/lit/ - Literature

>ITT: Everyone posts, nobody reads

Sigh.
>Number of books read
~600

>Age
19

>Favorite author
Inbetween Blake and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, I can't really decide.
>Morrison is implied

>number of books
breaching the 200 mark
>age
22
>favorite author
john keats

>books
90 something
>age
18
>author
Langston Hughes

294 (currently reading the 295th)
I'm 26
And Baudelaire is my favorite author.

>>2780087
~700*

>>2780077
>21 y/o
>44 books
DYER?

Gauging at around 150 books,
17 Years old.
And my favourite author? You mean the one i like the best or respect the most? Well: either way, it's a tie between Jeffery Eugenedes and David Mitchel (NOT the british comedian ffs). Call me pleb cancer, i could not care less. If it helps, I like Maupassant and Kafka, but for different reasons, and not as much, and fuck Joyce with a power drill, he's overrated and not awe inspiring at all. Murakami slides neatly in, in fifth place, and His Dark Materials (I AM AWARE THAT PHILLIP PULLMAN WROTE OTHER BOOKS, I DON'T CARE, HIS OTHER STUFF WASN'T AS GOOD) comes in sixth.

>44

>>2780101
>700 books
>19
bullshit

>>2780113
the fuck? I'm 18 and I've read _ALMOST_ 600 books. just because you can't at a mensa level like I do it doesn't mean we all can't.

Ill be OP in a year if i read 10 books in a year.

>>2780108
Are you a nerd or something?

And so the dick measuring contest begins.

Jesus, how quickly do you guys read?
I find that if I read too fast or use the technique of reading groups of words at a time I don't enjoy the book as much.
I like to slow it down with my fiction.

no clue, 34 so far this year
16
bertrand russell, evelyn waugh

HUR DUR I RED MOR BUKS DAN U DAT MEN I MOR CLEVR

i could read 50 childrens books a day and not learn a damn thing, but I could read the Introduction of the "Oxford Readings in Homer's Iliad" and learn more than I did in a whole year of secondary school.

>>2780113
Considering that I am an avid, word-thirsty reader, the number is not that high.
If taking into account short stories, small league publications that aren't really what you'd call a "book" per se and all the jolt-headed (pardon my french) bullshit in the middle, the number would see itself raised to the 900 numeral.

>>2780135
I used to savour every word, but in order to read faster and study in a more expeditious manner, I started reading sentences instead of word.

>What?
Well, say, in a 10 word sentence I would read at max 4-5 words. You'll get the jest of what's being said if you have a sufficiently developed vocabulary and are used to it.

>>2780139
I don't think that's the point of this thread, my defensive friend.

>books
25
>age
12
>author
ayn rand

>>2780108
Just goes to show it's quality and not quantity.

>>2780143
>Well, say, in a 10 word sentence I would read at max 4-5 words.
damn. but doesn't that take the fun away?

>>2780145
Subtle.

>>2780164
Not really, once you get used to it, the difference isn't that noticeable.

But this was somewhat exercised for nearly 3 months before I could do it with professed delivery.

>>2780145
>12
>ayn rand
lol'd

400+
20
Christopher Moore

Lol, who can keep count of the amount of books you've read? Do any of you seriously keep a fucking tally?

>>2780101

100-150

16

I don't have a single one, but my favorites are Hemingway, Salinger, Vonnegut, and Steinbeck.

>>2780143
If you're so well read for your age then how did you end up here? Surely after reading so many books you'd have the sense to avoid 4chan.
But no, you're as ignorant, indulgent and slothful as the rest of us, only more pathetic, because you're expected to know better by now.

>>2780113

Just because you're an idiot doesn't mean everyone else is. I read about two or three books a week, all 200+ pages and of varying genres. I've done this for over ten years. It's just how I like to be entertained. I said I've read over 400 I'm sure it's closer to 700 (if not more) but I just put an incredibly conservative estimate up.

I literally ran out of good books to read in my library in middle school and always had the most Accelerated Reader points. In high school I always finished my work early just so I had time to read because that's what kept me motivated, finishing novels I brought to class.

In college all I do is smoke dope and read play vidya and chase ugly whores.

get on my level

>>fags don't know bout my epeen

>>2780170
I am also agog towards this.

