/lit/ - Literature

24
M
None but let's say nonfiction
Gombrich - The Story of Art
400
1000+

Also I'm a bookseller.

25
M
?
Infinite Jest
5
5

27
female
>dividing literature into Genres
Infinite Jest of course
a few hundred
just started? Maybe five
sage because surveys are stupid

>19
>male
>philosophy?
>The republic
>25
>35

29
Male
Children's literature
Abel's Island. William Steig is an infinitely better prose stylist than David Foster Wallace and this book is a much finer work of English literature than DFW's overrated horseshit.
Hundreds and Hundreds
Hundreds and Hundreds also

21
Male
>using genres
Anna Karenina
90
95, I'm not sure but I finished almost everything.

>Age
20
>Sex
Male
>Favourite genre
I don't have one. I like all genres (except country and rap)
>Favourite book
Portrait of the Artist
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
200?
>How many books would you estimate you have started?
300?

>>3817419
>fills out survey
>then sages and calls surveys stupid

Why are you so dumb?

>female

Oh.

>21
>male
>Novel? I don't really have a preference. I like epic poems and mythology though
>Including childrens/young adult novels probably close to 600/700, just counting serious works probably 400 or so, maybe less or more
>like 450-500 serious works, I finish most of what I start to read

>>3817455
>not being a feminist

>>3817460
Those years have already passed.

>>3817425
>2013
>not liking Infinite Jest

Filthy hipster scum

>>3817415
>>3817419
>>3817465

>Infinite Jest
>Not an overwrought and pretentious novel read by college liberals who think they're deep.

27
M
french literature?
Celine - voyage at the end of the night
400
700

19
M
>genres
Hard to say.
700+
750+

25
M
anything goes, but no chick lit, or shit tier "essays", or mass marketed literature.
Memoirs of Hadrian
100+,but how would I know
as in started and currently reading/ having solid hope to finish some day, 4

18
Male
Russian anything
The Master & Margarita
Lots
See above

28
Male
Prose
The Grapes of Wrath
???
???

>Age
19
>Sex
Male
>Favorite genre
Cyberpunk
>Favorite book
No Country For Old Men
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
200
>How many books would you estimate you have started?
250.

>>3817549

>Memoirs of Hadrian

mein negro

>Age
23
>Sex
female
>Favourite genre
Not quite genre, but I lean towards East Asian and Eastern European lit.
>Favourite book
Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
Counting from 2010 onwards, 470. Everything before that I can barely remember anyway, so I don't count it.
>How many books would you estimate you have started?
Besides those I finished, likely another 450. I love long introductions and prefaces, pick through essay/short story collections as I like, find only what I need in non-fiction, lose interest in a style or topic and move onto another too quickly, etc.

>Age
24

>Sex
Female

>Favourite genre
Poetry, psychology, mythology, and alchemy texts I suppose is a kind of genre, or whatever.

>Favourite book
The I Ching. Especially the translation done by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes.

>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
Don't know. 80+ is my guess at this point. I spend a lot of time contemplating with my books so it takes time to read for me; but I find I then remember more from what I've read, and can connect it more easily to the other things I've read also.

>How many books would you estimate you have started?
Don't know. Something like 150+, perhaps? I usually skim the first chapters of the books I intend to start in order to determine if they could be interesting to read for me at that present moment.

>Age
21
>Sex
M
>Favourite genre
>genres
>Favourite book
Notes From Underground
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
200+
>How many books would you estimate you have started?
200+

>28
>Male
>Don't have one, although most of my favorites are from the classic Gothic era.
>Faust or Melmoth The Wanderer
>200-250
>Not counting those I have finished, as listed above, 25-40 or so, basically only a handful more than the estimate of how many I have finished as I rarely start a book that I didn't want to read in the first place or if a book is bad I still try and force my way through to finish it.

>19
>M
>No idea what its called, if its even called something
>Principia Mathematica
>~40
>~60

>Age
20
>Sex
Male
>Favorite genre
Don't have a favorite, I like them all.
>Favorite Book
Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
>How Many books have you finished
I have no clue, I've been reading shit like Nabakov since I was nine, so I'd guess maybe in the 500 range.
>how many books have started
No clue again.

>Age
24
>Sex
male
>Favourite genre
idk
>Favourite book
the day of the locust
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
150-200?
>How many books would you estimate you have started?
250

kind of surprising to see all these 24+ anons for a change.

>Age

26

>Sex

M

>Favourite genre

Verse drama (probably only Shakespeare and some of the Greeks) and romance.

