2018 Reads

[Anonymous No.12312184]

The year is over, lets see what did you read!

[Anonymous No.12312187]

>>12312184
tomorrow is still a working monday.

[Anonymous No.12312224]

>>12312184
Did you like animal money?

[Anonymous No.12312245]

>>12312224
I liked it but I should have taken more time reading it, It feel really heavy at times.

[Anonymous No.12312322]

how u felt about Ice (NOT the Ice Trilogy)?
also, I read Watership Down this year too. I really liked it.

[Anonymous No.12312829]

>>12312184
what a way to waste a year

[Anonymous No.12312906]

I could have read more

[Anonymous No.12313067]

Link to the format?

[Anonymous No.12313089]

Books are cool I want to read more next year

[Anonymous No.12313306]

How do you make a list like that?

[Anonymous No.12313326]

>>12312224
It's the ultimate Deleuzian fiction

[Anonymous No.12313721]

I'm finishing the last bit of Cat's Cradle right now

[Anonymous No.12313736]

>>12312184
Is ice trilogy good? I got recommended that recently

[Anonymous No.12313737]

>>12312184
>Montaigne's Complete Essays. Every fucking word of them. I love that motherfucker.
>Ficciones
>Ulysses second half
>Romeo and Juliet. Shakes is cool.
>Hamlet
>William Blake's major works
>Madame Bovary
>Anna Karenina. Snooze fest.
>Nicomachean Ethics. Awesome.
>Antifragile. Youtube this shit don't read it.
>Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk
>Pale Fire
>Lectures on Literature by Nabokov
>Proust on Art and Literature
>Metamorphosis by Kafka
>My Belief by Hermann Hesse. His best work by far.
>Doing Good Better
>Tao Te Ching
>What is Art? by Tolstoy
>Plato's Dialogues
>Steppenwolf
>Within a Budding Grove, about half

Montaigne was my favorite. Then Nicomachean Ethics, Ficciones, and Romeo & Juliet. Steppenwolf was my least favorite.

Biggest disappointment was Anna Karenina. The Levin arch was great, otherwise it felt like an inferior ripoff of Madame Bovary.

Biggest surprise was Borges's Ficciones. It was unlike anything else, and it's what got me out of a lack-of-reading slump in late summer/early autumn.

[r/books No.12313753]

Here's mine. :)

[Anonymous No.12313820]

>>12313736
It ain't

[Anonymous No.12314106]

>>12313306
goodreads

[Anonymous No.12314233]

>>12312906
Your list looks like what I want to read this year

[Anonymous No.12314257]

Animal Money's been on my list for a little bit, how was it? What would you compare it to?

[Anonymous No.12314259]

>>12312184

is there somewhere on goodreads or something you can easily find this?

[Anonymous No.12314287]

>Heart of Darkness
>Martin Eden
>War & Peace
>Crime & Punishment (re-read)
>Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
>The Woman in White
>Plutarch's Greek Lives (abridged)
>Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (re-read)
>The Iliad
>The Brothers Karamazov (re-read)

[Anonymous No.12314297]

fucking TWELVE (12) books niggers shit
I have to read more fiction, I got stuck on this book about the chronology and development of the neolithic in Ireland and then went immediately in to my fourth attempt at reading and finishing the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I've only read 4 of 8 volumes this year

life isn't long enough for this shit

[Anonymous No.12314351]

>>12313737

Read Lord Dunsany's short stories if you like Borges

(inb4 "go back to /ffg/)

[Anonymous No.12314394]

>>12313820
RIP, thanks for saving me the time tho

[Anonymous No.12314400]

>>12313820
t. meat machhhine

[Anonymous No.12314695]

I'm too lazy to attempt to format this from the pasta, so I've attached a set of screenshots that may be easier to read. It also has my ratings there.