I know mine, average speaking, because I've kept every single book I read in my personal library. Might've lost a few over the years or so, but judging by the number I have stacked...you get the point.

>>2780178
>Anyone who is well read has enough sense to avoid 4chan
That's a rather clink assumption.

I have been dwelling this place for almost 4 years now. It has had no influence whatsoever in my reading habits that I kept since I was a wee lad with nothing better to do.

Although, I do admit that I am slothful.

>>2780188
you used to post here didn't you? I mean on /lit/

>>2780184
>In college all I do is smoke dope and read play vidya and chase ugly whores.
that mighty feel

>>2780188
>>2780188

Let me guess. You go to an elite university?

>>2780189
Yes.

>>2780222
Not really.
You missed the part where I said I was lazy?

>>2780188
>this faggot back on /lit/
aaaaand my day is ruined

How the fuck would i know many books i read?

1000+

25

William Shakespeare

>>2780229
>1000+ bucks
>william shakespeare
hahaha, no

how the fuck do you people keep track of how many books you've read? Seeing as I've been reading all my life, I literally can't even estimate...

though I suppose I could count the ones in my room, most all of which I've read. But 44 seems rather... small. Like, is that the number of books you've ever read in you entire life? I don't even know how that's possible, seeing as you have to read at least 12 to pass high school, usually more, not including books you read for pleasure...

>>2780225
>>2780225

What university are you at? If it's anything but Oxford or Cambridge then you have my props. I hate those privileged wankers.

>>2780188
you sound like one of those douchebags that grabs words out of a thesaurus with no concern for context or connotation, because hey, it was listed under "synonym".

Over 900. That includes YA though, so some of you people who've only read 200 are likely better read.
22
Jorge Luis Borges

I keep a list of Goodreads.

>>2780235
Currently enrolled in the Uppsala, but jumping around because of a program similar to Erasmus.

>>2780238
Yet, I probably touched a Thesaurus in my life less than 10 times.

books around 400
other forms of literature would make up for another 200

I'm 24

and my favorite author is lord byrdon

>>2780250
>Byrdon

>>2780244
so you just naturally sound like that, congratulations

>>2780244
"agog" "clink" "slothful"
You try too hard

>>2780250
>Byrdon

>>2780262
Whatever you say, chum.

>>2780264
>I can not possibly conceive that there is someone out there with a wider vocabulary
Oh, the Summer this year.

this fucking thread

>>2780264
>slothful
What? The other ones where fairly obtuse, and I can see your dislike towards them, but slothful is an extremely common word. I personally use it all the time.

>>2780272
which proves this >>2780269 corteous motherfucker's point

what a lazy fucking thread

Lazy and useless

4. 3 for school though.

13

Stephanie Meyer

Number of books?

I don't even...

>>2780269
It's not the vocabulary so much as the manner in which you use it. Again, you just sound like an asshole who is trying way too hard. Those words, while technically fitting given their definitions, simply do not read the way you think they do, unless you're actually going for the "pretentious douche" effect. Words should be utilized in a manner that best fits the context, not 'jam as many big sounding words as possible'. Have you ever read a classic novel that sounds like that?

>>2780285

>utilize

I know that technically one means "to use as an object" and one means "to use". But seriously the only people who use "utilize" seriously are people in administrative positions. Stop this.

>>2780274
Yeah, but I can't believe that guy thought 'slothful' was an obscure word.
I mean, its such a beautiful word, it rolls off the tongue so much better than 'slow' or 'lazy'

>>2780285
>Offended by my mellifluous manner of inosculating words because you consider it to be "pretentious douche"
Do you have any idea of how risible this is?

>>2780274
>Corteous motherfucker
Hardly.

300, maybe?
18
Cormac McCarthy

Some of them are 50 page volumes of poetry, some are several-thousand-page-long novels. I never got in to sci-fi or fantasy, and I can only remember maybe 20 books that I read before I was 14, so it's mostly a pretty decent selection of literature, old and new.

>>2780285
>Slothful
>Obscure or cumbersome

You strike me as the type of person who thinks eating with a fork is pretentious, it's not like he was going out of his way to use as many big words as possible, generally if you can easily infer the word from context, it isn't being used in a pretentious way at all. The people who use thesauruses and dictionaries for every post will generally try to place as much emphasis as possible on those words, he placed none at all on 'clink', 'agog', or 'slothful'.
Maybe he would strike one as being autistic, or not having much social interaction outside of the high-vocabulary books he reads, but I don't think he's trying to appear smart at all.

