/lit/ - Literature

yesterday

but i admit i have a lot of books gathering dust on my shelf

2015. I still read a lot. I just don't finish books.

A couple hours ago.

>>11632525
it is weird how urgent it seems to buy a book sometimes even though you damn well know you're not going to start reading it as soon as it comes. i consumer shame myself about a lot of useless things but books feel alright to buy for keeping even though i'm more of a library person these days.

>>11632525
Tuesday morning.

>>11632525
yesterday
Zeno's Conscience, it was very good

I don't have a shelf so my stack are books I've read this year and I have a collection of books to read. Which I finished one just over an hour ago.

I'm sure some people on this board actually read. I don't post often but I had a nice to and fro from someone about the use of other languages in books. Which he clearly expressed that he had read and we both reflected upon war and peace

It just depends if you join shit post threads friend

>>11632852
I love that book. Found it here. Read it on an airplane.
>>11632525
I finished a book this morning.

False perspective. Everyone posts what they are about to read, but never say anything when they finish, so it looks like no one finishes.

Posted pic related in a thread two weeks ago. Since then I've read 8 of these books. Rework and The Path to Power I liked. Zero to One is easily the worst book I've read all year

Other anons post stack updates

>>11632967
throw twilight away

Just finished Whatever yesterday.

>>11632525
>When's the last time you actually finished a book in your "stack"?
Last week, you 30yo faggot.
>Why the fuck does nobody on this board actually read?
Why do you care?

>>11632967
How do you read 8 books in 2 weeks? That's over 1 book per 2 days. I'm not sure with those books but I'd say that's about 150 pages a day.

>>11632525
>When's the last time you actually finished a book in your "stack"?
two weeks ago

>>11632525
You do realize the /lit/ doesn’t read shtick is a meme, right?

>>11633061
It's a peak into the mind of the average female. It's a little educative.

>>11633423
>he fell for the '/lit/ doesn't read is just a meme' meme

>>11632525
My stack is endless with my stupid constant purchases. Every time I finish a book, I end up buying another one and add it into the tower of books I want to read. Or worse another stack of books, thus creating a supertower of books neighboured by other towers of books which might also morph into supertowers.

Help me /lit/, how do I stop buying more books when I already have enough books to last me for the next 8 years. Last time I counted, I have over 200+ books in my stacks... all piled in towers about me like lonely sentinels of space devouring abominations whispering to me to read quickly lest they take over the entire bedroom or topple on me as gravity asserts it's mastery.

>>11632967
I'm actually reading Zero to One right now, what didn't you like about it anon? It's admittedly a bit thin on any sort of real deep advice or anything like that but as a look into the perspective of a successful tech CEO it's not that bad, I think.

>>11633523
nothing wrong with that if you have the money and know for sure you want to read the ones you buy
I probably have 50+ unread ones

>>11633536
I have the money because I buy them used at the thrift shop. 1$ a book or 50 cents for children.
Otherwise I would be very broke, very quickly buying new books

>>11633533
I could not get into thiel's headspace at all. His style came across as oversimplified, condescending, and whiny, at least to me.
There was far more of thiel's political opinions on the economy, which seemed out of place and unhelpful for the books stated goal, and his arguments often felt fallacious.
I disagree with a lot of the political stances he took, and his weak supports often made my head hurt. I felt like I paid 20 bucks to read an hour's worth of Breitbart articles.
Thiel succeeded because he stumbled onto a good product idea when he was at tech school, not because he had any great management insight.

>>11633721
I actually felt differently, I only really saw one or two spots where his opinion was outright political, but most of the time his point was politics-neutral. Most of what he said was just explaining how focusing on one or two parts of your company to the detriment of others will screw the whole pooch. I mean yea it's pretty basic stuff like 'if you have one bad person in the bunch early on it will fuck you later' and 'good product doesn't mean shit without salesmen' so it's not exactly the most insightful book but it's not entirely wrong or politically charged either.

This year sometime. Probably a couple of months ago, though I have trouble keeping track of time and don't record dates like when I finished books.

I don't read much because I'm spending more time writing at the moment. For some reason, when I'm writing, my desire to read becomes null and void. When I finish my current project, I'll go back to reading more heavily, I suspect.

Every time I get a new stack of books, there's always at least one book which I never finish reading, yet I always finish reading a book whenever I download it or borrow it from a library.
Maybe it's because I'm more likely to download stuff I'm actually planning on reading, or stuff that I've actually had to think about borrowing than stuff I've only seen through previews on Amazon or in a bookshelf, wrapped in plastic, inside of a bookstore.

>>11632525
About two days ago

>>11633523
BUY A BOOKSHELF

>>11632525
Books I've finished this year:
Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass
Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick
Centerville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Youth by Isaac Asimov
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Apology by Plato
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case against Education by Byran Caplan

Reread The Hobbit on Tuesday, finished off an anthology of werewolf stories this morning, read 80 pages of lotr this evening.

>>11633560
you're lucky
I have to pay half the retail price for used books in my third world shit hole, if I'm fortunate enough to ever find the books I want to read
I end up buying mostly new

i finish a book from my stack every 1-3 weeks

I finished a book yesterday so get fucked OP. I never have more than three unfinished books lying around.

>>11634182
Nice, mine are:

Solaris by Lem
Monday Starts On Saturday by Stugastgy Bros.
The White Guard by Bulgakov
Half A Life, The Mystic Masseur, Bend In The River by Naipaul (RIP)
Children of Dune, Dune God Emperor by Frank Herbert
Book of the New Sun, 1&2 by Gene Wolfe
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
I Was A Kamakazi by some japanese guy
Pale Fire, Lolita by Nabokov
re-read Neuromancer by William Gibson

Meh 15 aint bad I guess. Could have done better.

