/lit/ - Literature

20, student/cashier
2-3
4
40(ish)
East of Eden
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
No (but I wanted to)
40(ish)

>What is your age and occupation?
35, attending
>How many books do you read on average each month?
8
>What books have you read so far this month?
Some books by Sartre
>About how many books have you read this year?
Calculate it yourself.
>Best book you've read this year?
Trolling for dummies
>Worst book you've read this year?
Fight Club
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Yeah, trolling for dummies
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
as many as this year

>>1365199
>What books have you read so far this month?
>4

wat

>What is your age and occupation?
24, on the dole/part-time stagehand/student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
3-4
>What books have you read so far this month?
2
>About how many books have you read this year?
Approximately 30
>Best book you've read this year?
short story collection of Tennessee Williams' called "Tales of Desire"
>Worst book you've read this year?
Prison Notebooks by Gramsci
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
No.
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
I hope to be doing something more productive with my time but probably will read 50

I guess I need to clear this up a little

>What books have you read so far this month

was asking you to list the ones you've read so far this month.

>>1365201
Though it said "how many". Sorry.

For >>1365199
Tortilla Flat
De Profundis
The Human Stain
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

>What is your age and occupation?
21 and student.
>How many books do you read on average each month?
~8, or 2 per week.
>What books have you read so far this month?
Blue Bamboo by Osamu Dazai
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
>About how many books have you read this year?
~55
>Best book you've read this year?
Well, my favorite was The Last Unicorn. I also really loved Cosmicomics by Calvino, and The Master of Go, which I just finished. It's a hard choice.
>Worst book you've read this year?
Probably Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster. I found it pretty meh, though it may be because it was only my second book by him.
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Not that I can think of.
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
Might be trying for 100.

>>1365197
>What is your age and occupation?
22, student.
>How many books do you read on average each month?
1 Fiction/non-fiction not relating to my class. One or two relating to my studies. (Also, I'm a slow reader)
>What books have you read so far this month?
David Foster Wallace - The Broom of the System
>About how many books have you read this year?
10-15 a year
>Best book you've read this year?
2666 - Bolano
>Worst book you've read this year?
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Freedom - Frenzen and The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udall
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
10-15 at least.

>What is your age and occupation?
27, Office Manager.

>How many books do you read on average each month?
5 - 6.

>What books have you read so far this month?
Richard Matheson - I am Legend.
Pitacus Lore - I am Number Four.
Michael Connelly - Chasing The Dime.
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Dennis Lehane - A Drink Before The War.
Kevin Dean Anderson - Night of the Living Trekkies.

[All on a Kindle 3]

>About how many books have you read this year?
64.

>Best book you've read this year?
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay.

>Worst book you've read this year?
Pittacus Lore - 'I am Number Four'. Wasn't expcting anything spectaculr, but lord almighty this is one shit book.

>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Yes.

>How many books do you hope to read next year
I like to read at least 60 books a year.

20 Student
I try to make it a book a week sometimes it's longer than that
I've read over 40 books this year
Don Quixote, I've read it maybe 3 over the course of this year
Richard Yates by Tao Lin
Yes.
Around the same I did this year.

>What is your age and occupation?
19, Bum
>How many books do you read on average each month?
10 in the last month, and before that <1 because I now have infinite free time.
>What books have you read so far this month?
V, The Great Gatsby, Candide, The Invention of Morel, The Sound and the Fury, Brave New World, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
>About how many books have you read this year?
Probably around 20
>Best book you've read this year?
The Sound and the Fury
>Worst book you've read this year?
The Road
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Nope
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
~50

>>1365209
Brofist for Cosmicomics, Qwqwf has got it going on.

24 Copywriter/Marketing assistant
1-4
The Final Solution, A Void (75% gave up) Crooked Little Vein, Generation X (on going) Plus some comics and short stories
about twenty
Kavalier and Clay
Couldn't say, if a books not doing anything for me I tend to give up and try again when I'm in the right mood
No
Thirty-forty

>filling in survey as anonymous
laughingsluts.jpg

>What is your age and occupation?
17
student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
4
>About how many books have you read this year?
17 in the second half, 0 in the first.
>Best book you've read this year?
dunno, The Trial?
>Worst book you've read this year?
Twilight.
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
of course not
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
as much as i feel like.

