/lit/ - Literature

>>20840037
The Golden Ass and literally nothing else
maybe my daygame notes to try different openers but that's not a book

>Are you on track for reading your minimum 52 books a year or will your /lit/ license be revoked?
fuck /lit/ and fuck you faggot

>>20840037
I only read books about Slut Wives

>Post what you've read this year
not doxxing myself nigger
>Are you on track for reading your minimum 52 books a year
yes, but tracking book count is a mental cancer that disincentivizes reading longer works

>>20840037
I have read nothing.

I've wasted over 6 months trying to understand Gurdjieff and forcing myself to read the mainly incomprehensible work associated with him. I could have read at least 10 classics instead by now. Such is the life of a desperate Dunning-Kruger midwit afflicted with an obsession for the 'esoteric' thinking it will transform his shitty life. Sad!

>>20841215
Why? How long has it been since you've read something that could be called literature?

>>20841222
It's about quality my friend not quantity. The time you spent attempting to understand that book will have definitely lead to the betterment of your own thinking ability.

49 books so far but a lot of them are artbooks, audiobooks of once popular genre trash, with only a few things like Egon Friedell and the Greeks in them that I'd count as "proper" books.

>>20840037
what's the point of this threads? they don't hurt because they remind of shitty reading progress, they hurt because they remind of the passage of time which is a universal thing that's unbearable for all beings.

OP should be banned for off-topic

>You have read 24 of 50 books in 2022.
>It's mid-August already
I'm such a failure as a human being

>>20841222
>Such is the life of a desperate Dunning-Kruger midwit afflicted with an obsession for the 'esoteric' thinking it will transform his shitty life. Sad!
it truly is. start with the greeks, nigger. they said everything that needs to be said. especially Plato. start with Plato. start with his Republic. C.D.C. Reeve edition, 2004

>>20840037
>52
I've only read 30 currently yet am on course for 42 by the end of the year—can I make up the shortfall by sucking 10 dicks? Or is it a costlier exchange value? 20 dicks?

>>20841264
you really read 1 book a week? do you have a life or are you just skimming?

my intellectual honesty prohibits me from such quantity

>>20841264
that's a nice score my dude, don't feel bad about it
I've read even less

>>20841231

It hasn't.

>>20841283
i dont believe people actually read this much AND have a life.

a usual proper book is at least 400 pages. that's 60 pages a day, and that's on average, meaning the usual minimum. one day you read nothing the next you have to read twice that (120 pages) and so on. that's quite the pace.

i could hold this pace for a book or two, but one book a week, like this, for a year? it's gonna set my head in a swirl

>>20841272
Make it 40.

I've read 12 books this year so far and I don't feel bad for it at all. Would rather read comfortably at my own pace and enjoy each book for what it is than to read a hundred books and remember fuck all about half of them just so I can boast about it.

>inb4 being called a booklet or some shit

>>20841303
haha what a booklet lol

>>20841303
Cocklet

>>20841305
>>20841306

>>20841292
I've read around 15-17 books this year. I don't know their proper volume, because I read on kindle, so I don't know how many pages I've read.
I work a lot (really a lot), spend time with my wife, family, my friends, and I tend to my ill doge. We bought some land and I chop some trees and do the weeding.
I think that You tend to overexaggerate the number of pages these books have. There are books that took me 20 hours to read, some of them I read in 12 hours and some took me only 6-7 hours. I read almost everynight (as I'm going to sleep), just a bit. That's my way to do it
Fuck me, it's my longest post on 4chan

>>20841310
Nice, can you post the ones you enjoyed reading the most this year?

And what Kindle do you own?

It's so easy to fiddle the numbers by adding more YA garbage.

>>20841327
Sure thing buddy, but I warn You I'm a scifi-fag
Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination (nostalgia read from my childhood)
Three my most favourite books:With Sword and With Fire - Sienkiewicz; I also recommend You Ja, Gelerth by Pasikowski, but sadly I don't think it has been ever translated; Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Troop - Cutter
Peter Watts - Firefall and Rifters series
Currently enjoying Chasm City by Reynolds
If you like WH40k - Death World by Steve Lyons

I started with Paperwhite 4, but on Christmas I got PW5 - that's when I really took off with the reading. It's the perfect size for me.

>>20841375
Ah, I was never able to get into sci-fi ever since my older sister used to bring in dozens of copies of some shity sci fi YA shit when I was 19. But hey it's been a few years, I should maybe check one of yours out and see if I like it or not. Would be a great way to bond with my sister, she still loves this shit.

