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9706436 No.9706436 [Reply] [Original]

When was the last time you read a book /jp/?

Light Novels don't count. VNs even less.

>> No.9706445

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Otori

I originally read the first book in 2005, so a few years ago, I finished it all when the last one came out.

Not sure what else am I missing that's worth reading.

>> No.9706446

I read Slaugherhouse-Five last time we had one of those threads.

I was thinking of reading some mystery novels now.

What's a good place to get books from? I only have access to books translated into my native language, which sucks, and public trackers are pretty bad.

>> No.9706452 [DELETED] 

>>9706446
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz

Disregard the url, it actually contains pretty useful information.

>> No.9706469
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Just yesterday.

>> No.9706475

Currently reading The Brothers Karamazov.

Before that, I read The Count of Monte Cristo, and Notes From the Underground.

>> No.9706476

I dislike reading books on a computer screen and I don't want to go outside to buy or read in a library
So yeah, I don't read books very often. Last time was maybe a month ago

>> No.9706482

A few years ago.

>> No.9706486

What's with all the blog threads lately?

It's pretty weird that when a thread with actual discussion about interesting but off-topic things comes up, people do that 'LOL SHIT THREAD' thing to fit in, but when the thread is plainly awful like this one, nobody really gives a shit.

>> No.9706487

A few years.

I'm planning on reading the Count of Monte Cristo though because I just finished Gankutuou.

>> No.9706490

>>9706436
VNs don't count? There are VNs that have more text than motherfucking Lord of The Rings and you tell me they don't count. What the fuck are you even saying mutherfucker? Do you realize how stupid you fucking sound? Go fuck yourself.

>> No.9706493

how do light novels not count you faggot? how did you manage to even mention visual novels in a book thread i wonder too.

do childrens novels count? fuck you.

>> No.9706494

Don't stare at me like that.

>> No.9706502

>>9706490
He didn't say anything like"VN's are inferior to books".

>> No.9706514

Some years ago I was in hospital for a couple of days and don't have a laptop. So I read "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" by Lem and it was quite entertaining.

>> No.9706525

>>9706514
Good shit, my first sci-fi book.

If not for it, I'd probably not end up the nerd I am now.

Probably not the most suitable book for a ten year old kid, but hey, who cares.

>> No.9706537

>>9706525
Yeah, it's great. I was reading tons of sf books as teenager (my collection is like 300 something), just never this particular one.

>> No.9706540

I only read when I take a shit.
Seriously, it's like 1-2 pages a dump.
I get through a book a year

>> No.9706544

I read Lolita recently.

>> No.9706547

>>9706544
Good job.

>> No.9706551

The STAR reading level assessment thing in elementary school said I was pretty much #1 autist in the world at reading, but I don't read much. I spend way too much time trying to find a good book to read.

>> No.9706557

A few years ago perhap. The last books i read were some Chinese wuxia novels.

>> No.9706560

>>9706540
the shitter is not the place to multitask you fucking degenerate

>> No.9706588

I got a shitty e-reader a few months ago. It displays text for 12 or so hours on a charge on a screen so it does that at least.
Currently reading A fire upon the deep by Vinge Vernor.
Pretty damn good.

And I also read on the shitter.

>> No.9706633

Guys, stop reading on the toilet, I did it for a decade half an hour at a time and it completely deregulated my shitting biological clock.

>> No.9706639

>>9706633
I've never even heard of such a thing.

>> No.9706648

>>9706639
No, seriously, I now have to go multiple times a day because I have trouble holding even a small amount of shit in and it always takes me inordinate amount of time to do the deed.

(If you just read whenever you need to go to shit and don't stay longer than you have to, you're probably fine, though)

>> No.9706653

>>9706648
Why on Earth would you think that it has anything to do with reading?

>> No.9706655

>>9706653
Because you're going to spend more time than you need to on the toilet if you're reading at the same time.

>> No.9706658

>>9706551
It said I had a grade 12 reading ability. Now years later I barely read 'real' novels. I'm trying to increase my Japanese reading skill enough to read japanese novels though.

>> No.9706661

>>9706655
That doesn't make any sense... You probably just need more fiber in your diet.

>> No.9706672

Yesterday.

I just finished Cloud Atlas so I could talk shit about the movie when it comes out.

>> No.9706688

Yesterday, soon to be today.

I have been reading more again lately, but before about a month ago it was years. I used to read a ton and just suddenly stopped, along with everything else that stopped.