For the people who didn't answer

>What books have you read so far this month?

Is it because you haven't read any so far, or because you don't want other people to know what you're reading?

>What is your age and occupation?
18, student

>How many books do you read on average each month?

5-25, it varies a lot and I don't keep count.
>What books have you read so far this month?
The Hunger Games (all three books), Candide, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Running Man, a couple of romances and some online homoerotic scifi.

>About how many books have you read this year?
Fuck if I know. A number between 100 and 300.

>Best book you've read this year?
1984

>Worst book you've read this year?
Some forgettable romance.

>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Yeah.

>How many books do you hope to read next year?
More than this year; I'm moving to cambridge from SEA and I hear they have loads of secondhand bookstores.

>What books have you read so far this month?

holy shit I did not see this question for some reason.

I read America by Kafka & now reading Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

>What is your age and occupation?
19, full time cashier training for management
>How many books do you read on average each month?
4-5
>What books have you read so far this month?
First two by Terry Goodkind and a few short stories I downloaded, read, and immediately forgot from amazon
>About how many books have you read this year?
Wasn't able to read for three months because of a second job... so just do the math, I don't count
>Best book you've read this year?
I'll probably be mocked but I really liked My Sister's Keeper. Then again I get the whole cancer thing personally.
>Worst book you've read this year?
Darkly Dreaming Dexter. W.T.F. was up with that shit?
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Only one by Tamora Pierce back in like January.
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
As many as I can. I have 100 on my shelf to be read and millions that I could download.

>What is your age and occupation?
24 Unemployed
>How many books do you read on average each month?
Dunno. I don't read much
>What books have you read so far this month?
None
>About how many books have you read this year?
None
>Best book you've read this year?
-
>Worst book you've read this year?
-
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
no
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
none

>>1365258
why are you even here

>>1365261
I dunno

>What is your age and occupation?
19, student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
2-3
>What books have you read so far this month?
To the Lighthouse, Treasure Island, currently reading The Brothers Karamazov
>About how many books have you read this year?
30
>Best book you've read this year?
A Clockwork Orange
>Worst book you've read this year?
The Old Man and the Sea
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
No, but I plan on reading Decision Points very soon
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
40ish

>>1365262
for me?

>>1365261
bro it's a free internet, he can waste his time however he wants to.
>>1365262
so, what do you do? do you do it all?

>What is your age and occupation?
21, student.
>How many books do you read on average each month?
One or two.
>What books have you read so far this month?
2
>About how many books have you read this year?
22
>Best book you've read this year?
The last book I read usually seems like the best book I've read. So...A Separate Peace by John Knowles.
>Worst book you've read this year?
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Yep.
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
Hoping to read a book a week.

>>1365266
>>1365269
wut?

>What is your age and occupation?
18, Student

>How many books do you read on average each month?
4

>What books have you read so far this month?
Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
Leaf Storm [and other stories] (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for a class)
A Mercy (Toni Morrison)
I'm currently reading A Million Little Pieces (James Frey)

>About how many books have you read this year?
About 50

>Best book you've read this year?
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)

>Worst book you've read this year?
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf), for a class

>Did you read any books that came out this year?
I don't think so, no

>How many books do you hope to read next year?
About fifty should be fine. I'll have the longest summer break though, so I might do more reading.

What is your age and occupation?
>21, Student
How many books do you read on average each month?
>1 during school, 3 during summer
What books have you read so far this month?
>Atlas Shrugged
About how many books have you read this year?
>I have read 19 books.
Best book you've read this year?
>Fountainhead
Worst book you've read this year?
>The Illustrated Man
Did you read any books that came out this year?
>Nyet.
How many books do you hope to read next year?
>As I am graduating and have a semester off, I would like to hit 100.

Pic is books I have read so far this year (minus maybe one or two my brother took from me and I can't remember)

>>1365273
can you do a good lapdance? yes or no?

>What is your age and occupation?
21, student, writer, freelance photographer
>How many books do you read on average each month?
3-4
>What books have you read so far this month?
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski, Revolution For The Hell Of It by Abbie Hoffman, Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution by Jerry Rubin
>About how many books have you read this year?
I have no clue
>Best book you've read this year?
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
>Worst book you've read this year?
I don't read bad books
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Yes, Please Don't Bomb The Suburbs by Billy Wimsatt
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
A lot

>>1365274
>Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

>>1365274
>>Worst book you've read this year?
>To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf), for a class

actually now i'm sorry for inviting you back over here, to be blunt.