1 War and Peace
2 The Kreutzer Sonata
3 The Aeneid
4 The Argonautika
5 The Homeric Hymns
6 Treasure Island
7 Kidnapped
8 Beloved
9 Red Sky at Noon
10 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
11 Long Way Down
12 Dune
13 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
14 The Symposium
15 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
16 Pussy, King of the Pirates
17 No Country for Old Men
18 The Road
19 What to Do
20 Forever War
21 Exit West
22 My Abandonment
23 The Dog Master
24 Artemis
25 Ulysses (first half before skimming most of the rest)
26 Found Audio
27 Flight of the Intruder
28 The Sorrows of Young Werther

Nonfiction
29 The Future is History
30 The Man Without a Face
31 In the Service of the Tsar Against Napolean
32 Heretic
33 The Conquest of Bread
34 Fire and Fury
35 Fire
36 The Fracking Debate
37 The Strange Death of Europe
38 The Line Becomes a River
39 Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
40 Digging Up Mother
41 Tragedy + Time
42 The Princess Diarist
43 Custer Died for Your Sins
44 With Borges
45 We Should All Be Feminists

29 The Future is History
30 The Man Without a Face
31 In the Service of the Tsar Against Napolean
32 Heretic
33 The Conquest of Bread
34 Fire and Fury
35 Fire
36 The Fracking Debate
37 The Strange Death of Europe
38 The Line Becomes a River
39 Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
40 Digging Up Mother
41 Tragedy + Time
42 The Princess Diarist
43 Custer Died for Your Sins
44 With Borges
45 We Should All Be Feminists

Independently Published Short Stories
57 The Third Elevator
58 Fuck the Babysitter
59 Work Book
60 Brokeback Mountain

Misc.
61 Superman, Red Son
62 I Kill Giants
63 Other Russias

[Anonymous No.12314721]

>>12312906
Damn, you don’t have a single ounce of your own taste, do you?

[Anonymous No.12314795]

>>12314695
>>me

>>12312184
Would like to read Journey to The West, but I'll tackle Romance of the Three Kindgoms first since I already have a copy. How was it, though?

Also looking forward to Lot 49, Warlock, Once and Future King.

>>12312906
I see you've taken the starter pack to heart. Good work.

Blood Meridian, Stoner, 2666, Master and Margarita, The Stranger, all of these are favorites of mine. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through Crime and Punishment. The Invention of Morel, Lolita, and White Noise are all sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.

>>12313089
Will probs read Frankenstein next year, only bc it's supposedly M. Shelley's take on Prometheus. I'll begin reading Prometheus Unbound by PB Shelley in a few days.

Haven't even heard of that Hunter Thompson book, but his Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 should be required reading for all us Americunts. I read it during the democratic primaries, and it was a surreal experience to see all the parallels of corruption.

Haven't read it since 6th grade or whatever, but TKAM was the first fiction book that spoke to me. Probably wouldn't be much of a reader were it not for that book.

>>12313721
Ivan Ilych is good shit. House of Leaves is shit on here all the time by all the anti-hipster hipsters, but it's super fucking fun. Cat's Cradle made me laugh the most of what few of Vonnegut's work that I've read, but excepting Sirens of Titan, I found it to be his weakest. Mother Night and Slaughterhouse are fucking fantastic.

>>12313737
Ficciones is one of my all time favorites. Good stuff. If I were you, I'd pick up the complete fictions, but importantly, save El Aleph for last. It's as good as Ficciones, and you don't want to blow your load. Also, when you're done with all his fiction, pick up the individual release of In Praise of Darkness. The poetry, which is not included in anthology versions, is fantastic. And that's coming from someone who mostly hates any poetry other than epic.

Will be reading R+J again this year bc a local troupe will be putting on a production. Didn't much care for it in high school. Look forward to reading/seeing it as an adult. Loved Hamlet even then, but also looking forward to rereading it as an adult, although I don't expect to in the foreseable future.

Anna Karenina is not a snooze fest, but I've not read Madame Bovary.

I don't know why everyone loves Metamorphosis so much. Guess I'm just too pleb.

>>12314287
Good stuff. The Iliad and W&P are two books that are roughly tied for my all time favorite.

>>12314297
Not my taste, but whatevs.

It's not about numbers. I aim to read Shelby Foote's American Civil War monstrosity sometime soon. That'll kill my totals for next year, but who gives a fuck.

[Anonymous No.12314833]

>>12314695
Guess my image didn't upload.

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12314931]

>>12312184
>My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
Never heard of it. What was it like?

