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Hi there!

The more i read novels the more i think that it is just a waste of time.

I don't have fun reading them anymore but instead i feel like shit every time i stop reading and notice that 2-5 hours have passed while i was reading and i could do something useful during that time.

Like re-learning the languages i speak (i haven't used some of them for so long that i can't even make a sentence in them even though before i was at a B2 or higher level at them) or start leaning something new in general.

I think one of the big problems is that some novels that have like 500 chapters will be dropped by their translator and all that time i invested in reading them was pointless because of that, or at that length the author writes himself into a corner and the story turns into shit, so another waste of time.
Or just all the RR stories i have bookmarked. I have 127 of them and only 10 were finished and only 20 are still ongoing. So nearly a hundred novels i have read were just another waste of my time.

I feel like its slowly but surely not a hobby anymore, but a way for me to just waste time.
I could deal with that problem by just waiting until a story is finished and start reading, but even then i still think that i wasted my time.

The more i read the more i notice that most stories don't have a deeper meaning to them, its just "that cool thing happened, then that cool thing happened and then cool things happened for the next 100 chapters and then it ended" and i am not sure if i want that. Sure its cool, but that's it. I kinda crave for a story with a life lesson behind it or a story that challenges my world view but for some reason i can't find such stories here. But i will be honest that's mostly because i have't tried hard enough jet...

Ok so i have ranted for long enough now to you.

What do you think about reading not finished stories being a waste of time ?
Do you ever think to yourself that you would want to read a "grown up"(?) story rather than a "that's COOL!" story ?
Do you even feel like shit when reading for too long ?
What do you think about all that in general ?

 

Read Zi Xinyu’s Short Stories

 

Thanks that actually looks really interesting!

 

Read novels that u are practicing your language in

 

maybe read published english novels instead

it would solve literally all your problems

 

Yep, that's why im inspired to write a book myself and finish it before making it public.

 

How about working or something?

 

Most hobbies are generally a waste of time. If you're not getting enjoyment out of a hobby then drop it.

 

Like i said, i am still at a point in my life where i don't have to work and am supposed to learn. Sadly my hobby that i had for surviving the times there was nothing else i could do became something that started eating at my general time where i could have done something useful...

 

Ah I get ya but it was mostly with the ya genre though. Once I said I wanted to read something different, I had a copy of Huckleberry Finn, 30 pages in I threw it out the back door. So you're utterly screwed until you find another interesting hobby
Good luck

 

Not really. I don't have money to buy them. And even if i bought them there's still the problem that novels that get published are mostly the most popular ones and the most popular one are these "cool" novels.
Edit i have read it again and am sorry for misreading it the first time. Maybe you are right reading some old school english novels could help.

 

Translate. That's what I did. You learn a language, you help the community, and you could always trnalsate a completed novel.

 

Its not that i don't have any other hobbies. Its just that reading is a rather useful hobby because if you have wifi you can do it everywhere when you need to wait for something. And i like reading. My main problem is that i read too much "shit" when i could do something better. Maybe reading some science or political books could help.

 

Ehh its more of a time filling thing. I'm not dedicated nor invested enough to think of it as an integral part of my life. If its dropped, then so be it. I'll just find something else to read. Sure its nice to read till the end, but nothin much even if i don't know the end.
Unless of course it was dropped when there's like 20 chapters left. That level of douchebagggery is high.

 

You want a story to get something out of, here is one:

I'll put it to you this way, after I read my first novel, which took up quite a few days, my conclusion was "I wasted so much time". I liked it but that was my conclusion. Then I went and read my 2nd novel and wasted a few days and came out with same conclusion. And this conclusion happened after every single novel I read.

But then why did I continue reading more novels? Because at end of the day, even if I didn't read the novels I'd just procrastinate through other methods and waste time. And since reading novels was more fun way to waste time, that is what I do.

That said, to limit myself of how much I read, I just decided to write my own novel.

Moral of the story, anything you do is a waste of time. Life is a waste of time. BUT its a matter of if your having fun wasting your time or not, that is what truly counts.

 

I doubt there will be an interest in bad translated German to English novels in the near future

That's it. I want it to be that, but like everything it just grows and grows and grows. At first i somehow manage to read novels only when i need to wait for something but then i start to get interested and the next thing i know i am reading a dropped novel until 2 in the morning even though i should have been learning for a test.

 

Well you could read them nothing wrong in that well if you're super bored of these books I once read a dictionary for fun when my dad took all my books away well it was kind of interesting plus my vocab expanded I would recommend some history books on mythology for different countries around the world I like Egypt's the best though and some Nat geo magazines

 

What's wrong with German to English novels? I had to read one of those for English class (it's about buddhism) so I'm sure someone would care. Well, you could always use a jap/chn/kor to eng dictionary to translate jap/chn/kor.

 

I am such a miserable human being that when i paid for a game i will finish it 100% and if its a multiplayer game, i play them with friends and count it as social interaction because otherwise i would have none... i know that's cheating but what can i do ?

When i wrote that thing about only finished stories i meant it in a way that maybe the authors had some underlying message hidden in the story and only the ending would show it, kind of deal. (that connected to my second point "deeper meaning".

The problem is that the fun i see in reading is seeing what the author wanted to tell using his story. So no fun for me if what he wanted to say is "Look isn't that what the MC did really cool?!"

And maybe you are right i should start looking for some other hobby and get myself a break from reading... mainly from reading RR because that's even a waste of time for wastes of time...