/lit/ - Literature

no

>>5268263
Yes, post top 100 books also

Nope

nah

>>5268263
I mean, sure, alright. Let's see what you've got.

Yop, go for it OP.
2500 for 20 years is a book for every three days. So its very nice, I'd like to see your top books too.

>>5268263
suuuuure

Alright, and remember, these aren't what I consider the best, just my favorites:

Cormac McCarthy
Yukio Mishima
Philip K. Dick
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William T. Vollman
William Faulkner
Vladimir Nabokov
Kurt Vonnegut
Mark Twain
Leo Tolstoy
George Orwell
Mario Vargas Llosa
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Umberto Eco
Marcus Aurelius
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Carl Sagan
Vasily Grossman
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hermann Hesse
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Donne
Don DeLillo
Margaret Atwood
Soren Kierkegaard
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Jorge Luis Borges
Nikolai Gogol
Arthur Rimbaud
Haruki Murakami

>>5268269
I'll give you 60, in a minute.

>>5268286
cool

>>5268286
which is top

>>5268286
This seems to be a pretty unadventurous list, given the supposed breadth of your reading.

>>5268295
Shakespeare.

>>5268286
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Ludwig Wittgenstein
>Carl Sagan
>Hermann Hesse

>>5268295
pls you said you'd rank them

>>5268302
Quantity doesnt necessarily imply breadth

>>5268306
Nietzsche is a literary genius.

>>5268306
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

My favorite books (not ranked):

Forbidden Colours - Yukio Mishima
A Personal Matter - Kenzaburō Ōe
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
Master of the Senate - Robert A. Caro
The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
Complete Works - Arthur Rimbaud
The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History - Philip Bobbitt
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments - David Foster Wallace
The Decay of the Angel - Yukio Mishima
Patriotism - Yukio Mishima
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Silence - Shūsaku Endō
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro
Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke
Runaway Horses - Yukio Mishima
Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Essays: First and Second Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone - Sophocles
The Divine Invasion - Philip K. Dick
Paradise Lost - John Milton
John Donne's Poetry - John Donne
Demian - Hermann Hesse
VALIS - Philip K. Dick
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
The Sickness Unto Death - Soren Kierkegaard
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vols - Edward Gibbon
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - Roger Penrose
Collection Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
Europe Central - William T. Vollmann
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Moby Dick; or, The Whale - Herman Melville

Apologies it took so long, I am a computer without my list so I had to type it from memory.

>>5268335
it's no fun if you don't rank them

>>5268302
I think my favorite book list is more adventurous. Obviously most of the writers there are fairly well known, that is because of their amazing body of work, which is what I prefer over one book.

>>5268295
>>5268307
They are ranked.

>>5268341
I don't think it would be possible to rank books, for me anyway. I guess how it is listed there is a rough ranking, but I would never be able to come up with a final ranked list.

>>5268346
but which is top

>>5268342
It's not adventurous unless half of the books are about Eastern European farmers

>>5268350
Cormac McCarthy.

>>5268354
ok coolio i thought so

OP here again:

I can post some of my favorite quotes and passages if people care?

>>5268359
go for it

How many of these 2500 books would you estimate you mostly remember?
How often are you personally affected by novels these days?
What was your education like?
How'd you hear about /lit/?

>>5268359
Some of your favorite poetry excerpts too plz.

>>5268286
>>5268335
Look at all those males OP. I mean seriously. You could at least try.

Hopefully this doesn't look like a wall of text:

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. ”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

“The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.”
― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

Want more?

>>5268378
this. #misogyny

>>5268378
Try what? I'm glad OP doesn't try to shoehorn authors into his favorites list based on gender. That would jsut be sad.

Obviously men are going to like male authors more than females. Who would expect otherwise?

>>5268372
>How many of these 2500 books would you estimate you mostly remember?
Pretty much all of them I'd at least remember brief plot outlines or certain characters or passages.
Only maybe 200-300 I'd remember very well.

