/lit/ - Literature

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>>5967396
37

Sadly only 13 unless you count programming books I've read through for work.

Mistborn 1-3
Steel heart + Firefight
Lies of Lock Lamorra
Name of the Wind
CODE - Charles petzod
How do it do (computer CPU/mobo design)ish
The prestige (Christmas gift I couldn't put down)
Fearsome Magics, Writers of the Future 30, & Space Opera (I love short story collections)

I know most of these are just the mainstream fantasy books, but my wife owns them and I hadn't read sf/fantasy in years, so I'm jumping in.

If you guys have more good ones (outside of the commonly linked image) let me know

>>5967777
Lol exit now please

>>5967777
>Mistborn
>Lies of Lock Lamorra
>Name of the Wind
>other garbage
Holy fuck, this is the biggest waste of quads I've ever seen.

>>5967396

70-80

Going for 300 this year. Wish me luck, /lit/.

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>>5967839
You can't be serious. 300 in one year is almost one book per day. How the fuck do you have that much time? You would either be NEET or have a consistent 2000 wpm reading speed.

215 + 35 comics

I did the 100 book challenge.

Two books a week.

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>>5967884

I'm a student. All I have is free-time. Gotta challenge yourself, mate.

>>5967946
How fast do you read? Because even if it's 500 wpm, which is twice the average of a college student, it would still require 4-6 hours per book. Unless you exclusively read novellas. Or you're studying a fine arts field.

>>5967396
i dont remember them all and they werent too many. i marked about 45 as read on goodreads, but i may not have read them all in 2014 and others i probably forgot. im doing the 100 books challenge in 2015, but im starting with the shortest and then work my way up.

>>5967787
>>5967794
lol, these snobby hipster faggots. He said he was reading books that were mainstream and lying around.

He even asked for something to be recommended. What a bunch of Jews.

>>5967396
20
And I plan on reading a lot more this year.

>>5967794
>autists

About 60.

Maybe 15-20. Some were really long, though.

40, aiming for 60 next year

>>5968269
same. I read ten in the first and fifty in the second half of the year

>>5967794
>comes to board about lit
>starts ranting that popular books are shit
>talks about post numbers as if they matter


Thanks guy! I see you brought your leddit stupidity and your 4chins autismo to the party. Just wouldn't be compete without you.

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I'm trying to do 50 this year. I'm not progressing through Meme Meridian as fast as I was hoping.

Plus for some reason reading often turns into jerking off I donno why

>>5968995
>talks about post numbers as if they matter
Of course they do.

>>5969036
>Plus for some reason reading often turns into jerking off I donno why
top
fucking
kek

26, my goal was 15

however there were the 5 hitchikers guide books in there which i read in a week total. Pynchon's V. took me longest to read.

>>5967777
>Name of the Wind
oh god that book was terrible. so sorry you wasted that time, like so many of us

>>5967884
my gf can read a 300 page book in 2-3 hours. so fucking jelly and she wastes it on vampire shit and other YA fantasy crap.

when i first saw her read i didn't believe her, i though she was just skimming and flipping pages. so i gave her crying of lot 49, she finishes it in 1 hour and i ask her questions. she literally read everything and remembers every detail

>tfw 1 page per minute
>tfw take a week to finish a 300 page book because i don't have much time to read

>>5969107
Dude, I hate to be the one to tell you, but your GF is a retard.

>>5969107
>mfw I have a shitty memory
I can understand read text very well, and I am not that fast reader to skip stuff etc, but shit, I forget details so fast. What I remember precisely though, are the emotions. Fucking weird but books can give me the feels as I read them.

>>5969117
literature wise, absolutely

so much wasted...

>>5969096

Well, I know it sucked... But somehow... somehow I enjoyed it.

>>5969107
I know that feel, bro. I have a friend who also reads that fast and he wastes it on 900+ page fantasy books. They're usually bland shit from authors like Sanderson who keep pumping them out for neckbeards.

46.

Me, I'd serve crab legs

108.

>>5967839
So have you already finished about 5 or 6? Which ones have you got so far?

Proud to say I read thirty two books this year.

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Going for at least 40 this year.

1337

>>5969044

>>5969044

130 or so

>>5967777
>Name of the Wind
I liked this one a lot. I think it's very well written, very solid.

If you haven't, check
Discworld
Dragonlace
Pendragon Cycle
Malazan's book
American Gods
Time Master saga
The Chronicles of the Black Company
Wheel of Time
The Neverending Story
The Princess Bride
Ursula K. Le Guin
Stephen R. Donaldson
Brandon Sanderson
Robin Hobb
Andrzej Sapkowski
Gene Wolfe
Jack Vance
R. A. Salvatore

Isaac Asimov
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [and tthe other books]
Rendezvous with rama
The martian chronicles

and I'm too tired to post more.

I finished 0, but I wrote just under three if that counts for anything.

>>5970312
Dude thanks, I don't get the zealous hate for Rothfuss or Sanderson. They're not god-writers, but they aren't these abominations either.

I wasn't a fan of dragon lance (I read one that was a journal from a war and another that was some native-ish guy versus lizard people), but the rest I will start looking into.

I am finally getting into fantasy after only being a casual SF reader.

>>5967396
I averaged one book per hour. Of course, some weeks, when I had too much work, I hardly read anything, so the week after I had to make up for it by speed reading about twelve books an hour. It was hard going, but I feel worth it in the end. I hope to read every book in history by March next year.

>>5970559
Top kek

I didn't even start reading until January of last year so I'm not fast at it yet. I read 16 in total. It would have been more but I knocked out the Game of Thrones series so that took up a good chunk of time.

>>5967967

I do about 50 000 words per six hours.

19, 20 if counting lolita which I started christmas day and finished this past wednesday

>>5973463
well we're not counting that you cheating faggot

101

15

I was busy

Do audio books count?

>>5967396
>mr hands.gif
And I read 64 according to goodreads

>>5967396
20?
2014 was a good year for me, read so many good ones.
Portrait of the Artist
Ulysses
Don Quixote
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Meme Meridian
Journey to the end of the night
Crying of Lot 49

were the best ones