>> No.9706684

does manga and graphic novels count ?
if so, i read like 200-300 pages everyday

>> No.9706699

Post your recommendations for western books that match ``moe'' stereotypes Japan pumps out. I've been on the lookout for something like that forever, but for some reason, western authors just fail to deliver female characters that one could care about.

>> No.9706728

I read the original Foundation trilogy and The Complete Robot in quick succession recently.

I've had enough of Asimov (and sci-fi) for now though.

>> No.9706735

Books are for NERDS so no.

>> No.9706748

>>9706699
Teenage romance books, I guess? Try to find ones from before the Twilight craze.

>> No.9706773

>>9706748
All females in teenage romance books are shitty undeveloped characters made for the sole purpose of self-insertion. They are basically female masturbation aids.

>> No.9706791

>>9706773
Well, unfortunately that's what I like, as long as it's handled well.

There's something about reading things written from/for a sappy female perspective that makes them so much more attractive.

>> No.9706797

I've never read a single one

only "books" I ever read was stuff I was forced to read in school (last one like 17 years ago), and they pretty much were light novels

>> No.9706799

>>9706773
>shitty undeveloped characters made for the sole purpose of self-insertion. They are basically masturbation aids.
That sounds like the protagonist of almost every eroge ever made.

>> No.9706861

>>9706699
>Post your recommendations for western books that match ``moe'' stereotypes
Shelby Foote's 3 Volume History of the Civil War. I am completely serious.

All it takes is a bit of imagination and suddenly McClellan is a twin-tailed tsundere who puts up a strong front but suffers from a secret lack of self-confidence. Are you a bad enough protagonist to hold her in your arms and give her the support she needs to commit the reserves at Antietam? Or maybe you'd prefer to comfort your crying imouto Commissary Banks and help her recover her lost melon pan from that bully Jackson?

There's others too. Not a yankee fan? Well then you have good ol' boy Jeb Stuart as the genki loli type with more energy than sense. Imagine the wacky hijinks when you two get lost in the hills of Pennsylvania! And there's the quick-tempered Bragg. Can you win the heart of this fiery beauty and occupy her Cumberland Gap, if you know what I mean? Or, if you're a more thoughtful type, you could set off to a sunlit veranda to sip tea with the elegant Lee Ojousama. The possibilities are endless!

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>>9706797

>> No.9706878

>>9706861
My imagination often runs wild, but not _that_ wild.

>> No.9706886

>>9706699
Pretty much all the significant female characters I can remember right now from The Malazan Book of the Fallen are moe as fuck.

And it's pretty much the most entertaining long-form fantasy series I've read, with some hiccups.

>> No.9706890

>>9706865
I love that pic.

>> No.9706892 [DELETED] 

So nothing actually related to the board counts?

>> No.9706895

>>9706886
I've already read that. Sure, great fantasy for the most part, but the author is too focused on creating seven million minor characters and about as many plot lines, so the big picture ended up being lost on me most of the time. Especially if you're not keen on reading 10.000+ pages all in one sitting.

>> No.9706924

>>9706895
I didn't really have much trouble with that. There's this point maybe halfway through were it gets a bit confusing because some characters are given the focus for too long and some are forgotten, but once you get past that and all the plot threads come together and intersect again, it's brilliant.

The only criticism I have is that I didn't like Karsa Orlong nor the author's gigantic hard-on for him, but I guess it can't be helped.

>> No.9710430

Two weeks ago, Metamorphosis.
Reminds me of /jp/, except the Main Character feels guilty for being a useless cockroach and being a useless cockroach is not entirely his fault.

>> No.9710443

>Disregards VNs from the discussion.
>Still thinks this thread is /jp/-related

>> No.9710445

There was Alice in Wonderland. It is one of the only proper books I actually like.

>> No.9710452

About four months ago I finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was fine. I try to read two books a year, so it's not too long before I'll have to start my next one.

>> No.9710454
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Reading Heidegger's Being and Time and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.

>> No.9712655

.

>> No.9712666

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8

>READ A BOOK, READ A BOOK, READ A MOTHAFUCKIN' BOOK

>> No.9712685

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

>> No.9712686

I just finished "The Wise Man's Fears" this morning.

>> No.9712841

Has anyone else read The Coming Race by Bulwer Lytton?

Definitely one of the best books I've read.

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About two years ago. I read this.

>> No.9712869

Reading All the King's Men.

>> No.9712909

>>9706436
I guess textbooks don't count either.
even if it's SICP?

>> No.9716060 [DELETED] 

Rise.

>> No.9716073

>>9712909
Especially if it's SICP.

>> No.9716073,1 [INTERNAL] 

>>9716060
lel

>> No.9716120

Yesterday, would have read some today was just too busy with other things. Thinking it might be time to revisit Ender's Game.