And how are you dealing with the Covers on your Kindle? I have a Paperwhite 4 too and the coverless books have really made it harder to find the book I want to get to. I don't really have the time to use Calibre and the convenience of send by email is just too good.

>>20840113
>not doxxing myself
you put your real name online?

>>20840037
I don't think I'll make it, OP. Exodus dragged on for almost a month, but it was worth it. The best Solar Cycle book so far. The Rat is really stupid, but more fun than some other cheesy books like Ubik. Armor feels like Forrest Gump Vietnam arc dragging on for the whole book. At least Starship Troopers had some downtime between fights.

>>20841400
In that case I definitely recommend to you Stanisław Lem, he has more of an "philosopher" approach to his novels. There is some "action" but you should focus on the meaning and the human psychology and humanity's ideology. That is exactly why I love Solaris, it hits me somehow. With Sword and With Fire makes me cry - if you are not certain watch the movie - it is great.
I hope You will have great convos with Your sis about certain books. Honestly, You should ask her for some recommendations
The covers made me a bit mad a the beginning. It doesn't bother me anymore. I just download it on my reader and I don't use Calibre. Amazon purposely fucked up covers.
If you don't read scifi, recommend me some of Your favourites books my man. Will give it a try.

>>20841427
I've only managed to read about 6 books this year. My favourite ones so far have been, 'The Miner' , 'The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas' , and 'The Box Man'.

Do you only read on your Kindle or make exceptions for books that were exceptionally good or books that you know you'll read again? I've recently been blessed with an amazing job and feel like I could spend a couple bucks on buying high quality books and editions I really like.

>>20841310
>I've read around 15-17 books this year.
That's not what I was getting at. I was tlaking about "52" books

I worked out the mathematics long ago and established that roughly half that is my doable maximum. But of course I never aim for any number because I'm not a dumb gamified bugman product of globohomo

>>20841462
Thanks for these books, will read them :) I read maybe 6 books last year. Kindle really helps me read. Best part is I don't need to use flashlight in the night (which really bothered my wife sleeping next to me haha)
I read only on Kindle, only because it is way more comfortable. I have physical copies of books that I bought years ago and I really liked them. I think that I will buy more physical copies, but I really have to enjoy the book. I've got 10 books by Lem and two different publishing of With Sword and With Fire. I like the covers on polish Lem series. There are these triangles (hope You will see it in pic related).
I realised that having hundreds of books is in some way the beginning of hoarding. But hey, whatever makes You happy. I'd rather have 10 books on display
>I've recently been blessed with an amazing job and feel like I could spend a couple bucks on buying high quality books and editions I really like.
Exactly my way of thinking.

So how do I fix this, except artificially inflating it with novellas? Rec me some novellas, possibly comfy

>>20841539
>this is the average /lit/ poster

Yes goyim, you must fulfill your yearly consumption quota and feel bad if you don't, yyyes

read 11 out of 26 for this year, around a 1100 pages
there's some other 3 or 4 i'm not counting that i read about half, but didnt finish

>>20841539
some comfy books! you can do it, anon!

>>20842633
thank you, will try to read some of them

33 out of 20. I think 20 is a good number, so I'll keep it at that whenever I do it.

>>20840037
53 books in, currently reading "Ready Player Two" but thinking of dropping it.

>>20842885
how's the Great Reset?

>>20840037
I've fallen behind during the summer. Maybe I catch up in the fall. What can I do with my /lit/ license from previous years?

>>20840037
I've read a dry 2000 page technical manual, can I count it as 5 books? Just kidding, I don't track my reading goals like this, because I'm not a bugman.

>>20841223
>Why?
Because I post on /lit/.

Read:
>1984
>Atomic Habits
>Dracula
>Revolt of the Elites
>Why Liberalism Failed

Reading
>Crime & Punishment
>Meditations

Plan to Read by EOY
>The Hobbit
>Artist’s Way
>Cybermaman by Alexandre Jardin

Pretty entry level stuff but I only read two books in and two books in the five years prior - progress

>>20843788

only read two books in the five years prior*

>>20842633
You are missing a lot if you read Discworld as a kid

>Goodreads is now shilling F Gardner

I used to be able to read 100-150 books per year but I stopped being a NEET. Plus I've been working on my Greek more. Right now I'm just reading books on flooring because it's my profession now and I want to be good at it.

>2 books
Wtf is wrong with me? closing /lit/ and opening a book right now.

>>20843788
Nice edition of the Hobbit; Tolkien's cover-art enthralled me as a boy. Have you read LOTR yet?

