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There are people here RIGHT NOW who have read less than 100 books

>> No.17280386

>>17280376
I don't really count, anon. I might have read less than a 100.

>> No.17280390

>>17280376
This is literature not reading.

>> No.17280410

ive only read like 80..

>> No.17280469

ye but infinite jest was one of them, I already beat the end boss

>> No.17280472

How many books does the bible count as

>> No.17280474

>>17280376
How many of those were fiction, bud?

>> No.17280481

>>17280376
me, but the 70~ books I've read are like 300 average books, or like 800 shit books

>> No.17280487

>>17280376
Last year alone I read ~102.
But it doesn't matter. Dante probably read less than 100, or not many more, in the course of his life. Books were very costly back then.

>> No.17280562

>>17280376
>There are people here RIGHT NOW

>> No.17280569

>>17280376
I have probably read no more than thirty books in the past decade yet I still somehow manage to tick your box because I read like at least 200 books between the ages of 10 and 13.

>> No.17280574

>>17280376
Cum and die

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>>17280376

>> No.17280857

who cares

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17280876

>there are people on this board RIGHT NOW who don't know when to use "less" and when to use "fewer".

>> No.17280886

>Quantity<Quality

>> No.17280890

>>17280876
there is nothing in that circle and it angers me

>> No.17280914

>>17280876
I could care fewer.

>> No.17280933

>>17280376
i think i read the entirety (or close to it) of the animorphs series... soo... checkmate

>> No.17280949

>>17280890
you are color blind

>> No.17281000

>>17280376
I cant believe people on here are defending not having read a hundred books over the course of their lives. 100 books isn't that many all in all.

>> No.17281263

>I read a 100 books and I can't share one noteworthy thing off the top of my head.

>> No.17281315

>>17280472
0

>> No.17281438

>>17280472
Protestant bible has 66 books
Catholics and others have more

>> No.17281472

>>17281438
yeah but some are really short like the minor prophets and epistles

>> No.17281522

>>17281000
I don't know, anon. A 100 is a lot of books, I might have, but I'm not sure. Had depression for some years too, and did practically nothing.

>> No.17282960

>>17280376
me

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>>17280376
There are people here RIGHT NOW who have read more than 100 books

>> No.17283007

>>17280386
>>17280390
>>17280410
>>17280469
>>17280472
>>17280474
>>17280481
>>17280562
>>17280574
>>17280857
>>17280886
>>17281263
>>17282960
>>17282988
I hate mass replying but you really need to go back retards.

>> No.17283092

Define "read". Does this requirement mean I was gripped the whole time or does it mean I have arrived at the end of the book

>> No.17283178

>>17283007
keyed

>> No.17283187

>>17280376
I've read war and peace 100 times but it's the only book I've read. I know all I need to know.

>> No.17283189

>>17283178
Sneed

>> No.17283310

>>17283092
Turbo Pseud: The Post

>> No.17283348

>>17283310
It's a legitimate question. What some people count as "reading" is actually skimming. You should be able to pass a test about the book if prompted.

>> No.17283359

>>17280376
so...? I DNF more books more books than you have read, and I read more than you DNF. what's your last book, OP?

>> No.17283914

>>17280376
There are literally ~30 books worth reading in the entire universe

>> No.17283926

>>17280376
I've read about 50 books in my entire life.

>> No.17283928

>>17280376
ive read 186 books

>> No.17283942

>>17283914
Shut up cretin

>> No.17283963

>>17280376
They are called /pol/shitters :)

>> No.17283983

>>17283963
This, I've read The Capital, The Communist Manifesto and many other great works by forward thinkers.

>> No.17283991

>>17283963
Why are you so obsessed with /pol/ you bring them up in every unrelated thread?

>> No.17284265

>>17283942
>t. Harry Potter fan

>> No.17284279

>>17280376
What if the books are 6000+ pages?

>> No.17284314

>>17280376
This is why I lurk and rarely post.

