/lit/ - Literature

>>11657185

Should I friend her?

Can this be a goodreads friending thread instead? Because I would like recommendations and friendship. You can insult me too I guess.

>>11657277
Go ahead senpai

Here’s my profile. I’m reading ancient texts on Algebra, and Von Neumann’s Game Theory Book.

The other day I actually had an interesting discussion on Goodreads about The Almagest. The discussion was more substantial than anything I would’ve had here.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27498265-tyler

>>11657185
ive seen her on australian tv. theres something really hot about her

>>11657185
I can never intellectually rate someone who skims like this. There's no way she's interrogating her own ideas and absorbing new ones if she's constantly doing things like reading Crashed in one or two days, as this rating schedule seems to imply.

>>11657507
Congratulations on making me feel like a brainlet, too, what with all my fantasy and whatnot. I have never even heard of The Almagest.

Here's mine.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18207446.Juho_Pohjalainen

>>11657491
If this is a Goodreads thread where we can share pages, then here's mine:

https://www.goodreads.com/OliverBagshaw

Always open to reccs. Currently reading Catch 22. Bought my copy of it about 12 years ago when I was in school but never got around to reading it until now and I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far. I've rarely come across a book that's made me laugh this much within the first fifty pages.

>>11657198
You've read two of the same books

>>11658596
Based on our similar tastes, you should get around to reading If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, which is on to-read for you but which I'm currently going through. It's pretty comfy.

>>11658613
It's not currently in my stack at the moment but I've been eyeing it on my shelf for a while, I should really just get through it. I've not read any Calvino beforehand though, is it a good starting point?

>>11658631
>I've not read any Calvino beforehand though, is it a good starting point?
Your guess is as good as mine: this is the first book by him I ever picked up. I only did it because two people on /lit/ recommended it one after another in the same thread.

I think I'll grab another book by the same author later, though. See if I like that one too and whether I might want to keep going.

>>11658662
Fair enough dude, I'll dive straight in after Catch 22

>>11658600
Read a few more then. Best case scenario, you'll like them and she notices.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/85091572-very-okay
Thats mine... Unironically and 100% serious, mind you. I'm already trying my best to read more but now I bought TBK for some reason and this'll take me a few months.

>>11660732
Your profile is set to private. How can I be friends with you if I can't tell what books you like?

>>11657185
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abrvTnLyXsI

Would you?

>>11657185
https://www.goodreads.com/threadsuns
not mine but as the OP said, this is a user that makes me feel like an unproductive brainlet

>>11660757
>The Hobbit
>2 stars
D R O P P E D

>>11660740
Wait how do I change that

>>11660779
>On the Settings tab you can select who can view your profile, last name, email address, and who can send you messages. If your profile is private, only your friends can see your profile. This includes your profile data, bookshelves, profile comments, and your friend list.

fucking pseuds

>>11660785
Post your own account and we'll see if you are any better.

>>11660784
Ah thanks, I fixed it now.

>>11660772
this is /lit/ no reddit

>>11660810
The Hobbit is a legitimate literary masterpiece, you pretentious arse.

>>11657185
anyone who has a goodreads rather than using a notebook to reflect on their reading habits should leave this board.

>>11657185

>the right-intelligentsia

I've read pretty much the entire western canon, and I had 7 books in common with her. One of them IJ, one of them Chinua Achebe. GG Helen.

>>11660891
Right wing and STEM people not reading literature creeps me out. They live in a more materialist world than most marxists do

>>11660757
>https://www.goodreads.com/threadsuns
wtf this is who i was going to post

>>11660941
he's pretty well known in various circles

>>11660979
Who is he?

>>11660891
Did you literally read all of the reading list given by Bloom? If so, what would you say you gained from that?

I would bet money she's not reading all of those books. There's some days where she would rate 2 or 3 at a time with no real lull in the previous week so she's most likely reading books like Tai Lopez. He thinks reading a few chapters is enough to understand the entirety of a book so he goes around telling every he reads a book per day but in reality he's not reading anything.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAITnMv1j8Q
yikes

>>11660996
She's a policy wonk who works at a think tank, not some self-help guru. People like that tend to basically read for a living.

>>11660941
>>11660757
I feel really weird knowing the small 28% of overlap we share also share very similar ratings. Maybe 2 books have different ones? A little uncanny.

>>11661170
Post your account.

I started a goodreads about three years ago and have 70 books. How many am I supposed to have read?

>>11660891

More like wrong-intelligentsia, am I right?

who schizo here?
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/84743168-noah

>>11661242
I'm rather bad about updating and staying in touch with people or I would. I think the only anon I talked to blocked me because I got busy for a while.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/76956919-jason

Not sure what I'm gonna read next, probably start some Mishima

>>11661255
I have about 215 (including shitty kids books I can remember that I read, I've forgotten most of them but oh well) and feel lousy about it. Tempted to start reading a bunch of plays and short stories to boost the number. I want to get it to over 300 by the end of the year.
This is just like /a/. Fuck's sake.

