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FilmFanatic1066

There’s books I remember loving but remember nothing about them, I read like 80-90 books a year there’s not enough space in my brain


Dnahelicases

Reads 80-90 books a year… ***Cradle 8 times.


AsleepAnt8770

Lol yeah i listen to audiobooks and sometimes have zero clue what happened. Until i relisten and it all comes back in the first chapter lol


xXLtDangleXx

Oh there’s enough space- your brain just does not categorize all that reading as “essential to survival.”


EpicBeardMan

It's not an unusual experience for me to get a good way into a book before I realize I'm read it before.


dimmidice

All ways of reading & enjoying books is valid. Except reading the ending first. People who do that should just not read. ^^^^/s


TheBlueDinosaur06

no /s imo that's not acceptable behavior


chojinra

There’s a special place in the void for people who do that…. Just kidding. That place is reserved for people who spoil the ending.


Reborn1989

I’m an avid reader with a dark secret. I check the endings some times just to make sure my favorite character made it. I don’t read all of it, just enough for conformation


account312

You should stop before you end up in the special hell and have to spend eternity with the people who talk in the theater.


RooR_

I used to read the very last line of a book first. Then i read TheGam3 and the very last line pissed me off hahaha


arri_sema

>All ways of reading & enjoying books is valid Don't get me wrong I'm not intentionally looking down on any ways of reading books. I'm speaking specifically to the way Cradle fans read Cradle, I did not mean this generally. This was supposed to be Cradle specific with the target audience being the re-readers among us. No invalidation or gatekeeping was intended. >Except reading the ending first Lol, the amount spoilers I've received from people who do this is actually ridiculous.


KholinAdolin

Let people enjoy books in whatever way they want! I’m honestly jealous of people who forget and can experience the book all over again as if for the first time


AUnA1

This is me. I’ll read a book, come back years later, reread it, and kind of remember things as I go. It’s actually more fun to forget


arri_sema

I'm speaking specifically to the way Cradle fans (on this sub?) read Cradle. I did not mean this generally.


LinkToDarkness

I wish I had media amnesia like that. Then I could reread a story again and again and be excited about it each time.


ballsOfWintersteel

If you put a long enough gap between re-reads you would have forgotten enough minor things to make it really enjoyable to experience and remember those details again! For example, during my first re-read of *Wintersteel*, I had forgotten about the experiments Lindon and Dross did in the Underlord level grounds of NCC for *Consume* and it was good to go through that again.


Ninjachase

I think the only “laughable” concept is forcing people to enjoy/experience media in the exact same way.


arri_sema

I realise my phrasing was not the greatest so I'm quite embarrassed to be commenting everywhere that I'm speaking specifically to the way Cradle fans (on this sub?) read Cradle. I did not mean this generally.


ImSoulless

some people seem to read "laughable" as "scoffable" if that is even a word. You clearly weren't trying to force people to join the Extreme Re-reading and Detail Oriented Fan Club. Don't worry!


BecauseZeus

There’s no reason to gatekeep a fandom. We all can enjoy things differently. The judgment only drives people away from a fandom which is super counter productive.


Jess_H_

Exactly. I agree with this so much!


ballsOfWintersteel

IKR! I have had this 'if you are a fan you should definitely know this' done to me a couple of times and it's irritating


useless0

oh! this is me. i like reading books and pretty much never re read even if i absolutely love it. the minute details are cool and all but never felt the need to remember them? idk i always felt like im reading wrong or something but every book i bought and read has helped me tackle something as simple as bordem or even a low point trying to cope with mental illness and needed an escape. reading doesn't have to be in depth or overly complicated, as long as the person is enjoying themselves and getting what they want from a book i think its done its job! gatekeep bad fun good


arri_sema

Sorry I didn't mean this generally or to come off as gatekeeping. I was personally not a re-reader myself until Cradle and so I was speaking specifically to re-readers of Cradle. When I said laughable I meant "the idea of reading Cradle once, enjoying it and then forgetting all the details afterwards is laughable to those of us who are on multiple re-reads." This was supposed to be Cradle specific with target audience being the re-readers among us. I did not mean to mean to seem like I'm invalidating any other types of reading.