How do you feel about Dostoevsky?

>>20841539
read kid books. you can crunch them on one day

3 books

The Idiot (finished, reading since last year) and Demons. Both Dostoevsky. Now i'm reading Zorba the Greek

I don't think there even are 52 books worth reading in all of history

>>20840037
Currently half way through a 1000 pg World History textbook.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57922091-william

>>20843866
Ok bros I'm back. Read a chapter of LOTR and a chapter of a French book. My redemption arc starts now.

>>20843912

I certainly paid for it but it’s worth it for those special illustrations. eventually I will work my way into LoTR but am trying to take my impulses and format them into systems (hence atomic habits.)

C&P so far is a spiritual ride. Oddly a lot of what I have read this year ties into the themes of the book, namely Lasch and Deneen regarding virtue and society at the complete mercy of progress in economy and science. Hopefully this doesn’t blackpill me, quite sensitive to philosophy and Dosto may finish me yet

What I’ve come to experience since reading is that the ebbs and flow of ideology and human experience span centuries. You read books written 200 years apart and realize they’re just downstream from one another. Amazed at how myopic life outside of reading is, but I digress.

>>20840037
University is eating up a lot of my time. I’m at 25 right now. Not sure what I’ll be able to swing by end of year but hopefully at least 40

Never been a reader in my adult life but most of my other hobbies have fallen by the wayside to reading this year

>>20840037
I used to be able to read up to 4 hours a day. In 2017 I was able to read for 5 hours straight, now I can't even do 30 minutes. I don't even have the will to read every day.
When I start reading I start yawning and want to give it up. Tried with many books yet the same happens.
What is happening to me?

>>20840037
I have read little this year because I have ADHD brain and I was working nights. Now I'm NEETing for the time being so I figured now is the time to get back in the habit.

I listened to Propaganda by Edward Bernays and Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman on audiobook earlier this year (lol). I'm almost finished reading White Noise. I plan on picking up the pace and reading roughly 300 pages a week but we'll see. I'm probably not going to read 52 books this year but maybe I'll read a couple dozen if I keep my current pace. I genuinely want to read a lot this year even though I've fallen behind.

>>20841264
Not really, you're on track. You can still get to 50.

>>20841539
I haven't read these yet but they're in my stack for the year; Story of the Eye by Bataille and Hunger by Hamsun. They're less than 140 pages each and are supposed to be good, they're very dark though. I'd say it's worth it to read them just to say you have even if that's not your thing, especially considering how short they are. You could breeze through both in a week.

>>20843252
A very effectively sterilized text, insane suggestions packed with some rational arguments that at first make you nod, but upon closer reasoning, make you go 'wth'

>>20844596
What I’ve come to experience since reading is that the ebbs and flow of ideology and human experience span centuries. You read books written 200 years apart and realize they’re just downstream from one another. Amazed at how myopic life outside of reading is, but I digress.
True enough! I've just reread Plato's Laws and it's amusing how 'modern' (timeless) his description of atheists as 'young disputatious young men' is; quite similar to Augustine, too.

I'm pretty thoroughly black-pilled, in no small part due to my extensive reading with Dosto being one of my favourites. It's difficult to see any purpose in all of it, and it must have been even more dreadful a challange back then when they couldn't even try to sop up the dregs of pleasure that do exist in this hell of a world with modern technology. I am genuinely thankful for at least being able to experience these things, super-stimuli that at least makes one feel something, at least.

I recommend all Dosto's works! If you're confident that you'll read them all and don't need to be 'hooked' that leave Demons & TBK for the last ones and read The Idiot, Letters from a Dead House, and Notes from the underground first. Enjoy them! It doesn't get better.

>>20841504
>>20841292
Basically these people barely use social media and don't/barely do anything not book related. Books could be shorter than 400 pages but some books can also be longer than 400 pages. I think it's doable for very avid reads but only knew one that continuously read fiction so idk if its possible with nonfic

>>20841303
i've read 3 books this year and literally who cares half the bozo's who shit talk can't even read and used voice assist to understand your comment anyway

>>20841539
wagmi

>>20843788
You are definitely underage

>>20844778
you might just have become bored of the medium or you are dopamine fried and practice reading endurance i guess

16/30 so far. I'm a couple of books behind, but won't have a problem hitting 30 as I'm about to enter a quiet month.

I did 50-60 books a year for a few years, then slowed down a lot when I became very ill. I'm just now clawing myself back up to my previous reading habits. 30 is a comfortable goal for me at this stage in my life. I think I'll do that again in '23.

