/lit/ - Literature

>>15847469
Literally only 1.

>>15847469
I'm still in the process of reading Aristotle's Complete Works so 0

>>15847469
13

i dont really read fiction, so reading books in their entirety isnt really my goal. I just read the topics which i find interesting in the thing and move on to the next one.

>>15847469
14. I would have expected work-from-home would lead to me reading more but it's had the opposite effect.

30. Currently tanking that score by reading multiple massive tomes

>>15847469
I don't keep count but probably more or less 15

>>15847469
Two or three. This year has been a disaster.

>>15847469
>721 books in 1 year
how

>>15847489
sounds autistic, i bet you wear diapers too

>>15847469
Don't remember how many exact, I dont use shitreads to track. In the 30s range
>>15847512
>how
clickbait

>>15847469
One for each month :)

>>15847489
Incredibly wise, anon. You'll go far.

I read about a book a week on average - have done so for the last 7 years. Some years it's as many as 75, others it drops to the 30s. I keep a note of what I've read, and what I thought about it.

I think about 4, but one of them was les Miserables, which took 6 months. Then I read the trial, the lost weekend, and a game of thrones book or two.

722

>>15847469
36. Wow I'm a shit slow reader and I still beat most of you spergs.

>>15847469
A more meaningful metric would be:

How many pages have you read this year?

For me it's 8,000

>>15847469
20

>>15847469
8

>>15847689
uhmmm what font size? spacing? border size?
in conclusion: meaningless.

word count!

>>15847969
All I said is that page count is MORE meaningful than book count. I'm right.

Word count is best, but most books don't have a known word-count unless you want to convert the ebook to .doc. So although you're right, your suggestion is also useless.

>>15847986
fuck you, page counting smartass
how many lines was it, genius?
>uuuhhhhhhhhm actually books are different lengths
truly revelatory

>>15848012
What's your point?

>>15848029
count these words: fuck off retard

>>15848038
hehe ur cute

>>15847469
I'm readING a bunch, but I've only finished "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun. Good, but not something I would ever read again. Passed it on to a friend.

>>15847469
Just finished my 31sth. Last year I only read 38 books total. Quarantine really helped me find more time to read.

>>15847469
28 I think so far

31 because I have plenty of free time. Best one was Myth of Sisyphus by Camus, most disappointing probably Ficciones by Borges but I think it was translation's fault.

BASED PEWDS

>How many books have you read so far this year?
no one

>>15848038
Awww

5 I think. Child care will eat up your free time like you wouldn't believe.

>>15847469
6 and a half right now

31.

>>15847469
30, my power level will keep rising.

This retard stopped making book videos and became letsplayer again

>>15847469
a handful, maybe exactly 5, when I needed them
I don't keep count
it is clear that most people in these threads suffer from a weird insecurity

>>15847489
honestly extremely based

27 so far.

Should be a lot more.

>>15847565
Underrated post. One book each month is /comfy/

>>15847469
Only 19. I had a high goal, but getting rejected from grad school around the second week of the quarantine really crushed me. I'm back into it now with Master and Margarita and some nonfiction, but it's been hard building the habit back up.

>>15847469
Not many, but I ordered a copy of The Ancient City by Coulanges. I read like 30 pages and decided that I needed a hard copy. It's been beyond revealing and insightful thus far. Going to really digest it all.

>>15847489
that's the right thing to do.
I was reading a book about old high german, and was bored out of my mind during some parts, so I skipped it

>>15847469
13

>>15847469
122.
Niggers

>>15847469
201, thanks corona

2.
I picked up reading as a hobby like a month ago.

1290

>>15850616
you don't sleep anon?

>>15847469
29, two books ahead of schedule. But I;ve been doing the whole Zettelkasten thing which is taking up quite some time... All a work in progress. Also been reading way too many sel-help books, but many of them have served a useful purpose. Had to read something more digestible after Spengler's Untergang des Abendlandes.

>>15850737
what does it mean by 'ahead of (or behind) schedule' on reading books especially on goodreads?

>>15847469
I'm reading one page of Jacques the Fatalist every day. I hope to be finished by September.

>>15847469
0 in the last ~6 years
why suffer for no gain?

I got back into reading 2 months ago
so far just 6 because I'm busy with university shit

>>15847469
Ten (including novellas) about to finish my 11th (pic related).

Started reading regularly this year.

>>15850816
It's mostly used for the goodreads challenge "I want to read x books this year"
If you want to read 10 books in 2020 and in the first month you read 2, you're ahead of schedule

>>15847469
Almost 30
Theaetetus seems to have filtered me. I've enjoyed all the Plantonic dialogues that came before but this one seems like a chore to get through.
>>15847484
Are readings passages from different books of his?
Just list a single work as it's own thing mate

>>15847489
not what OP asked

9
Two ahead if schedule. Getting a kobo was a great decision.

>>15847469
13, my resolution this year was to get back into reading, especially literature, as studying mathematics at uni had taken up a lot of my time and I was shocked to see just how little I had read over the last 3 years. eased myself back in by reading some pop-fantasy (stormlight archive) then got on with some proper stuff (Jung, Machado de Assis, Calvino). Stopped for a month or so to write my dissertation, but overall pretty happy with the progress I've made. A relative died earlier this year and left me her great books of the western world collection, so am planning on cracking on with some Homer once I can transfer them to my house.

