/lit/ - Literature

>>5743462
Oh my god, he can count the number books he reads? What kind of a well read individual is able to keep count of all the books he reads.
I wouldnt count the person in pic related a well read person though, its like he just started reading at age 49, but I wouldnt call someone who reads just 100 books a year well read though.

19. I'd say about 10. Should be one more by the end of the day

>26
>over a thousand
I don't keep track, but I've read everything bar three books in my shelves, which is roughly a thousand books. I've read more before this collection, but I have no way of estimating that. 700 books seems like very little unless >>5743488 is right and he only recently started reading.

19. A Lot of fucking books.

>>5743462
I'm 20 with around 200 read.

21, about 4

23. I read about 13 books this year and over my life maybe 30 more? I got into reading a few months ago when I started coming here

>>5743462
I started to write lists when I was 20. Right now I'm 24 and read 237. With unequal distribution though: 20|27|38|45| and 107 so far this year. Before that I have no idea... probably around 50-100?

>>5743791
Keep reading anon, anyone who's anyone (that is, a well read person) is not counting the books he/she has read. That's like counting the amount of songs in your ipod. A pointless waste of time.

>>5743865
Betcha I have more songs faget

>>5743865
the ipod keeps track automatically

>>5743462
I'm 12 and what is this?

> I do not have eidetic memory and sadly, I don't remember every single one of the 989,656,976,536,325,489,056.3 lines I have read in my life.

Some normies are just hilarious.

>>5743462
18
>more than 73 roughly, I don't know how many tho I just like number 73

only a few. i have watched over 500 anime though.

>>5743883
underrated post

22 years old, i don't count them but around 60 novels

witcher series 7
some warcraft books 7
diablo books 6
harry potter 3
discworld 12
remarque's books 4
goethe 1
Asimov 1
Adrian Moole 4
heller 1
fantasy book i don't remember name 1
slovak romantic poetry 1
tolkien 1
Dostojevskij 2
czech fantasy 4

I surely forgot about something. I know I had pleb taste and I am mostly ashamed of warcraft series but i was 14 and fan of it. I read Brothers Karamazov when I was 17 and enjoyed it but surely didn't grasp lot of things. If you are concerned if I am one of /lit/ posters I am not. I just lurk here not for long and want to find interesting books.

>>5743786
Same here, but I'm a little closer to 250

>>5743462
18, probably somewhere around 350-400

21, id say probably 25-30 total, mostly classics, a handful of the Halo book series.

>I prefer poetry.

Uh... I'm at about 100 at 17
how am I doing, /lit/?

31
no idea

45, no idea. quantity doesn't matter.

>>5744010

You're actually 45?

>>5743991
reported

>>5744024
kek

I have read over 200 books and I'm 23 years old. So yes.

21, not even close to 50 i feel ashamed

>>5743462
24..... and read 8 books completely.

>>5743462
20,

about 15 books?

Way more than most of my friends and peers.

20, Maybe 65 but a lot of them were trash

25. I'd estimate 500-600, but let's be honest, we all give ourselves too much credit. It's probably lower than that, but if you're keeping tally, you're doing it wrong.

>>5743462
24. More than 300, less than 500 probably

>>5743462
20 and about 400. Most of them crappy teenage and young adult fiction mind you.

Maximum Ride, Eragon, Darren Shan, ASOUE, Cherub, Harry Potter, Edgar and Ellen, etc.

>>5743462
19 and about 10 I'd guess. I don't even remember all of them and I may have read more in school (mandatory stuff) but I don't remember that either.

I'm working on it though.

Just reading all Dr. Seuss books gets you 40+ books read. I don't count every single book I've read because by the time I was 10, I had probably read about 300 to 500 books.

only really started reading recently: about 300 in the past 2 years.. maybe 100 in the years before that?

It's quality, not quantity. I've read hundreds, maybe thousands, of crappy books (Twilight included). This doesn't mean I'm any more intelligent or wise. If you're going to read, read something that's worth it: Ulysses, The Trial, or something!