>How often are you personally affected by novels these days?
I don't really understand the question.

>What was your education like?
BA in Philosophy, was going to do Postgrad but decided against it (I'm not very wealthy).

>How'd you hear about /lit/?
I used to browse /b/ in my late teens, high school I guess.

>>5268403
>late teens
By late teens I meant 18-19 and then early 20s now I recall. Came back a year ago.

>>5268403
>I don't really understand the question.
The question was vague, my bad. I mean, how often are you emotionally affected by a book or in the midst of possibly rehabilitating your personal philosophies because of a work of literature?

Ooh, and what are music tastes like?

>>5268383

For some reason I expected to be dissapointed but that's a pretty nice collection there.

>>5268376
I don't have any poetry excerpts saved on this computer I'm afraid.

My favorite poets are (not ranked):

Arthur Rimbaud
Emily Dickinson
Rainer Maria Rilke
William Shakespeare
John Keats
William Blake
Walt Whitman
T.S. Eliot
Charles Baudelaire (the most original poet)
Pablo Neruda
Hart Crane
Virgil
Soren Kierkegaard (unaware of his own poetics!)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

>>5268422
*your music

I swear, I need to pay attention to my own posts on 4chan more.

>>5268286
nice

>>5268318
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

;_;

c-could it really be? a real patrician?

>>5268335
It looks like you took this list off top 100s lists by The Guardian. Either that or you're not a very interesting person.

>>5268422
My music tastes are probably very vanilla.

I sometimes listen to Mozart when I read.

Contemporary artists:

The Doors
Iggy Pop
Nick Drake
Charles Mingus
Billie Holiday
Chet Baker
Édith Piaf
King Crimson
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
John Coltrane
The Velvet Underground
Nico
Joanna Newsom
Animal Collective
Big L
DJ Shadow
Grateful Dead
Joy Division
MF Doom
Nas
Nina Simone
Portishead
Swans
Frank Sinatra
Bob Dylan

>>5268335
Are you Hadrian?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4100763-hadrian?order=a&shelf=favorites

>>5268440
Does it? I wouldn't have thought so.

>>5268443
Slightly flavored vanilla, but yeah, still vanilla, no offense meant. Good job listing Nina Simone though, for some reason I see her mentioned less and less.

>>5268335
>>5268448
You are definitely Hadrian. Exact same favourites.

>>5268440

He has done some serious reading if it's a real list (hard to call someone who has read all of Gibbon's Rome set a newcomer) but it is a tad too "cookie-cutter" tbo. There is really no overt personalization of taste for someone who has read 2500 books.

But it's only a small gripe considering OP has easily read far more than I have. Very easily, lol. If the guy is being genuine about all these reads then he's definitely patrish.

>>5268403
Question for you, Goodreads user known as Hadrian: Are you a homosexual?

>former username was Kaworu
>current name is Hadrian
>favourite works are by Mishima

>>5268286
>barely any actual philosophy books
>just novels

>>5268448
>>5268460
Ha. Yep.
>>5268459
Yeah I don't have anywhere near the music knowledge I do of literature.

>>5268463
It's hard to construct a personal 'taste' list when you have read so many books. Taste can come in a mention of 10 books. I don't aim to be cookie-cutter nor do I aim to be obscure. I just list books and authors that I like the most

>>5268486
Do you use kindle or just buy used books?

>>5268482
“Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

I have no particular interest in philosophers who don't aim to also inspire and entertain. I have read them, though.

>>5268491
>I have read them, though.
Right.

>>5268486

>Ha. Yep.

Nice. You always seemed like a genuine bro.

>>5268490
Both. Mainly books.

>>5268504
How did you read 2500 books by the age of 27?

>>5268499
Do you think I could love Wittgenstein without reading other philosophy? What about Nietzsche's critiques? Or Kierkegaard's?

>>5268512
NEET. He had a BA in philosophy and was too stupid for post grad.

