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Goodreads reading challenge Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:01:36 2017 No.10322006 [Reply] [Original]

Have y'all managed to read as much as you intended to at the start of the year?Why/why not?

My goal wasn't very ambitious due to stress, but at least I'm on track.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:03:19 2017 No.10322010 >>10322006 I also try for 1 book every 2 weeks. I've done slightly better than that this year because I went to the beach for a 2 week vacation and cranked out several

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:05:55 2017 No.10322024 >>10322006 I'm behind by like 27 books because I got separated from my book collection and free time and future by homelessness.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:11:16 2017 No.10322037 File: 1.05 MB, 694x5625, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322006 I did it! I read some books!

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:17:20 2017 No.10322059 >>10322037 is history of the munster anabaptists the most underrated classic of our time

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:20:12 2017 No.10322072 File: 33 KB, 220x309, 220px-Jan_van_Leiden_by_Aldegrever.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322059 Its a fantastic book, and the backstory is amazing. The work is Bockelson: A Tale of Mass Insanity

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:23:02 2017 No.10322085 >>10322037 I like your taste. Are you older than 30?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:23:35 2017 No.10322088 >>10322085 35 :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:37:16 2017 No.10322152 File: 28 KB, 836x387, Screenshot_2017-11-27-10-36-19-352_com.goodreads.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Almost there

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:39:29 2017 No.10322165 >>10322037 How did you get this view?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:40:31 2017 No.10322167 >>10322165 https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017 while signed in (or 16 15 whatever)

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:41:27 2017 No.10322170 >>10322167 Thank you!

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:44:58 2017 No.10322186 File: 161 KB, 659x917, ss+(2017-11-27+at+08.44.14).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is the most amount of pages I have read in a year since I started reading, too! I am pleased.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:46:43 2017 No.10322193 >>10322167 >>10322170 Nice, ty. Apparently I've read a book that only one other user has read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:50:21 2017 No.10322208 File: 47 KB, 641x241, why.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322006

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 11:57:27 2017 No.10322229 >>10322037 How did you like Independent People? I've never seen it mentioned here. Come to think of it I've never seen an Icelandic book mentioned here bar some of the old sagas. It's a shame since Halldór Laxness is such a great writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 12:00:11 2017 No.10322245 >>10322037 >>10322186 >4.3 average rating >4.4 average rating Why do so many people literally rate nothing but 4s and 5s? IMO 4 is only for really good books and 5 for absolute masterpieces.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 12:02:09 2017 No.10322249 >>10322245 I used to not care that much, but lately I've been thinking more about ratings and started to rate things lower. However, as far as books go, I've read some good shit lately.

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 12:07:06 2017 No.10322267

>>10322229
I thought it ranged from excellent in the beginning to a total let down at the end, with the actual last chapter being somewhat redeeming. The first half shined.

>>10322245
I only rate books 4 (flawed but stayed with me) or 5 stars (an amazing book that profoundly effected me) and less than that are usually ok, or it doesnt matter. I basically give 5 stars to sort out my favorite books. Sorry for blog post.

I only rated 6 books 5 stars out of 52 so far this year:
The Master of Hestviken
Bockelson
Arrian's Anabasis
Confessions of Justified Sinner
A Distant Mirror
The Red and the Black

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 12:08:47 2017 No.10322270 >>10322267 My 4s and 5s serve a similar purpose. I usually only rate lower if I've been especially disappointed or irritated by a book for some reason, and that doesn't happen all that often luckily.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 12:13:44 2017 No.10322286 >>10322267 Interesting. I felt like the latter half of the book was better. The book shows a reality that alot of Icelanders at the time had to deal with or were at least familiar with. That is one of the reasons I liked it so much I think.

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 12:19:50 2017 No.10322308

>>10322286
I liked the idea of the cursed croft and Kolumkilli standing as a barrier to power and success, I felt like taking out a bad loan took away from the struggle that played out until the slaughter of the sheep and the death of the son and turned it into an obviously true but somewhat uninteresting social commentary. I did like the end when the consumptive daughter walks independently from her fathers horse.

It was a solid book that effected me, but I felt it was flawed insofar as my enjoyment of it and sense of what its purpose was.