>>11661255
>>11661938
I joined a week or so ago and have 65. I've read a bunch over the years, but tend to just add them in whenever I remember about them.

>>11661255
>>11661938
>>11661943
I don't look at the total number read, it doesn't matter really. Much cooler to look back and see your interests in the recent years.

>>11657185
Post-op Carrot Top

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/49617234-richard

Prob going to move onto The Silent Deep (history of the British submarine service) next.

>>11657185
>Dependence is the natural state of man, from which he cannot escape no matter how hard he tries. This is one reason the disabled and the weak enjoy spiritual gifts in such abundance. They are forced to confront the truth that the rest of us can conceal from ourselves: that none of us is remotely self-sufficient.

Hoo boy, if she makes you feel like a brainlet you should just end it all right now.

numbers always trigger my autismo so i just deleted my goodreads list desu

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23937251-the-final-song

I, too am part of the meme ops

>>11662117
Don't act so sure of yourself, because she is correct here. Even the very language you use came to exist not of your own doing.

She does not here demean doing things for oneself, since that's a proper duty to one's being, only the pride that often accompanies it, which is always out of proportion with reality. Think how quickly you would expire if simply the air around you dispersed for a few small moments.

The wise errs on the side of humility.

>>11660891
>democracy
>right-wing
Pick one.

I have made many friends. You are all so lovely.

>>11660757
How do you read this much? Fucking hell i wish i had enough free time to be reading a book a day

>>11660757
holy hell what a patrician.

also he likes techno and his RYM ratings are excellent aswell
´
how can you read that much and listen to that much good music only at age 23

>a user that makes me feel like an unproductive brainlet

nuff said, anon.

>>11660757
>https://www.goodreads.com/threadsuns
>gravity's rainbow
>five star
legend

>>11660996
She's probably doing what I'm doing: adding in a bunch of books she read earlier in her life, before joining Goodreads, en masse.

>>11663391
What? He's right.

>>11658666
>https://www.goodreads.com/OliverBagshaw
Not the other guy, but If On a Winter's Night is a Fine place to start. There's no real requisite reads in Calvino.

>>11657185
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4722867.Gregory_B_Sadler

>>11658596
It's not often I see 0% between so many books... then I realized most of the books we have in common are things you have on the to-read list!

What are your thoughts on the Kurosawa autobiography? I've been meaning to read it for a long time.

Is the girl in the OP's profile a far-right fanatic or am I wrong?

>intelligentsia

How does one craft a GR profile that appeals to art hoes?

be my friend anons

>>11667245
>dead
>straight
>white
>males

>>11663356
>>11660757
>>11660941
>>11663375
threadsuns here. you shouldn't be too impressed. i'm able to be "productive" only because my job affords me a lot of downtime.

>>11668302
a pinnacle of humility and dedication to the weltschmerz-provoking onus of achieving proficiency in numerous, often overlapping disciplines. not only is sean's existence substantiated by his eagerness to render the peripheries of media-cataloguing sites such as RYM accessible to normies, he also effortlessly maintains a spartan life as a mensa member.

>>11661255
Under 1000. There's no more than 1000 books worth reading, and reading books not worth reading is poisonous.

>>11667296
Just talk a lot about Bataille

>>11657185
All of them because looking at Goodreads atrophies your brain.
Fucking anglos and their need to numerize everything.

>>11657185
The only thing goodreads is good for is laughing at the negative reviews of good books written by idiots desu

>>11668841

>>11668841
What's that review of?

>>11668844
The beauty is that these can apply to any of /lit/'s sacred cows.

>>11668843
>or 26 CDs

>>11668234
>Plato
>Straight

>Kant
>Dead

>>11668848
Which ones do you agree with?

>>11667111
I really enjoyed it, anon, it's one of my personal favourites. He's full of stories about his childhood - troubles at school and his brother's suicide come up, his early days working at Toho, silent films, and it even offers some advice on filmmaking too. Personally the most interesting aspects for me were the sections on Japanese censorship laws in films, the American occupation of Japan and the story about his art teacher encouraging Kurosawa and his friend to become creative as they struggled in school, so when Kurosawa and his buddy first wrote a film together they invited their teacher to the screening and he was in tears. Left me feeling pretty emotional too, man. Strong recc.

Here’s my own goodreads : https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27579248-lorenzo

I don't have a goodreads. What's it good for?
I just use an .rtf to keep track of what I'm currently reading/planning to.

