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>top 5 books
>how much time do you spend on /lit/ weekly

>> No.17896398

>>17896377
Confederacy of dunces
The escape of mr trimm
A canticle for leibowitz
The collected tales of Nikolai gogol
Master and margarita

Not a lot anymore, not on this /lit/ anyways. I found a more calmer, comfy, some what dead /lit/ in the deepest corners of the internet. But this alright.

>> No.17896413

1. Crystallising Public Opinion
2. The Bhagavad Gita
3. Beyond Good and Evil
4. The Ethics
5. The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Sometimes zero hours per week sometimes 10 so if I had to average probably around 2 hours per week this year.

>> No.17896497

>>17896398
link or hints?

>> No.17896509

In Search of Lost Time
The Man Without Qualities
The Good Soldier Svejk
The Sleepwalkers
Gargantua and Pantagruel

A couple of hours at most

>> No.17896519

in no order
The Bridge On The Drina
All Quiet On The Western Front
American Pastoral
In Cold Blood
Beloved

probably an hour total per week

>> No.17896521

>>17896377
Seretonin
Journey to the end of night
Stoner
Alraune
Hamlet
>15-20 minutes a day

>> No.17896637

>>17896497
No. Unless you read all of Irvin S. Cobb’s novels, i might tell you.

>> No.17896668

>>17896377
Blood Meridian
The Invisible Man
A Sand County Almanac
Anna Karenina
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
--
2-3 hours when I'm drunk.

>> No.17896707
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17896707

>everyone reads fiction
>everyone spends less time on /lit/ than me

>> No.17896721

>>17896707
I read non-fiction as well, it's just not typically in my top-5 favorites.
If I walked up to you and said, "This historical account of the Punic Wars is the best book ever written" you'd rightfully assume I'm the biggest retard alive.
Two entirely different things.

>> No.17896746

>infinite Jest
>epitaph of a small winner
>this side of paradise
>portrait of the artist
>karamazov
I mostly come here when I'm smoking. So probably 20 times 10 minutes per day.

>> No.17896905

>>17896721
Not at all

>> No.17896924

>>17896721
>you'd rightfully assume I'm the biggest retard alive.
No, I'd assume you're one of the most based people I know. Although depending on whether we're acquainted or not, I might assume you have a mild degree of autism.

>> No.17896934

>>17896905
For me, the straightforward presentation of facts in the non-fiction genre makes it interesting to me in the way I might watch a documentary.
However, non-fiction usually falls short when it comes to the grandiose story telling and world building I really want when I sit down to read a book.
I have no issue with non-fiction books, they're just different. Fiction (being unbound from restrictions) has a wider allowance for creative liberties.
A good compromise that I enjoy occasionally is alt-history.
However, my favorites are all still purely fictional.

>> No.17897521

Blood Meridian
Call of the Crocodile
Dune
Infinite Jest
The Iliad

>> No.17897539

>Crime & Punishment
>Great Gatsby
>Brothers Karamazov
>Journey to the End of the Night
>The Cherry Orchard

>1 or 2 hours

>> No.17897563

Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
We the Living
Anthem
The Early Ayn Rand

12 hours

>> No.17897571

>>17896377
Crime and Punishment
Infinite Jest
Tai Pei
Harry Potter
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

10 minutes

>> No.17897591

>>17896497
of course he uses rebbit

>> No.17898704

bump

>> No.17899078

Great Gatsby
Bible
Iliad
Odyssey
Shakespeare Complete
3 hours