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 12:52:51 2017 No.10322414

>>10322267
Did you like Zama? How did you find out about DiBenedetto? I'm a spic and I heard him mentioned in an interview by Roberto Bolaño years ago. I was finally going to get around to reading him when I saw that they've just started to publish English translations of his work. I'm glad he's getting that kind of exposure.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 13:04:34 2017 No.10322454 >>10322037 cute birds, bill

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 13:09:34 2017 No.10322467 How can you plan out the number of books you're going to read in a year when books vary widely in length?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 13:17:18 2017 No.10322496 >>10322467 you pick a number

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 13:33:29 2017 No.10322537

>>10322467
You can also just choose a number of pages to read in a year instead of books if you want to. Personally I choose books instead and I always try to raise the bar a little each year. Last year I managed to read 30 books (not much, but hey) so for this year I decided to try to read 40 books and I've finished 35 as of now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 13:40:29 2017 No.10322555 File: 39 KB, 324x180, 2017.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] done

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 14:00:05 2017 No.10322619 >>10322555 Sebastian i assume

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 14:08:59 2017 No.10322660 >>10322414 It was bad, I read the review in the NYRB. It was disjointed, with useless and inappropriate magical realism. Standing alone the last chapter was somewhat amusing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 15:16:45 2017 No.10322870 >>10322414 Sensini, one of Bolaño's best and most popular short stories, was built around Bolaño's friendship with DiBenedetto.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 15:26:32 2017 No.10322901 File: 13 KB, 344x184, Goodreads.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lads, I did it!

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 15:29:05 2017 No.10322922 File: 119 KB, 150x150, 13743248448.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322037 I also read Arrian. Maybe I should read that Münster book. I'm sure Dan Carlin did a podcast about that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 15:35:36 2017 No.10322954 about 40 this year...mostly classical and Elizabethan English. Its been a year of attempted literary autodidacticism

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 15:37:52 2017 No.10322964

I don't count how many books I read because it discourages me from rereading books. It becomes a competition where I constantly try to outdo myself and that's not good for learning. I rarely see people with thousands of books read on their Goodreads profile have anything useful to say. I don't like them for the same reason I don't like booktubers, which is that they read so many different books that they don't specialize in anything so they can never go in depth. Their reviews and analysis are always surface level generics.

Counting books is also not even a good way to track how much you're reading because I could spend a few months reading Plato: The Complete Works or I could read a few hundred short stories in less time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 15:39:51 2017 No.10322977 File: 53 KB, 750x558, eo3349iqnf001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322033 teach me how senpai

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 15:39:52 2017 No.10322978 >>10322964 wow he busted this case right open

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 16:28:09 2017 No.10323201 >>10322964 You can just count a reread as having read 2 books. And noone says you have to pick a big goal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 16:35:20 2017 No.10323221 i'm shooting for 50 and done 45 so far, but i just bought a ps4 so we'll see

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:00:56 2017 No.10323621

>>10322922
Read Diary of a Man in Despair first, its why I read Bockelson. You feel so fuckin bad for the guy

>>10322964
I try to read a book a week just like I try to go to the gym 3 days a week just like I try to go to church on sundays just like I try to eat less than a tablespoon of sugar a day

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:04:07 2017 No.10323635

>>10322006

reading challenges don't even really matter because I record comic books on goodreads, which means I can read 20+ "books" in December if I want to reach a particular goal

but I do try to read around 100 books a year, and try to keep the actual novel count as high as I can manage

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:06:02 2017 No.10323640 >>10323635 Yeah I hit 50 books in a couple months at the rate I read comics. Substantially less novels but a fair amount this year at least.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:08:20 2017 No.10323648 I set my goal way too low. I only started my goodreads account in August, so I thought just to be sure I only set 10 books as my goal but I blew way past that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:18:26 2017 No.10323687 >>10322964 You could also count each of Plato's dialogues as a separate "book" and add like two dozen entries to your Goodreads account.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:23:05 2017 No.10323710 >>10323687 That would be cheating though

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 00:04:44 2017 No.10324999 File: 51 KB, 874x552, read.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 80% of it was pointless garbage though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 08:26:02 2017 No.10326347 >>10322186 How does one access this graph?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 08:28:37 2017 No.10326354 >>10322037 Is this on Goodreads

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 08:29:08 2017 No.10326359 >>10326354 see >>10322167