Currently reading Don Quixote. Think I am going to take a break between parts 1 & 2 to simulate the 10 year time break. Not sure what I will read in the middle. Trying to decide between blood meridian, dune, I Claudius, or the three theban plays

>>20840037
I have read 10 so far, mostly philosophy.

I've barely been reading due to being so busy with work this year...

I've read:

42nd parallel.
Horaces Satires and Epistles
Vineland
Livy books 21-40
Ransom and Bright lights, big city -Jay McInerney
Argall,
If on a winters night
Pale Fire
Lincoln in the Bardo
Black Swans -Eve Babitz
Anabasis

>>20846104
>It doesn't get better.

Spoken like a true Dostoevsky reader kek. Well thanks for the reccs and cheers

>>20840037
I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make my goal.

Started reading late last year out of desperation to fix my zoomer brain. Until then I only read manifestos.

A lot of my challenge is filled with novellas so I may up it to 60 however, I'm not sure how much personal reading I'll get done once university starts back up.

(No Longer Human reread was from a different translation. Stoner reread was added from retardation.)

my this year challenges sirs

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/32870199

>>20840037
>52 books a year
Pseud

>>20844760
Is this from Goodreads or something else?

>>20840037
On track to doing double what I set out to do.

>>20844760
good taste anon except for the last one

My goal this year was to read sequels / finish series that I had started. Failed pretty miserably at that but I've still read a bit. I need to start reading during the daytime again; I'm usually a bed-time reader bcuz it's comfy.

>>20847185
How's Vineland?

>>20840037
Considering going for 40.

>>20840037
a) 52 books? What the fuck are you reading to meet that number?
b) My personal goal is set to half that (26) so I can at least achieve it consistently. It helps me structure my time in such a way that I can plan on reading one book every two weeks, but I don't have autistic meltdowns if I'm off schedule.
c) I've already gotten to 34 this year but mostly through poetry chapbooks, novellas, and pamphlets/manifestos.
d) With that being said, I did read Ulysses this year and I am on track to finish the last volume of Foucault's History of Sexuality this year.

tl;dr - fuck you and your stat counting faggotry

I'll likely hit 52 by the end of the year but won't be trying it again next year. It kinda sucks to be trying to read a big 1000+ page novel, then binge a bunch of novellas just to keep the number high.

Reading for quantity really sucks all the enjoyment out of what should be a pleasurable experience.

>>20840037
I am a newfag, I've consumed a considerable amount of /lit/core

Read:
>Crime and Punishment
>Don Quixote
>The grapes of wrath
>Miau
>Marianela
>Lolita
>Pedro Páramo
>Faust (first part)
>Stoner
>Under the lilacs
>100 years of solitude
>La muerte de Artemio Cruz
>The trial
>Ficciones
>The Stranger
>Robin Crusoe
>Dubliners
>El laberinto de la soledad

Currently reading:
>The Aleph

Planning to read next:
>East of Eden
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey

any other slow reader man in?

>>20852839
sup my man

>>20852612
NTA but if I read roughly 300 page books, they take me around 6-7 hours, i.e. a week of reading if I'm reading 1 hour every single day. Thats 52 books a year just from 1 hour reading per day. Add in weekends where I'm probably reading more than an hour and 52 books doesn't seem that much. Trouble is keeping the habit consistent which I denitely struggle with since I'll barely read anything for 6 months and then read a lot for the next 3 or so months.

>>20840037
Read:
>Rayuela
>Story Of The Eye
>Dune Messiah
>The Elementary Particles
>The Novelist
>Euripides' Collected Works
>Death In Her Hands (kinda comfy but eh)
>The Birth Of Tragedy
>The Genealogy Of Morals
>Play It As It Lays
>Forbidden Colors
>Lolita
>LOTR
>The Great Gatsby
>My Year of Rest And Relaxation
>The Master and Margarita
>American Psycho
>Anna Karenina
>Dubliners
>Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
>A Farewell To Arms
>Pride and Prejudice
>A Little Life
>Great Expectations
Currently Reading:
>Don Quixote
TBR:
>The Iliad
>Inherent Vice
>Borges' Fictions
>Demons
>Venus In Furs
>Helioglabulus

>>20847779
>Call Me By Your Name
>Rise and Fall Of The Third Reich
Holy /pol/fag

>>20840037
Jade the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marcia Marquez
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
White Nights by Dosto
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Three Years by Anthon Chekhov
Lolita by Nabokov
Torrents of Spring by Turgenev