>>12314297
Don’t feel bad, anon. I read about as as many. It’s all about your own enjoyment

[Anonymous No.12315271]

>The Hobbit + LOTR
>Red Pony
>I, Robot
>Mice & Men
>The Pearl
>100 Years of Solitude
>The 3 Christs of Ypsilanti
>Ivanhoe
>Dubliners
>Hunger
>Breakfast of Champions
>Mother Night
>A Hero of Our Time
>Orlando
>Stoner
>Moby Dick
>Crime & Punishment
>Old Man & the Sea
>The Wanting Seed
>Scarlet Letter
>Candide
>The Genius & The Goddess
>Pnin
>V
>The Nonexistent Knight / The Cloven Viscount
>Fahrenheit 451
>Lord of the Flies
>Heart of Darkness
>The Crossing

[Anonymous No.12315513]

copying from the last thread. mainly read a lot of small books because low attention span. only big boi book was Buddenbrooks.

Overrated: Kawabata, Peterson, Moore, Zweig, Radiguet, Beckett, Mishima, Wodehouse, Wolfe, Bolano, Genet, Carr, Gass, Stein

Underrated: Colette, Steiner, LeGuin, Dick, Goffman, Connelly, Tolstoy, Larsen, Wilde, Woolf, Mann, Maupassant, Salter, Gide

[Anonymous No.12315521]

>>12314931
You masturbate to cocks guaranteed.

Just stop pretending otherwise. Maybe they are girls with cocks but you still masturbate to cocks

[Anonymous No.12315573]

>>12313089
you should read Larsen's Quicksand. better than Passing imo

>>12315521
do you think a lot about cocks, anon?

[Anonymous No.12315597]

>>12312184
>Sun and Steel

Fucking Pewdiepie meme book. You faggots need to leave this board.

[Anonymous No.12315607]

>>12312184
>>12312906
>>12313089
>Do I fit in yet guys?
>I read all /lit/s favorite books!!!

Yikes, imagine unironically letting this place choose which books you read.

[Anonymous No.12315616]

>>12315597
>>12315607
t. redditors that thinks that everyone is a redditor like themselves

[Anonymous No.12315892]

>>12312184
How's dead neon?

[Anonymous No.12315907]

forget if it's in the photo but I also finished
>SPQR
>jordan memerson's 12 rules
>in cold blood

[Anonymous No.12315920]

I read a bunch of this stuff.

[Anonymous No.12316067]

how do i get to this stupid fucking stats page i cant find it

[Anonymous No.12316070]

>>12315607
I can already tell you love harry potter.

[Anonymous No.12316087]

>>12315907
>>12315920
kys

[Anonymous No.12316091]

[Anonymous No.12316179]

>>12316067

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2018

[Anonymous No.12316290]

Started The Odyssey earlier this month, too.

[Anonymous No.12316294]

>>12316290
Huh, its seems like you really reaaallly like DICK

[Anonymous No.12316301]

>>12316294
I love me some good Dick.

This is my first year of seriously reading, and I wanted to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Then I decided to just read sci-fi until I was comfortable. It was only fitting to read Moby Dick as my first big novel.

[Anonymous No.12316305]

I hope next read I get to read more.

[Anonymous No.12316308]

>>12312184
I'm so sorry. This was a very bad year for me. I'll do better next time

Cat's Cradle
Master and Margarita
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A portrait of the artist as a young man

[Anonymous No.12316391]

prepare to cringe lads

[Anonymous No.12316447]

>>12312184
setting a goal for 25 nonfiction next year. is that a decent number? i'm seeing a lot of your lists are around that.

[Anonymous No.12316460]

A small year but a good year.

[Anonymous No.12316476]

>>12316391
Bro
Bro
BRO
WHAT THE HELL

[Anonymous No.12316484]

>>12312184
>utena

[Anonymous No.12316497]

>pick a bunch of /lit/ approved books to read
>get >>12315607
>pick a bunch of books you personally find interesting to read regardless of anyone else's input
>get >>12315597

There is no winning.

[Anonymous No.12316501]

Pretty meh year but I won't hide my shame.

[Anonymous No.12316502]

Time to write down some recommendations or it'll be another year of only Warhammer books.