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 08:49:08 2017 No.10326428 File: 118 KB, 566x382, Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 14.48.27.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >thank you depression and BPD cokeslut gf.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 08:51:46 2017 No.10326436 >>10326428 there are 0 excuses for any failures

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 08:54:24 2017 No.10326444 >>10326428 does she read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 09:10:08 2017 No.10326496 File: 6 KB, 406x79, booo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >feelsOKman I have become a father so I've had much less time for reading. Only during my commute, the evenings are for my son

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 09:28:35 2017 No.10326554 >>10326496 congrats, you will get a lot more reading done when you are sitting at practices and classes waiting for them to be done in 4-8 years

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 09:28:47 2017 No.10326556 >>10326444 She used to

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 09:30:42 2017 No.10326563 >>10326554 Thank you :3

Anonymous Tue Nov 28 09:58:47 2017 No.10326656

>people claiming to have read hundreds of books in a year

What's the deal with this? Are they sad adults pumping up their stats on YA? Are they "speed reading" and telling themselves that they read a book because they looked at every word on every page? Or are they just actually way smarter than me and can easily read five to ten times my ceiling?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 10:02:22 2017 No.10326667 >>10326656 thats sebastian, he is a mentally ill shutin with a heart of gold. If he was korean he would have died at a video game cafe, but he is german, so he just reads at his house, and presumably pees in jugs

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 11:04:27 2017 No.10326903 >>10326667 Is he actually real? I thought he was just a meme. I want to visit him.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 11:07:37 2017 No.10326913 File: 108 KB, 400x381, 1483758699809.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >friend reading the bible >NIV

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 11:15:22 2017 No.10326944 >>10326656 Novels read extremely fast. 50 pages/hour is 2-3 novels every week.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 11:32:40 2017 No.10327023 File: 50 KB, 479x316, 000165.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] past 2 weeks considering continuing The Black Company, will probably do tonight not really considering tome 2 of Bas-Lag but maybe

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 11:41:48 2017 No.10327073 >>10322006 I read 104 books last year. Calming down this year because i'm tired of being a condescending fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 11:44:11 2017 No.10327087 >>10322006 9/24 desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 11:46:01 2017 No.10327095 >>10323687 damn u took the words from my mouth anon

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>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 12:24:48 2017 No.10327243 >>10323687 I gotta go by my ISBN's brah. The collected Lovecraft will sit on my Currently Reading shelf for as long as there is even one story I don't care to read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 13:18:32 2017 No.10327528 >>10326903 every time you say that sebastian is a meme a fairy dies

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 13:50:38 2017 No.10327697 File: 848 KB, 672x2420, badreads.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322037 Neato

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 19:11:22 2017 No.10329177 >>10327697 this is some boring looking shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 19:24:04 2017 No.10329231 >it's december FUCK

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 19:30:26 2017 No.10329252 File: 105 KB, 558x562, srafasa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322006 ye boi, i don't remember 3/4 of what I read but I did it

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 19:57:16 2017 No.10329322 >>10322037 >Ryszard Kapuscinski mah nigga

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 20:06:05 2017 No.10329339 >>10326428 shes not worth it m8

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 20:35:12 2017 No.10329419 why do you guys measure yourself by the amount of books you've read doesn't seem right

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 20:37:22 2017 No.10329426 >>10329419 >ourselves it's just a number of pages and books, man.

Anonymous Tue Nov 28 20:49:09 2017 No.10329459

>>10329419
I used to think of reading as a competition, which is why I was always so eager to build up my goodreads count. But now when I look back on what I've read I don't feel any satisfaction at all, my reading is just so awkward and nonsensical. I still like to use goodreads though to keep track of this stuff and know that I'm reading something, instead of just wasting away playing vidya

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 20:54:53 2017 No.10329473 >>10322006 this is some teenager social media bullshit. Free yourselves from the narcissistic lifestyle.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 21:00:48 2017 No.10329490 File: 1.18 MB, 688x5496, 2017read.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322006 >>10322037 I was also reading Journey to the west but i don't think that i would be able to finish it this year

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 21:07:40 2017 No.10329506 >>10322006 Who here /deletinggoodreadsaccountin2018/ here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 21:21:21 2017 No.10329538 >>10329473 It's a useful organizing tool and people don't care how much you read. It's mostly silent communal encouragement while everyone pursues their own ends, and it's pretty nice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 00:39:43 2017 No.10330175 >>10329419 Well when my depression comes around and tells me I haven't done shit with myself all year I can pull up the empirical evidence to disprove it

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 00:42:03 2017 No.10330182 >>10329339 She's the only one supporting me in my depression.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 00:42:29 2017 No.10330185 >>10330182 She's the cause of your depression.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 01:29:56 2017 No.10330368 >only read 20 (new) books this year because I have been busy getting pussy, working and studying Fuck /lit/ I am going backwards, help me!

