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How many on this list have you read?

7/100 here

>> No.1230318

101/100

21 years old

>> No.1230319

Hipster/100

>> No.1230322

Holy Fuck! i got 28!

>> No.1230324
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1230324

>Skim through list
>No Giver by Lois Lowry
>My face

>> No.1230326

This reads like the list of books an idiot thinks you're supposed to have read, plus a bunch of macho horseshit.

>> No.1230336

7 here
Why no Polish or other Eastern European literature besides Russian? Also, Into the Wild appears twice, so it's really 99 books

>> No.1230338

17/100
Is that this stupid 100-books-you-have-to-read-to-be-a-man list?

>> No.1230341

where did this art of manliness list come form OP? GQ or FHM or something?. is it a publication in its own right? could i find it at my local newsagents perchance?

>> No.1230343

>>1230322
hey me too

also: that is a stupid list

>> No.1230346

10

>> No.1230347

34/100

I'm a girl, and it seems about right that I'd be 1/3 manly.

Also, many of them were required reading in my middle school/high school.

>> No.1230351

The Great Gatsby is not manly.
Neither is All Quiet on the Western Front.
To Kill A Mockingbird is hippie shit.

etc. etc. etc.

>> No.1230352

A Separate Peace?

Come on, half of it was Gene fantasizing about Phineas. How is that manly?

>> No.1230359

>art of manliness
>potrait of dorian gray
is this one of those "real men fuck other men" deals?

>> No.1230362

>>1230341
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/

>> No.1230365

4

>> No.1230370

>>1230359

>implying that isn't totally true

>> No.1230375

>>1230370
it probably is & the whole campy thing is just a current societal quirk. i'm so effeminate & delicate so it makes sense :3

>> No.1230378

13/100. I actually have been planning on reading a ton of these books. Thanks for the image OP. I have read children's versions of some of these when I was younger so I decided not to count them.

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1230382

>39. The Bible

>> No.1230386

Huh,Plato's "The Republic" is kinda off.Don't get me wrong,it's a good read but it's not exactly manly.

>> No.1230387

>randombooks.jpg

>> No.1230410

19/100 all the way through
probably 40 or so if we count pieces or excerpts

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1230419

4/100, all of which were required at school.

apparently, school did not make a man of me.

>> No.1230431

How the fuck is reading Master and Margherita going to make anybody manly? It's about the devil going to Moscow, uncovering the underlying corruption and hypocrisy of Russian society and elevating a neurotic poet above them. Oh, and the poet needs a woman to talk some sense into him.

Most of these are all good books, but I do not think manliness comes from reading.

>> No.1230434

15/100
this is not a good list for manliness

>> No.1230439

7 and a half. Only read the Odyssey.

>> No.1230458

>no Bukowski
>list of manliness

fuck this bullshit

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1230472

>The Art of Manliness
>39. The Bible

>> No.1230479

Before I take a look, I'm European and I assume this is a US-list so I won't have read many of those.

After: 8/100 and yes pretty different from the normal middle european Kanon.

>> No.1230481

12/100

Disapointed by some of the titles on here (Atlus Shrugged) and disapointed in the ones that didn't make it (Petersburg by Bely).

>> No.1230485

41

you people suck

>> No.1230487

>>1230313
the art of manliness is a website dedicated to fashion. it's only popular because of the current trend for 'honest' American 'old fashioned' style. You might as well ask A Continuous Lean for book recommendations. I bet you the compiler of the list hasn't even read half of those.

>> No.1230495

>>1230458
Manliness and being a Hipster is not the same. More like the opposites of each other.

>> No.1230507

>>1230495
but hipsters read Taoist canon or Tibetan Buddhist canon.

>> No.1230518

2/100
im such a n00b
Crime and Punishment and 1984

>> No.1230517

Books I read the first few chapters of then got bored of: Brave New World, Moby Dick.

Books I read: Animal Farm.

And I read the first third of Genesis so that I could figure out precisely what covenants God made with all of man, instead of just Jews.

So assuming that I read .25 of two books, 1.0 of one, and maybe .1 of the bible, 1.35 of the books listed.

I should add that I'm not denigrating Brave New World or Moby Dick. I just have absolutely no attention span.

>> No.1230544

15/100
OH MY GOD, I'm so stupid, I need to read more....

>> No.1230546

>>1230458 seconded

also, no Edward Abbey? that's some man lit, there. No H.S. Thompson? Brett Harte is more manly than half these authors.

I'm 19/100, plus a handful of others that I started and never finished

>> No.1230550

If you havent read atleast 10 of these books, then you dont know SHIT ABOUT LIT

>> No.1230551

>>1230351
Atticus Finch is more of a man than you will ever be, and he was fictional. fag.

>> No.1230568

42/100 and i'm a fembot

>> No.1230570

>>1230313
over 9000.

>> No.1230574

>>1230313
6/100

and 448/1000

>> No.1230577

65/100

i'm a 19 year old male who doesn't do shit but read.

>> No.1230609

7.5

The .5 is due to reading the Odyssey but not the Illiad.

>> No.1230611

I've read all of these.

>> No.1230620

>>1230507

Buddhism is... asexual.

Yoga is female though.

>> No.1230629

15/100

There is a huge over-representation of Dostoevsky on this list. (Not that I'm complaining since I love old Fedenka)

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>> No.1230913

16/100.

American Boys' Handy Book and Dangerous Book for Boys were two cheap points, though.

>> No.1231184

9/100
All of them were required school reading except Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance.

>> No.1231198

14/100, woman here, am I doing it right?

>> No.1231201

>communist manifesto not #1
>catcher and the rye
>gatsby not -9001

>> No.1231206

12/100

I am uncultured swine.

The last two digits of this post will determine what book I read next after I finish the one I'm reading now (Sphereland).

>> No.1231203

>>1231198
SURE IS PRO-AMERICAN IN THIS LIST.

>> No.1231219

23/100

doot doot

>> No.1231225

uhhh you put the fucking hatchet on there?

>> No.1231232

maybe half? i guess as a person with a pussy, i am doin it wrong. if i ever learn russian, i'll re-read the brothers karamazov. gawd it was a fucking slog.

>> No.1231233

yeahhh bout 13

>> No.1231236

16/100

Would probably be like 25/100 if I read all the books I was supposed to read for school. Either way, a depressing number.

>> No.1231272

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Library_100_Best_Novels
Better list, still pretty shitty though.

>> No.1231296

9/100

And A Separate Peace is a novel with strongly homosexual undertones ... why's it there?

>> No.1231307

>>1231296

Because true manliness requires you to be comfortable with your sexual identity, regardless of orientation.

>> No.1231312

>>1230481
Did you like Petersburg? :D

Such a brilliant novel. It's probably in my top 5 now.

>> No.1231315

>>1231307
Well said. I'd still put The Sun Also Rises there instead of that, though.

>> No.1231334

7/100

I own another 4 of them, but haven't got around to reading

>> No.1231346

I don't see The Diary of Anne Frank.

Explain.

>> No.1231350

25