>Favourite book

War and Peace and Shakespeare's plays (I like Shakespeare's language, so one of the books that I am always reading is "Shakespeare's Imagery, by Caroline Spurgeon".

>How many books would you estimate you have finished?

No idea.

>How many books would you estimate you have started?

Lots. I just consult many books: I read chapters that interest me and leave others for later. I read more information and to collect materials for my own production than for pleasure.

>22
>no
>Literature and philosophy
>Moby Dick
>200 maybe?
>300 something

30

Male

Fav book: Proust "In Search of Lost Time" (Vol 1 - things go downhill after vol 2)

Read over 300 books

>>3818521
so you have read on average about 50 pages a day since u were 9......

>>3817381
>Age
18
>Sex
Male
>Favorite Genre
No idea
>Favorite Book
Don Quixote
>How many books?
Somewhere in the 100s. Reading has slowed down lately because of work and college
>Started?
Only a few dozen more than finished.

>>3818651
>Fav book: Proust "In Search of Lost Time" (Vol 1 - things go downhill after vol 2)

You can't have read the whole book. The Albertine is "downhill"? Seriously?

>18
>M
>Literary fiction (nah but seriously probably absurdism and surrealism)
>Gravity's Rainbow
>250? Maybe?
>I read almost all the books I start so like 255

>>3818651
>liking the first proust and not the rest
i dont even

>>3818674
Vol 2 sucks

>>3818692
well said

>17
>M
>"Classics", Fiction
>Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
>~200
>~200

>>3818711
comics don't count, kid.

I was including childrens books. ~50 real books.

>>3817431
>Age
20
>Favourite genre
I don't have one. I like all genres (except country and rap)
>Favourite book
Portrait of the Artist

my sides

>22
>male
>Classical epics
>Paradise Lost
>~1500
>~1503

My father taught me to read by the time I was 3, and forbade TV so I finished about a novel every 2-3 days from ages 9-16 before I started my social life.

>>3818896
and how has your social life worked out for you

>>3818929
Quite well, I host a party every other weekend or so, get laid about the same, and enjoy the quality of time that I spend with others, be it outdoors or doing drugs or whatever. I've just picked up a second job though so it's dwindled a bit recently.

>24
>Male
>Don't have a favourite genre
>Gravity's Rainbow
>~500
>~500

23
M
Japanese Literature
Sanshiro
200
200

>>3818951
What other Japanese novels do you like?
Also, what do you think of Norwegian Wood?

>>3818943
You're like me but cooler. Nice encounter.

>22
>male
>no particular favourite. Short stories, novels and poems are a good trifecta. I'm less used to read plays
>Dante's Comedy, Flowers of Evil
>between 400 and 1200, about 700-800 I'd say (very wild guess).
Have been slacking on reading over the past three years due to overburden of work.
I'm planning on reading in more languages now.

>>3818973
Forgot to say that I almost always finish the book I start even whenn they are bad.

>>3818896
>>3818943
1/10 replied

>>3818556
I see you are the Shakespeare-Tolstoy fag of /lit. Nice to meet you again here.

>>3817650
>>3818330
>tfw you suddenly realize this thread is a covert way to have the females on /lit show themselves
>tfw it works
>tfw there are only three females on /lit
>tfw when they're mostly cool and three is still a good chunk of /lit's user population

Well done, OP. Successful thread is successful.

>>3819010
>tfw you're a fucking idiot, just shut the fuck up and stop obsessing over women

god damn it

23

Female

Inclined to say fantasy, but anything that's
well-written, really

War and Peace

Came up with about 150 on goodreads by casually going through genre essentials and authors I could remember off the top of my head, so probably 200.

I finish most of what I start.

>17
>male
>real life genre
>Harry Potter
>like 7
>13?

>>3819057
oh wait that 7 counts the harry potter series as a whole

19
F
I haven't got one.
Would I be a pleb for saying The Picture of Dorian Gray or The Great Gatsby?
Sweet Jesus, I don't know.
More than I've finished.

20
M
>genre
Just got back into reading but atm it's The Bell Jar but Norwegian Wood is giving it a run for it's money so far.
No idea, over 100 though
I finish most books I start.

>18
M
Distopia
Tie between The Giver and The Messanger
20 something
30 something

19
male
Not sure, i tend to enjoy comedies a lot.
Alice in wonder land.
2000 at least.
However many I've picked up in order to intellectually mock the author.

>>3819010
>TFW this isn't /b/ and we are here over literature, not hoping to get our dicks wet.

>>3819010
Most people on 4chan are male.

The male psychology is tailored as such to make intellectual approaches towards females at every possible opportunity.