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 01:59:27 2017 No.10330442 >>10330368 You're not going out of your way for sex are you? Satisfying your sexual needs is healthy, but if you're actively just trolling for pussy out of sport or incontinence you'd probably get more out of reading instead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 01:59:36 2017 No.10330443 >>10322006 If I include my required reading in college then yes. But I don't put that stuff on my goodreads

Anonymous Wed Nov 29 02:28:15 2017 No.10330503

>>10330442
When I said "getting pussy" I really meant developing a stable relationship with my girlfriend. Its just that after getting a gf I went from having the free time to read for 4-5 hours a day to having maybe 1 or 2 hours a day that I can actually focus on reading.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 12:08:21 2017 No.10331905 Bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 12:42:30 2017 No.10332069 >>10322006 Wont make 100 because im reading 500+ page books right now. Will get around 90.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 12:46:24 2017 No.10332087 File: 198 KB, 662x776, gfewx.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10332069 Forgot to add.

Anonymous Wed Nov 29 15:19:08 2017 No.10332621

> Books i read in this year
The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Man and Technics - Spengler
Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche
Blood Meridian - Mccarthy
Grow Youthful - David Miller
The Way of the Superior Man - Deida
Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
Patriotism - Mishima
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
A Son of God: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt - Savitri Devi
The Mystery of the Grail - Evola
Industrial Society and Its Future - Kaczynski
Dandelion Wine - Bradbury
Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard

Rate me /lit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 15:21:43 2017 No.10332628 Need more mishima

Anonymous Wed Nov 29 15:57:00 2017 No.10332740

>>10322006
Part 1 of my reading
Education of the Christian Prince by Erasmus
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas by Umberto Eco
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
Intention by G.E.M. Anscombe
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Problems of Moral Philosophy by Theodor W. Adorno
First and Last by Hilaire Belloc
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions by Wolfgang Smith
Malleus by Dan Abnett
Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Xenos by Dan Abnett
Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism; Considered i... by Juan Donoso Cortés
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
God by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Letters on the Spanish Inquisition by Joseph de Maistre By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed by Edward Feser
Dependent Rational Animals by Alasdair MacIntyre

Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:00:56 2017 No.10332752

>>10332740
Part 2
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The philosophical works of Leibnitz by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Holy Women by Pope Benedict XVI
The Devil in a Forest by Gene Wolfe
Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber
Castle of Days by Gene Wolfe
De Rationibus Fidei by Thomas Aquinas
Against the Errors of the Greeks by Thomas Aquinas
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Blue and Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein Four Discourses Against the Arians by Athanasius of Alexandria
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Atenagora by Athenagoras of Athens
Man and the State by Jacques Maritain
The First and Second Apologies by Justin Martyr
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Dialogue with Trypho by Justin Martyr
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 4 by Frederick Charles Copleston
The Plague by Albert Camus
Meditations and Devotions by John Henry Newman
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
Ethics and Politics by Alasdair MacIntyre
Saved in Hope by Pope Benedict XVI
Demian by Hermann Hesse Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God Is Love by Pope Benedict XVI Apostoli Fathers III. by Apostolic Fathers
Where is the new theology leading us by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Last Testament by Pope Benedict XVI The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Apostolic Fathers II. by Apostolic Fathers
Apostolic Fathers I. by Apostolic Fathers
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3 by Frederick Charles Copleston
The Essential Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Culture Industry by Theodor W. Adorno
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Maria Faustina Kowalska
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Selected Aphorisms by Edith Stein
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:05:23 2017 No.10332775 File: 62 KB, 540x330, Screenshot_2017-11-29-16-02-14-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322006 I didn't stand a fucking chance. I'm not complaining though, I enjoyed everything I read and I hope I can get to 30 by the end of the year

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:10:08 2017 No.10332796 File: 68 KB, 423x655, Capture.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] judge me harshly /lit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:29:11 2017 No.10332895 File: 868 KB, 634x1070, good1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10332775 *ALMOST everything, a couple were absolute trash and here are the books

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 18:08:10 2017 No.10333360 >>10322193 This happens to me all the time since I'm from a tiny euro country. I have to add those books myself quite often as well. >>10332740 Kaj ima?

