/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14631153]

How many books did you read this month /lit/? How many pages in each book?

Me? Two books. 350 & 500 pages.

[Anonymous No.14631158]

>>14631153
4 books
565
165
280
120

[Anonymous No.14631164]

>>14631153
1137 pages across 6 books, plus 30 pages into my current book and 130 pages of LOTR (reading it with a casual so have to go slow)

[Anonymous No.14631238]

>>14631153
If you want to be a bug and quantify your reading you should really be counting words and applying a difficulty multiplier

[Anonymous No.14631267]

>>14631153
3 so far.
The Heart of Darkness-- 100ish.
As I Lay Dying-- 2 or 3 hundy
The Moor's Last Sigh-- 400 some

I also read Persepolis parts 1 & 2. (250-300 altogether)
>I don't count graphic novels.

[Anonymous No.14631271]

I haven't been able to find the motivation to read for months, I dunno why

[Anonymous No.14631279]

>>14631238
okay pagelet

[Anonymous No.14631283]

>>14631153
Is this some kind of multicultural fantasy of what a library would look like without evil white people

[Anonymous No.14631285]

I didnt count pages.
12 books
most pretty short 200ish pages per?
2400 pagesish

[Anonymous No.14631297]

>>14631285
i burn with envy for your NEET lifestyle

[Anonymous No.14631302]

A quarter of one

[Anonymous No.14631317]

>>14631153
Only 2: Good Omens and The Diary of Satan. I don't know how many pages.
I've been busy playing videogames.

[Anonymous No.14631323]

>>14631297
i work, i just dont have any friends, partners, family, responsibilities, hobbies, meaning in my life, feelings its like 100 pages a day over 4-6ish hours, more on weekends. still end up watching tv and playing games, could have done more,

[Anonymous No.14631331]

>>14631283
Yinka Shonibare's 'The British Library' at Tate Modern celebrates the diversity of the British population. Printed on some of the 6,328 books in the installation are the names of first or second-generation immigrants to Britain, marking their significant contributions to British culture. Among names such as Zadie Smith, Dame Helen Mirren and Hans Holbein, the names of some of those who have opposed immigration also appear. As well as a celebration of contributions, the work also acknowledges dissent — intending to provoke discussion, debate and reflection on all aspects of British culture.

The work continues online where visitors can learn more about the people named on the books, and review materials selected by Shonibare that represent different perspectives on immigration. There are iPads in the space for visitors to contribute to the library, or head to thebritishlibraryinstallation.com to submit online. We’d love to hear your stories.

[Anonymous No.14631341]

>>14631283
Yinka Shonibare's 'The British Library' at Tate Modern celebrates the diversity of the British population. Printed on some of the 6,328 books in the installation are the names of first or second-generation immigrants to Britain, marking their significant contributions to British culture. Among names such as Zadie Smith, Dame Helen Mirren and Hans Holbein, the names of some of those who have opposed immigration also appear. As well as a celebration of contributions, the work also acknowledges dissent — intending to provoke discussion, debate and reflection on all aspects of British culture.

The work continues online where visitors can learn more about the people named on the books, and review materials selected by Shonibare that represent different perspectives on immigration.

[Anonymous No.14631348]

5, all very short though.
342
163
152
219
151

[Anonymous No.14631362]

>>14631283
Yinka Shonibare's 'The British Library' at Tate Modern celebrates the diversity of the British population. Printed on some of the 6,328 books in the installation are the names of first or second-generation immigrants to Britain, marking their significant contributions to British culture. Among names such as Zadie Smith, Dame Helen Mirren and Hans Holbein, the names of some of those who have opposed immigration also appear. As well as a celebration of contributions, the work also acknowledges dissent — intending to provoke discussion, debate and reflection on all aspects of British culture.

[Anonymous No.14631383]

1 only

541 pages + notes in the back which i skimmed 100+ pages.

good so far i guess.

[Anonymous No.14631405]

Who cares?

[Anonymous No.14631442]

>Who cares?

[Anonymous No.14631667]

>>14631405
seething

[Anonymous No.14632285]

>>14631153
Five books / 1,300 pages.

As well as being part way through /abandoned four books totalling about 750 additional pages.

So, 2,000 pages. And I'm not even a good or fast reader, nor do I read too often.

[Anonymous No.14632339]

5 books
1570 pages
would have liked to read more but most of them are dense philosophy books that I collectively took over 100 pages of notes on.