Here's what's left of my backlog for this year:

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe by George Huppert
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven Allen Lane
Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany by Wolfgang Schievelbusch
Breaking the Spell subtitle: The Holocaust: Myth & Reality by Nicholas Kollerstrom
1939 - The war that had many fathers by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger
Elements of Evolutionary Genetics by Brian Charlesworth & Deborah Charlesworth
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis MacDonald
Introduction to Quantitative Genetics by Douglas Scott Falconer & T.F.C. Mackay
Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a controversy by Emmet Scott
Muqaddimah by Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun
The end of Normal: The great crisis and the future of growth by James K. Galbraith
The Electric Universe by Wallace Thornhill & David Talbott
The Electric Sky by Donald E. Scott
Debt: The first 5000 years by David Graeber
Meta Math!: The quest for Omega by Gregory Chaitin
Programming the universe: A quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos by Seth Lloyd
Family and Civilization by Carle Zimmerman
False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism by John Gray
Europe’s Inner Demons by Norman Cohn
History of Physics before Einstein by Pierre Duhem
Scientist and Catholic: Pierre Duhem by Stanley L. Jaki
Science was born of Christianity: The teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki by Stacy Trasancos
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard
The Heliand by anonymous (Old Saxon epic poem)
Antifragile, things that gain from disorder by Nassim Taleb
Interpreting Folklore by Alan A. Dundes
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit: And Its Impact on World History by E. Michael Jones
Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World by Patricia Crone
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie
Principles of Population Genetics by Daniel L. Hartl & Andrew G. Clark
Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall by Peter Turchin
The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher
Europe: Was It Ever Really Christian? by Anton Wessels
Opposition to Louis XIV: The Political and Social Origins of French Enlightenment by Lionel Rothkrug
Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment by Nannerl O. Keohane
The Priority of John by John Robinson
The New Testament: A Translation by David Bentley Hart
How to Do Things with Words by J.L. Austin

I expect I will have read 90% of them by December 31st.

>>11669105
Yeah, but Goodreads allows you to let other people know what you're reading and see what they're reading too.

>>11669105
Currently going through Hart's new translation of the NT, Antifragile (in part because Taleb has been memed a lot on /lit/), and Europe's Inner Demond. I expect to finish all of them by Sunday.

>>11669114
And the point of that is...?

>>11669124
not that anon but the point of it is, if you're not a completely introverted mongoloid, that you strike up conversations with people about what they're reading, what they think of it, asking for recommendations, etc. Goodreads is at its best when you're social on it.

>>11669139
Isn't that what /lit/ is for?

>>11669161
Yeah but Goodreads filters out the shitposting and /pol/posting and just gets down to the people who want to actually talk about the books they're reading.

>>11669164
So goodreads is more stilted and pretentious.
Good to know.

>>11669167
Fair enough if you come to /lit/ for the shitposting but some people would rather just talk about books. I know you're being contrarian, that's fine and all, but the people I've come to talk to on Goodreads have very rarely been pretentious and many of them are open to new recommendations and a good conversation about what they're reading.

Not to say you don't get good conversations on /lit/ because you do, but Goodreads is a nice change of pace when /lit/ becomes a bit too much. It's fine if that's not appealing to you, but you did ask what the point in using Goodreads is and that's basically it.

>>11669124
>And the point of that is...?
It's not that you read books that is important, it's that other people see you do so!

>>11669181
This. How else am I supposed to get my pseud points?

>>11668302
Is consuming art the only thing you do, besides work? How else are you able to read that many books, listen to that many records? Do you multitask?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16159568-jack

i want to encourage more /lit/ people to write reviews, i enjoy reading them and writing my own - it’s rare to get a single sustained conversation on any one book here, so the comment space under reviews is amenable to that

>>11669177
ok.

>>11669105
>>11669139
Am I in the minority for using it to actually track my reading progress and impressions on a book? Some stick to me more than others so it's nice to have some kind of note on them that's easy to reference. I also keep a physical reading journal though so I guess I'm atypical.

>>11669195
it takes up a non-insubstantial amount of my free time, but I am able to maintain some degree of a social life and pursue other activities as well. as regards to books, I probably spent at least 3 hours a day at work reading, and at least 1 additional hour at night. i listen to music on my commute, all day at work, and most evenings.

>>11670047
What kind of job?

>>11670072
web development

>>11668302
>>11670047
We share many similarities in lifestyle but I may be more reclusive than you. Do you find yourself facing many social obligations (or even familial ones from a loved one or pet)? I'm fortunate that my network of friends are supportive of my personal endeavors even if they don't understand it.

While I have the opportunity, will you share with us a book which has carried lasting impact on your perception of yourself? Something sentimental which may be difficult to infer from gr statistics.


>>11670098
Does that mean you work remotely most of the time?

>>11669992
>using a public site for what should be your private impressions
Exhibitionist.

>>11670184
No bully! Actually my intimate confessions are stored in the physical reading journal, so it's not too bad. It's unsightly though so I pray no one ever finds that.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/60516585-nik

currently reading saint augustines city of god and its fantastic

dont add if you have no interest in phil/theology

also >>11657507 is the most interesting person I fllow

>>11670118
>Do you find yourself facing many social obligations
not really. I actually live with a friend who's a bit similar
>a book which has carried lasting impact on your perception of yourself
In Search of Lost Time desu
>Does that mean you work remotely most of the time?
no but hopefully I'll be able to set that up at some point. I consider myself a paid NEET frankly

>>11670613
That's an interesting selection, I waded through a few of those in french before putting them on indefinite hiatus. May I ask what aspect resonates with you?