Anonymous Wed Nov 29 21:20:35 2017 No.10334035
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Postin.

>>10322037
Nice non-meme taste.

>>10322245
>Why do so many people literally rate nothing but 4s and 5s? IMO 4 is only for really good books and 5 for absolute masterpieces.
Most people tend to read books they think they are likely to enjoy idk man.

>>10327697
>falling for jordan b petermeme this hard

>>10332796
Tbh I am super down with your taste you need to read more though wtf anon 24 books? That's only two a month...

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 21:21:39 2017 No.10334040 >>10332740 >>10332752 pink

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 21:41:18 2017 No.10334136 >>10332796 Not so bad just Prometheus rising, what the hell anon? >>10332895 please tell that you take reading as a hobby recently

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 21:55:04 2017 No.10334192 so far i read american psycho, catcher in the rye, and the great gatsby

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 23:20:54 2017 No.10334490 >>10334035 >you need to read more though Life gets in the way. I promise to do better next year senpai. >>10334136 >Prometheus rising, what the hell anon? /lit/ has memed me once again. I rated it 2/5 fyi

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 23:25:09 2017 No.10334500 I read 20 books this year, I'd like to read more but depression. I also don't set goals because I know I won't accomplish them and I'll feel worse later.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 23:27:45 2017 No.10334509 I'm at 67/60, and on track to get probably 4 or 5 more by the end of the year.

Anonymous Wed Nov 29 23:54:20 2017 No.10334593

>>10334509
Here's a list - I read everything from pulp trash to masterpieces and have no regerts:

>East of Eden by Steinbeck
>Ancient Gonzo Wisdom by Hunter Thompson
>On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
>The Second Generation by Weis & Hickman
>Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Neiman
>Dragons of Summer Flame by Weis & Hickman
>Light in August by William Faulkner
>Rebel Dream by Aaron Allston
>Rebel Stand by Aaron Allston
>The Demon Lover by Robin Morgan
>Revival by Stephen King
>The Plague by Camus
>Under the Dome by Stephen King
>Desperation by Stephen King
>A People's History of the United States by Zinn
>The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter Thompson
>Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
>Runoff by Clay Matthews
>Not that Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
>Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless by Matt Hart
>Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
>Jacob, Menahem, & Mimoun by Marcel Benabou
>All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
>Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
>A Case of Need by Michael Crichton
>Love & Other Hungers by Susan O'dell Underwood
>Looking Awry by Zizek
>Interrogating the Real by Zizek
>A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
>Bacchae by Euripides
>The Prague Cemetery by Eco
>Poetics by Aristotle
>The Prince by Machiavelli
>Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
>Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri
>Existential Errands by Norman Mailer
>The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by Tolkien
>Words of a Rebel by Kropotkin
>The Tempest by Shakespeare
>The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
>Discourse by David Howarth
>The Rum Diary by Hunter Thompson
>Radiant Action by Matt Hart
>Radiant Companion by Matt Hart
>Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
>Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard
>The Reaver by Richard Lee Byers
>Isms: Understanding Art by Stephen Little
>Hamlet by Shakespeare
>Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by DFW
>Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons by Vonnegut
>Simpatico by Sam Shepard
>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Vonnegut
>What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
>Surprise the World by Michael Frost
>One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
>Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
>Oleanna by David Mamet
>The Sacred Canopy by Peter Berger
>Closing Time by Heller
>John Adams by McCullough
>The Collected Poems by Yeats
>M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
>Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
>The Awful Rowing Toward God by Anne Sexton
>Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
>The Crucible by Arthur Miller

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 23:57:51 2017 No.10334604 >>10334593 >Not that Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