>> No.9716138

Just today I was reading "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba.

>> No.9716149

I haven't read any books since high school.

>> No.9716200

>>9706436
>Light Novels don't count.
> VNs even less.
Damn nigga. So you say what all the time then I read vn it's not cool at all and not like I read real 3D book or something like that? My life was a lie and I'M not sure enough what from now on I can live peacefully. But wait, yesterday I was reading book about 日本語。 So ... So may be it's not the end? /jp/ it's not the end, am I right? Because if it's, then I will counting read VN and end up in the desperate.

>> No.9716208

I read Tokyo vice about a month ago. It was quite interesting

>> No.9716228

Books are outdated media, like radio, television, and cassette tapes.

>> No.9716268

>>9712666
That video reminds me how /sci/ was looking at a NASA comment about their rover having dubs and them thinking it was a /v/ joke about getting doubles and that NASA browsed 4chan.

>> No.9716273

I read the first part of atlas shrugged a few months ago.

>> No.9716346

>>9706436
I recently finished a novel called 'Villain'. I didn't think it was very good.

>>9716208
Have you read any other yakuza books? I've read a few (tokyo underworld, confessions of a yakuza). It is interesting about how the USA funded the yakuza after ww2.

>> No.9716371

Read Haruhi vol1 just a while ago. ~200 pages and maybe 10 shitty drawings scattered across the book.

>It doesn't count
Oh.

>> No.9716394

The Hunger Games trilogy, about a month ago.

They weren't bad, overall, but a few scenes weren't good.

>> No.9716431

i haven't read a book since 2011.

>> No.9716435

yesterday. i borrowed a book from the library and had been neglecting it for the last 8 and a half weeks. it was due yesterday so i powered through it. i borrowed another 7 books which i'll probably all ignore til the last week.

>> No.9716446

Depends if you mean finished or in the middle of reading.
Last book I finished was probably one of the John Carter novels. I think it was the one where he went to MarsChina and used his Super Confederate soldier power to get his're waifu back or something, around 2 months ago.
Otherwise, in the middle of reading Homage to Catalonia.

>> No.9716453

Last week. Jane Eyre. I'm a literature major.

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I'm trying to read it, I swear. School gets in the way, though.

At least I got through the first two in the trilogy.

>> No.9716459

>>9716453
I have to read that for intro to lit this year.

How was it?

>> No.9716460

>>9716453
>>9716459
Are you guys really reading Jane Eyre for college?

>> No.9716463

>>9716460
Yes.

>> No.9716479

>>9716459

Good. Not what I expected (which was mostly just Victorian romance, which is there, but there's a more more too).

>>9716460

It's an important Victorian novel. What's the issue?

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The shonenshit of literature.

>> No.9716993

>>9716479
Sounds like another one of the books I didn't read in high school. I can tell from reading the plot on Wikipedia that Jane Eyre is insufferable shit.

>> No.9719196

two days ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_%28novel%29

and no it's not a light novel.

>> No.9719200

>>9716817
Was splinter cell an actual book?

>> No.9719212

>>9719200
Nope. There are novels based on the game though, but I don't think Clancy wrote those.

>> No.9719233

Reading 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

>> No.9719243

The internet has ruined my attention span. The last time was probably required reading for high school.

>> No.9719263

These threads are so depressing.

I have read over 300 lbs. of books.

>> No.9719295

>>9719263
Please post in metric units. You Amerifats aren't the only persons around.

>> No.9719322

>>9719295
>persons
"People", Anon. It's "people".

>> No.9719693

Last good book I read, was last year when I read the Discworld series, in order, from the Colour of Magic to Making Money. It was awesome.

Last book I read was Hunger Games, because my sister said I was prejudiced against it without giving it a chance, so I gave it a chance, it's somehow worse knowing exactly how bad it is and having people praise it.

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>>9719693
Pray to God that at least you don't have to read Twilight. Nothing short of the purging fires of heaven will be able to cleanse that taint from my mind.

>> No.9719752

The Hobbit was the last one I finished, I still haven't gotten around to reading the next three.

>>9719742
What were you thinking?

>> No.9719754

>>9719742
Why would you have to read Twilight?

>> No.9719793

I tried reading Cloud Atlas a couple of days ago but it didn't grab me at all, felt like a collection of semi entertaining short-stories. Back to VNs I go.

>> No.9719868

Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

>> No.9719879

i read murder in mesopotamia a short while ago
whats a really good poirot book? i read some but didnt read them in order and i dont feel like doing so now

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