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Anonymous Mon Oct 29 12:35:28 2018 No.12004623 [Reply] [Original]

How many books have you read this year /lit/?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 12:40:32 2018 No.12004645 >>12004623 12. This has been a rough year and haven’t had much time/motivation to read

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 12:41:58 2018 No.12004650 Gonna hit my 3rd tomorrow or the day after. Havent read anything in a few years now and it feels good to get back into it.. I think I can read a dozen books before the year ends.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 12:50:37 2018 No.12004692 >>12004623 30 Definitely not gonna make 52 which was my goal. I’ll shoot for 40 next year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 12:55:36 2018 No.12004714 >>12004623 16. Work and school have been fucking me over.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 12:56:20 2018 No.12004716 File: 7 KB, 196x250, 53f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw almost achieved my reading goal at 46/50 books of the year so far I'm going to make it!

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:29:15 2018 No.12004859 >>12004623 14, pretty satisfied with it. >>12004846 How can I see the number of pages?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:31:10 2018 No.12004866 About 10, but most of them were over 500 pages.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:33:26 2018 No.12004875 16, but probably will be a bit over 20 by NYE. Not counting course literature and reports and stuff

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:35:58 2018 No.12004891 I think I'm up to 122

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:38:13 2018 No.12004911 6 Dostoyevskys and book 3 of Gulag Will probably have Ulysses, Intelligent Investor, and Blood Meridian done by years end

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:40:27 2018 No.12004926 File: 178 KB, 478x1017, 5CF952E3-1E3C-43AC-8F26-597360E2B397.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Feeling pretty good. Gonna shoot for 2 or 3 more larger books before the end of the year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:55:48 2018 No.12005000 >>12004623 First year of reading again, went for 13, I'm on 17. Next year I'll shoot for 24.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:58:46 2018 No.12005016 I read the instructions manual for my new headphones, does that count as a book?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 13:59:40 2018 No.12005021 64 baby

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:03:16 2018 No.12005037 >>12004859 "See Your 2017 Year in Books" -> "See next year"

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:03:36 2018 No.12005039

>>12004623
My goal for the year was also 20, and I'm on 23. Gonna finish out the year, and see what I end up with. However, I don't think I'll set another target goal. I found myself more concerned with checking off the list, instead of active engagement. I also fell for a few dense memes that slowed me down, a bit. I want to do more deep dives and annotations next year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:03:58 2018 No.12005041 >>12004623 About 12-15. Life's been getting in the way, but i'm alright with what i've read

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:09:58 2018 No.12005075 12/20

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:13:19 2018 No.12005094 Zero (0)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:22:00 2018 No.12005119 81/100 Had 35 last year

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:32:24 2018 No.12005164

>>12004623
82 out of 100. I'm happily on track to finish a goal for once. It's been a good year of just devouring everything at a rabid pace, but I think next year I'm going to take it slow and focus on getting really into a few more difficult works, and trying to put more work into my own writing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:49:37 2018 No.12005218 >>12004623 25 My goal was 26 Should hit that by this weekend. Gonna try Middlemarch and if I have time David Copperfield. I’m playing with house money at this point.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 14:58:27 2018 No.12005245 15 + the 4 I am reading now. Aiming for ~30 by the end of the year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 15:01:37 2018 No.12005263 36, gonna go for 40 by the end of year but we'll see cause school next month is gonna take up a ton of time

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 15:03:30 2018 No.12005269 i have read eight books this year i unabashedly enjoy these "everybody replies, nobody reads" threads. it is in this process that i shall be made totally empty

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 15:03:58 2018 No.12005272 25 so far. Read 50 books last year, but I've been busier and even more depressed this year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 15:09:15 2018 No.12005297 How the hell are you guys only reading 20 books a year? You would read more than that by limiting yourself to a chapter per day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 15:11:35 2018 No.12005307 >>12005297 It really is no wonder why this place is so garbage. They're like "movie buffs" who only watch two or three movies a year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 16:45:42 2018 No.12005706 >>12005297 I don't read garbage.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 16:50:56 2018 No.12005732 >>12005706 You don't read much at all. I don't read trash.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 16:53:17 2018 No.12005745 35 since August

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 16:56:23 2018 No.12005762 >>12005732 What do you know about how much I read autismo?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 16:56:39 2018 No.12005765 >>12004623 >Treating books like a high-score table Yeesh I could read 20 books in a day if I wanted, but this thread needs to stop reading in the children's section >inb4 "It's YA Fiction!"