>>5743883
You mean automagically?

24. 500 almost 600.

21, easily over a hundred novels

Haven't read anything but technical manuals, regulation books, and educational material since HS

>>5744217
nothing is worth reading unless you enjoy it.

>>5744127
darren shan and harry potter were alright though

18, 200-500 depending on what you define as a book, i read a fuckton of children's non fiction as a child but most of those books were 20-80 pages

Mid 20's, I estimate something well into the thousands.

20

About 100

Started reading at 19

I'm 18, i've read 55 books, maybe more.
From what i recall, these are the books :

7 harry potters.
3 His Dark Materials
all chronicles of narnia
1 Tolkien
3 Orwell's
2 Huxley's
2 DFW's
2 Machado de Assis's
2 Jostein Gaarder
1 Nietszche
1 Jorge Amado
1 Rubem Fonseca
5 Nelson Rodrigues
1 Olavo de Carvalho
1 Churchill
1 Jack Kourac
2 Dostoevsky
1 Jack London
1 Hugh Laurie
1 Phillip K Dick
1 Anthony Burguess
1 J.D. Sallinger
1 Fitzgerald
5 George martins'
1 Adam Douglas
1 Dan Brown

I wonder how many books you guys have read if you remove all the american and brit books. Probably 15.

in my 70s and only read pleb shit fml

>>5744520
i find lit is one of the few popular arts where this isn't true. for music and film, definitely, but its not uncommon for foreign writers to constitute a large portion of reading material for english-speakers

like half the books i've read this year are translations

I'm 33. read about 2 books a month since I was 15 or so. sometimes more. sometimes just 1 if really long (don quixote, les mis, brothers k etc).

I am 23 I have not read any books I understood. what is a book anyways

>>5744549

this

plus i fail to see how it's a huge indictment to say that young anglo readers in their teens and early 20s have read a larger portion of anglo works. doesn't that just stand to reason?

How can you possibly keep track? I'm 23 and I guess I have read around 200, give or take.

>>5744018
yes i am actually 45

>>5745093
Goodreads. I had no idea before I made an account.

22
read most of John Greens stuff, and all the harry potter books, and Infinite Jest

>>5744520

Almost every /lit/ users GRs is just anglocentric books, orwell, steinbeck, hemingway,dickens, etc give or take.

>>5745105
How could a website possibly know how many books you have read?

>>5745112
again, see
>>5745085

they're younger readers and many of them are just starting out. you aren't making the damning point that you think you are.

Who the fuck counts the number of books they've finished?

How is anyone meant to reasonably know that?

>>5743462

>20
>3(not counting shit that I had to read in school for essays)


Just started on the /lit/ entry level stuff

22. For several years I kept a habit of reading a lot, about a book per week, I'd guess. My total is about 200-250 I think.

If you're actually posting a number in this thread then you have issues

>>5745120
You add the books as you read them. You make a list .

>>5745123
seeing as how half of the posts on /lit/ are 'start with the greeks' or something to do with existentialism that's pretty surprising

24
In my life?

I have a bookshelf in storage that is full of books I've already read, and a stack of books not on a bookshelf that I haven't read

I got into anime and games though so it's not like I've read all of the classics and 4 of the books I've read were Twilight

30

Around 300.

19, almost 400

>>5743462
22. No idea, though I would guess somewhere in the 300-400 range?

>>5744511
You've read less than one hundred books and yet you've spent your time reading fucking Olavo de Carvalho?

Fuck you, you're the face of brazilian's right, a bunch of iliterate plebs who don't know shit and still wanna act like big boys in the playground.

I have some econ student friends who are liberals and I feel sorry for them, having your ilk speaking loudly while actually educated people (even though I disagree with them) have to pretend they agree with you

I have no idea. How does one keep track of something like that? Honestly, how? I think it might be fun.

Should I use goodreads? I'm skeptical of the website.