[Anonymous No.12316508]

>>12315607
nothing wrong with someone wanting to read good lit and picking books from a list with a title like "best lit of 20xx"

kys tool

[Anonymous No.12316511]

1. Dark Imperium
2. Dante
3. Norse Mythology
4. Lolita

[Anonymous No.12316520]

>>12316301
I really like scifi but I force myself to limit it. I read a scifi every second book. That way I don't oversaturate my head with aliens n shit.

[Anonymous No.12316534]

>>12314833
Unless you are NEET how can you possibly read 60 books in one year?

[Anonymous No.12316545]

>>12316534
3hrs a day when you get home, use the weekends for low brow entertainment such as watching movies/TV and playing video games

[Anonymous No.12316565]

[Anonymous No.12316569]

>>12316545
Jeez, when I get home from work I barely have enough energy to cook dinner and eat it. I read 5 pages in bed before passing out. Maybe I have low test...

[Anonymous No.12316577]

>>12316565
How was convenience store woman?

[Anonymous No.12316579]

I read Neuromancer and Feersum Endjinn.

[Anonymous No.12316583]

>>12316577
i loved it
some of the plot stuff was a bit clunky, but the main character and gist of it is great

[Anonymous No.12316590]

I read Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, one of the best books I've ever read, and by my already favorite author.

[Anonymous No.12316609]

>>12316534
Actually I'm a grad student studying physics and probably have far less time than you do, but we prioritize our time differently. It's not as hard as you think. Always be in the middle of at least 2 books at a time so that you can digest one while enjoying another. Always take a book with you no matter where you go. You'd be surprised how much extra time you have waiting. Read real and intelligent books when you have the time, but listen to nonsense audiobooks (like Flight of the Intruder or Treasure Island or The Dog Master) in between sets at the gym or while you're washing dishes or while you're doing laundry. Also hate people enough that you pretty much only go out when you're invited, and even while you're there be anxious about how Pierre will fare in the duel with Dolokhov. Also don't have a girlfriend because she gets frustrated with how shit you are at expressing emotion and she thinks you're bored with her all the time when really you're just happy to be next to her. Also take Borges's view that reading is a way for you to be all the people you never will. Great warriors, men of action, a not shitty boyfriend. And most important of all, ignore >>12316545 entirely. Don't prescribe some set number of hours to read per day, but rather read when you have the energy. If you truly love books you'll often have the energy and the depth of your energy reserve will increase the more you read (and often when your energy for book one is depleted you'll have revived your energy for book two or three), but sometimes you won't have the energy to read for days or even weeks on end and that ok too. And also hate tv because it's a gigantic waste of your fucking time except to give you things to talk about to all the asshats at the water cooler that you can't stand but are also envious of because it's so easy for them to connect emotionally to other people that they just throw each other away knowing that there will always be someone else that they can relate to. Also try really hard not to kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.12316734]

>>12316569
Me >>12316609 again. Cooking is also a huge drain on me, but I also read while I eat unless I gave company. In any case, if you keep falling asleep then you're not reading the right books. Read for pleasure, not "some misplaced sense of duty" (Alberto Manguel's quote of Borges). Some of the above replies suggest that they about sci fi because it's all they want to read. I suppose that's good because I see most sci fi as being ridiculously low brow, but at the same time who are you trying to impress and why? If you want to read sci fi, then read sci fi. Who cares what a bunch of anonymous losers like me on the internet think? Don't just read books that you enjoy. Read books that are so exciting to you that you want to stay up all night finishing them.

[Anonymous No.12316747]

>>12316609
One of the better posts

[Anonymous No.12316777]

>>12316734
I agree with what you say, but enjoyment level is not the problem; I love the books I read. It's just as soon as my eyes touch paper this fog starts to come down on my mind and before I know it I'm in dreamland.

>>12316609
>I'm a grad student studying physics and probably have far less time than you do
Wait til you have kids mate.