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:07:24 2018 No.12005802 I've read 5,236 books :) All in this year. Beat that, silly boys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:07:56 2018 No.12005805 >>12005762 Because you responded to me asking how people can only read 20 books a year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:10:41 2018 No.12005821 File: 29 KB, 540x475, 1484347283150.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm at 54

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:13:22 2018 No.12005832 I'm at 20 out of a goal of 24. Next year I won't set a goal: books vary in length and difficulty, so counting isn't very useful, and I don't need the extra motivation from the challenge as I've already formed a fairly consistent reading habit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:17:38 2018 No.12005853 25 Good amount of 1k~ pages book. I’m doing pretty fine I think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:30:19 2018 No.12005903 >>12005805 Still doesn't say anything about how much I read, you're just assuming things. Autismo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:31:39 2018 No.12005908 >>12004623 about 30

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:36:08 2018 No.12005939

>>12005903
I asked how people can read only 20 books a year and you respond by trying to rationalize reading so little. You effectively said you only read 20 books a year because you don't read garbage. You're insecure about it so now you're trying to pretend you read more than that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:38:29 2018 No.12005949 >>12004623 >reducing an artistic experience to 'Congrats!' and a good boy banner

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:49:26 2018 No.12005988 >>12005949 >discouraging ANYTHING that might get more people to crack open a book more often

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:50:02 2018 No.12005991 >>12005949 >reducing reducing an artistic experience to 'Congrats!' and a good boy banner to a single line of greentext

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 17:52:02 2018 No.12006001

>>12005939
Wew, that's a lot of assumptions you're making there lad, calling me insecure and all when you're the one that admitted that it doesn't matter what you read if you just read a chapter a day. Go back to reading psychology today or whatever pleb magazine you're reading today. Post about it in Goodreads too!

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 18:00:51 2018 No.12006052

>>12006001
I said you could finish more than 20 books per year if you limited yourself to a chapter per day, meaning in order to read 20 books per year you would probably be reading less than a chapter per day which is why I find it so odd that are only reading 20 books per year. Not only are you not reading much, but you're a bad reader too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 18:45:56 2018 No.12006210 >>12006001 >>12006052 just post what you both are reading so we can see who’s the pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:14:46 2018 No.12006339 File: 15 KB, 317x189, goodreads.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12004623 last winter was the first time I really started to read for pleasure, thus the low yearly goal lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:20:11 2018 No.12006367 >>12005297 I work 63 hours per week and commute another 16 (though I do a lot of my reading while riding the train to be desu.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:23:29 2018 No.12006380 >>12004623 48/52 but I feel like I am cheating since the last like 10 have been short books of less than 200 pages, still history stuff that I am interested in but still.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:24:20 2018 No.12006385 File: 163 KB, 894x799, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12004623

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:24:41 2018 No.12006386

>>12006052
I read TBK over the summer but it took me about a month and a half, I don't know about others, but I don't speed read through a book and often read over a section again to get the full concept (an example of that would be in the chapter about The Grand Inquisitor). Not to mention it's hard to find time what with work, community involvement, and family commitments

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:27:02 2018 No.12006393

>>12005297
Because some people have jobs, some go to college. Some don't devote their entire life just to read books but like to experience other things as well - movies and music. And most importantly, not all people read book X and jump straight into book Y without giving a second thought about what the hell they've just read. Also, in my humble opinion, as long as a person willingly reads ONE book a year and they've found enjoyment and satisfaction from it, who are you to take it away from them by saying "hurr durr not enough read more faggot". Live and let live

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:43:40 2018 No.12006480 File: 396 KB, 750x1176, C06EC35A-28B7-4DF3-AF33-8693D1733D0D.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hola cabros, cómo les va?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:48:59 2018 No.12006511 >>12004692 This. Think I'm going to use the last of this failed year to sink into a doorstopper like Ulysses or something. Some sort of book that would be difficult to manage when I'm hitting my weekly goals next year

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:50:10 2018 No.12006519 >>12006480 >leyendo Salinger en español Imita a Seymour Glass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:53:32 2018 No.12006537 >>12004926 Good list, I also read agape and IJ this year heh. What'd you think of Plus?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:54:48 2018 No.12006545 File: 52 KB, 624x356, Screen Shot 2018-10-29 at 4.54.10 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bangbang

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 19:55:59 2018 No.12006557 >>12006545 congratulations!!! Have some more dopamine, faggot Reading is NOT about processing as many words as possible

