/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19516474]

Are you going to make it, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.19516478]

>>19516474
yes

[Anonymous No.19516499]

>>19516474
I'm not. 10/15

[Anonymous No.19516676]

17/20 can I do it? Dubs and I do

[Anonymous No.19516688]

>>19516474
26 / 30 - it'll be tight but the holidays will allow me to sit down and pump out the last one or two

[Anonymous No.19516693]

bros....

[Anonymous No.19516704]

57/70

Disappointed

[Anonymous No.19516705]

Does anyone on this board actually read books? I've read 99 this year and I have a job. You guys suck.

[Anonymous No.19516709]

>>19516474
Probably not. Aimed for 30, but only finished 15. Don't matter. I did other worthwhile things.

[Anonymous No.19516711]

>>19516705
what are you reading? I only really read classics and they take me a couple of weeks to get through, even reading every day - so I usually post about 25/30 books a year. But then if I'm reading something pulpy / easy I can finish it in a day or two.

[Anonymous No.19516717]

>>19516474
It's too late. Go on without me.

[Anonymous No.19516723]

>>19516711

[Anonymous No.19516738]

i made it lads

[Anonymous No.19516748]

>>19516723
nigga get a job

[Anonymous No.19516876]

>>19516748
i have one git good

[Anonymous No.19516937]

Slow year, usually do somewhere in the mid 40s.

[Anonymous No.19516959]

>>19516723
How was leibowitz? Wondering if I should get it, but I've never read SF before.

[Anonymous No.19516974]

>>19516937
i read first blood too. the sheriff was much more nuanced in the book and i liked the ending. but at the same time i really appreciate what stallone did with the script, he streamlined it and turned rambo into a hero, whereas in the novel he's really begging for a fight and enjoys killing.

[Anonymous No.19516977]

>>19516876
is your work related to your reading or do you have a shitty day job and hit the books at night

[Anonymous No.19516978]

>>19516959
It's actually one of my favorite books of all time. It's hilarious and lot a deeper than you might think going into it. You're in for a treat.

[Anonymous No.19516982]

>>19516474
I've read like 70 books this year but don't use Goodreads, do I win a prize?

[Anonymous No.19516989]

Wow i knew nobody reads here... I've read 150 books so far and i have a job, three kids, 3 hours of gym a day and i fuck my wife twice everyday

[Anonymous No.19516995]

0/1.I don't think I'm gonna make it bros...

[Anonymous No.19517028]

>>19516989
I've read 151 books this year sso far and i have 2 jobs, 4 kids, 4 hours of gym a day but i only fuck your wife once a day

[Anonymous No.19517029]

>>19516474
38/50 so probably not. I do have some half-finished books that could get me to 45 but I don't see the point in rushing. I didn't enjoy the challenge, it made me avoid tackling larger works.

[Anonymous No.19518037]

>>19516474
I'm 120% sure about it.

[Anonymous No.19518282]

15/20. I could make it if I finish all those I have started but that would be dishonest.

[Anonymous No.19518843]

>>19516474
No. 27/52 spent too much time being depressed. I’ll probably get to 35 by the end of the year. Next year I’ll get back on track though. Excited to look at everyone’s goodreads charts at the end of the month

[Anonymous No.19518854]

>>19516977
imagine not having a comfy job you can read at lol

[Anonymous No.19518952]

>>19516977
I was a NEET for years but I started working for my brother installing flooring. He's old enough to where he already bought all the things he wants so he only tries to work enough to keep his empire going. I usually only work about 5 hours for 120 dollars per day.

[Anonymous No.19518992]

I set my goal to 1000 so no

[Anonymous No.19519114]

>>19516474
I made it.

[Anonymous No.19519135]

>>19516474
>less than 15 books this year
no, i'm not...

[Anonymous No.19519781]

git good

[Anonymous No.19520023]

Yeah this year hasn't been good for reading. It didn't help that I spent a long time chipping away at reading The Stand. I'm glad I read it though. Fantastic book.