>>5268486
>Yeah I don't have anywhere near the music knowledge I do of literature.
I have a hunch that I already know the answer, but what about your knowledge of comics? Or are you just one of those who scoffs at the very mention of the collected narratively connected images?

I am 20 years old and I have just watched 2500 movies. Ask me anything. Let me pass on some of that enlightenment.

>>5268512
I don't really do much else. I don't want television and the only time I watch movies are when I go to the cinemas.
I also read fast.

>>5268519

i would scoff at you placing so much importance on them so as to even ask in the first place

>>5268517
*I didn't have the drive for BA anon

>>5268517
I don't know if I classify as NEET, I do go out regularly.
I didn't want a huge debt looming over me, that is why I decided against postgrad. Plus, I don't want to be a philosopher nor a scholar. I did it for enjoyment.

>>5268528
I take it that you assume all comics are accurately depicted by the blockbusters and am unimpressed.

>>5268519
The only comics I've ever read are The Simpsons ones.

>>5268526
How many pages do you read a day?

>>5268515
>Do you think I could love Wittgenstein without reading other philosophy? What about Nietzsche's critiques? Or Kierkegaard's?
Yes I think you can. Most people on /lit/ don't read any other philosophy besides Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and (sometimes Witt). You read pop philosophy, it's the first authors people usually think of when they think philosophy. I have a hard time you read all the philosophical treatises of the moderns, ancients, medieval, etc.

>>5268546
I can read on average 100-120 pages an hour

>>5268535

>am unimpressed.

jim_woodring_laugh.png

lol w/e m8

a few are good but the medium overall is meh

>>5268547
>You read pop philosophy, it's the first authors people usually think of when they think philosophy.
I would have thought Plato would be the name to drop.
Outside of here and certain websites Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are definitely not the first authors people think of when they think philosophy. Maybe Nietzsche, but most people just know him from a few famous quotes.
I know it's not much, but I do have a BA in Philosophy, which obviously requires me to have read certain philosophers to pass the classes.

>I have a hard time you read all the philosophical treatises of the moderns, ancients, medieval, etc.
I didn't mean to imply I've read "all" philosophy.

>>5268558
How many hours would you read a day?

>>5268547
>Most people on /lit/ don't read any other philosophy besides Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and (sometimes Witt)

No, most people browse the wikipedia Aristotle page, maybe give The Republic a skim, familiarize themselves with the notion of spooks, read The stranger, then make posts about their existential crisis and repeatedly state that there is no objectivity and subjective values are all equal.

>>5268559
The same could be said for the majority of products from any medium. Need I mention how The Da Vinci Code and Twilight have sold more copies than most of the books in this thread, or how Gangam Style has technically been listened to for 7,000 years?

>>5268576
Usually 3-4. I honestly don't spend that much time reading per day, I just read fast.
And recently I've stopped reading as much as I used to.

>>5268558
Do you currently work? Besides reading, what takes up your time?

>>5268583
but even still how are you just reading? dont you have a job? how do you live?

>>5268579

comics (in their modern iteration) are still a relatively new medium. it's okay that they're kind of shitty overall. they're still growing. stop trying to force them into a lit discussion they aren't anywhere near that arena.

>>5268590
>>5268591
I do work, but I don't want to go into it. I will say I work 9-3 Mon-Thurs.
When I'm at home the only things I do to entertain myself is read and occasionally listen to music. I've said already, I don't watch TV and I only watch movies when I go to the cinema.
I have a TV in my house but that's specifically for any guests that might come round.
Other than that I go out with friends, travel--normal (relatively) young white male activities.

>>5268603
Comics have proven their worth as a medium over a hundred years ago, ever since Little Nemo in Slumberland was published.

Why are you acting as if there's that much of a difference between the unwarranted nature of the questions of his musical tastes and his comic tastes? Both are off topic and have nothing to do with OP's original objective for making this thread.

