cave. She wakes up 500 years later, kingdom conquered…it’s about her life among the people after. I need to read it again.
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So there's this kid that gets abducted by his parents dangerous cult, despite the best efforts of his aunt and uncle. He then plunders his dad's trust fund in a civil war within said cult, and then kills a political leader before deciding to be a cop
Best efforts of course means child abuse.
Star wars?
Harry Potter?
“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
Sometimes a book leaves no impression on me and I promptly forget I ever read it.
I came to the realization recently that most of my books I read are just as much disposable entertainment to me as watching sitcoms is for my parents. I'll feel bad about forgetting the details of some light novel I read a month ago when they can provide a detailed summary of the rerun of Two and a Half Men or whatever it was they were watching a month ago.
I read fiction as an escape. I do not keep a bulletin board covered in note cards and red string for each book. It goes in my eyes, fizzles on my neurons for a few seconds, and then dissipates like a fart on a summer breeze.
as a non-fiction reader for escape my desk, notebooks, and walls are remarkably similar to that description minus the string.
i'm glad that there are people that just read for reading. it is an excellent expenditure of being no matter the accoutrements.
I read too many books to remember all of the plots. I recommend books to people based on the vibe I get from a book. “Oh! You like dystopian romance? Try out the Mercenary Librarians books! I don’t remember what happened, but I loved them!”
Y’all don’t remember the plot of books you read???
Only some of them. For example, a few years I went through a period of reading all the fiction I could find by Isaac Asimov, and then Heinlein. I distinctly remember the plot of Asimov’s Nightfall and some of the scenes. I remember a select few plots and scenes from some of the many short stories, but can’t reliably recall even which of those two authors they were from, let alone which story or book. Others are just dust in the wind.
I have a very good memory for many things, but a book plot just isn’t something my mind has felt is necessary to retain. Like another poster said, I read for the escape, not as a learning experience.
In my experience people who can read a book in a day or two don't remember shit. Plot points, character details, colors, jokes, they're all lost to them. They vaguely remember the jist of the story.
Why even read
I read to enjoy in the moment, not to memorize. How do you enjoy books?
I enjoy the moment and don’t need to memorize it like a school book to remember the plot of what I’ve read
whilst I agree that people should be able to point to at least 3 things they take away from a piece of media in order to not simply mindlessly consume it, I do respect that plot isn't always the highlight
Maybe people think I mean a flawless recollection of every event in the entire narrative but I’m willing to be pretty flexible here as to what constitutes a reasonable memory of the plot of a media
Like surely people are just not recognizing they do in fact remember the basics of what happened, even if they need something to prompt their memory
There is also something to the idea that people just read to escape their terrible reality, and it literally does not matter what it is. I once read the whole Twilight saga and I to this day cannot tell you more than 3 facts about it:
- Girl dates a vampire
- Something civil war
- Werewolf falls in love with a baby
Well in all fairness that’s basically an accurate recollection of most of the plot
'Cause it's fun.
Do you remember every episode of every TV programme you've seen?
No but the general plot is usually pretty hard to forget.