>>5745283
I recieved it as a gift and read it, stop making assumptions, also, not even neoliberal, but the fact that you're being a bitch to the Socialist/Workers Party without even knowing what are my political views make me laugh.
You're the face of brazil : a country of dumb ignorant niggers, both from right and left.
also
>believing the right-left false dichotomy
>2014
ishiggydiggydo

>>5745294
Yeah goodreads is good fun.
Just dont keep posting it on facebook about how smart are you and how many books you've read this year

18 and probably about 420

22, maybe 500 something? It's hard to say. I read a lot of nonfiction, and I don't necessarily finish everything I start, I tend to bounce frenetically around books with the same subject matter.

Why would this matter? Are you collecting a survey or something?

>>5745308
If you honestly need to read that drivel to know it's drivel, you're dumb.
If you think I'm "a bitch" to PT, you're the one making the assumptions.

I honestly can't see how anyone can stand 500 fucking pages of Olavo being insane having ABSOLUTELY ANY contact with the sort of shit he usually spouts. While I'm hardly "the face of brazil" (though I wish I were), by no means I subscribe to either right or left in any traditional sense, you're the one who automatically groups me within whatever ideological views you subscribe.

And as much as your edgy chan friends taught you, the left-right dialectic might be something that makes little to no sense in a corporativist nightmare like the US, but it's something VERY VERY real, as any nitwit who watched debates last election might have noticed, and I don't even want to mention the spastic mass of human garbage protesting for a military coup on the streets.

Then again, you read fucking genre fiction and basic high school literature, I shouldn't expect anything better.

>>5744511
>i've read 55 books, maybe more
>55 books, maybe more
>maybe more

Wow, I fucking hope so.

Maybe 150? I don't remember what I read before high school, but books like Magic Tree House had a fuckton in the series and were really short.

>>5745347
>left-right dialectic might be something that makes little to no sense in a corporativist nightmare like the US

It makes sense in the US, too, we just don't have a left.

I think I've come to the conclusion that as a US socialist, I'm just wasting my fucking time here. The US will sooner turn to goose-stepping fascism than socialism.

>>5745347
The point in the false dichotomy is being full right and being full left is being dumb, just like you.
Also, Olavo is a good writer, he is just insane, you should read him and forget this mentality of "i dont need to read it to know its bad".
And no, you started talking shit just cause i said i've read a book written by him, don't invert it.

>>5745320

you're on a good track bruh.

I'm 69 and I've read 420 books.

>>5745391
Well, I'm hardly "full left" and I highly doubt anyone is either full left or full right. In the way Olavo (and other dirty ideologues of these dreary times we live in) paint it, "right" and "left" are two definitive, closed things. PT itself is hardly left wing, considering how it's always benefitting the private capital (while pretending it doesn't), but you can't flat out tell me there is no such thing as left and right, though there might not be too much difference in the institutional politics system.

As >>5745391 pointed, the US has no organized left (props to the old school Wobblies though, I'd love if someone recommended me some literature on them), and what you're doing is spouting a institutionalist american discourse you don't quite understand.

I'm talking shit about his readers, which you're proving to be by the verbal diarrhea you're putting out.

>>5745425
Forgot to make a point: One can hardly be "full left" or "full right" because there are a million of terms, sometimes contradictory terms, inside those words.

Though indeed, Pinochet was a quasi-fascist with a hard on for free markets, so he might have been the rightiest right winter ever.

>There's people who are commies in 2014
There's a study that stated that corruption is far bigger where shit ain't private.
North Korea = No free market = shit
South Korea = free market and the same geographical location as north korea = happy ppl and wealth 4 everybody
>m-muh embargo

Not even Thomas Piketty, god of the new french left people stated that he wasnt a leftist.

>>5745511
>ain't

>>5745511
Guess we're stuck with capitalism forever.

>>5745395
nice

>>5745511
>There's a study that stated that corruption is far bigger where shit ain't private.
Ah, I'm convinced. Just threw my copy of Capital in the trash, I don't even need to see the study.