>>5268577

>that there is no objectivity and subjective values are all equal

Explain in detail why this isn't the case.

I'll wait. Because I know that you have nothing but pseudo posing to back this up.

>>5268617

a hundred years ago? woah.

this well-developed medium is obviously a serious contender.

>>5268626
Why are you even giving this much attention to this discussion if you have little to no respect for the medium? Surley you realize that if you hadn't typed a word and op mentioned his readings of his Simpsons comics, the whole matter of comics would be finished ib this thread?

>>5268618
OP here.
That comment was me, just in case you weren't aware.

>>5268609
When and how did you get into reading? Parents work in the academia?

>>5268649

why are you even posting to explain this to me? surely there's more productive things you could be doing with your time?

fuck off with this eggshell-thin hypocrisy you sorry wankshow

>>5268656
wasn't* woops.

>>5268660
I started properly reading when I was around 4-5. My parents do not work in academia, no. My mother is an avid reader, so I guess I get it from her.

>>5268656

And?

>Explain in detail why this isn't the case.
>I'll wait.

>>5268663
You're a terrible troll, I'm genuinely curious, I'll be honest and say that I have nothing better to do. Given your need for superiority, I kniw you're incapable of giving such an admittance, so what's your excuse?

>>5268670
I forgot "how".
I think I was given a book (can't remember what) for my 4th birthday, and I just kept reading and asking for more books.

>>5268671
I'm not getting mixed up in an idiotic argument that will never reach any satisfying conclusion.

>>5268673

>this off-topic post

have a bit of maturity please and stop derailing the thread, thanks

>>5268618
>Explain in detail why this isn't the case.

Well, I didn't state that this isn't the case, I said this is what people who first encounter philosophy tend to post about. Anyway, the first can get lost in linguistic incoherence- "Can you objectively prove that I can't have objective knowledge of something?" and the second (while it could get lost in the same incoherence) leads to the person holding that view to bask in a swamp of relaivism, saying, "I think J.K Rowling is the greatest writer of all time, you think Milton is better than her, but our opinions are equal," until they eventually realize that it doesn't mater in the slightest, and all ethical, aesthetic, or value statements can be approached within an inter-subjective framework.

>>5268318
>that Vangelis in background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi0kjGnjE_0

>>5268683

Humor me. Give even a small paragraph of your thought on it.

>>there is no objectivity and subjective values are all equal

You so smugly implied that this isn't the case.

So explain why this isn't the case.

We wouldn't want you to seem like a posting pseudo now, would we?

>>5268695
I told you, I wasn't the author of that comment. Maybe my typo didn't help:

>>5268656
>>5268664

>>5268670
Do you spend time writing?

>>5268263
No, but I'd like to see the 2500 books list, with a brief commentary for each one.

bonus point: you add the start and end data and how many hours you invested

>>5268708
If goodreads makes it this long, I'll have this data in about 25 years. yeaaaaaaaah

>>5268704
Yes. But I am not going to post anything here.

>>5268708
If I ever have a spare month maybe I'll do it.

>>5268711
Where do you store your physical books? What condition do you usually buy them in? Do you use Amazon, Abebooks?

>>5268725
I use the library a fair bit.
I buy both secondhand and new; amazon, abebooks, bookdepository.
I store them in bookshelves.
I recently gave away about 300 to charity.
I only have about 400 physical books in my place right now.

>>5268740
how often do you reread books, if ever?

>>5268383
Nice quotes.

>>5268772
I will reread some of my favorites pretty much every year.

>>5268491
>I have no particular interest in philosophers who don't aim to also inspire and entertain.
Fuck finally someone has said it.

>>5268784
Would you like some more?

>>5268825
ye

>>5268830

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
― Richard Dawkins

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
― Ezra Pound

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”
― William Faulkner

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

>>5268837
“Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Love...no such thing.

Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

>>5268313

Oh, and my favorite quote ever:

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

>>5268850
if you actually think nietzsche isnt a genius you have been on 4chan too long

Do you ever feel like you have wasted your time all these years reading books?

how many books do you read a year OP? sheet.

>>5268874
No. I don't neglect other parts of my life in favor of reading books, it's just what I spend most of my free time doing.
While someone is watching television after a day of work, I'll be reading. When someone is playing a sport every Saturday, I'll be reading. When someone is watching movies all Sunday, I'll be reading.
I do other things, I go out and socialise, I've had relationships, I have a job.

I'm not some hermit sitting in a room reading all day. I've just been reading a lot, for over 20 years, and fast.

>>5268885
I read 255 last year.

>>5268893
nerd

>>5268850

>being this summer

Please just go.

>>5268893
Do you have any pictures of your bookshelves or anything?

>>5268916
I'm not prepared to take photos of my place and post them on 4chan.
They're just regular bookshelves, nothing fancy.

>>5268887
What's your day job? I work as well and don't nearly read as many books.

>>5268928
I don't want to talk about my job:

>>5268609

>>5268932
Fair enough :)
9-3 is pretty sweet though.

>>5268921
Yeah that's fine but 2000 odd books, gotta look pretty cool.

>>5268940
See:
>>5268740

>>5268933
Yeah, I'm quite lucky to have a job that gives me a lot of free time.

Where do you find which books to read? Do you read history books?

>>5268519
>>>/a/

>>5268948
Internet, mostly. Author influences, a name of a book mentioned in a work, that sort of thing.

I do read history books.

Damn, nice job op

I wish I'd read so much.

>tfw planned to spend the whole day reading Dostoevsky
>spent it shitposting on /lit/ instead

Fuck.

>>5268980
we all know that feel, brother

>>5268486
I'm Hadrian. Stop pretending to be me.

>>5268994
le prove it geeklord :^)

>>5269003
OK. I'm going to post this comment on my profile.

I have to go out for a bit, but I'll reply to any questions after 11:00 AM on board time. Cheers, /lit/.

>>5268994
>I'm Hadrian. Stop pretending to be me.

Do you have a long wall I could use?

>>5269022
Why "Formerly known as Kaworu"?

>>5268383
Thank you OP for this thread. I'm 20 and I've read a lot of books and they always give me some feeling I want to hold, but after a few hours / days I'm already start to forget which feeling they gave me. I'm now going to write down the most touching quotes I've read from that book so I have something I can look back to. If you give me your name I will make you my title.

>>5268318
gay

>>5269034
I just highlight every quote-worthy phrases or extremely well written paragraphs on my e-reader, then go back a couple of months later to read those books as a collection of the best snippets and excerpts.

>>5269042
Hmm nice, I loan the most book I read from the Libary, so that is not an option for me. Maybe I should start buying books.
Is a e-reader worth the cost though?

>>5269031
fucking lol

OP has been rused everyone

>>5269022
what do you like about Arthur Rimbaud?

how many pages can you read an hour?

what is your day job?

have you studied?

why do you love mishima so much?

>>5269052
Which languages do you know?

>>5269049
Definitely, and they're not that expensive. I have a few thousand books on there and still nowhere near the storage limit, so I can scroll back through everything I have highlighted pretty easily. Built in dictionary, backlit, battery lasts for weeks on a single charge, virtually everything is available for free. I have auto-scroll on mine, so when I'm feeling incredibly lazy I can click that, adjusting the scroll speed with a few taps to suit how fast I'm reading.

>>5268286
lol pleb

this thread is the most idiotic thing ive seen all day

>'hey guys ive read 2500 books'!
>posts 30 authors, most are /lit/core
>posts an arbitrary 100 books

everyone believes him!!! no questions asked!!

and then it turns out OP has been posing as some philistine on goodreads! but nobody cares!!