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 20:01:31 2018 No.12006574 >>12006519 I learned my lesson t b h. Read some stuff in english and there’s just so much more personality in the text than what you find in translations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 20:06:48 2018 No.12006593 >>12006545 FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 20:17:48 2018 No.12006647 I read 20 but I only started reading again in July.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 20:23:36 2018 No.12006673 >>12004623 not enough to get any smarter

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 20:26:25 2018 No.12006689 >>12006545 post books

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 20:33:35 2018 No.12006725 >>12006557 t. read 5 books this year but still considers himself a readfag

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 20:37:09 2018 No.12006752 >>12006557 Imagine having a moment of pleasure due to brain chemistry and then seeking to repeat that experience What a pleb!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:28:20 2018 No.12007009 File: 250 KB, 738x869, Screenshot_2018-10-30_06-56-56.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You all are amateurs

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:30:21 2018 No.12007018 File: 93 KB, 750x705, 1538541527700.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12007009 >1 page book

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:31:03 2018 No.12007025 >>12005297 /lit/ don't want to read easy books but they are lazy so they shitpost all day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:31:17 2018 No.12007028 File: 275 KB, 647x526, hm.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12007009 t. amateur

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:32:43 2018 No.12007037 >>12006385 how do you get to this page?

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:36:22 2018 No.12007054

10 out of 15 books
The criteria was each book must be at least 400+ pages.
I read Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, The War with Hannibal by Livy and other door stoppers.
Right now I'm stuck on The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
I did rather well all things considered but next time though I'll shoot for a higher number of books and they aren't door stoppers this time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:44:24 2018 No.12007092 File: 3.60 MB, 593x5934, Opera Snapshot_2018-10-30_070211_www.goodreads.com.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12007018 its an audiobook fag >>12007028 >smug pepe.png

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:45:19 2018 No.12007100 >>12006557 the best of the 55 was this one called Sugma i think you may have heard of it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:46:21 2018 No.12007108 Bought more than 50 books, read 4 or 5.

>>	Grandpa Mon Oct 29 21:46:31 2018 No.12007112 What app or webite is this? My recall is fading in more recent times and it looks to be useful.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:47:31 2018 No.12007122 >>12007092 based lem reader

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:48:35 2018 No.12007125 >>12007112 goodreads.com don't worry, many fellow /lit/ bros already have a goodreads account. It's manly and bro thing to blogposting what you read on a bookblog if you hang out with us.

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:49:02 2018 No.12007127

>>12006393
You know what's really sad. Apparently if you read just one book, you've read more than half the population of the USA. I don't know about other countries they did a survey and discovered that a whole swath of the population of the USA will never read a book in the course of the year.
Some even admitted they didn't read anything at all like magazines, newspapers, articles (even clickbait articles of celebrities) etc but preferred instead to watch tv or surf the net for videos.
50% is a mind boggling number. I thought people were lying in the survey when they said they didn't even read celebrity news stuff but apparently it's true. You can just watch videos and tv programs of celebrity news and never have to read about it.

>>	Grandpa Mon Oct 29 21:50:49 2018 No.12007135 >>12007125 I'll put it on my toolbar! Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 21:55:36 2018 No.12007155 >>12007135 Its unironically useful for cataloging what you've read, the community sucks though. Its kind of like MAL in that regard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 22:05:09 2018 No.12007198 >>12007037 Go to your profile, to the right below the reading challenge is a link to "Profile's year in books" - click on that and choose which year you wish to display

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 23:14:53 2018 No.12007529 >>12004623 Annual challenge this year was 4 books. Went crazy this year and I'm at 203 somehow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 23:22:24 2018 No.12007568 23, I think. Which is way more than I expected honestly, I wasn't keeping count and just tallied them up off my shelf the other day

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 02:02:49 2018 No.12008108 >>12006052 Stop posting on 4chan and read some Harry Potter

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 03:08:04 2018 No.12008317 >>12006537 Plus was fucking wild. Insanely difficult to parse, but almost reads like poetry once you're in the language of it.