>>5745744
Kane's a woman, yes?

I'm 23, somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 history books and about the same of fiction. I won't count any books I read when I was a kid, so this list is between when I started highschool and now.

>>5745395
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

>>5743462
>22 years
>150 books

Trying to catch up though.

I'm pretty sure I read more than 100 Goosebumps books by the time I was out of 2nd grade.

>>5743462
500, 20

>>5745854
>>5745854
Beast from the East was among my favorites. It was no Say Cheese and Die! or The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, but it was good.

I'm 21. I've been using playing cards as book marks for about 8 years, and i leave each card in it's book when I'm finished to mark them "as read". I've halfway through my 8th pack at the moment.

>>5746053
Cool idea

Who keeps track of that sort of thing? I don't have a clue.

as many as i wanted to

if le doubs, check 'em!

>>5744471
"read something that's worth it" --assuming worth is based on what you personally value.

23 and a reasonable amount for someone my age.

>>5743462
25, no idea

I wanna say at least a hundred

Do the Dr.Suess/Just series and Roald dahl count?

69 years old, 420 books

>>5746645
blaze it.
>>5743462
Does anyone actually keep count? Id say a few hundred or so but I have no clue on an exact number

do all these people asking how or why we keep count not know about goodreads?

Let's say one every two weeks since I was about nine (first 'proper' book ever was Oliver Twist, so I'm starting there.)

26, 408 books. The actual number is probably higher, but that sounds good.

23, 1,932 books so far

I'm 20 and I've read thousands of books AND watched over 100 full anime series and read over 100 full manga series AND I study physics full time AND O graduated top of my class in high school.

What the fuck is your excuse, normies?

>>5746727
>watched over 100 full anime series and read over 100 full manga series
This isn't something to brag about.

I haven't read as a hobby for that many years (I've focused on movies), I'm 24 and read 314 books (but I've watched over 3000 movies)

>>5746730
Yeah I know it's actually pretty low but there's only so much time in the day.

>>5746053
do you use the jokers?

I use cards as bookmarks too, but only the jokers. Or the cards lower than 7 from a deck that's used a lot for manille.

Or a sheet of toiletpaper.

>>5746736
>I know it's actually pretty low
This isn't what I meant... I mean you shouldn't brag about having wasted your time, there are not that many good anime series or mangas (most of them are shit).

>>5746743
>not liking cute girls doing cute things

lel pleb

You don't understand anime.

Are manga books?

I'm 21.

A lot? I mean, just counting the books in my room, there are 40 I've read, but I don't hold on to a lot of my books for long. They've been sold / returned to the library / returned to the bookseller.

But I'd wager a lot. Even more if you count books on tape, since I listen to them during my long commutes.

21

1000+

not counting kids books

>>5743462
Is this specifically for literary fiction, or does it apply to everything?
I'm 19, and I've probably read close to 500. I've been reading non-stop since I was capable of reading without parental intervention so its not like the list is gonna consist mostly of canonical works

21
Probably about 300.

I didn't start reading until 18, and even then didn't read much. I've read 60+ books this year, though, so I'm sure I'll get there.

23
2500-3000 books

99
One million in the past 6 months

>>5747391
Why do I somehow doubt this?

No idea. I read a ton of books about ages 7-18, then there was a time I read pretty much only for my studies, though they included some fiction too, and in the last one and half years I've come back to reading on my free time, doing something like 50 books in that time, maybe two or three of them in my native language which isn't English.

>all of these overestimations

I dont like counting pleb tier books in this. When I was little I read Magic Tree House and Goosebumps and stuff like that, but that stuff is so remedial and samey that including it is pointless since you can't critically read those books.

I only start counting from when I started reading books more analytically, which would probably be high school, and I didn't start reading for fun until senior year. Probably at like 150.

>>5745511
>same geographical location as north korea
wow. I don't want to believe you but just look at all the variables that were controlled for

18
approximately 600 'literary' novels

>>5746053
I use business cards from restaurants I've enjoyed.