[Anonymous No.12316837]

>>12313089
What did you think about The Buried Giant?
>>12312906
Lolita was nice. My head felt crazy during the insomniac Humbert sections.
>>12312184
+Watership down
>>12314833
Disagree with your rating of Dune. Homeric hymns are cool though, I read them this year but don't have them in my chart. I really need to read the Aenid some time, I've heard bad things about it before but I don't trust that persons taste.
>>12316290
PKD is a great writer I need to get through more of his books next year. What did you think about the Hamilton? The only secondary source I've used for Greek writing is Apollodorus.
>>12316305
Did Montaigne live up to his hype?
>>12316460
I don't like Farewell to Arms. Catch 22 is good though.
>>12316501
How was Shadow and Claw?
>>12316565
Damn. You read a ton. Respect

Anyways second year of trying to read more often. Want to read a lot more next year.

[Anonymous No.12316840]

>>12312184
Books I read in full cause I wanted to:
>Hart - The New Testament
>Ouspensky - The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
>Lockhart - Historical Doubts Relative To Napoleon Bonaparte
>Sillitoe - Travels In Nihilon
>Bramantip - The Abraham Lincoln Myth
>Petterson - Backpacking With Dracula
>English - The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus
>Bloom - The Book of J
Books I started but didn’t finish:
>Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (fully intend to finish soon)
>Pound - Guide To Kulcher
>Hart - The Story of Christianity
>The Urantia Book
Books I read for school:
>Solnit - Men Explain Things To Me
>Gay - Hunger
Those were shit

[Anonymous No.12316898]

>>12316837
alt covers

[Anonymous No.12316948]

>>12316777
Haha, fair enough, but I will never have kids. Even if I meet that special woman I could never devote that much time to the little bastards. They'd just get between me and my books.

>>12316837
I have only been one other person who shares my disdain for dune. I went in expecting sci fi and got one part sci fi and 9 parts fantasy. That part where what's her face drinks poison but then uses her third eye bullshit to physically change the molecular bonds so that it wasn't poison anymore was enough to have me shut the book and say to myself "what the shit? What the shit am I reading?"

The hymns that I liked were amazing. Hermes was a true standout.

The Aeneid definitely pales compared to homer, but it's still a beautiful piece.

Hope to read theogeny in the coming weeks.

[Anonymous No.12318174]

the no-cover books
> Shelling Out, Bitcoin Whitepaper (kek), How Diplomats Make War, the Road to War, Anthropic Bias, Dark Enlightment essay (Land).

It lacks a bunch of stuff I read through Pocket/Phone.

[Anonymous No.12318226]

>>12313089
Cloud Atlas is bretty good.

[Anonymous No.12318302]

>>12312184
Nice selections, a lot of interesting stuff there.

[Anonymous No.12318321]

>>12312906
Want to read almost all of this desu

>>12313753
Patrician taste

>>12316290
That's a lot of dick

Currently reading The Trial and Master and Margarita.
Want to read bigger books in 2019, also is Quo Vadis good? Just found one that my mother read like 25 years ago.

[Anonymous No.12318747]

>>12316837
>What did you think about the Hamilton? The only secondary source I've used for Greek writing is Apollodorus.
It was good. I read it as a primer for The Iliad and Odyssey, at the advice of /lit/. They said to treat it as a sort-of bedtime stories collection, and the book was great for that.
>>12316520
I started to do that after reading Moby Dick; sci-fi is like crack for me.

[Anonymous No.12318825]

>>12316609
>Actually I'm a grad student studying physics
wtf are you me? What area? Theoreticuck here

[Anonymous No.12318835]

>>12316837
I quite liked the Buried Giant, I've heard it's not his best, so I certainly intend to read more of Ishiguro's work.

[Anonymous No.12318892]

Enjoyed most of them but there were definitely a couple of duds

[Anonymous No.12318899]

>>12315607
Why would I wade through the mountains of shit books out there when other people have already done it first?

[Anonymous No.12318906]

>>12316534
I read over 100, kek, and am NEET.
I wish it weren't this way but I'm too dumb to get into universities and not skilled enough to get a job.

[Anonymous No.12318926]

It's been a hard year for me. I only read a few books. Too lazy to make an image and I don't have goodreads, so here's my list

>How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony
>The Fault in Our Stars
>Songs of Innocence and Experience
>The Insulted and Humillated
>Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
>As You Like It (Play)
>Twelfth Night
>The Gambler
>Captain Corageus

[Anonymous No.12318928]

>>12312184
I tried reading Coin Locker Babies, but halfway through I completely lost interest. Does it get better later on?