>>2780302
>it's not like he was going out of his way to use as many big words as possible
then explain this
>>2780291

>>2780302
Thank you.
I tone it down when interacting with others.

Again, this is /lit/...

>>2780309
>My intellect does not grasp the concept of irony

>>2780309
>doesn't get that he was being ironic
are you sure you're on the right board?
you aren't

>>2780309
Boy how stupid are you?

>>2780309
He was clearly making fun of you in that post.
I think you might want to spend tonight with the dictionary, suckle from her supple breasts until you can enjoy a bit of wordplay. You are clearly taking this whole thing much to seriously.

As for the OP, do you mean the number of books that could be considered 'literature', or just the number of books in general? Because if its the number of books altogether, I have probably read about 400-500 hundred, but if it's the number of 'high brow' books, then that count would be closer to 30.

150+
17
Celine

>>2780318

Steinbeck is quite nice as well.

0
15
Charles Pinter

>>2780310
>>2780312
>>2780314
>>2780315
I'm fully aware that it was an attempt at irony, it doesn't detract from the point at all

>>2780323
8/10 you got a lot of folks but this is the end

Anywhere between 300 and a billion.
I'm 21
I don't have one.

>Counting how many books you read

Seriously? Some of you have EXACT numbers. You have been taking note your whole life? Thats all kinds of pathetic

103
18
Jim Butcher

>>2780323
Yes it does.
He was satirizing how you perceived him, by acting exactly like you where claiming he was acting.

And lets get back on topic:
>around 400 (although it depends on how you define books, if you count graphic novels, I could probably add a good 100 or so to my list)
>16
>Yukio Mishima

>>2780333
>graphic novels
>books

i've read over 9000 books LOL

# of books
755, plus ~15 more by the end of this summer
Age
18...err, perhaps lower
Favorite Author
Pic related. Man is a literary god.

>>2780355

>Doesn't know what a book is

Odd that the literary discussion around here is so scarce and the recommendation threads for well known authors so high when so many of you have read several hundred books.

Age 23
Major: English
Number of books read: 7,485

>>2780322
replace "Charles Pinter" with James Joyce and it's basically everyone one /lit/

>>2780379
I never make threads, also a good chunk of these are YA books, or ones with very little discussion value.

Although you make a good point, I'll make a few threads with actual discussion content later on.

>>2780401
YA?

>>2780405

YA is 'young adult'.

>>2780367
>Noun:
>A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.

In that case, I've probably read a couple thousand books by now.
But judging by the low book count most of the people here have, I'm guessing they're using a different definition than me

>>2780379
give me any request and I promise I will recommend you 5 titles

>>2780405
Young adult.
For example, in >>2780333 my book count is around 400, but about 250 of those are things like the Darren Shaun series, or the Ender's game series.
Another 100 or so of those books are of course things like Stephen King, or Dan Brown, where although they might be enjoyable to read, they aren't quite so enjoyable to discuss.
And as I've already stated, it matters a lot how we define 'book'. For example, I went through a phase a few years back where I devoured every graphic novel my library carried (actually, the first hardcore pornography I ever saw was a picture of a women being DP'd in one of Art Spiegelman older comic collections), so if I counted those it would bump my count up considerably. If we only counted 'adult novels', my book count would only be around 200 or so.

>Number of Books read
42

>Age
21

>Favorite author
Don't know yet

Does this count include the hundreds of shit tier children's books that many of us have read?

>>2780433
>Implying we didn't read only the most refined high quality children's books

Not sure, maybe around 300? But I am a damn slow reader...
26 years old
Not really sure, either Dostoyvesky or Tolstoy.

No idea (people keep track of these things?)