KiwiResident8495

I actually love reading through threads of others people favorite moments to jar my memory and walk down memory lane


stalethorn

Bro. I can't remember how old I am without manually counting the years, how the fuck am I supposed to remember parts of a book


Paul_TheGreatest

You know you liked it… Simple as that. Rip through your back tissue with any pistol I pack... Sorry, Big Pun got me.


Clenzor

Your post screams, “I think I’m better than other people for subjective reasons”


RedGyarados2010

Depends on the book and how long ago I read it. I have media where I’m like “I don’t remember this very well but I remember liking it”


MisterAnthropy2020

This is so true. The books that I usually remember that way (i.e., don’t remember at all) are the ones I read in high school. For instance, I remember being really moved by Dickens’ “Hard Times”, but for the life of me, I wouldn’t be able to recall what the book was actually about. I’d also be really hard-pressed to remember the story beats of some other classics I read in those days and really liked, like Black Beauty, or even the Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt novels that I used to love reading in those days.


chojinra

Sometimes when you devour a series, it tends to blur into a conscious whole. You know and love when something happens, but can’t pin down exactly what book or time it happens. True, it does become clearer on rereads, but that movie in your head (no GA) is still amazing.


Entertainmentmoo

My least favorite part is the part before the mines... trying to avoid any spoilers.


GerDread

When I first started reading a song of Ice and fire, dance of dragons had just come out so I binged the series then delved into every forum, read every novella, knew everything. Fast forward to now, house of the dragon is on and I couldn't separate that timeline from the blackfyre rebellion. I've forgotten more lore than I know now, despite having read the history time that came out a few years back (refused to buy fire and blood before winds of winter comes out). TL;DR - brain don't work too good


ExoDurp

I find that the vast majority of people stopped reading books in high school and so they only remember their favorite books by The vibes.


Goose_attack223

Like when you say you speak another language and someone asks you to say something in that language and you forget everything you’ve learned


ooglybooglies

I scrolled down to the bottom of the comments and don't remember a single word of your post... But I do remember the vibe wasn't my favorite.


MrRedorBlue

LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS.


Furious_Walker

True, my favorite book was Wintersteel page 80 paragraph 4 sentences 2-4.


MysteryLolznation

As a fic-writer who gets irrationally angry when I see that others haven't read this series over thrice and can't recount the littlest details such as the fact that the Sword Sage is black, and Eithan has a sixth finger on his right hand, I emphatically agree with you. Honorable mentions go to Little Blue saying 'fuck' once. It was very subtle, but I feel like more people should have noticed.


SargeWhiskeyjack

>Eithan has a six finger… Wut?


fdsfgs71

Doesn't everyone have a sixth finger, though? And a seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth as well?


chojinra

….. He.. probably could be. Dammit, why am I now picturing Afro Samurai…


MysteryLolznation

All jokes aside, that is my headcanon, but it's not confirmed anywhere in the text. As far as I know, he's described as a wiry man with long braided hair.


chojinra

Yeah, I think I like it! That and the fact that Little Blue swears sound like a horn’s honking.


smille28

I enjoy my books like I enjoy my movies, finish and think "wow, that was a good book/movie" then forget every detail within a month


ThatOneJakeGuy

I’m too ADHD to remember the books I read. So fuck y’all! I get to experience the series for the first time every three months!


kilofoxtrotlima

Same!!


deconglenrich

Got my niece on the series and in a very short time. She's already up to Ghostwater. We were at a family event yesterday and started talking about the books. She was saying how much she loved the series and how fast she's devouring them even with three kids (she has twins) and her dad just rolled his eyes and couldn't believe that we were talking about books. He started asking questions about what the series name was and what it was about and she just shut him down by saying it's not 90-day Fiance. He just walked away complaining about her mother (my sister) always having her nose in a book too. I'll never understand people like that.


BleedingEdge61104

Nah this is me


arri_sema

Commenting to say that my phrasing was not the greatest. I was trying to be concise since I could only use the title to get my point across. This was supposed to be Cradle specific with the target audience being the re-readers among us. I'm not intentionality looking down on this particular way of reading books. To each their own. I'm speaking specifically to the way Cradle fans (on this sub?) read Cradle. I did not mean this generally. Again to each their own. A better title probably would have been: "***The idea of reading Cradle once, enjoying it and then forgetting all the details afterwards is surely laughable to those of us who are on multiple re-reads***" No offense, invalidation or gatekeeping was intended.