>>5269176
wow people want to talk about books without being an elitist tryhard about it

someone call the police

>>5269599
>without being an elitist tryhard

>>5268491
>Louis-Ferdinand Céline
topkek

>>5268286
>having read 2500 books, and still being a pleb

Most of these authors are worthless, you've just wasted your time & money

>>5269642
summer pls

>>5269666
It sure is summer when people think that hack is good

>>5269683
it sure is summer when retards call someone a hack with no explanation

2500 is impressive, but not impossible. I usually read 30 pages a day, so of course I'm not going to get to 2500 any time soon, but I write tons of notes. From the last five books I've read combined (most being non-fiction), I have a total of about 200 notes. OP, I hope you've actually learned something from reading and aren't just reading "for the plot"

>>5269690

>>5269706
i rest my case

>>5269715
>i rest my case

>>5269690
then it's summer all year

>>5268335
>The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
What the fuck. Reading this now, despite or because of /lit/ hate, and 400 pages in it ranges from passable to embarrassingly awful.

>>5269698
How is reading 2,500 books "impressive"? I can read two books per day without even trying too hard, which makes more than 10,000 books for the last 15 years, but I've read only 2,500 books like OP because I'm ultra lazy (and because I spend too much time browsing 4chan honestly)

>>5269748
Its "impressive" if OP actually annotated the books or took notes, and learned something from them, not just read those books "for the plot" or so that he could say "I read 2500 books".

>>5269753
What's important is learning something (or at least refining your aesthetic sense + somewhat enjoying the read), not taking notes, but I agree with you.

Taking notes while reading Dostoevsky or Balzac wouldn't be very useful IMO

>>5269777
>Taking notes while reading Dostoevsky or Balzac wouldn't be very useful IMO

>>5268263
Did you "start with the Greeks" or did you read them throughout? I'm curious.

>>5270176
and did you learn to read quickly or did you become a quick reader over time?

>>5269604
yes thank you for repeating what I said

What is your opinion of Joyce and his work?

>>5268609
>normal (relatively) young white male activities.
have you checked your white privilege yet?

>>5268617

>Actually liking funnybooks.

Yeah, nah, fuck off.

>>5268263
After you read 2500 books what is your political stance now?

reminder that OP is a fake
>>5269031
>>5269031

>>5273439
Reminder that he deleted the post and hasn't answered any questions :_;

>>5268286
>no dostoyevsky

>>5275298
>okay one dostoyevsky

>>5268263
loool i read this as i just now read 2500 books instead of as i just hit 2500 books

Your list of favourites reads as though your primary concern is the social validation that often comes from being perceived as an intellectual. The fact that you started this thread lends further credibility to the notion.

>>5268335
>A Personal Matter - Kenzaburō Ōe
MAH NIGGA

>>5268286
>Margaret Atwood
Why does everyone like her? I think she's incredibly overrated, even by female authors' standards.

>>5268335
>Dhalgren
Mah nigga

>>5275702
fuck off

>>5276897
same, i've only read the handmaid's tale and i mean i'm a woman and a feminist i guess but i found its feminism really heavy-handed and shallow. maybe i should try reading something else tho

>>5276897
it appears to be only because of the handmaid's tail, which is a mix of 1. it's everybody's second dystopia novel after 1984 in highschool 2. it's themes are very popular with goodreads/social media types (...go away pol)


after handmaid's tale it's onyx and crake, and nobody seems to read much else. in any case I don't care for her at all either

Just visiting your goodreads page, I noticed you read the Alvaro uribe book...Why the fuck? Its utter garbage, and you rated it 4 stars...I didn't even knew people from outside Colombia fucking read that

>>5268583

How do you keep your optical health in good condition? I've been having eye problems which has really slowed me down.

>>5277000

He is a fucking fascist asshole that just doesn't shut up. He has violated human rights on multiple occations, and deserve to be put in jail.

>>5269176

>posing as some philistine on goodreads

I'd bet cash he's better read than you are you desperate poser.

>>5277065

I don't care. I just want advice on my eyes.