[Anonymous No.12318934]

>>12316534
When in college I used to read around 80-100 a year. 60 books seems average for someone who can read a few hours every morning/night.

[Anonymous No.12318991]

>>12318825
Hell no. I'm a lab rat.

[Anonymous No.12319047]

>>12318934
60 books is achievable with fuckaround tier pages per day.

[saucy No.12319060]

>>12312184
There's probably more or less but I don't remember right now.

[saucy No.12319098]

>>12312184
There's probably more or less but I don't remember right now.

[Anonymous No.12319126]

>>12312184
hopefully i will do more next year

[Anonymous No.12319146]

>>12312322
It was a solid read really, it really feel like a dream
>>12312224
I liked it but I am still not sure what happens half of the time
>>12313736
Its kind of pulpy but I love it
>>12314795
Journey to the west is excellent, the translation that I picked up is kind of literal and I tried reading all of it without breaks, so Its gets repetitive.
>>12314931
Its more about depression that anything, is fine but I expected more
>>12315597
>>12315607
I had been here for years (Not really something to be proud but oh well)
>>12315892
There are like two good stories, it was really really disappointing
>>12316447
I suppose so! I never plan ahead what will I read
>>12316484
ZETTAI UNMEI
>>12318302
Thanks! Hope next year I can read much more
>>12318928
Kind of, but the end was just meh
>>12319098
>>12319126
Ganbatte!

[Anonymous No.12319154]

>>12313737
>every word
yes when you read something that tends to be expected of you

[Anonymous No.12319156]

>>12319146
GOOD JOB YOU REPLIED TO EVERYONE. NOW WHAT?

[Anonymous No.12319184]

>>12312184
I didn't read many, but I enjoyed them all

[Anonymous No.12319207]

>>12319156
Crashing this thread with no survivors?

[Anonymous No.12319208]

>>12319156
i hate anons who reply to everyone, makes it a pain to browse.

[Anonymous No.12319246]

>>12312187
>>12312224
>>12312245
>>12312322
>>12312829
>>12312906
>>12313067
>>12313089
>>12313306
>>12313326
>>12313721
>>12313736
>>12313737
>>12313753
>>12313820
>>12314106
>>12314233
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>>12314287
>>12314297
>>12314351
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>>12314400
>>12314695
>>12314721
>>12314795
>>12314833
>>12314931
>>12315271
>>12315513
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>>12315573
>>12315597
>>12315607
>>12315616
>>12315892
>>12315907
>>12315920
>>12316067
>>12316070
>>12316087
>>12316091
>>12316179
>>12316290
>>12316294
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>>12316305
>>12316308
>>12316391
>>12316447
>>12316460
>>12316476
>>12316484
>>12316497
>>12316501
>>12316502
>>12316508
>>12316511
>>12316520
>>12316534
>>12316545
>>12316565
>>12316569
>>12316577
>>12316579
>>12316583
>>12316590
>>12316609
>>12316734
>>12316747
>>12316777
>>12316837
>>12316840
>>12316898
>>12316948
>>12318174
>>12318226
>>12318302
>>12318321
>>12318747
>>12318825
>>12318835
>>12318892
>>12318899
>>12318906
>>12318926
>>12318928
>>12318934
>>12318991
>>12319047
>>12319098
>>12319126
>>12319146
>>12319154
>>12319156
>>12319184
>>12319207
>>12319208

[Anonymous No.12319255]

>>12319246
based

[Anonymous No.12319281]

Not very many, but I'm happy with what I did read

[Anonymous No.12319342]

>>12319281
are you 14 y/o me?

[Anonymous No.12319362]

>>12319281
You are a cute girl right

[Anonymous No.12319366]

>>12319281
>but I'm happy with what I did read
>>12319281
You shouldn't.

[Anonymous No.12319374]

>>12319281
>but I'm happy with what I did read
You shouldn't.

[Anonymous No.12319398]

Started reading in April -- hope to read at least twice as much over the next year

[Anonymous No.12319408]

>>12319398
>censoring it
For what purpose

[Anonymous No.12319410]

sorry for the picture for ants

[Anonymous No.12319415]

>>12319146
>It was a solid read really, it really feel like a dream
lmao, feels like that book was /lit/'s meme of the year. I saw everyone here reading it or at least interested in it.