[Anonymous No.14632364]

>>14631153
2,474pagesacross4books!
796
464
667
547
(NEET)

[Anonymous No.14633363]

good to know that some of you are reading 2,000+ pages a month

[Anonymous No.14633690]

>>14631153
12

[Anonymous No.14633716]

>>14631153
4 books totalling 1450 pages,
Industrial Society and It's Future,
Beowulf,
Moby Dick,
Clean Code

[Anonymous No.14633750]

4

About 150 pages each

[Anonymous No.14633786]

About 450 pages

[Anonymous No.14634710]

>12 books
>4600 pages
just shut the fuck and start reading you pseuds.

[Anonymous No.14634719]

3 books. About 230, 100, and 342. /sci/ can do the math.

[Anonymous No.14634721]

>>14634710
What books?

[Anonymous No.14634727]

Just 1, about 440 pages.

And 50 pages on one book and about 120 in another. Slowish start so far

[Anonymous No.14634730]

2800 pages. Hobbit, LOTR, Silmarillion, and the first three books of Joseph and His Brothers.

[Anonymous No.14634796]

>>14634721
Zorba Kazandzakis
La Peau de chagrin Balzac
L'universalité de l’herméneutique Grondin
My struggle knaugsard
Gonczarov Oblomov
Froth on the Daydream boris vian
fathers and sons turgnieniew
houellebecq's shit i'd rather forget
roadside picnic
voltaire L'Ingénu
Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentelmen of Verona. shakespeare
and masłowska, writer from my country

[Anonymous No.14634860]

>>14634796
Nice, Fathers and Sons was a pretty good book.

[Anonymous No.14634884]

>>14634860
so read Oblomov, same era, country, awesome characters

[Anonymous No.14634933]

>>14634884
>Oblomov
Saved

[Anonymous No.14635443]

>>14634860
>>14634796
>reading it right now
Bazarov annoys me so far.


>>14634884
ty

[Anonymous No.14635465]

>>14634710
Speed reader alert

Maybe you should try reading those books properly

[Jake No.14635502]

>>14631153
I read Lolita again, every short story by Ambrose Bierce, every short story by Ted Chiang, and The Stranger again

[Anonymous No.14635752]

>>14635502

[Anonymous No.14635800]

>>14631153
I read 1,630 pages across 7 books

(copy-pasting from goodreads cuz i'm lazy)

[Anonymous No.14635836]

3 books
Wieland; or the Transformation
Arthur Mervyn; or the Memoirs of the year 1793
-Charles Brocken Brown
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
-Washington Irving

[Anonymous No.14635856]

>>14631153
I've been rereading the same book for the last 2 years

[Anonymous No.14635862]

>>14635836
Wieland; or the Transformation
226
Arthur Mervyn; or the Memoirs of the year 1793
411
-Charles Brocken Brown
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
320
-Washington Irving

all are library of america

[Anonymous No.14635915]

I read four and half books, 1000-1200 pages

[Anonymous No.14636470]

>>14635465
Speed reading can lead to increased rate of comprehension. Retard.

[Anonymous No.14636508]

2,5 books.
150
320
490/750

[Anonymous No.14636609]

16 books
3636 pages

[Anonymous No.14636674]

>>14631153
9.

[Anonymous No.14636843]

>>14631158
9 books

300 odd pages for most of them. But one of them was 150 page novella and one was 400 odd pages.

I replaced weed with books.

[Anonymous No.14636944]

>>14636843
>I replaced weed with books.
good lad

[Anonymous No.14637043]

9 books
More than 3000 pages

[Anonymous No.14637063]

1623

Book of the New Sun - 597 (shadow and claw) +615 (sword and citadel)

The Yiddish Policemen's Union - 411

Currently 150 pages through Urth of the New Sun

[Anonymous No.14637208]

>>14631153
3
Gullivers' Travels -330
Memories of old Liverpool - 350
Nibelungenlied - 404

And also;
A ton of reterofuturist short stories from Galaxy magazine
Henry Viii letters to anne boleyn
An essay about why the British would lose India written in the 1700's

[Anonymous No.14637357]

>>14637208
>Henry Viii letters to anne boleyn
>An essay about why the British would lose India written in the 1700's
neat, similar to what im interested in

[Anonymous No.14637410]

1.
The Iliad. We're off to a rough start this year.

[Anonymous No.14637449]

>>14635443
>Bazarov annoys me so far.
Thank fucking God I'm not the only one.