>>1365290
I don't read terrible books. It wasn't a terrible book. It was just hard to get through.

>>1365293
>i don't read terrible books
>infidel
lol.

Also Virginia Woolf understands the psyche of a girl & her stories are the stories of all women.

I think you are sexually confused Tripsk.

>>1365283
...no

jesus fucking christ!!
Is there anybody on this board who isn't a motherfucking student?!?!?

>>1365301
not trolling, but Woolf's suicide note is the best i've ever read. I've read a few, to be sure. If I ever kick it in the head, I think I'll just leave a reprint of her note.

>>1365301
>Infidel
I don't consider memoirs real reading

>Virginia Woolf understands the psyche of a girl & her stories are the stories of all women
That is like saying that T. S. Eliot's poetry is the poetry of all men.

>>1365302
Fuckin' stoodents

>>1365302
i lol'd.

>That is like saying that T. S. Eliot's poetry is the poetry of all men
nope. men can't be categoried as easily as they aren't a group that's discriminated against. It's like how Black Saint & The Sinner Lady is clearly exploring the pain endured by African Americans in American history. You can't find a song about 'the pain whites endured in America'. Really you can't.

Also I see you ignored my question, I hope you at least consider it privately for your own sake....

Dharma Bums is one of my fav books, I seem to remember this amazing paragraph near the start, which had this incredible rhythm to it...I like it more than On The Road.
Also, if Virginia Woolf writes the way women think, no fucking wonder some men struggle to understand women...jesus...

>>1365314

>the pain whites endured in America

Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

>>1365319
Born in the USA expresses the passion of all americans, regardless of colour.

You should check out his band live, mang.

>>1365322
What is the question?
You didn't ask a question.

>>1365324
i asked you if you were sexually confused. but ok, i guess i didnt.

Bump for more answers.

>What is your age and occupation?
34, Customer service
>How many books do you read on average each month?
3-5
>What books have you read so far this month?
Coldheart Canyon (Clive Barker,) The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Stieg Larsson)
>About how many books have you read this year?
about 50
>Best book you've read this year?
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
>Worst book you've read this year?
Twilight (made me rage)
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Don't think so, get most of my books from thrift stores
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
75

>What is your age and occupation?
25 - grad student/soon to be peace corps volunteer
>How many books do you read on average each month?
maybe around 5-10, depending on size
>What books have you read so far this month?
The Broom of the System, Richard Yates, The Communist Manifesto (2nd time), Technologies of the Self, half of Scorch Atlas - may quit reading for something better
>About how many books have you read this year?
I honestly don't know--maybe around 50
>Best book you've read this year?
Gravity's Rainbow
>Worst book you've read this year?
The Blank Slate by Pinker
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Point Omega by DeLillo - fantastic, can't remember if any others
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
i don't have a set number, just as many as possible

Captcha: whistling dockho

>What is your age and occupation?
19, student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
Aside from textbooks, 2-5 depending on how busy I am
>What books have you read so far this month?
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
>About how many books have you read this year?
No idea, maybe a hundred or so
>Best book you've read this year?
Tad William's Otherland series
>Worst book you've read this year?
I don't know
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
I shall wear midnight
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
As many as I have time for.

17/student
3-4
Despair by Vladmir Nabokov, Home Land by Sam Lipstye, White Teeth by Zadie Smith
30-40
Infinite Jest
nothing was that bad, I suppose FUP was a bit mediocre
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, that's it
40-50

>What is your age and occupation?
21, student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
5-10 depending on length and reading level of books
>What books have you read so far this month?
3 or 4
>About how many books have you read this year?
No fucking clue.
>Best book you've read this year?
The Sirens of Titan
>Worst book you've read this year?
Mass Effect Ascension
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
idk
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
idk

