I know some people hate this, but how far is your reading this year?

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1736070]

I'm at 41 books of my 100+ book goal, see picture for specific titles. Favourites so far are: The Feast of the Goat; The Easter Parade; Wilderness Tips; Revolutionary Road; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell; Strong Motion. Special mention goes to The Man in the High Castle and The Pale King, for being weird and cool. Worst books were: after the quake, The Painted Veil; Islands in the Sky. They were all very painful, and a waste of time, money and effort.

Post your own lists, and favourite and least favourite books.

[Anonymous No.1736081]

http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/2142

MINE, BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE TOO LAZY TO COPY-PASTE I S'POSE.

[Anonymous No.1736080]

Interesting choices OP. I'm interested in Alan Bennett's new "Smut". You can find youtube videos of him reading bits of his new book...

There is an interesting review of The Pale King in The New York Review of Books this month

[Anonymous No.1736087]

what is the title of the book with the flag on the cover?

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1736091]

>>1736087

The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick.

[TheWordsThatMakethMurder !.A47gGlN/o No.1736092]

>>1736091
How was it?

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1736095]

>>1736092

Okay, I suppose. First half was really good, couldn't wait to find out what happened next, second half (with the exception of the last 10 pages or so) was meh. Some great moments between characters though, and the premise is excellent, i.e. both Germany and Japan have conquered America. Better than something like Fatherland.

[3rd No.1736102]

http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/12078

Not very far at all, the challenge function in GR daily becomes a bigger icon in my periphery that I'm spending too much time lurking here.

The best book so far award goes to Steps (Kosinski), and the worst goes to The Rush for Second place (posthumous essay collection, Gaddis)

I'm going to go finish The Pale King now.

[Anonymous No.1736131]

I have no goal

5/5 books:

Under Milk Wood, Death in Venice, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Third Policeman, The Moon and Sixpence

4/5 books:

A View From the Bridge, Waiting for Godot, The Nigger of the Narcissus, The Horla, The Altar of the Dead, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Rain and other stories, The Importance of Being Ernest, King Lear, Bacchae, Carry on Jeeves, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Boule de Suif, Winesburg Ohio, Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner

3/5 books:

A Horse's Tail, Extracts from the Dairy of Adam and Eve, Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Rip Van Winkle and other stories, The Castle of Ontranto, Beowulf, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Cocktail Party, The Gold Bug, Pygmalion, Hard Times, Salome, A Farewell to Arms, The Turn of the Screw, The Crucible, Mathilda, The Physicists, Alice in Wonderland, A Mindsummer Night's Dream,

2/5 Books:

The Comedy of Errors, White Nights, Incident at Vichy, Typee, The Awakening, The Beast in the Jungle, The Second Jungle book,

1/5 books:

Taras Bulba, The Kreutzer Sonata

[Anonymous No.1736146]

http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/87587

[Landon !!nBqZl5bQBVO No.1736929]

14/60

[Anonymous No.1736948]

28/50

[None !KPok7x0csI No.1736951]

13/1

what should i read next margaret? also is that Rose book the best place to start with Eco? i heard FP was too dense in background shit you should know.

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1736952]

>>1736131

No way is The Moon and Sixpence a 5/5. I enjoyed it, but it's a 3/5.

[Anonymous No.1736965]

22/100. Getting pretty far behind, but summer's coming up.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1736973]

>>1736951
you didn't like moliere?

[Brownbear !Wfn4kkpLag!!fEGZw8wphGR No.1736979]

http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/53517

best - Ferdydurke
worst - Download Helvetica for Free, but because that's just a shitty poetry colection you can read for free i'm also gonna add Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.1736999]

I have read 3 books this year.

[Anonymous No.1737033]

I'm on book 29, but I'm only planning on 52, so I'm way ahead.

[Anonymous No.1737539]

http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/2445

Thirty-six so far, out of a goal of 100. Reading this one right now.

[Anonymous No.1737543]

Audition is a book? Was it any good or was it just torture porn?

[None !KPok7x0csI No.1737546]

>>1736973
misanthrope
penguine translation
ridiculously hypocritical character
ive told you this before.

[Anonymous No.1737579]

>>1736952
I don't put much stock into your opinions. They seem very questionable to me.

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1738710]

>>1737543

Audition = die in a fire.

>>1737579

Why?

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1739297]

I finished The Way To Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa today, decent enough. Why can't all his books by awesome like The Feast of the Goat?

[Anonymous No.1739305]

>>1736951
name of the rose is a great book. the first 100 pages are a bit annoyingly wordy and filled with lists, but as a whole i loved the book.

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1739308]

>>1736951

The Lighthouse is dreadful. Oh, and Flowers for Algernon was just depressing.

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1739309]

>>1739308

Uh, To The Lighthouse. Generally speaking, lighthouses are okay. They stop ships from crashing.

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[Anonymous No.1739454]

>>1739443
>fahrenheit 451 better than dubliners

[Anonymous No.1739459]

Why aren't you on Goodreads, Sunhawk?

[Anonymous No.1739461]

>>1739454
Dubliners was probably 2deep4me, I'll admit that.

[Anonymous No.1740011]

Just started reading again this year...

Catch-22, Mossflower, Marlfox, The BFG, On Becoming a Person, The Road, The Things They Carried, The Alchemist, The Time Traveler's Wife, Born on a Blue Day, Interpreter of Maladies, The Gods Themselves, Child of God, Ecstasy, 50 Short Science Fiction Tales, Filth, Foundation, Lolita

Currently reading: End of Eternity, Slaughterhouse5, Count of Monte Cristo

<3 me some Asimov