[Anonymous No.14637452]

>>14631153
None. And I have the time to do it. Fucking hell...

[Anonymous No.14637467]

I got halfway through Moby Dick and a quarter way through a book about Pre Socratic philosophers. I also spend a good amount of time reading poetry, but that doesn't really count in this context

[Anonymous No.14637484]

None because I willfully adhere to the mind numbing tedium of a seven to seven job that has paralyzed my brain, precluding any semblance of learning, contemplation, or general introspection in life; so I come here to seek in others the quickening flame born of intellectual novelty that has long been extinguished in me, and I deeply mourn.

[Anonymous No.14637496]

>>14631153
The Divine comedy
Jurassic park
The republic
Now I'm halfway through blood meridian

No idea about how many pages, I'd have to check when home from work

[Anonymous No.14637628]

>>14631153
0. 39 pages into V.

[Anonymous No.14637659]

>>14637484
fuck

[Anonymous No.14637669]

>>14631153
6 books
767
330
315
167
158
156

[Anonymous No.14637686]

2

the gita
the koran

now gilgamesh

[Anonymous No.14637712]

>>14631153
10 books
one was 800p, two others a tad over 400p, 3 were below 200p, others average (300-350p)
and while you're here, look at that giant damn horse. the man is 191cm. love that pic, horse looks great

[Anonymous No.14637756]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
Stoner by John Williams (halfway through)
The Golden Age of Weird Fiction Vol. 2 by Frank Belknap Long (halfway through)

[Anonymous No.14637776]

one and a half books.
1079 and 156 (in the half)

[Anonymous No.14637784]

>>14631153
4

2 are for school (NOT TEXTBOOK)

1000~
400~
200~
500~

[Anonymous No.14638125]

>>14631153
Three books. Worked 15-hour days the first two weeks of this year so didn't have time to read anything during those weeks, save for the weekends.

[Anonymous No.14638130]

>>14636470
I bet it hasn't in your case, pseud.

[Anonymous No.14639254]

>>14637686
Kys nigger

[Anonymous No.14639306]

if you aren't reading at least 8 books a month then daqfuq are you doin [an individual book meaning an at least 400 page volume, 1-200 page novella doens't c ount]

[Anonymous No.14639341]

seriously that's like just 100 pages a day it's not that fucking much you fags

[Anonymous No.14640454]

>>14635465
so fast reading reading assuming that i cant do it "properly"? what is that even mean. you can read for fun, plot, and screw that "properly" reading. read and have fun.

[Anonymous No.14640461]

>>14636470
based

[Anonymous No.14640479]

>>14637712
that's big ass horse

[Anonymous No.14641330]

>>14638125
how do you access this breakdown on goodreads? unless its not GR?

[Anonymous No.14642196]

>>14640479
hehe can you imagine its dick i bet it's huge haha
i bet it's like 2 feet long. that's a lot of cock.

[Anonymous No.14643051]

>>14631323
>>14631297
I work, live with my gf
it's ez to read a lot if that's all you do
wasting my live desu
i hope you younger ones actually study at school and do useful stuff with your life

>>14631405
>Who cares?
well on a litterature board why not

>>14634710
>just shut the fuck and start reading you pseuds.
exactly

>>14637484
>None because I willfully adhere to the mind numbing tedium of a seven to seven job that has paralyzed my brain, precluding any semblance of learning, contemplation, or general introspection in life; so I come here to seek in others the quickening flame born of intellectual novelty that has long been extinguished in me, and I deeply mourn.
stay stronk senpai

>>14638125
my books
year in books
next year

[Anonymous No.14643059]

>>14643051
meant for
>>14641330

[Anonymous No.14643202]

None. But i learned around 600 pages for my exams.

[Anonymous No.14643213]

4. 5 if you count the one I’m finishing today :3.

[Anonymous No.14643302]

>>14643059
thanks, friend :)

[Anonymous No.14643328]

>>14643051
whats that incas book like?

[Anonymous No.14643334]

>>14643328
really bad sorry
it's kind of the deities and emperors of the incas, put in luke warm mini stories, with zero effort to make it enjoyable.
i enjoyed the wikipedia summaries of the protagonists more than the book.

[Anonymous No.14643460]

Urs Bitterli - The Discovery of America
Ziblatt/Levitzky - How Democracies Die
Homer - Odyssey
Sun Tzu - Art of War
Musashi - Five Rings

(granted, the last two are rather short)

5 books. Also watched 17 movies.