>> No.17284992

there's people in here right now who don't have sex on regular basis, worst yet; that never had sex at all.

>> No.17285065

>>17283007
I don't know, anon. I'm a better reader than most anons considering the level of their discussion in some books.

>> No.17285152

>>17280376
I have read several hundreds, anon
Every single one was a Fantasy book

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17285197

I've only read like 6 and they were all school requirements. I hate reading

>> No.17285206

>>17280376
What constitutes a book and what constitutes reading it? 100 is actually a rather large number for full length tomes.

>> No.17285288

>>17280472
STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE

>> No.17285601

>>17283991
it's not unrelated

>> No.17286616

>>17280376
Literally me, but at least I know when to use "less" and "fewer". I guess some people are beyond help!

>> No.17286640

>>17280914
>fewer
Either a brilliant two-tiered shitpost, or an American.

>> No.17286652

>>17280376
I've read 118 books in the past two years alone and I'm not a better man for it.

Jk, I'm actually ascended and better than all of you.

>> No.17286674

>>17281522
>>17281522
If you're 18 that's a lot by contemporary standards, if you're 40 that not so much. Read a book a month starting at your 18th birthday, when you reach 30 you'll have read almost 150 books. And a book a month is really not hard.

>> No.17286683

I haven't read more than 100 books of consequence, but I've easily read more than that in slop.

>> No.17286767

>>17284992
Still not as bad as not having read 100 books desu.

>> No.17286781
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>>17280376
I started reading 2 years ago. heres a list of every book I've read so far in the order I've read them:
the prose edda
the poetic edda
the journey to the west
the bible
tampa by Alissa Nutting
the divine comedy
paradise lost
goethe's faust
the epic of gilgamesh
dracula
frankenstein
the theogony
works and days
the shield of heracles
the catalogue of women
hesiod's fragments
the iliad
the epic cycle fragments
the posthomerica
the odyssey
the bibliotheca of apollodorus
r8 me /lit/

>> No.17286785

I read more than 100 books before I was 18, and more than 100 classics between 20 and 25. I count books like Euripides' Complete Works or the Bible as one book each.

>> No.17286851

>>17286781
Based, but Hesiod's works count as one book, not 5.
How are you enjoying your journey anon?

>> No.17286979

>>17286851
>Hesiod's works count as one book
that's fair. I mentioned then individually because I dont know if what I've read is everything hesiod ever wrote. I didn't want to say "hesiod's works" in case I was missing something
>How are you enjoying your journey
I unironically love reading, I wish I started sooner. I've been shitposting here on /lit/ (and 4chan in general) since 2014 but it was only until 2019 that I thought: "you know what, I'm gonna actually start reading" and I love it.

>> No.17287004

>>17286781
Pretty nice start fren.

>> No.17287010

>>17286979
Good to know /lit/ doesn't always damn, but sometimes saves.

>> No.17287055

>>17286979
You've read great book so far anon. Maybe try learning a new language too if you want. Latin can be nice and if you keep at it you'll be able to read Aeneid in its original language. Also you may enjoy philosophy, so try Plato sometime seeing that you got some of the Greek prereq out of the way.

>> No.17287698

>>17285197
what are you doing on this board

>> No.17287747

>>17283310
kek

>> No.17287786

>>17286674
Hm I probably read more than that then. I'm 31.

>> No.17289223

>>17280376
based op, just take advice from based people, most of this board is retards that was forced to read moby dick in high school and pretends to enjoy literature.

>> No.17289241

I've read 101

>> No.17289360

I've read 10-15 book each year for the last 8 years :)

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>>17280376
>He counts how many books he's read!

>> No.17289432

>>17280376
Don't be a book finisher.
Be a reader.

>> No.17291418

>>17281522
100 books is like two years of reading. Only if you only started reading after /lit/ and only started browsing /lit/ in 2017 does that makes any sense.