Goodreads reading challenge 2020

[Anonymous No.16377355]

You're slacking on your reading challenge aren't you anon? Your goal was to read 5 books? Haven't even read 1? You will never make it.

[Anonymous No.16377362]

>>16377355
It's going gud for me

[Anonymous No.16377369]

>>16377355
ive read 34, working towards my original goal of 40

[Anonymous No.16377377]

>>16377369
How do you find time to read that much?

[Anonymous No.16377381]

>>16377355
Read 9 out of 10 so far; crowning the challenge with Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.16377388]

>>16377355
I’m at 25 of 40, way behind track tbqh

[Anonymous No.16377393]

>>16377381
You're doing so good! Post what you read!

[Anonymous No.16377398]

>Goal of 40 books
>26 so far
>2 behind schedule

I’m going to have to bust ass if I want to finish, but this is still more than I’ve read in a year since I started goodreads in 2013
The rest of my stack to finish is:
>Foucault’s pendulum (rereading)
>Auden selected poems
>origin of species
>Margaret cavendish reader
>ocean at theend of the lane (I know, but it’s short)
>both Alice in wonderland books
>eliade’s eternal return
>the warden
>Christie’s sleeping murder
>the penal colony and other stories
>the crucible

[Anonymous No.16377399]

>>16377388
You goal kiinda high though desu, it's no worries anon. 25 is great!

[Anonymous No.16377407]

>>16377355
I didn't read nothing good, this year.

[Anonymous No.16377416]

>>16377399
Thanks anon, I still have faith that I can hit 40! Hopefully everyone else closes out the year strong too

[Anonymous No.16377420]

>>16377398
Those are some pretty hefty books aswell. I belive in you anon, you can do it!

[Anonymous No.16377426]

>>16377407
>Anxiety and depression workbook
Hope you're doing fine anon :(

[Anonymous No.16377436]

>>16377420
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.16377442]

>>16377355
I don't think I'm gonna make it bros...

[Anonymous No.16377446]

>>16377442
Only 1 book behind schedule so you might be fine, or do you not have the time?

[Anonymous No.16377464]

>>16377446
More like /lit/ is distracting me too much.

[Anonymous No.16377469]

>>16377355
I'm going to make it

[Anonymous No.16377471]

>>16377355
Didn't have a goal. At 25 now, but quite a few of them were long - Buddenbrooks and Doctor Faustus by Mann are roughly 750 pages each. Others were very time consuming - Critique of Judgment, Dialectic of Enlightenment and Husserl's Ideas I and II. I'm satiated with Mann for a good while now, so I'm reading Woolf instead, and enjoying it immensely. Will probably reach 35-40. I've also started lifting this year, and it cuts into reading time, but I'm fine with that. I've read very, very much these past years.

>>16377377
Unironically, try turning off your internet for three days. Probably one of the most helpful things a young person can do these days.

[Anonymous No.16377477]

>>16377464
I feel ya bro

[Anonymous No.16377480]

>goal is to read 15
>only on 8
Not.... gonna make it....

[Anonymous No.16377488]

>>16377469
Flexin on us goooddamn

[Anonymous No.16377498]

>>16377469
Those are big boy books too...

[Anonymous No.16377504]

>>16377471
Good shit, wont turn off internet though i will die

[Anonymous No.16377508]

>goal of 12
>have read 15
haven't picked a book in weeks

[Anonymous No.16377514]

>>16377508
>haven't picked a book in weeks
read murakami, i love his books

[Anonymous No.16377527]

>>16377393
Thanks, though I should be ashamed to say that I only read 10 books a year; since I bought my kindle now I'm reading ~2 books a month, so hooefully I'll get to 24 next year.

Anyway, the full list:
>1984
>The Metamorphosis
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>Anna Karenina
>Chess Story/The Royal Game
>Notes from Underground
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>The Stoker
>The Sign of Four

[Anonymous No.16377529]

time is fleeting, all is futile

[Anonymous No.16377545]

>>16377529
Just read a couple hundred book a day and you will make it, easy

[Anonymous No.16377551]

>>16377498
Just read 30-50 pages a day and you can do it :)

[Anonymous No.16377574]

>>16377551
Thats alot for a retard like myself

[Anonymous No.16377584]

Being forced into neetdom has some ok advantages

[Anonymous No.16377625]

>>16377529
Read one peace's manga and count every chapter like a book.