Anonymous Thu Nov 30 00:03:24 2017 No.10334620

>>10334604
Girls was an excellent television show, so I took a shot. It was a middling collection of essays much less interesting and self-reflective than the writing in the show. That said, she actually isn't a terrible essayist. A handful were actually quite good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 00:13:42 2017 No.10334640 >>10323687 I like to count each chapter as a separate book. So I read The Catcher in the Rye in a couple of days and boom 26 books I'm halfway done with my reading goals for the year.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 00:40:41 2017 No.10334696 File: 732 KB, 718x745, booksread.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322006 >only read 9/20 Jesus fuck I failed big time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 00:44:36 2017 No.10334715 File: 1.09 MB, 1892x5255, screenshot-www.goodreads.com-2017-11-29-23-38-26-630.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] R8, h8 and masturb8. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7002468-carlos-eduardo

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 00:45:52 2017 No.10334716 >>10334715 Is Napoleon the Great as good as some are shilling?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 00:58:09 2017 No.10334744 I didn't read nearly as much as I shouldve. Had a pretty good start (like 13 books by April) but since May I've only managed to read JR and The Recognitions

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:01:32 2017 No.10334754 File: 3.06 MB, 4032x3024, F296B711-30B0-4860-A1EA-4F5CD923625C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10334716 Absolutely, my dude. I’m full Napoboo now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:04:21 2017 No.10334762 File: 359 KB, 628x673, 1509658509596.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10332895 >>10334696 >>10334715 how more plebeian can this board get

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:16:13 2017 No.10334790 >>10334762 sorry fag not everyone reads old pointless boring crap to try and prove how smart they are

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:21:21 2017 No.10334795 >>10334790 yeah you're still a pleb tho

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:21:49 2017 No.10334796 File: 160 KB, 804x1037, 1509591760384.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10334790 >i am a brainlet in denial that will not challenge myself to read something other than pulp because i know that i am a mouthbreathing mongoloid

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:23:29 2017 No.10334802 >>10334790 But he's right, the ratio of utter shit to everything else in those pics is remarkable. And /lit/ is supposed to be elitist...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:24:35 2017 No.10334807 File: 29 KB, 477x387, 1467296416976.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw you haven't begun counting but you're looking forward to 1 book a week in 2018

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:27:07 2017 No.10334818 >>10334790 you might like >>>/tv/ better mate

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:38:51 2017 No.10334836 >>10334762 Embrace the plebeian life, my dude.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:39:54 2017 No.10334837 File: 603 KB, 1350x1722, 035FA6E9-0994-48E9-971D-247197889707.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10334836 Forgot muh pic.

Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:50:55 2017 No.10334855

>>10334795
>>10334796
>>10334818
>>10334802
guess i hit the nail on the head. get back to your convoluted boring books no one cares about anymore. why are you wasting your time responding to a lowly pleb? lets be real none of you fags read for shit lmao. the absolute state of /lit/ is hilarious. you guys are like the dunning kruger of book reading.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:56:16 2017 No.10334861 >>10334855 you're still here?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 01:57:27 2017 No.10334864 >>10334861 you're still responding?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 02:01:28 2017 No.10334873 File: 18 KB, 182x268, go_to_tv_alrdy_mate.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10334864 i just thought you might've gone already to see the latest s. king adaption

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 02:02:52 2017 No.10334875 >>10322006 ive exceeded my goal and replenished my stores of knowledge, sharpened my wit and become mentally/intellectually active for the first time in years anon. my grades are perfect and i don’t have to study to get A’s its bretty great

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 03:23:11 2017 No.10335016 >>10334035 >memerson Do you have an actual argument against any of the authors or just the middleman?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 05:35:35 2017 No.10335226 >>10322037 How do people screenshot this long of an image? Yes I am a dumb-dumb but I'm sure it's not just printscreen

Anonymous Thu Nov 30 05:44:12 2017 No.10335241
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>>10322006
I've been catching up on everything I've missed out on; read some of the Greeks and particularly philosophical writings from that civilization. Mostly been reading through the BBC's 100 essential books to cover casual areas. Going to start reading Life of Pi in a moment, don't know what to expect.

>>10334837
This looks amazing anon!

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 08:19:19 2017 No.10335531 >>10335241 What did you think about The Romanovs?