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 03:19:47 2018 No.12008353
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Started reading again after a long break last year. Pretty happy with how many books I've read this year, hopefully I'll be able to keep up this pace next year, even though a lot of the books I read this year have been quite short. Also just signed up on Good reads and listed the ones I've read this year, so far I'm up to 22/23 books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 03:20:59 2018 No.12008359 >>12008353 Also, am I the only one who rated almost every single book they've read this year at least 4 stars? I think I gave one book three, the others are all 4 or 5 stars.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 04:08:16 2018 No.12008464 File: 19 KB, 173x163, 81CF9045-C42C-43D3-B36A-6A938AED604B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12006367 >I work 63 hours per week and commute another 16

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 04:16:33 2018 No.12008473 >>12008359 Yeah, pretty much all of mine are 4 or 5 stars except for 2 or 3 which are 2-3 stars I think I'm just good at picking books I'm gonna like

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 04:16:37 2018 No.12008474 File: 70 KB, 604x603, 1506112424501.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >using signaling sites to show how "in-group" you are.

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 04:17:43 2018 No.12008476

>>12008464
Just to clarify that’s 12 1/2 hr per day of free time. You have to sleep 7 hours. If you ARENT working on one of those seven days then this whole system gets weird too, because you end up with barely enough time on the weekdays. Let’s say you don’t work Sunday.

This means that for six days you’re working and driving for 79 hours. That leaves you with just under 11 hr of free time. And you have to sleep for 7 or so. You get UNDER 3 hours of time for yourself PER DAY?!? Lord help you if you have Saturday off too, Holy fucking shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 04:17:52 2018 No.12008477 >>12004623 24

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 04:21:08 2018 No.12008489 >>12006367 What do you do for work?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:00:17 2018 No.12008549 I've been reading in a foreign language lately which has absolutely cucked my reading speed. I'm at max 10 pages a day.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:02:27 2018 No.12008554 >>12008549 I read exclusively in English (not my native lang.) and I have read 54 books (25000~ pages) in 2018. Are you just learning a new language?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:03:25 2018 No.12008556 >>12008474 I have no friends on GR, who tf am I signaling to?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:04:35 2018 No.12008563 >>12008474 I only read outside literature which would get be fired from my job and shunned from circles if they knew about it though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:04:44 2018 No.12008564 >>12008554 Yeah, just started Spanish a few months ago.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:05:46 2018 No.12008568 >>12008564 What made you choose Spanish?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:06:49 2018 No.12008572 >>12008556 Randoms on /lit/, an anonymous board, which makes it even more embarrassing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:11:54 2018 No.12008585 At least 30. And quite a few of those were 600+ pages too. Counterpoint: Literally read nothing, not a single page in 2017.

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:16:34 2018 No.12008593

>>12008473
>I think I'm just good at picking books I'm gonna like
That's why I shift my ratings down.
2 stars = Perfectly fine but nothing special
3 stars = Good, deserves to be read
4 stars = Loved it, will sing its praises
5 stars = Something really special, I only have around 3 authors in this category.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:19:05 2018 No.12008596 >>12008568 Heritage plus I live in Texas. Plan on learning other languages too once I can read Spanish at a reasonable speed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:22:18 2018 No.12008604 59 but with an average length of only 229 pages per book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:23:46 2018 No.12008608 >>12008596 > live in TX Jelly.

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:36:48 2018 No.12008640

>counting books the same regardless of length or difficulty

Reading something like Of Mice and Men can be done in about an hour, if you want a higher number just read a bunch of easy Novellas.

Length isn't the only thing of course, certain works take time to process properly - you can read them quickly, but you're not taking them in properly. Just started Fictions, and by the time it took me to read the first two stories, Borges is in this category for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:42:30 2018 No.12008652 >>12005988 what books could be a good enough for that reading more books will make their charm better

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 05:49:52 2018 No.12008679 9, might get 11 by the end. My goal was 50 lol.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 06:24:52 2018 No.12008772 i dont read books, i only come here to seem like i know what im talking about to others girls love this shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 06:25:10 2018 No.12008773 25, I only got into /lit/ this year

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 06:30:16 2018 No.12008792 >>12005297 Why do you do this, like for what reason does somebody ever want to do this? There aren’t enough classics, academia nor young adult novels for this? I may be a philsitine but I’m also legitimately interested in why anybody would do this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 06:42:20 2018 No.12008834 >>12008454 I have ~20 books marked as read and finished this year, but none of them show up in that page. Anyone know why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 06:43:27 2018 No.12008838 >>12008834 At first it loaded none of mine either, but then i closed the page and tried again and it loaded all of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 06:45:03 2018 No.12008847 >>12008838 Thanks, will give it some time and try that!