>>15847469
45 so far
The Terror - Dan Simmons
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Complicity - Iain Banks
The Small Hand - Susan Hill
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Years Best SF 4
The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor
Lancashire Ghost Stories
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Binding - Bridget Collins
Dead Astronauts - Jeff Vandermeer
Dark Entries - Robert Aickman
Paul Takes the form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor
Welsh Folk Tales - Peter Stevenson
The Rose of Immortality
Re-Coil - J. T. Nicholas
Before the Coffee gets Cold - Kawaguchi
False Values - Ben Aaronovitch
Salt Slow - Julia Armfield
Play Dead - Richard Montanari
Star Wars Aftermath - Chuck Wendig
Beneath the Rising - Premee Mohammed
Bone China - Laura Purcell
Outsider - Stephen King
cont.

>>15852596
Witches and Ghosts of Pendle - Jacqueline Davitt
Canal Dreams - Iain Banks
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
Qualityland - Marc Uwe Kling
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
The Eyes of Heisenberg - Frank Herbert
Feed - M. T. Anderson
Merrick - Anne Rice
The Library of the Unwritten - A. J. Hackwith
The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard
Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Lanny - Max Porter
Devolution - Max Brooks
Through a Glass Clearly - Asimov
Lost Boy - Christina Henry
The City we Became - N. K. Jemisin
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M. John Harrison

Two. I wanted to read twenty books this year but haven't really hunkered down to do it. Not sure why. I used to read voraciously even up to last year but it slowly petered out.

36

16 overall.

January (5)
>On Becoming a Novelist -- John Gardner | N/A
>The Art of Fiction -- John Gardner | N/A
>Fathers and Sons -- Ivan Turgenev | 6/10
>Farenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury | 4/10
>Death of a Salesman -- Arthur Miller | 7/10
February (2)
>Othello -- Shakespeare | 8/10
>Pnin -- Nabokov | 8/10
March (2)
>The Metamorphosis and Other Stories -- Kafka | 8/10
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter S. Thompson | 7/10
April (0)
>N/A
May (2)
>As I Lay Dying -- William Faulkner | 9/10
>The Strange Death of Europe -- Douglas Murray | 3/10
June (3)
>Mansfield Park -- Jane Austen | 9/10
>King John -- Shakespeare | 8/10
>Richard II -- Shakespeare | 9.5/10
July (2)
>King Henry IV Part I -- Shakespeare | 10/10
>The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro | 9/10

>>15852624
I picked up The Eys of Heisenberg from a second hand store a while ago and it's been sat on my shelves for a while now. Do you recommend it?

>>15852800
Nah it's a bit shit, only read it if you can crank it out in an afternoon. It's a bit dated. Not his best by a longshot

I'm almost through Lolita, Blood Meridian, and The Trial and Death of Socrates.

>>15852807
Had a feeling it might be a bit of a let down compared to the Dune books, oh well thanks for the insight. I'll send it to the bottom of the pile.

13, my goal is to read at least 20 this year.

>>15847489
Literally Hitler.

Did he really read 721 books in a year? What the fuck. There's no way he'd retain all of that.

As for myself, I've only read seven so far this year kek
I need to buckle down and read more

>>15853019
When he says he read that many, honestly I reckon most of them were audiobooks. You can crank out a few in a day if you wanted to, and on stuff like audible you can play them on 1.5x speed. I seriously doubt he read the physical books though. Loads of booktubers do that "I read X and X" no you didn't bitch you listened to it, and imo that requires 1/10 the effort.

>>15853046
Audiobooks are retarded and I don't count that as reading. And still, how the fuck would you be able to retain multiple books a day through audio?
I feel like people who do that don't even pay attention to what they're hearing. It's probably just background noise with occasional active listening.

>>15847512
He only read 72 but it's still impressive

>>15853068
Yeah it's probably like "I had an audiobook on while I fucked about doing something else" I don't count it as reading either

>>15847469
I'd say about 18, not sure. I need to pick up the pace a bit.

How do I read more?

>>15847969
You'd have to weight the words by length, meaning and obscurity, and also attribute some weight to their overall sense.
Just accept there is no true metric, it's all about getting some reading done.

>>15853169
Short bursts whenever you can. Waiting for a bus, waiting for the microwave to ping, taking a shit, in a queue etc. Always have a book on you in case you get an opportunity to read some of it.