22

Faulkner

- No idea. I've been reading all my life and never kept count. I've read over a hundred just for my dissertation, so, a lot.
- 31. Am I really the oldest person here?
- No idea. Proust or Nabokov or Goethe maybe. Fiction anyway. For some reason I always think fiction when given questions like these. I guess because "author" implies fiction to me, whereas nonfiction is "writer". Probably just my hangup.

not trying to sound like a dick, but how can you guys know the amount of books you've read to the number? just counting "must-read" best sellers (and I don't read all of them) I've probably read more than 100. with study books and general reading for school that's more like 200, and that's the tip of the iceberg.

fuck you all, I'm giving myself a tick for that. ✓

dont know
22
for this question, four or five authors popped into my mind, but i'm going to go with the one that makes me sound the coolest

rushdie

>>2780483
We just guess to the nearest hundred, then add another hundred books to that.

50~100
19
Isaac Asimov.

btw first time posting here.

Fuck off the distopia. Fuck off the grimdark bullshit filled with whores and prostitutes. Fuck off the "social criticism" which is actually just a bunch of rants from the author.
Reccomend me something which is bright and positive and have good women which are not promiscuous and good men which are not manwhores.
A fucking utopia. Something that makes the holy bible look like a book of satanism.

>2012
>counting the books your read
>having read such a low amount that you can remember the number
>being a faggot

▬ I DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY. PROBABLY BETWEEN ONEHUNDRED AND ONEHUNDRED TWENTY.

▬ TWENTYTWO YEARS.

▬ JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

>>2780647

>>2780647
I've missed you.

679
28
Terry Pratchett

^ By posting Terry Pratchett you pretty much make your post a joke. Its like saying that 600whatever books are of the same quality as the Berenstain Bears

>>2780679
That was actually my first thought after seeing Terry Pratchett.
Except the Berenstain Bears was not the example I thought of.
I also just noticed for the first time that "Berenstain" is spelled oddly.

I'm probably the only author who's written more books than he's read.

*Wait is this the line where I'm supposed to lie about how many I've read, because honestly, nobody remembers that number and if they did, it would only be because they numbered Goosebumps, Manga and Nancy Drew?

*This is where I lie about my age and pretend I'm not a pretentious acne ridden highschooler?

*And this is where I put the longest most obscure name I can find from a google search of "cool authors", after reading about one idea I might agree with out of context?

>>2780693
Your edgy is showing, sir.
Also, >Nancy Drew
Confirmed for faggot, all of the cool kids read the Hardy Boys.

I forgot to answer OP's questions.
>Books read
As if anybody could remember that. A very high number. Probably below 1,000, though. I'm unsure.
>Age
Twenty-two.
>Favorite author
Currently, Nikolai Gogol.

>>2780702
>>2780483
>>2780330
>>2780234
>>2780170

WTF!! It's impossible to keep track of multiple Items!! That would take some kind of List-Making technology like a Spreadsheet or a Pen and Paper!!
Impossiboru!!!
WTF are you doing reading a thread about the amount of books people have read when you can't even conceive of the idea of people keeping track?
The idea of a List just blows your mind?
The idea that somebody who reads a lot of books, who posts on a board about books, could be....obsessed about books enough to keep a tally of what they've read?
How long do you think it takes to write down the names of the ones we've finished? 5-10 hours?
You finish a book you add the name and author to your list, and you circle it if you think it was good. Then you pick up another and repeat.

>>2780733
I simply find it hard to believe that, for people having lived at least eighteen years, and having been reading for most likely around twelve or more of those years, anybody could keep track of that many books.
What kind of child begins reading and says, "I shall keep a list of the books I read for my entire life. That way, if anybody asks how many I have read, I will know."

>>2780733
Lol,
I know how to count,
A Felt Vampire taught me when I was 5.
If they're this blown away by counting, just wait till they hear about multiplication, it'll blown their frickin minds.
1, 2, 3 books, ah ah ah

>>2780733
I'm only 25, but I have such bad memory, I can't recognize a book I've already read before! I need lists to survive! Sometimes, I forget where to put food. I have lists for that too!