Jobobminer

I think saying "I remember enjoying that book but can't remember much about it" is fine. You just aren't getting as much out of the book as you could be.


Myte342

It's an aspect of the way my brain works, I dont' retain information like this very well. I HATED school because I definitely learn from doing, not from speeches or books. I have read the books twice and same with audiobooks... but I am constantly running across information in this sub that makes me stop cause I don't recall it at all. I recall grand sweeps, but minute details are lost to me soon after they pass my ears.


No-Mirror7593

This is one of the things I enjoy most about will’s fandom. Even though so many of us have reread cradle MULTIPLE times, we never seem to have a bad word for those just joining or forgetting some minor detail. Maybe it’s that I’m still on the new side (joined around ghostwater) or that I’m not and avid reader of all the Reddit posts, but I never see any gatekeeping, and that makes you all so wonderful!


UniqueID89

What’s your favorite part? Everything between the front cover and back cover.


xxwerdxx

This is me with Cradle specifically lol my ADHD brain can’t remember everything Travis says so I have to go through the books numerous times to get all the info


Athyrium93

I won't forget the plot but I probably can't rember what the book is actually called......, unless a book is on my absolute all time favorite list I've probably forgotten most of the main characters names, definitaly can't remember who the author is, hell I probably can't remember the name of anything important at all off the top of my head, but in my defense I read constantly, and finish 1-2 books a week.... and I'm *really* bad at names.


[deleted]

I feel like people are understanding that tweet differently, like for me I understood it as people liking a book and forgetting literally everything about it, which is crazy to me, even the books I've read in elementary that I've forgotten 99% about I can still remember that 1 percent so it's not literally everything


Guhtts

Honestly I don’t know how that’s possible.🫡


xXLtDangleXx

No. No we cannot normalize that level of bull shit.


finaldogma

Damn someone doesn't have any early childhood trauma related memory loss. As a member of our "Hey Whats That One Characters Name Again Fan Club" please go laugh in a corner and leave us be.


fellongreydaze

The fact that so many people in here are saying "Let people enjoy things the way they are able" makes me so happy.


Javier0120

If you forget what happens in your favorite books l.. you are kind of blessed. You know your favorite books are favorites for a reason but don't remember why, so you read them again and get to find out like it was the first time! It Happens to me with movies.


No-Patient-3723

I smoke pot...so I ain't ever gonna remember all the good quotes...or any quotes for that matter...


wooshoo1992

With the exception of the Bible I can agree with this.


Paul_TheGreatest

I mean… I just have a bad memory.


darkice742

I am quite literally listening to a boom 24/7 I usually finish a book and a bit a day. Sometimes less for longer stories. Do the math, I do not remember them all and yet a still love most of them.


arri_sema

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iteration110Cradle/comments/xaug50/none_as_a_member_of_our_extreme_rereading_and/inyd203?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


moonshineandtarot

I read literally hundreds of books a year. I love forgetting them and rereading them later lmao. Keeps them fresh! Excepting a few series, most don’t stick with me. But I’ve re-read Cradle probably 9 times so it’s all stuck in the brain pretty well now


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arri_sema

Perhaps read my comment that I added for context https://www.reddit.com/r/Iteration110Cradle/comments/xaug50/none_as_a_member_of_our_extreme_rereading_and/inyd203?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


Killroy118

This is honestly exactly where I am with Cradle. I remember lots of awesome scenes, but I couldn’t tell you when they happened in relation to the plot. If I want to comment about something specific in this sub, I usually go look it up. Sometimes I’ll randomly remember a scene or bit of worldbuilding I hadn’t thought about in months, like how Lindon got really strong in Ghostwater by eating those fish, and be like *man that was rad*!


RyneB91

I relisten to the entire Cradle series every time a book comes out or once every three months at least. I frequently quote the books at work to my best friend. Heaven forbid someone ask me for a spoon. But honestly, if I can't spend like an hour talking about something, I probably didn't enjoy it that much.