>>5743462
Heh, I'm 20 and I've read over 1 and maybe 2 hundreds. Small books and big books, poetry and novels.

Eighteen and three hundred or so.
tfw most were shitty florida crime novels.

5748819
Over 10000000000

The Only Book That I Have Read Is The Book Of Life

I am 19, became avid reader around 13 years old. I was usually reading some simpler adventure books (Verne, a lot of polish writers) and Dumas. None of these were books required from school. When i was 15 i started reading more "serious" book. My first piece of great literature was "Crime and Punishment" then "Les Miserables", also read a lot of romantic poetry and Rimbaud in translation. Till this day i think i have easily passed around 350 - 400 books. Not all of them had many pages. Many were just short novels released as single book. I would say around 180 of them were over 300 pages. All of them were in my native language.

>>5744471
>implying
I didn't enjoy reading single thing from ancient greeks except Oddysey yet i think they have made me wiser than 99% of books written later
Bible not included

Guys, what happened to #bookz?

>>5745854
This, I probably read four or five books a month from five-12, and probably 2-3 a month from 12-24, then I really started reading like 50-100 a year. At 32 I average 50 a year, but man does retention drop.

I have no idea how many ive read

When I was a bit and had heart started reading I'd always ask my dad if he'd read whatever I was reading at the moment, he could almost never remember if he'd read it or not. So, I decided I didn't want that and so I started recording my reading and never stopped. I'm 25 and I've read 413 books.

>>5752108
*When I was a boy and I'd just started reading.

Fucking swype.

23. Probably 800 books worth counting and another 800 of young adult and lousy genre fiction.

>>5743462
24, probably less than the average /lit/ regular, I am not really into counting them.

19
Between 200 and 400

Does rereading books count? Cause I've only ever read Paradise Lost. I read it every day and every night.

>>5748825
Jaden pls go

>>5746381
Yes. At least Dahl does. He's great.

>>5743462
25, a bit over 500 legit books and almost 600 if you count works less than 140 pages as books.

>>5743462
I know I read about 700 books during my 5 years of high school (12years old to 17 years old) because I was working at the school library and we had a thing to keep track of how many books someone borrowed. I was reading almost all the time; during class, while walking. I don't know how much book I've read in my entire life, probably around 1000 but I don't count them. I'm 21 now.

>>5743462
I can't even imagine. Counting what books? My mother had to give me a 20-book limit from the library every week as a kid, and I own over 5000 books now, not to mention comics and such. I'm 43, and I read a lot and fairly fast.

18. About 60-65 books, 70 if you count self-help books.

>>5743462
22,
I have read 130 books since I started keeping track, so basically disregarding everything I read in high school and before.

24. Easily 1000+ books

Who the fuck counts the books they read?

I use goodreads but that only covers stuff in the last couple years. I have no idea how many books I read during my childhood, for example.

>>5743462
20, I can't say how many books I've read. I have severe ADD and typically by the time I reach the bottom of a page I've already forgotten everything I've just read because I've been thinking of something else while simultaneously reading

How many pieces of bread have you eaten in your life?

24. I have no idea. 80 to 100?

>>5743462
8 (to both)

>>5755573
YOU MONSTER

24, i guess around 250 'proper' books

20, about 200 maybe

>>5743991
You're 100 years old?

18, around 50 books in last 2 years

24. I honestly have no fucking clue. Could be anywhere between 50 and 300... I started reading as a young teenager and never in any way did I keep track of anything. Some years I read nothing, other years I devoured everything. Dunno.

21, only about 80-90 books. Started taking up reading at 18 though.

I started reading 20 pages a day one year ago, and I'm at 13 books now.
It's entertaining and satisfying, but I wouldn't do it as a primary hobby.

How much money do you people actually spend on books to have read so many at a young age?

23

I would guess over 1000.

Very little "fine literature", but I do enjoy reading.