[Anonymous No.12319422]

>>12312184

How are The Ice Trilogy and The Slynx? Been interested in both.

[Anonymous No.12319441]

>>12319415
It was because of an anime lol
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6k31hf
28.21

[Anonymous No.12319445]

>>12319246
"look mom, I'm on 4chan"

[Anonymous No.12319456]

>>12319441
>getting your book recommendations from /a/ and /lit/
Sasuga, Stupei

[Anonymous No.12319458]

This was a dismal year for reading for me. I'm only listing things I finished reading here, there were other sampled or not-completed works.

1. The Book of Blam by Aleksandar Tisma
2. The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen
3. Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos by Lin Carter
4. The Iliad by Homer
5. Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
9. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
11. The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant
12. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
13. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Baker
14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
15. Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
16. Count D’Orgel’s Ball by Raymond Radiguet
17. H.P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
18. Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb

[Anonymous No.12319479]

>>12319408
Shyness -- that the general statistics may be publicly observed as well as a few notable particulars without the vulgar display of a complete data set in avoidance of a temptation of the voyeuristic tendencies of the more vulnerable users; reticence which made itself known after the image's preparation had commenced.

[Anonymous No.12319544]

>>12319479
You are weird, be my bf

[Anonymous No.12319764]

>>12312184

I just have read:

A Nascente (i. en., The Fountainhead), Ayn Rand;
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, Machado de Assis (the most famous brazilian classic book of all time -- I'm brazilian);
A Vida Intelectual (i. en., The Intellectual Life), A.-D. Sertillanges.
Como Ler Livros (i. en., How to Read a Book), Adler and Doren.

Four books... FOUR FUCKING BOOKS! I am a failure. But the next year will be different. In this week I will finish the Estratégia Moderna do Xadrez (i. en., Modern Chess Strategy), by Ludek Pachman, and this will give me strenght to keep reading more fast throughout the whole new year.

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[Anonymous No.12319867]

Finished
>The Gambler
>Norwegian Wood
>The Real Frank Zappa
>Dune
>Dune Messiah
>Julius Caesar
>Macbeth
>Big Sur
>Journal of Nicholas Cresswell (1774-1777)

Partial/Unfinished
>7 habits of highly effective people
>The Game of Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch
>Rome - Rostovzeff
>The Book of Yokai
>The Virtue of Selfishness
>de Troyes' Arthurian Romances - W.W Comfort translation
>Revolt against the modern world
>Poetic Meter and Poetic Form - FUssel
>The Riverside Chaucer
>The Necromonicon (Lovecraft collection)
>Der Steppenwolf
>Die Physiker
>Wie herrlich leuchtet mir die Natur
>Ovids Amores (Melville translation)

Not a bad year, my priority for next year is to finish everything i've left half read.

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[Anonymous No.12319954]

I read about half the amount of books of anyone else and only read around 4K less pages than they did.

I read some big motherfuckers this year.

[Anonymous No.12320152]

>>12316460
Is Musashi worth it? It's enourmous.

[Anonymous No.12320163]

I need to read more in 2019.

[Anonymous No.12320259]

>>12312184
Nice job this year weeb even though you didn't accomplish your goal. Maybe lay off the escapism and lay on the memes?

[Anonymous No.12320285]

>>12316837
>Shadow and Claw
Pretty neat

[Anonymous No.12320287]

>>12319954
I'm always impressed by your reads, the math stuff looks interesting though difficult.

I read a lot, though a lot of it was in short books.

[Anonymous No.12320502]

>>12319813
Excellent taste

[Anonymous No.12321547]

>>12320287
Yes, yes. I do read a lot of geometrical works, and I don’t know if that will necessarily stop, as it is something I am very good at.

Buuuut in the near future I will be reading stuff that is algebraic in nature. I will be reading Descartes and Leibniz (most likely in this coming year) as well as Copernicus and various astronomers. I can guarantee you’ll see my reads start to go from geometry to astronomy, physics, philosophy, astrology, etc. I hope to read quite a bit during my lifetime.

I just want to get a solid foundation of the philological progress.