>>2780679
>>2780673
I've read a lot of pulp and genre stuff, and about 150 of those are just Young adult novels, I never said otherwise. I haven't checked but I think only about 100 of them are "classics" or ones /lit would approve of.
I pick my books by what I think the reading level is, which I estimate by how long it takes me to get through the first three or so pages. If it's something weighty, literature, or especially long, I get a few, if its at a Detective/Sci-fi kind of level, I get five or so. Same for non-fiction. Since I don't always have time to devote to weighty novels, I got a lot of non-fiction and genre stuff on there. And that's okay. Because reading Stephen King doesn't diminish Les Miserables, and reading Harry Potter doesn't take anything away from reading Don Quixote.
As for Terry Pratchett. His novels are fun, and I was being honest. I recommend him highly.
I keep a list because I can look over the list and remember the stories, I don't think I could keep track if I didn't write them down, and when you do that it's not so much a list as it is a scrapbook, you can look back over them and go. "Good Times, Good Times" I also am genuinely obsessive, getting medicine for that, but that's another story.
I wasn't trying to brag, I was just answering honestly. But knowing /lit, I was probably supposed to just say "I've read 70! and I only read the highest of high brow classics."

>>2780768
Nope. /lit/ still would have been on your ass about it. Don't worry about it. I've read maybe 10 books /lit/ would approve of. /lit/ hates books.

I recently made a goodreads thingy to keep track of what I've read, and I got to 126 books or so, but many of the books I read as a child I don't remember what are any longer. The amount of books I read sharply dropped after starting uni (except for textbooks, but those don't really count do they), and after that it has still been slow. I probably read the most books from when I was 8 till I was 15, and I don't remember all that shit any longer.

100's
30
-Cormac McCarthy

>>2780768
No, you'd have to say "I only read Infinite Jest and William Faulkner over and over, cradling the book and turning the pages with one hand leaving the other hand free to wank."

Mmm pretention. Mmmm my own sense of superiority is getting me so hard. Mmmm

Not sure, but definitely over a hundred.
22
Joseph Conrad

>200+

>19

>Julio Cortázar

>383 since high school ended.
Before that, probably a lot more, but most of it was shit and I don't even really remember most. I know the number precisely because I've been keeping track on Goodreads.
>22
>Richard Brautigan, Yasunari Kawabata or Tove Jansson.

>counting books you read

Why do you all read so much? You should start spending some time thinking for yourselves instead.

~450 that i can recall since i was about 17 (marked on goodreads)

28

i think it's having a "favorite" is not realistic, so i'll just say that i most consistently like PKD and Bolano

>number of books
~1000
>age
25
>favorite author
Lately, Joan Didion. She has excellent style.

>>2780884

Because you can only think about things you know, and books tend to have the best ratio of content:data.

1100+

28

Clifford Simak

>>2780884
>Reading as the reason people can't think for themselves.

And exercise is the reason people can't diet.

Or wait! Maybe they complement each other!

250
21
Th. Bernhard

I've been reading since I learned to read I don't have a clue how many books that is, I don't understand how anyone can have a realistic idea without being a very very very slow learner.

>>2780884
What you you think about if your hand is empty to begin with?

Most people go through their lives without once looking to the sky wondering what's up there. Most of them never ask questions about life, the universe and everything else, aimed at themselves or at anyone else.

Once you start asking those question you will need even more information in order to get the answers or try to explain it to yourself in the best way possible.

It's a vicious cycle. Once you start reading, you will start needing even more info and ideas and that need will grow progressively.

~100
21
Gene Wolfe

>>2781008
>Most people go through their lives without once looking to the sky wondering what's up there. Most of them never ask questions about life, the universe and everything else, aimed at themselves or at anyone else.
If you really think that's true then you're dumber than the people you're imagining. You incredibly elitist tosspot.

>>2780884
What would you think about if your head is empty to begin with?

Most people go through their lives without once looking to the sky wondering what's up there. Most of them never ask questions about life, the universe and everything else, aimed at themselves or at anyone else.

Once you start asking those question you will need even more information in order to get the answers or try to explain it to yourself in the best way possible.

It's a vicious cycle. Once you start reading, you will start needing even more info and ideas and that need will grow progressively.

>>2781011
Because judging someone's character from one post is not dumb and incredibly elitist, amiright?

Read it again.

>>2781013
>Most people go through their lives without once looking to the sky wondering what's up there. Most of them never ask questions about life, the universe and everything else, aimed at themselves or at anyone else.

Teenager detected. Don't underestimate people quite that much, son.

14
24
H.P. Lovecraft

>>2781016
Your post is just a sweeping generalisation of "most people are thick, I read so I'm special!". Eat a bowl of dicks.

>>2781016
>>2781013
>>2780977
>>2780910

So you are saying that you are reading to get a better understanding of the universe?