1 book a day, haha. That is not going to happen.

[Anonymous No.19520297]

The Open, Agamben
Bubbles, Sloterdijk
Saving Beauty, Byung-Chul Han
The Odyssey
Finishing Anti-Oedipus this week
Maybe 5 essays from Fanged Noumena
Mos essays from Collapse III
~5 Essays from Collapse VIII

Bubbles and AO have both been incredibly demanding, but I find that rewarding. I will probably try to read the Graham Harman lectures and some selections from A Theory of Justice to finish off the year.

[Anonymous No.19520370]

>>19520297
I forgot, also these:
The Ethics of Deconstruction
The Agony of Power
To Live and Think Like Pigs
Some essays from The Inclusion of the Other
Some essays from From Decision to Heresy
Short stories from A Natural History of Hell and North American Lake Monsters

[Anonymous No.19521724]

2019 I read 1
2020 I read 6
2021 I read 24
Feels good man

[Anonymous No.19522021]

>>19516738
based

[Anonymous No.19522044]

>>19521724
glad to hear that anon

[Anonymous No.19522084]

50/50
I may finish Ulysses before the year ends, and couple more.

Still I wish I had spent more time reading.

There are some classics I own and wanted to read this year, but I decided to skip them to read other things, more suitable for the time I had available:

>Paradise Lost
>Huckleberry Finn
>Moby Dick
>East of Eden
>Anna Karenina
>Great Expectations

Also, many literary theory books of which I had chapters assigned for classes. I loved them, but didn't think I could go through the whole thing without leaving other things undone

[Anonymous No.19522086]

Beat it by 1 so far, probably will get at least one more finished before 2022

[Francis Riddlin, Tennessee. No.19522136]

i ate ur mothers groid

[Anonymous No.19522142]

I got like 5/30. I just don't have the attention span to read books anymore.

[Anonymous No.19522151]

>>19522142
Stick to it anon, if you have trained your brain to have a shorter attention span you can retrain it to have a longer one again. I believe in you <3

[Anonymous No.19522299]

57 done, I only got a few more to go and I'm mainly reading poetry now because it's much more fun to learn about rhythm and musicality than plots and characters (even though talented, poetic novelists can have the former). Anyone compared much Guido Cavalcanti? I'm thinking of doing it next, I got a few books of his with original, new translation, and Ezra Pound's translations.

[Francis Riddlin, Tennessee. No.19522430]

>>19522151
>i ate ur mothers groid
i ate ur mothers groid

[Anonymous No.19522433]

>>19516474
I read about 55 this year.
>>19522086
>Night on the Galactic Railroad
Nice. Have you read his short stories? Check out Once and Forever; they're even better in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.19523114]

I just made goodreads account, this thing is atrocious, do i have to rate books, how do i add to the list??? Does it have dark mode for pc browsers? How do i make this big OG screens of the books...

[Anonymous No.19523140]

>>19516474
No. I will just make 20 in no more. How do I make time to read in final year of uni with heavy part time workloads on top of that/trying to not be an antisocial autist?

[Anonymous No.19523631]

>>19516723
My man do you do something other than reading and working? I also work full time and i've managed half of what you read despite being a decently quick reader.

[Anonymous No.19523761]

Surprised myself, the most before was 38 last year.

[Anonymous No.19524355]

>>19523761
post the books so I can see what you've read and feel bad about myself

[Anonymous No.19524371]

>>19523631
I mostly just read and work, but even so I only started working a few months ago. On top of that I only work about 5 hours per day so I was just talking shit.

[Anonymous No.19524379]

don’t think I will be making it to 50 this time

[Anonymous No.19524402]

>>19524355

[Anonymous No.19524888]

>>19516474
I made it to 52, then upped it to 62, then upped it to 72. I'll read a few more by the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.19524906]

>>19516474
Probably will just make it. About 150 pages to go on my current book, take my third & last final of the quarter on Wednesday morning, & then I'm on break for about 4.5 weeks that I should be able to read plenty in.
Gonna go for a short PKD novel next, so whatever I pick up after that I should have plenty of time for.

