/lit/ - Literature

>tfw still sub 100 this year

>>5049059
I have no idea how many fucking books I've read in my lifetime

>>5049082
>he doesn't know the exact amount of words hes ever read

>100 books
Fuck off. I haven't read 100 pages since I found /lit/.

Are there really? Why do you come here, those that haven't?

I'm in >>5049075's situation, usually read one-hundred-and-something every year.

>>5049090
>He's Neurotypical!
Whatta rube!

>Tfw I *have* read over a hundred books

>>5050635
>Butterfly is pretty
wat

>counting the books you read

I have no accurate estimate of how many I've read, but it is well in excess of 100. I don't really understand what draws a person who has hardly read anything to this board.

>>5050635
Mariposa, plz

>>5049059

If i had better reading comprehension, I would op.

How do i fix retardation?

Read easier works and build your reading comprehension that way so you can then move on to harder ones.

>>5051737
The belief that lurking and posting here will passively make one smarter and more well-read, probably

>>5049059
I doubt I've even read fifty

i have probably read 100 by the time i was 8 but in my life i have not read 100 books that i would currently consider good

>>5051815
That's because the more you read, the higher your standards for what's good get. If you read more, the number of books you've read and consider good could decrease.

>>5049059
>There are people on /lit/ RIGHT NOW who haven't even read 500 books
Fixed that for you.

are people lying or wtf, how do you read more than two books a month?

>>5049059
Are we talking literature? Because I used to devour books when I was little. 100 page books and all.
If we're talking literature, then no. I haven't. Problem?

>>5049059
>there are people on /lit/ that havent watched 300 anime series

There are people on /lit/ who aren't graduates of the iowa writer's workshop.

>>5051976
I've read over 45 books in my first semerster of university and like only 4 were fiction.

>>5051976
I read three books in the last week.

>>5049103
>why come here
I know, why discuss the 99 books you have read .
I mean, i get angry at plebs on tv that haven't seen 100 tv series.

(note: considering i read 80-something last year i can safely say ive read 100+)

>>5051976
When i was unemployed Id read at least a book a week.
Now i work it takes me lime 2 weeks to get through simple books lime Stephen king or whatever, let alone my back log of lit.

>>5051976
I'm NEET so i can sometimes read a book a day, depending how long it is.

>>5049059
>Reading
>Not playing right into the mindtraps of the Lizard People

>>5051976
Sorry muh engrish.

The last week I readed Catcher in the rye in four hours.

>>5051737
Recommendations and cleaning up the to-read list

>>5049059
>implying volume matters over quality

I can read 100 short, junk, YA novels in a month, that doesn't mean I've done anything worthwhile

>read about 100 Goosebumps when I was 8

Am I /lit/ certified??

>>5049059
Do comicbooks count?

>>5051802
Same. I got into reading last year, and catching up.

>>5051759
Start with simple books. Take your time, and don't move on to the next sentence until you've clearly understood the sentence you're reading.

>>5049103
Are you unemployed or do you just speedread <30k words books ?

>>5049059
do you mean 'books' or do you mean 'titles'?
than do we count short stories, poems?
why this even matter? i'm certainly below 100 books but, fuck, sometimes i feel like the most patrician person here

>>5052931
Well, to be fair, it's hard to come by a hundred books during the Hellenistic era, and if we include the time machine you invented, I suppose we could consider you a well read patrician. Of course, if you're from the late Roman Empire, then it's still pretty bad form for an intellectual.

>>5050635
Schmetterling, plz

>>5049059
Am I doing it right OP? There are still a bunch missing because I can't remember but what ever is new is added.

>>5051976
This year i've been reading Tosltoy, Dostoyevski and Hugo. Is impossible to read more than two of them a month honestly, but is actually possible to read one and even two books a week if they have 300 pages aprox.

>>5053111
How do you not feel like a fat fraud, using books like tally marks?

Do you not see the artifice of it all?

>>5052921
My job is mostly reading, and I'm also a grad student. I read at 300wpm, which is apparently slightly below average.

Most of my life revolves around reading. I wasn't saying everyone should be reading so much, but less than 100 throughout life seems suspect for people coming to a book board.

>>5049059


I'm a really slow reader. I just got into literature not long ago. It doesn't bother me except when I literally read as fast as a proficient 10 year old.

>>5052213
Yes welcome to the club, your complimentary copy of infinite jest can be found in the mens bathroom.

>>5053145
I read because I like to read, I just have a Goodreads now and can keep track of what I read and look for new books.

Also I'm not a pretentious e/lit/ist,. If you've been around /lit/ for the past couple years I'm the list fag, that guy how posts a list in fantasy recommendation threads.

Look a list is up atm >>5050456