[Anonymous No.16377627]

>>16377377
I've done a few things. First of all I've been making a conscious effort to read every day. Before it became I habit I would literally set timers for like 30 minutes and force myself to read until the timer had finished. I also organized a book club with my friends which encouraged me to read more, finish a book by a set deadline. And on top of that I've been a NEET during quarantine so I've had more time than usual to read. Reading before bed is also a good thing. Pic related is what I've read so far this year.

[Anonymous No.16377636]

>>16377355
26/30, I'm gonna go way over. This is only my second year after getting back into reading though, last year was 21/20. Next year I'm gonna ball up and set the goal at 52. One book per week. I'll probably fall short, but it's definitely possible and that's the point of goals after all.

[Anonymous No.16377652]

>>16377442
Scrounge around for pdfs of short stories and other novels under or around 200 pages. Those are amazingly easy to chew through rapidly.

[Anonymous No.16377660]

>>16377627
What did you think of The concquer of bred? Been thinking about putting it on my to read list

[Anonymous No.16377662]

>>16377625
Even that's pretty time consuming and would only chop 1000 books off of his challenge by the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.16377676]

Need to read more French books (in French). Camus Ete was a bit tricky to understand but at least I now know that ame means soul.

[Anonymous No.16377712]

>>16377660
Definitely a slog in some parts. A century later it feels a little outdated, and it references a bunch of historical economic examples that I am not familiar with, but I would still recommend it. It's a true classic and I think it really helped me reconsider the concepts of labor and ownership, how it could/should be organized. But have you read Capitalist Realism yet? Somewhat similar topics in there, but I found it a lot more engaging and relevant.

[Anonymous No.16377714]

This guy makes me seethe. How does he do it? Guy just bulldozes through books, often history books as well which are long and dense.

[Anonymous No.16377739]

>>16377584
was the ancient Egyptian book any good?

[Anonymous No.16377800]

>>16377739
I have a degree in classical history and archaeology that required me to take several egyptian history courses and I thought that it was more enlightening then some of the courses I took.

Its divided into sections based on the genre of writing. Each section has its own intro and then each individual source has its own intro as well. Something that I find quite rare in non academic translations. Would recommend

[Anonymous No.16377816]

Made it bros

[Anonymous No.16377818]

>>16377652
I'm currently going over the /lit/ starter kit (yes, I know). I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray at the moment, which I'm enjoying far more than I thought I would, after having read The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies and Slaughterhouse 5 beforehand. The books are short and easy to read so I don't mind.

[Anonymous No.16377819]

>>16377714
skimming

[Anonymous No.16377838]

>>16377714
Huh? Who the fuck cares how much some rando reads?

[Anonymous No.16377843]

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[Anonymous No.16377846]

>>16377818
What's up with the Xs? Are they books you're not going to read at all? I just finished Clockwork Orange and it was excellent, don't skip entries on a starter chart of all thing.

[Anonymous No.16377854]

>>16377377
he didn't read during lock downs

[Anonymous No.16377874]

>>16377846
I don't plan to read those because I already saw the film adaptations.

[Anonymous No.16377888]

Going great

[Anonymous No.16377889]

>>16377874
hmmm anon... you don't read for the plot, do you?

[Anonymous No.16377922]

>>16377888
You read Capitalist Realism twice? Was it that compelling?

[Anonymous No.16377938]

What's the point of becoming cultured when you're low status and living in a wasteland of a society. Becoming /lit/ doesn't improve your standing in life so I don't see the point

[Anonymous No.16377966]

>>16377938
If you want to become an intellectual then you must accept that you will receive ZERO (0) validation from anyone.
Our current society's values are anti-intellectual. People will largely be indifferent maybe even hostile to you and your reading habits.
Don't try to get into literature for social clout, you should get into literature if you thirst for truth. Go start up a Twitch stream if you want validation.

[Anonymous No.16378026]

>>16377874
youre making a huge error

[Anonymous No.16378065]

>>16377922
It's rather short and has a lot of ideas in these few pages. It was rather refreshing compared to a lot of the more-outdated leftist books I've read this year. Certainly a lot of things to meditate upon, written succinctly with plenty of real-life examples given for the phenomena Fisher wrote about.

[Anonymous No.16378074]

>>16377355
I did this 3 months ago.

[Anonymous No.16378137]

>>16377800
thx, I've been swithering over picking up a copy

[Anonymous No.16378173]

>>16377938
>What's the point of learning.

Not everything you do is supposed to be for external validation you know.

[Anonymous No.16378225]

>>16377938
I unironically find reading fun

[Anonymous No.16378226]

>>16377355
M’y goal was 50 I’ve read 12