>>2781018
There is a difference between thinking for 2 seconds what the Sun is made out of and actually spending minutes or God forbid hours wondering about existential conundrums.

The burden of life/family/bills weighs heavy on any normal person and turns them into a mindless machine.

Hence books, escapism, etc.

>>2781022

Yep.

>>2781021
>our post is just a sweeping generalisation of "most people are thick, I read so I'm special!".

Nope. It's what you got from my post not what I meant. Remember that most people judge others' action based on what they would do/say in a similar situation.

>>2781022
In a sense. More like I read, because it gives me new ideas to think about. New questions to ask and new information that can help me answer old ones. It's not about the book, it's about what you get from them and the thought process after that.

>>2781034
You keep saying "No, that's not what I'm saying" but then repeating it, see: >>2781030

You are an elitist dickhead who doesn't think he is one, that's all.

>>2781036
You are entitled to your opinion, of course. I disagree, so shall we stop here or do you want to troll some more?

>>2781034
>>2781032

Well then I retract my previous statement. Good day to you.
What book has initiated the greatest amount of independent thoughts in your minds?

How can you guys possibly calculate how many books you've read?

There are so many books I read through my childhood that I've forgotten about; occasionally something triggers a memory and I recall a long forgotten story.

>>2781046
I second this question. Reading this thread made me think about it, so I went and counted the books I had on-hand (I keep ones I like close), and there's over fifty. Which only made me realize, I have no idea how many books I've read. Which begs the question - do people only keep track so they can prove something?

>>2781044
Peter Wessel Zapffe's essay The Last Messiah has without a doubt had the most impact on me. Too bad there is no English translation of the book, yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_sidste_Messias

>>2781030

The factory worker goes home after a physically-demanding day, plonks himself in his recliner, grabs a beer, and zones out in front of the television. The images on the screen move, but he doesn't see them. He's wondering about how he ended up in that job. Why didn't he put more effort in at school? Was it him? Was it his parents? His community? Maybe it's the general culture in which he lives? Why didn't he become a car salesman instead? What would being a car salesman involve? Does he still have time? Does he have the leeway to try? A factory accident happened the other day, and a guy lost a hand. He doesn't want to work in that environment anymore. Why is it so difficult for a man to get a safe job nowadays? Is it because the wealth gap is becoming larger? Is it because women are taking ever more safe jobs and leaving the dangerous, menial tasks to men? Fucking women, man. No, that can't be it. Why would they do that? Do other animals do that, too? Leave the dangerous tasks to a specific sex? Hm ...

Etc.

You're deluding yourself if you think that most people don't think about shit. I wish I could find that xkcd comic to link ...

>>2781046
>>2781055
It's a rough estimate. I used to read 100 +/- 20 books a year, now it's more like 50 +/- 10.

Of course, there are people with spreadsheets, catalogues and record keeping, but I never understood that. Check this thread:

>>2778752

>>2781055
Some people keep track because they just want to keep track. It doesn't have to be about "proving" something on an anonymous imageboard.

Websites like Goodreads make it extremely easy to know the number of books you've read in a certain timeframe.

>>2781057
>I wish I could find that xkcd comic to link ...

The one about the "sheep" on the train? That WOULD sum up the tripfag well. Somebody link it so that fucker can see how much of a cunt he is.

>>2781030
I remember being a narcissistic teenager too.

>>2781057
>You're deluding yourself if you think that most people don't think about shit.

He never said that to be honest. Why are you so offended by someone's post? I have seen this behavior many times here. Are we a bunch of angry sociopaths?

>>2781069
Because he's an asshole who thinks that only intellectuals are worthy. I love to read, and even I don't think that. The guy's just a fucking egotistical cuntfuckshit. As further evidence:
>tripfag

>>2781057
>>2781065
This one?

>>2781072
That's the one. That is you.

>>2781071
>Because he's an asshole who thinks that only intellectuals are worthy.

3/10 for making me respond. We making up shit now? Never change /lit/.