One and a half

>>15852195
why? because I supposedly read 1 book each month?

>>15847469
19

33 more books to go in this year

>>15853204
I have a question. do you read anything like that? I feel most of I read is not worth reading without concentration. I fear that I'm gonna miss stuff out, if I don't take the time.

>>15847469
Probably none, I don't finish books.

>>15847469

15 as soon as I finish the last chapter of The Hobbit.
Half way through the year I doubled my speed. If I had started at my current speed I would probably be over 20.

>>15847469
zero. i've stopped reading after the age of 18 and now the exclusive """"""""""""''literary"""""""""""""" practice that I have is thinking about ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics. stop reading books retards.

14, but I'm a chapter off 15.
Here's the list, it's my first year of proper reading, give it a r8:
>Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
>Phillip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
>Homer - The Iliad
>Plato - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
>Homer - The Odyssey
>Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
>Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
>Edith Hamilton - Mythology
>Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
>C. G. Jung - Man and His Symbols
>Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
>Frank Herbert - Dune
>James Joyce - Dubliners
Currently reading:
>J.R.R Tolkien - The Hobbit (rereading, almost finished)
>John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
>Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

>>15853112
I doubt he's read that many, really.

>>15856086
>>Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
>>Phillip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>>Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
literally who
>>Homer - The Iliad
mythological bullshit
>>Plato - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
idealist bullshit
>>Homer - The Odyssey
mythological bullshit
>>Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
literally who
>>Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
neurotic bullshit
>>Edith Hamilton - Mythology
mythological bullshit
>>Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
literally who
>>C. G. Jung - Man and His Symbols
symbolic and woo-woo bullshit
>>Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
pynchon literally who
>>Frank Herbert - Dune
genre fiction bulshit
>>James Joyce - Dubliners
literally who
>Currently reading:
>>J.R.R Tolkien - The Hobbit (rereading, almost finished)
i remember when i was 15
>>John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
>>Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
literally who

Some highlights:
NT
Storm of steel
Koestler autobiography
Taleb
Anna Karenina
Fathers and sons
Solstad AKP(ML) books
Taleb

The Secret Garden
Dead Souls

>>15847469
25 or so, with many short stories and plays on top of that. They're not novels though.

30

>>15847469
not enough

21

Only 17, this was more of a film year until recently (watched almost 300 films I think).
Favorite books so far this year(in no particular order):
>Life: A user's manual by Perec
>Confessions by Augustine
>Against nature by Huysmans
>Anabasis by Xenophon
>Storm of stell by Jünger
>Eulogies/The glory of kings/Anabasis/Exil by Saint-John Perse

>>15847469
7

get on my level faggots

>>15853019
He read 72 books. He says he clickbaited in the beginning of the video, but never explains why.

Maybe he just hoped some stupid zoomer would read the thumbnail and admire him even more.

>>15847469
6.

>>15857213
Buncha trash.

>>15847469
22. neuromancer best one so far

it's better to read one great book a year than 52 ok books.

Four and one of them was shit.

>>15857428
>one of them was shit.
Why did you finish it?

>>15857437
Sunk time obligation, it was a nonfiction book about writing. It had only one useful thing to say and I was searching for possibly more until I got sick of it and skimmed to finish.

Hobbit, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Stranger, Bird by Bird.
I wasn't a real reading person, outside of YA in my teens, until late 2019 and I'm trying to come back. Have a swath in my Kobo and no attention span to currently speak of.

>>15857243
your mother is trash

>>15857213
>loads of genre fiction trash for nerdy teenagers
Obvious bait

>>15847489
This is how it should be, not whatever this faggot in OP's image does which is just mindlessly consume fictional garbage for halfwits.

>>15853112
It really isn't since half of them are very short and easily digested fictional garbage.

>>15852624
>Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
lesbian vampire pussy licking kino desu

>>15857978
>>15857984
Hello anti-fiction fag, still haven't killed yourself? Don't want to be behind schedule now do we? Chop chop

About 40

I laugh at people who don't read

>>15847489
Based, I do the same. I like poetry though.

Woah you guys are plebs. Read more, dipshits.

>>15858053
Heh good bait.

>>15847469
35
>>15858090
read by grand central station i sat down and wept, it's good poetry.

>>15847469
23 Not Counting comics


The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - Le Carré

Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Anthropology of Iraq - Field

Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond

Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence - Buckley

The Minorities of Iraq During the Period of the Mandate - Attar

The Human Tide - Morland

The Fountainhead - Rand

The Power Broker - Caro

Huey Long - Williams

Population And Development - Gould

I, Claudius - Graves

Gnostic Ethics And Mandaean Origins - Yamauchi

The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran - Drower

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

2666 - Bolaño

The Abolition of Man - Lewis

A People's Tragedy -Figes

The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

Death in Venice - Mann

In Cold Blood - Capote

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>>15847469
10, I’m slacking desu

>>15850616
Holy shit, if true