2017 accomplishment thread

[Anonymous No.10476403]

>tfw readlet

Any advice on reading more without getting overwhelmed? I plan to take on some longer and more difficult books (by my standards) and I don't know how I'll manage. There are so many titles that interest me, even if it's just genre fiction, and I feel like I'm never going to get to them because of my slow pace.

[Anonymous No.10476406]

You will never read a lot if you force things you don't like unto yourself. Keep reading what you would usually do until something more challenging piques your interest.

[Anonymous No.10476408]

Start with Ulysses

[Anonymous No.10476419]

>>10476403
Try reading in every possible situation you find yourself in. In public transport, in toilet, in queue, in bed before sleep. That will add up to a couple of hours after a week.

[Anonymous No.10476513]

>>10476406
>keep reading jack vance
that will do nothing

[Anonymous No.10476517]

i refuse to believe OP isnt baiting

[Anonymous No.10476555]

>>10476403
is this a gr year in review thread

[Anonymous No.10476800]

Considering this was my first year of serious reading.
I say to myself. Not bad, not bad at all.
Thus year I will double the numbers and so help me god.

[Anonymous No.10477665]

>>10476555
Sell me on Talvisota

[Anonymous No.10477763]

>>10476403
I finished Gateway a few days ago. What did you think of it?

[OP No.10477931]

btw the two books whose titles aren't on the icons are The Northern Caves and Unsong, both of which I liked a lot.

>>10476406
Yeah but a lot of good things are hidden behind difficulty barriers and I'll never get to them if I only read pageturners.
I guess I don't enjoy the experience of reading as much as I enjoy "having read", if that makes sense. With nonfiction it's obvious - I like new knowledge, but even with fiction I seem to enjoy reminiscing and contemplating stories and sentences much more than I enjoy flipping the pages; the latter I tend to do impatiently and in short bursts.

>>10476419
I actually do that a lot, which is ironic because I don't read that much when I'm just sitting at home (which I have opportunities for as I'm a semi-NEET)

>>10476517
It would be very subtle bait, don't you think? The book list is pretty eclectic and it's not like I said I liked all of them - Ready Player One is really as shitty as they told me and I regret not listening (and not dropping it 3 chapters in).

>>10477763
I loved it. The psychological stuff is pretty banal but also in a way that somehow hits me directly. Like that quote:

>Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

I mean Pohl was obviously not the first to think about death this way. But the way he put it just resonated with me strongly.

[Anonymous No.10478105]

>>10476800
>>10476555
What website or app is this?

[Anonymous No.10478188]

>>10478105
I think it's Goodreads

[Anonymous No.10478192]

>>10477665
500 page intelligence assessment of WW from a holistic, realpolitik, non-hindisight POV. I'm not a good salesman, am I? It will probably bore you to death unless you are autistic Fingolian.

>>10478105
GR

[Anonymous No.10478316]

>>10478188
>>10478192
Thanks

[Anonymous No.10478319]

>>10476408
I unironically started my /lit/ journey with Ulysses. I am Irish though so that made it slightly less murky.

[Anonymous No.10478996]

>>10476555
fuck off kantbot knockoff

[Anonymous No.10479010]

>>10478319
u r a retarded

[Anonymous No.10479040]

>>10478996
why the fuck are twitter pseud "personalities" constantly getting mentioned on this board now?

[Anonymous No.10480263]

>>10476403
Try to tackle to rest of Hemingway and get more into more Lovecraft, there should be an intro to Lovecraft thread up now. If you're into sci-fi see pic related. Have fun this year, anon.

[Anonymous No.10481003]

>>10480263
Is there a chart like this but for horror?

[Anonymous No.10481070]

>>10476403
MOSSACK! DISHA, DISHA!