20

3 books

22

about 300 books i think

>>5745103
Shit you old, brah.

What was your childhood like? who were your celebrity crushes?

19
15, maybe 20
i'm still smarter than 99% of /lit/

20
I've never bothered to keep track, at least 100.

>>5760053
>How much money do you people actually spend on books to have read so many at a young age?

My parents bought all of my books when I was young. I started splashing out on the 30c used classics at the books store, then spent about 100 bucks on a nook glowlight when it first came out and never bought another book again. There are about 1,500 in my backlog, all loaded onto my nook, and Ive got about 20,000 ebooks in my digital library.

I really need to improve my reading habits. I enjoy the books I read, but I can just close them someday and just have no desire to open them back up. Currently trying to get through The Crying of Lot 49 and I feel as if there's a lot that may be going over my head, so that's part of it.

>>5760078
>having celebrity crushes ever

>>5745390
Bro sir, we don't have a right.

We're already a nanny-state, you fucking pinko.

>>5760128
You say you enjoy the books you read, but you don't even care if you pick them up to finish them? Maybe you are reading the wrong genre

24 years old, ~250 books read. I've read over 100 in the past two years tho

>>5760138
You may be right there. I feel like I understand things well enough to move on past "simpler" books, but that I've been so out of reading I just need something I can get sucked into to build the hobby back up. Right now I have One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Stand, which don't look too challenging.

>>5743462
Who the fuck keeps count of every book you ever read? And unless you have a copy of every book you ever read I don't see how you can.

21. Not entirely sure, probably 400-ish.

>>5743488
> I wouldnt call someone who reads just 100 books a year well read though
At first I wanted to disagree with you, but I did some counting and you're actually right. If you read only 2 hours per day, with my tempo of reading, it's still around 180 books per year. 100 is nothing, surprisingly, hmh.

>>5760167
Well you could use an excel document

>>5760167
This.

I don't know, I'd ball park it between 150-200.

20

>>5743697
>>5743791
>>5743921
>>5743960
>>5744071
>>5744086
>>5744132
>>5745068
>>5760062
>>5760101
I just don't understand. It's like me going to post on /o/, even tho the only way I can describe a car is by it's color. What are you guys doing here?

23, probably somewhere around 5-600.

27, and, very roughly, 600-700 books? I don't know, do you count like all the Animorphs books I read when I was 8? If that type of crap counts, over 1000 for sure.

>>5760318
2 hours a day is not a lot to read if you're in college majoring in something that demands you read, but it's a lot when you work 50-60 hours a week.

>>5743697
>anthropomorphizing the metamorphosis

This bothers me way more than it should, which is not at all.

21, 4 books (willingly)

I'm getting more into books though.

>>5760437
That's nice, what did you read? What inspired you to start?

>>5760418
>meta-antromorphosis

>>5745188
can't you do that with a piece of people and a pencil? why rely on a "cloud"?

19, I have no idea, I have ADHD and read in fragments of works from all over, theres only a few dozen books which resonated well enough for me to read from start to finish. God knows how many books I read only halfway, telling myself that I will finish them later, then returning them to the library to vaguely remember a year later that there was something interesting that I should have finished.
Check your neurotypical privilege, friends.

>>5743462
In my maturity and willingly, from cover to cover - 0.

>>5744520
I read a shitton because Im Russian :)

>>5744520
None because high quality non-US academia is essentially non-existent.

>>5760349
I did say I'm working on it.

And philosophy is interesting. And I'm interested in arts. And the board culture is fine. Not everyone's here for the same reasons.

Does reading the plot summary on wikipedia count?

>>5761018
Wait you didn't actually think some people read over 500 full books in their lifetimes? That's impossible.

18, around 100

Instead of reading books, by some of the worlds greatest people to ever live; I prioritize reading shitposts written by the cesspool called /lit/

Have read enough top notch may mays to be quite contempt for the rest of my life.

18, probably about 80-120

I have read harry potter, hunger games and game of thrones (the first book).

not much else