>What is your age and occupation?
30/Drug Dealer
>How many books do you read on average each month?
5
>What books have you read so far this month?
"Ender's Shadow" and "Shadow of the Hegemon" by Orson Scott Card; "Pyramids", "Lords and Ladies", "Night Watch", "The Fifth Elephant" and "The Last Continent" by Terry Pratchett
>About how many books have you read this year?
At least 50
>Best book you've read this year?
Tie between "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card, "Atlas Shrugged" by Any Rand (fuck the haters), and "Unseen Academicals" by Terry Pratchett
>Worst book you've read this year?
"God's Other Son" by Don Imus
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
"Unseen Academicals" and "I Shall Wear Midnight" by Terry Pratchett
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
I usually try for at least one a week

ITT: everyone posts, no one reads

>What is your age and occupation?
18, student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
Four
>What books have you read so far this month?
Five
>About how many books have you read this year?
30-ish
>Best book you've read this year?
Ender's Game
>Worst book you've read this year?
Angels and Demons
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
nope
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
40

>>1365453
OP here, I'm reading every one of them.

>What is your age and occupation?
36, Software developer
>How many books do you read on average each month?
2-4
>What books have you read so far this month?
Altered Carbon, Zero History
>About how many books have you read this year?
30
>Best book you've read this year?
The Count of Monte Cristo
>Worst book you've read this year?
The Ringworld Engineers (didn't finish)
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Yes, Zero History
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
30-40

>What is your age and occupation?
26, Medical student.
>How many books do you read on average each month?
Not enough, 2-3.
>What books have you read so far this month?
Paradise Lost
>About how many books have you read this year?
22?23?
>Best book you've read this year?
The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
>Worst book you've read this year?
Ass Goblins of Auschwitz.
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Nope.
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
40

>>1365454
derp. books this month:
Ferdudyrke by Witold Gombrowicz
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
No Word From Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

>>1365465

>Ass Goblins Of Aushwitz

I actually had to google that title because it's so ridiculous. Then I read the summary:

>It's Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a >surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by >Bizarro author Cameron Pierce.

>In a land where black snow falls in the shape of >swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp >known as Auschwitz. It is run by a fascist, flatulent >race of aliens called the Ass Goblins, who travel in >apple-shaped spaceships to abduct children

Fuck, sign me up right now. Shit sounds ridiculous.

>>1365465

>Ass Goblins Of Aushwitz

I actually had to google that title because it's so ridiculous. Then I read the summary:

>It's Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a
>surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by
>Bizarro author Cameron Pierce.


>In a land where black snow falls in the shape of
>swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp
>known as Auschwitz. It is run by a fascist, flatulent
>race of aliens called the Ass Goblins, who travel in
>apple-shaped spaceships to abduct children


Fuck, sign me up right now. Shit sounds ridiculous.

>What is your age and occupation?
20, student/library assistant
>How many books do you read on average each month?
~8
>What books have you read so far this month?
James Joyce, "Portrait of the Artist..."
Kathy Acker, "Blood & Guts in High School"
Andre Breton, "Nadja"
& finishing up Gertrude Stein, "Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas"
>About how many books have you read this year?
I dunno. Lots.
>Best book you've read this year?
Don DeLillo "White Noise" or Hemingway "In Our Time"
>Worst book you've read this year?
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Nope
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
I dunno. Lots.

>What is your age and occupation?
18/student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
It varies, really hard to even give an average
>What books have you read so far this month?
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert Hare and Brain Sex by Ann Moir
>About how many books have you read this year?
Don't have even the faintest idea
>Best book you've read this year?
Without Conscience
>Worst book you've read this year?
pass
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Not that I can think
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
I see no reason to have a number in mind, I hope I get a chance to read everything that I find that interests me

>What is your age and occupation?
27 grad student
>How many books do you read on average each month?
less than one. Research research research instead
>What books have you read so far this month?
none
>About how many books have you read this year?
about 5
>Best book you've read this year?
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
>Worst book you've read this year?
some crappy slick crime novel
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
Yes
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
about 5 again

>What is your age and occupation?
30 - Finance admin
>How many books do you read on average each month?
A couple
>What books have you read so far this month?
Sartre - Nausea, started Gravity's Rainbow
>About how many books have you read this year?
19
>Best book you've read this year?
Huysmans - Against Nature
>Worst book you've read this year?
Hmm, didn't dislike anything
>Did you read any books that came out this year?
No
>How many books do you hope to read next year?
Dunno

>>1365476
It's been kind of the joke recommendation ever since somebody discovered it and posted the cover on /lit/.