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 07:03:35 2018 No.12008898

>>12004623
20 is absolutely decent, but for those here who read closer to 100 like what is the point? I sincerely doubt you get much from books if your goal is justt be able to say "i looked at the words in that book and then put it away"

>>12008772
just as good as "reading" one book in a week

>>12005765
>>12005949
this

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 07:04:37 2018 No.12008900 >>12008640 also this

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 08:55:43 2018 No.12009201 File: 9 KB, 339x190, ladda ned.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] aiming for over 100 next year 67 of them being the bible

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 08:59:06 2018 No.12009208 >>12009201 >Any new years resolutions next year anon? >Oh you know, not much, I'm gonna read the bible

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 14:22:53 2018 No.12010476

>>12008679
That's why you should set smaller targets and raise the number the more you read. Set your sights low, and can feel good about doing what you do and not you've barely made a dent in your list, and use that good feeling to power through more.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 15:52:15 2018 No.12010775 >>12008593 basically how I rate books too. It seems so many people on GR overrate books meaning 50% 5 star ratings on good but not great books

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 15:58:44 2018 No.12010802

>>12010775
The majority of Goodreads' userbase are either teenagers or imbeciles; their ratings are always going to be crap.
It's especially annoying though as the site specifically lays out that 2 stars = okay, but people rate things 4 stars that they deem only "okay"

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:00:23 2018 No.12010808 Do you guys count re-reads? Do you guys re-read? Do you guys read stuff that's worth re-reading?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:14:32 2018 No.12010861 >>12004623 About 25 but only like 3 of them were >400 pages if that matters

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:17:03 2018 No.12010877 >>12005119 dam bruv thas nice

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:25:57 2018 No.12010917

>>12010808
I reread often, but usually not as a whole but parts I want to (unless I've completely forgotten and want to reexperience the book again).

I dunno about "worth" rereading, because some of it is just "comfy" and/or genre fiction that holds a special place in my heart because of when I read it and some it just stuff I really enjoyed but isn't really literary fiction.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:28:02 2018 No.12010927 File: 24 KB, 517x177, gr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12004926 >The haunting of Hill House Just read that, really enjoyed it

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:28:21 2018 No.12010930 >tfw this year I mowed down almost all my to read list that I had building up over years and years, and should be mostly done by January. Feels pretty great. Next year I want to educate myself on Philosophy and Classic (Greek/Roman) lit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:28:33 2018 No.12010931 File: 52 KB, 638x408, Goodreads.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My record is 50, which I think i'm going to beat

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:31:41 2018 No.12010948

57 so far, mostly because my wife was finishing her master's degree and I was unemployed so I binge-read in the university library 8 hours per day for the entire month of August. (knowing we were going to move to a redneck town with a shitty library, which we have now done).
Amadou Hampate Ba was my favorite discovery from that binge, as long with Soseki's 'The Miner'.

What I count as 'a book' is anything over 100 pages (I've read enough 900 page bricks that it balances out). I also count re-reads, because no book is the same the second time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:37:17 2018 No.12010976 >>12004926 >all the books he's read have thumbnails jej

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:41:51 2018 No.12010991 File: 16 KB, 343x181, ac920fcf1c54ea2b46d80eb6044d1108.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably gonna get to around 35-40 in total this year

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:56:13 2018 No.12011054

>>12009201
Counting individual books of the Bible is cheating and blatant padding.

Unless you purchased each individual book and read it as a separate publication, the Bible is one (1) book

Other forms of cheating include: audiobooks, plays, anthologies, and compendiums

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 16:59:55 2018 No.12011074 >>12008476 I forgot. I also go to AA meetings 5 days a week. So that’s another 5 hours gone. I usually Monday off but I got offered 7 hours of Overtime this week and I took it. So no weekend at all this week. That meant 23 hours without sleep Monday.

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 17:11:19 2018 No.12011126

>>12011054
>cheating
lol
Are Novellas also cheating? How many words or pages does something have to be to qualify? Do you not take difficulty of the text into account? Does 500 pages of YA count the same as 500 pages of Joyce?
See, this is the issue with people that just want higher number.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 17:13:04 2018 No.12011135 >>12011054 >reading Shakespeare is cheating What did you mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 17:16:34 2018 No.12011150 >>12011074 This is how you lose your life

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 17:36:56 2018 No.12011228 >>12011150 I had a play now pay later strategy earlier. Now I’m paying. Paying restitution does beat jail though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 19:11:31 2018 No.12011612 >>12006689 I read a lot of non-white authors, so i'd better not. too many close-minded idiots on here.