Out of the potentially hundreds of people viewing this slow board at the moment, statistically, one or two are bound to take the chance.

There is no real hope of accomplishing their goal, but there are a lot of things humans do which don't make sense out of their context. But if we didn't adhere to them, we wouldn't have survived as a species.

This is why your pointing it out in reality only serves to prove you are dumb.

>>3818969
I like Fires on the Plain, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Clouds Above the Hill, among a huge list of other greats.

I've actually never read Norwegian Wood. He's kinda out of my area of focus (J-lit grad student btw), but I personally like Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Windup Bird Chronicles. I do need to read more of him though, he's easy to read in the original

>>3819139
Dystopia
Messenger

COVER YOUR BASES MAN

>>3817650
>>3817419
If either of these matched up somewhat to pic related I'd be p happy.

>>3819195
Definitely not the first one. I've been posting here for a few years now. Wishlist threads, sharethreads, work on the wiki and rec charts, etc.

>>3819203
If that's Ms Huppert, congrats on the operation.

>>3819212
I don't think they're posting here anymore, and I'm not sure they were around for sharethreads. I've never tripped, I was just mildly trying to assert that I'm not some crazy new specimen of poster.

20
male
no specific favourite genre
The Dream Songs
80-90
100-120

>>3819219
>and I'm not sure they were around for sharethreads
Isabelle was integral to sharethreads. You don't remember her motherly care packages? Unless I've confused sharethreads with something else. She stopped posting here when the academic world started taking up a lot of her time, but it's always worth a try.

>I was just mildly trying to assert that I'm not some crazy new specimen of poster
I get you.

ITT: bullshit
I'm a million year old girl who loves Scifi erotica.

>>3819251
Ohh, yeah, the articles and philosophy-related things she posted up. I tend to skim over philosophy threads, so I forgot about those. I was meaning http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2823199 and the trend of them in that style for a few months.

21
Male
hmmm... Epic Poetry. (I know, broad)
Wild Punch by Creston Lea (Read it, it's beautiful.)
I'm gonna be hopeful and say something in the range of 150-200
about another 200

>>3819137

what would you recommend for comedies?

>20
>Male
>Recently, I've been on a kick of postmodern authors. This doesn't really answer the question; but it's the best that I can come up with. I don't usually think about literature in terms of genres.
>The Brothers Karamazov
>~100+(I have a list somewhere...)
>I can't remember a time when I didn't finish a book.

18
Male
Dystopian fiction
The Fountainhead
150
155

>inb4 "Fountainhead lol 18 y/o pseudo-intellectual lmao fag"

>>3818661
50 pages a day isn't very much. I have no idea how many books I've read total, but I know I own approximately 600 physical copies and I'm only 18.

>Age
20
>Sex
male
>Favourite genre
philosophy
>Favourite book
Goethe- Faust
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
700 maybe
>How many books would you estimate you have started?
1200

>>3819699
Honestly? Stephen colbert's I am america (And so can you)

that was hilarious.

20
m
fantasy
Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
160ish
180ish

>19
>M
>Science Fiction
>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>35
>37

>>3819261

this

>>3819261
>>3820132
What exactly in the thread is that unbelievable? Nobody seems to be overestimating their ages. Genre is a silly question to ask and people are probably being a little silly about it.

I could've put Surrealist erotica in mine though.

>Age: 19
>Sex: m
>Favourite genre: eh, between war novels and humous
>Favourite book: Les Miserables
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?: 100+
>How many books would you estimate you have started?: 2

19
male
early 20th C american lit
To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
1000+
1200+

>16
>Female
>Horror, psychological horror
>Silence of the Lambs
>60
>75

>Age
22
>Sex
F
>Favourite genre
Historical (non-fiction or fiction)
>Favourite book
The Abyss or Illusions perdues
>How many books would you estimate you have finished?
Several hundreds
>How many books would you estimate you have started?
Several hundreds, I usually finish my books.

18
male
Realistic Fiction
Catcher in the Rye
193
1000

I'm 26, male
I like a little bit of everything, don't have a particular genre that I like the most.
Favorite book? Probably The Golem, Followed by Of Love and Other Demons, Anima Mundi or The Neverending Story.

I've probably read 150 to 200 books.
I've probably started 20 or 30 books that I never finished.

21
M
Historical novels
I can't possibly single one out
I don't know, around 1000-1500
I doubt I've started more than 20-30 books that I haven't finished.

>Age
45
>Sex
Yes please
>Favourite genre
Romance
>Favourite book
Fifty Shades ;)
>Finished
At least 20!
>Started
A lot more...

>>3822670
GR8B8M8