>>2781046
>>2780998
For God's sake nobody said it had to be comprehensive, Your record is just from whenever you started keeping records. You don't have to sit there thinking, "I can't remember all the books I read since learning how." You didn't have to have started the list when you were five. You just write down when you've finished one and keep reading.
Honestly, all of these people who say "How are you supposed to know are either too stupid to know how a list works, or they don't care about keeping track, which is fine except for the fact that the thread doesn't involve them, or they never kept track but they don't want to feel inferior to other readers, and don't want to see them getting credit or praise "I didn't know we were supposed to be keeping score!"
Well you're not, it's not a score, it doesn't mean anything to other people and it shouldn't.
For some people, this is interesting to themselves. That's the only person who can know for sure and the only person you should be competing against. If you don't know your count fine, if you don't care, fine but gtfo, if you care and know, post, the thread couldn't have been any plainer.

The ones posting their numbers want attention, which is sad,
but the ones saying "Why do you keep track?" and "I've read fewer, but mine were higher quality" these "You're doing reading wrong!" types want approval and that's just sickeningly pathetic.
These threads are useless at best, and annoying at worst.
"I've read a lot of books!" What do you want? A medal, get back to reading.
"I don't like them for counting and posting their number. Validate me as a reader too!" No, get back to reading.

>>2781056

Doesn't matter, I'm danish.

>>2781100

Precisely.

>>2781100
>I'm such a morally superior figure that all I say is right and to debate this is wrong

Since the start of june I have read 8 books, before that I had read 2 books over 3 years. and before that I read all the time and have no idea how many books I read. I'm 21 and I don't have a specific favorite author at the moment.

-Around 700
-27
-Ferdinand Celine

Thousands, my apartment is full of books. Everywhere.
27
None

>>2781835

I would just like to point out that having lots of books is not necessarily the same as having read lots of books.

>>2780077
52 according to Goodreads, but it's definitely more than that seeing as I've only had a good reads for like a year.

I'm 23 years old

Tao Lin is my favourite author of all time and forever, he's so dreamy and I want his small asian cock in my ass.

>>2780163
what are you implying? That MY TASTE IS SHIT?

>>2781837

Okay?

Thanks your analysis.

at least 100
12

The people ITT who are 25+ and claiming to have read 1000+ books I can tolerate.

Others are just plain old bullshitting.

Who the fuck can remember how many books they read? I have literally no idea. I read all kinds of stuff when I was a tiny kid, and even if I was to try to tell you all the books I read last year I'm sure I'd forget a couple. Do all you guys keep a log of everything you read or what?

I guess... more than 200, fewer than 2000? That's about as precise as I feel confident being.

>>2781857

Thanks for the tolerance.

this >>2781876

how the fuck should i know? hundreds i guess, i'm 26.

2000 probably.
40
Don't have one.

>48
>18
>Lord knows.

>>2780143
>Well, say, in a 10 word sentence I would read at max 4-5 words. You'll get the jest of what's being said if you have a sufficiently developed vocabulary and are used to it.
This is the most retarded thing I've read all day.

>250-500 (how do you guys keep track of this or really decide what you "count" as a book... do your kid's books count, nonfiction, etc?)
>27
>Yeats at the moment

300+
28
lol i dunno

>>2780077
>IDK, probably about 300 (keep in mind, I'm a literature student readan all day erry day)
>19
>Jean Rhys

~100
20
Goethe, Palahniuk

>knowing how many books you've read

SERIOUSLY?

130
22
William Wordsworth

>>2781948

I did a quick scan of my shelves + estimate of books not there. Took about a bit under a minute (for 130). People with like 600 would be harder but similar rate.

hey Q
take pics of your library and post them
make sure we can see the names

~150
21
Camus

>>2780243
post your goodreads list

since I started keeping track 55
17
Samuel Beckett

>>2781907
When I was twelve I would do this for the YA books I had been accustomed to reading, the plot was always so simple it was pretty easy to do. I'd usually just glance at a paragraph, subconsciously pick out the important words, assemble them in a logical fashion, and flip the page.
Although when I got to reading actual literature I had to re-learn how to read because it was a lot harder to glance at a paragraph and tell what was going on.
That being said, I'm sure if someone wanted to they could learn to speadread literature. I'm not sure why they'd want to, but it's definitely possible.

>Number of books read
Around eight to a hundred.
And this question brings up something important. Any fucker who actually counts every book he read is a tryhard, an idiot, or has way too much time on their hands.
>Age
I'll admit it, 18
>Favorite Author
Hemingway

>>2781907
unless you're in high school, there is nothing retard about it kid.