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 19:31:35 2018 No.12011707

Nine so far, with a mean of 313 pages per book. However I also started around late June or early July, as I rediscovered reading over the summer for the first time since high school. At my current pace I'll probably finish out 2018 around 12 to 14, then next year I'll aim for 25.

>Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre, 9/10
>Sphere, Michael Crichton 6/10
>Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges 7/10
>Demian, Hermann Hesse 9/10
>Despair, Vladimir Nabokov 7/10
>House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski 10/10
>Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse 6/10
>Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov 10/10

Started A Confederacy of Dunces today and am laughing my ass off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 19:32:59 2018 No.12011714 >>12011707 >incapable of counting I forgot to include The Name of the Rose, 7-8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 19:39:00 2018 No.12011739 File: 5 KB, 365x81, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I like reading. This is the first year I ever kept track of how much I was reading and I didn't realize it was so much more than normal.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 20:01:47 2018 No.12011836 I aim for 3 books per month, so far I've done it. I've read a lot more because of my thesis, but I don't count those.

Anonymous Tue Oct 30 20:19:52 2018 No.12011925

>quantifying your reading as some consumptive measure of worth
Every grown man or woman who subscribes to "reading challenges" is scum. I see these types everywhere. "I've read 5 books this month!" and all of them are self help, pop science and pop psychology

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 20:32:07 2018 No.12011974 >>12008353 ayyyy paramo morel and that feast of the goat... based

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 21:14:40 2018 No.12012183 >>12010976 >he >>12010927 Yeah, I really loved it, read it in like February. I was unsure about that new Netflix show that just came out based on it, watched the first episode, it's god-fucking-awful, don't watch it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 30 21:40:26 2018 No.12012291 >>12004926 Based McIntosh poster

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 03:38:12 2018 No.12013363 >>12011612 are... are you genuinely afraid of negative opinions directed at you on an anonymous internet discussion board? .... okay then

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 05:42:13 2018 No.12013600 >>12011974 Based indeed, really liked all those books, bought some more Vargas Llosa and Rulfo, but do you have any other books by ioy Casares that you would recommend?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 06:50:41 2018 No.12013735 One and I'm still reading it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 06:54:27 2018 No.12013743 >>12004623 About 40

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 07:03:35 2018 No.12013762 File: 16 KB, 319x175, reading2k18.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably should have believed in myself a bit more

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 11:40:08 2018 No.12014385 >>12004623 0, but I bingewatched gameofthrones for the 5th time. What do I win?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 11:41:08 2018 No.12014386 >>12004650 Same my man, keep reading

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 12:14:29 2018 No.12014459 My goal is 200. I started reading a book a day 152 days ago.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 12:19:10 2018 No.12014469 File: 12 KB, 342x172, 1536569821131.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12004623 Admittedly i do add short stories and the like as books so it may be a bit blown up..

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 18:44:30 2018 No.12015823 File: 1.35 MB, 576x1922, 2018books.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12013363 ok fine here

Anonymous Wed Oct 31 18:51:58 2018 No.12015849

>>12011612
Are you the type that purposely looks for minority authors in a effort to fight racism or some shit? If so people aren't making fun of you because they're bigot, although it is very convenient to tell yourself that's the case. They despise the anti-white racism implicit in your attitude.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 19:07:21 2018 No.12015904 >>12015823 So when can I fuck your wife?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 19:08:39 2018 No.12015907 File: 419 KB, 431x681, books.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll take it

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 31 21:48:35 2018 No.12016499 File: 32 KB, 610x444, 475745.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 65

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 1 05:32:03 2018 No.12017617 >>12004926 Thoughts on Taipei? I've not read any Tao Lin but it looks a bit intriguing.

Anonymous Thu Nov 1 05:45:00 2018 No.12017637

>>12008473
>>12008593
>>12010775
1 star = shit and most likely not worth reading
2 star = i don't regret reading it, probably wouldn't read again; books that are objectively shit but are influential or genre/culture-defining also go here
3 star = good book, might be worth a re-read, perhaps had a mix of good and bad parts
4 star = great book, would recommend to others, should definitely re-read
5 star = lifechanging, special, or exceptional

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 1 06:18:22 2018 No.12017685 File: 616 KB, 500x565, 54b31fef-b5a0-4531-b0bb-1419d78fc8e6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12004623 i really fell off my pace the last few months, and will be lucky to hit 40 now :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 1 06:23:29 2018 No.12017699 File: 3.93 MB, 3264x2448, 0EDBAC05-D3B1-49CE-9792-5ADCB561874A.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what did he mean by this?

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