>>11632525
today

>>11632967
>diet dr. bob

>>11634652
Did you read Lolita in public? I'd be too embarrassed. Was Oryx good?

>>11632525
I finished one earlier this week. Rn I'm alternating between Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Miller's Tropic of Cancer. When I'm done with both, it's on to Gogol's Dead Souls (I'm a big fan of Dosti so I think it'll be good).

Unfortunately, I don't have a stack. I teach English in Korea, books in English are expensive and I'd have to throw most away when I leave so I download almost all of my books as epub or pdf files from b-ok. When I eventually go back to the states and buy a house, I want to construct a private library for myself. It's been a life-long dream of mine to have my own library.

>>11633426
just watch the movie and the one of the porn fan-fic

>>11635151
Are books in english expensive? In Japan is the opossite, they are extremely cheap, the average price is 108 yens, 300 or 500 yens the expensive ones. Last year I bought a hard cover edition of Beren and Lúthien for 150 yens right after it came out. My biggest find was After Man: A Zoology of the Future for 300 yens.

>>11635294
Yeah, at least if you go to the major bookstores or gmarket (Korean Amazon). A colleague of mine shops at a used bookstore in Itaewon so maybe there're cheaper books there but I have specific tastes and I can't imagine they'd have a good enough selection to justify the excursion.

>>11632525
Too busy shitpposting on 4chins.

>>11636240
This.

*sips*

Inflation bro, book prices are only going up, might as well by them now

Last week!

>>11632525
I can only finish audiobooks because I need silence and relaxation to read but audiobooks make the two hours a day outside easier.

Really trying to, but I'm on a 14 day stretch at work, and I'm not strong enough yet to manage the workload and still maintain my personal life.

It's probably possible, but maybe not.

Fuck you op. Pic related circa ~2 weeks ago

>>11632852
One of my favorite books

>>11632547
This

>>11636447
It's alright, I'm a brainlet too. I've only read 27 so far

>reading a book
>in 2018

>>11632525
I finished the Greeks yesterday.

>>11636479
Yeah but how many pages brainlet. Book count is less accurate of a quantifier

>>11636498
7k. Fuck I'm a much bigger brainlet

>>11636479
>>11636498
>>11636503
Shut the fuck up

>>11636506
You shut the fuck up. Pseud

>>11632525
Yesterday I finished 'The invention of Morel' and earlier this week I finished 'Disgrace'.

>>11636512
You were sounding like insecure faggots. Just read and stop your paranoid fears.

>>11634652
Have you seen the movie Solaris? The russian one, not the one with Clooney. If so, how does the book compare? I personally enjoyed the movie, and am thinking about reading the book.

Also, how is The White Guard? I've read A Dog's Heart and Master & Margarita, both of which I highly enjoyed.

>>11636526
>Just read
I can't, I have to shitpost

>>11632525
I actually counted and I've read 70% of my books (28 in total) from start to finish. The rest I've read in varying amounts but intend to finish them all at some point.

But that shouldn't matter, what you gain from reading is the only thing worthwhile. Being pretentious is stupid, especially for a solitary hobby like reading.

>>11636526
13kpagespseud here. I have been reading if you can't tell, to the tune of 60-70 pages a day. Git gud cuccsoi

>>11636607
>60-70 pages a day
That is perfectly fine, stop being a comparisonfag

>>11636609
NO. I have to know I'm better than some people, and worse than others

>>11636609
How do you expect to ever finish reading the Canon at pitiful pace like that?

>>11636678
You're fucking retarded

>>11636690
why

>>11632525
?
yesterday i finished an 800 page book and started on some nonfiction. don't get this post.

the last time i posted in a stack thread was on the 27th of july, and there were four books in it
since then i've read one and am halfway through another; i've also read three books that were not in the stack

>>11632967
i can't tell if nick land is a meme king or not. i won't try to read any of the philosophy because that's not my background, but is his fiction any good? could use some recs, he seems interesting.

Did not read a book in 2018. Shooting for 12 books in 2019

>>11632525
Literally this morning and now I'm onto the next book. My stack is halfway done.

Unfortunately there are users here who don't read and just come here for the memes, shitposting and the appearance of seeming like they have read something, which is just embarrassing and they'll never see a vagina ever.

>>11636779
so you're going to sit on your ass for the next 4 months? years aren't real things, time is happening right now etc. you're making up limits for your weak ass self

>>11632852
I got this from my grandfather when he dumped a stack of books on me, read it after I saw it on a /lit/ chart. Pretty good

>>11636791
>time is happening right now

no it isn't

>>11636791
You are right. I should probably pick up Hume or On Politics and dig into it now , im off today so i may. Instead of shitposting on /lit/

>>11632525
Lit doesn't read is just a meme

Books I finished this year:
Dune
The Aeneid

>>11632525
Two days ago. When I'm nearing the end of a book, I check out my favourite used book store in search of a new one, and if I can't find any, I order it online. I never have more than two books left in my stack, and that's only when I found them for a very good deal.

>>11632525
It's just much more fun to think about reading, look at books to read and talk about reading than it is to sit down and remain motionless for hours as you stare at the tiny symbols

>>11636811
<3 it's gonna be great stick with it

>>11636828
>Lit doesn't read is just a meme
>proceeds to show us just how much he doesn't read
I'm getting eric memed on aren't I?

>>11636940
Thank you. I will.

>>11636828
nice post

Books I've read between february and may while I was in Tokyo:
Los Vecinos Mueren en las Novelas (Sergio Aguirre)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman
Origin (Dan Brown)
Beren and Lúthien (Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Tolkien)
Death Troopers (Joe Schreiber)

A few days ago I finished Oficio de Búhos (Liliana Bodoc)