But yeah, math is my thing. I like mathematical economics too. And political philosophy. There’s a lot of stuff I don’t read though, like fiction. That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate prose. I love the way that Edmund Burke writes, for instance, and certain sections of Democracy In America read very well.

[Anonymous No.12323047]

>>12319813
I read The Road to Serfdom last year as well. What did you think? I gave it 3/5 stars

[Anonymous No.12323057]

I finally got an e-reader for Christmas and I have been losing time to actually sit down with a book the last few years, so I'm really excited to start reading again.

Between Christmas and New Year I managed to fit in two by Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes and Beauty and Sadness, both really good. Started Huxley's Brave New World as I've never actually gotten around to it before and it seems like the sort of thing I'd really enjoy.

[Anonymous No.12323060]

>>12312184
Don't judge me too hard most of the shit ones were for school.

[Anonymous No.12323163]

This year i really started reading, and next year i hope to read 50 books :)

[Anonymous No.12323204]

>>12323163
kys

[Anonymous No.12323228]

extremely happy with this year to be honest, not achieved the 60 books goal but I don't give any really care about these goals at all.
Read a lot of Plato and a bit of Aristotle (still on it) which I really wanted to give some focus this year. Ulysses was a re-read but also read some excellent works I had been meaning to read for a long while, namely, Finnegans Wake, V., Gravity's Rainbow and Don Quijote.
Finally finished The Bible too, which is great.
Left the name in the image, feel free to add if you want, although I have seen I already have some you.
Goals for next year: keep on going the philosophy journey, read the big classics I haven't read yet (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Virgil, Ovid and Milton comes to mind) as well as some modernism and postmodernism (Proust, Faulkner, Beckett, Guimarães Rosa, Gaddis, Gass, Sebald).

>>12319954
Like the other Anon I find these math works really interesting, read the Elements this year, probably will try to give Apollonius or maybe Archimedes a go this new year.

[Anonymous No.12323242]

>>12323163
don't listen to the other anon and don't kys, doing fine =)

[Anonymous No.12323249]

>>12313737
>Anna Karenina
>Snooze fest
what the hell

[Anonymous No.12323262]

>>12323242
Ty, such positivity. Just trying to get into reading, and /lit have given so many great suggestions which are on the to do list. Hoping for a more "/lit/"-approved reading list this year.

Happy new year !!!

[Anonymous No.12323367]

Joyce: Portrait of an artist as a young man
Kafka: Metamorphoses
The Stoker
A Country Doctor
started The Trial but found it unamusing
Nadas: The Bible
Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Notes from the Underground
Golding: Lord of the Flies
Pushkin: reread Onegin
Kertesz: Makra
Nietzsche: The Antichrist
Twilight of the idols
Lermontov: Hero of our Time
Goethe: Sorrows of young Werther
Camus: The Stranger
Marai: Embers
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Seneca: 3 letters of him
Dante: Divine Comedy
Kosztolanyi:Edes Anna
Shakespeare: Hamlet

[Anonymous No.12323406]

>>12312906
>>12313721
Respectable.

>>12314297
Not really my taste. I'd try something else than E. Gibbon, unless you're in it for the enlightenment perspective of the Roman Empire. From what I've read, JB Bury's works are more accessible and respected in the field of history.

>>12314695
Impressive.

>>12316837
Literally me half a decade ago.

>>12318174
My nigga. How was Hoppe's "From Aristocracy..." and "...The God that Failed"? Both are on my list for this year. I've never read libertarian/economics lit but he's been recommended multiple times, in addition to Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Well done.

[Anonymous No.12323831]

>>12323406
Beautiful stack there. Are you trying to find the axioms of god?

[Anonymous No.12323862]

>>12323060
Gay af

[Anonymous No.12323919]

>>12312184
>>12312184

The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoyevsky
The Meek One: Dostoyevsky
Stoner: Williams
The Stranger: Camus
1984: Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Grey: Wilde
Kitchen Confidential: Bourdain
Lolita: Nabokov
The Book of Tea
The Life of a Stupid Man
Money: Amis
Mortality: Hitchens
The Scott Pilgrim Series
Maus: Spiegelman
Selected Czech Tales
Mrs Rosie and the Priest
How we Laugh and Cry at the same thing: Montaigne


I should have read more :(

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