Anonymous Thu Nov 30 08:34:06 2017 No.10335560
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>>10335531
Not going to lie that I got a sadistic thrill out of Tsarevich Alexie's death otherwise felt rather bad for them, though they really should have sorted out their identity crisis far earlier and exploiting borderline fundamentalism whilst ignoring industrialization had no chance of ending on a positive note, still it became surprisingly tense where Nicholas II attempted to defuse what became the First World War though lost his chance at doing so, you just want to give him a hug and tell him that everything will be okay. Also found it ironic how Russian Royalty became practically intertwined with promiscuity and drunken parties on a frequent basis, really wasn't expecting that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 10:11:14 2017 No.10335793 >>10330368 Boi quit that shit, bussy is the only acceptable thing for a patrician /fitlit/ to pound.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 10:12:34 2017 No.10335796 >>10332087 I'm really curious about that Third party sex work and pimps books. Would you consider it to be one of the most underrated classics of our time?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 11:33:37 2017 No.10336112 >>10322006 No :( Because I'm an internet addicted lowest of scums piece of shite that is also very lazy

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 13:39:30 2017 No.10336552 >>10334754 is Rubicon any good or is it just a popular history book?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 14:42:03 2017 No.10336817 >>10336552 its pop history, holland does nice easy to understand narratives that i would recommend to highschool sophmores. They are not offensive, but i wouldnt cite it.

Anonymous Thu Nov 30 20:58:10 2017 No.10338173

>>10335016
>Do you have an actual argument against any of the authors or just the middleman?
It's clear that 90% of these books are being read because they were recommended by Peterson. I don't take issue with any one book in particular, but I do take issue with constructing your entire taste around the cult-like worship of a youtube charlatan. I never claimed to have a so-called "actual argument" against any of the authors and was, in fact, explicitly criticizing this kind of embarrassing reverence to the middleman.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 30 21:29:55 2017 No.10338260 >>10322006 i never knew this was a thing, this might be what i need holy shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 04:36:20 2017 No.10339548 File: 1.05 MB, 855x1501, Screenshot_20171201-103348~01.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] (some books I rated 1 star)

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 04:37:42 2017 No.10339552 File: 10 KB, 267x400, 560958.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10322006 >quantitative reading this should be your next book before you fall any lower

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 04:39:46 2017 No.10339556 File: 110 KB, 617x288, spiritual-language-decline.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10338173 there's nothing wrong with memerson, as long as you realize he is a fucking psychologist, not a philosopher nor a literature professor

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 04:46:45 2017 No.10339563 2996. GET ON MY LEVEL. GET OUT OF LIT IF YOU HAVENT READ AS MUCH AS ME.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 04:54:34 2017 No.10339574 >>10339563 words?

Anonymous Fri Dec 1 07:45:22 2017 No.10340075

>>10338173
There's no cultism to speak of whatsoever. What he talked about in terms of mythico-religious analysis was very interesting to me as a subject and so I decided to use his references as a launching point. Do people not decry taking it from the horse's mouth anyway? That they want people to read the actual source, not take the messenger for gospel? And yet it's just more disingenuous noise. But I suppose you're just being irrational anyway. It's not as though he was repeatedly citing Eliade, Neumann, Kierkegaard, Aurelius, Seneca, or Dante in his lectures. All you needed to see was Jung and a Bible, as well as his own book, and suddenly you're overcome with indignance. You seem awfully boxed in to rigid methods of compartmentalization, a pathos one might err for cultlike behavior.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 13:44:00 2017 No.10341108 File: 38 KB, 640x480, 1487704097599.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10340075 >There's no cultism to speak of whatsoever. Mein gott

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 13:50:57 2017 No.10341136 >>10322033 SEAN GET OUT REEE

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 13:53:36 2017 No.10341145 >>10322037 How was the pursuit of power, and also if I can make a recommendation in terms of historical books, The Thirty Years War by Wedgwood was fantastic in my opinion

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 13:58:43 2017 No.10341164 >>10341136 y-you too

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 16:34:47 2017 No.10341752 >>10322208 how are u 5 books ahead with 41/40?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 16:37:28 2017 No.10341765 This thread represents everything that's wrong with /lit/ fags.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 16:44:12 2017 No.10341807 >>10341765 Such as? People reading and enjoying books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 16:45:32 2017 No.10341815 >>10341765 lmao at this fuckn nob right here

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 1 21:22:36 2017 No.10342844 >>10341145 I read it, peter Wilson did a better job. Evans is great tho. >>10341765 This is one of the best threads in months, I got real recommendations

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