[Anonymous No.19525062]

>>19516474
Not even trying to, these kind of goals seem as superficial as new year's resolutions. I just read whatever interests me at the moment, without a hustle. Quality > quantity

[Anonymous No.19525520]

bump

[Anonymous No.19525549]

>>19516474
No

[Anonymous No.19525573]

>>19525549
To be fair I only made my Goodreads account in October

[Anonymous No.19526252]

>>19519114
>69
Nice

[Anonymous No.19526344]

>>19516937
based Corbett enjoyer

[Anonymous No.19526549]

>>19526344
He's so good man. Saving his other non-hunting books for myself as a treat for later. Could read him talking about India forever, maneating tiger involved or not.

Going to give Kenneth Anderson a punt soon too, see if that captures any of the same magic.

[Anonymous No.19526684]

>>19517028
Holy kek.

[Anonymous No.19527070]

White is fiction and grey non-fiction. It's been an alright year. Smack average in terms of number of books read. Standout for the year was Montaigne. It's more something I get from reading old poetry but it felt like his hand reached forth four hundred years into the future to clasp me by the shoulder and for him to call me friend. I don't think I would read the entire essays again but I'm going to make a list of all the essays I really liked to make my own abridged version I can revisit from time to time.

>>19516723
Asides from a small number of titles in here it's surprising how many of these books I've either read, plan on reading next year (or plan on reading the author), or have read a non-fiction book on a very similar topic... are you me?

>>19522084
Is the very short introduction to Jung any good. I read a couple others from the same series this year with mixed results. I'm also wanting to fit in Ulysses over my Christmas break.


>>19524402
If this is real how on Earth do you find the time to read this much?

[Anonymous No.19527211]

>>19516474
I already did.

[Anonymous No.19527268]

>>19516474
>he reads as a completionist task instead of a discipline to gain more knowledge
absolutely, positively, NGMI

[Anonymous No.19527269]

>>19516474
No

[Anonymous No.19527270]

>>19524402
how were those murakami books? Planning on reading some soonish, starting with norwegian wood

[Anonymous No.19527317]

Yes I've already surpassed my goals.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian

[Anonymous No.19527318]

>>19516723
Now summarize each one

[Anonymous No.19527322]

>>19516474
I read like 50 books a week. Thanks audible!

[Anonymous No.19527327]

>>19527270
Not him but I dislike Murakami. I went through a huge Meiji onward Japanese literature phase and I do exaggerate when I say EVERY one I read was better. Kawabata won the Nobel prize, Mishima was in consideration and Soseki is considered in Japan as the GOAT of modern literature. Those three are much better reads.

[Anonymous No.19527459]

>>19516474
Pledged: 0
Read: 0
Yep I'm thinking I'm based.

[Anonymous No.19527640]

>>19516723
is flowers for algernon good? randomly thought about it today so bit baader meinhof seeing it here

[Anonymous No.19527700]

saddens me to know that I'll run out of translated contemporary japanese lit one day

[Anonymous No.19527704]

>>19522430
>>i ate ur mothers groid
>i ate ur mothers groid
I ate your mother's groin

[Anonymous No.19528165]

>>19527700
how was earthlings? i liked convenience store woman

[Anonymous No.19528176]

Reposting from last thread. Not going to update pic yet but currently reading Blood Meridian now.

[Anonymous No.19528229]

>>19527070
I've always been a quick reader, and on average I'd say about 2 hours a day. Now I work from home I save a lot of time I would have spent travelling, plus I live alone so finding the time isn't hard. Some books when I get really into it I just keep reading, Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami was like 400 pages and I read that in a Saturday. I guess according to goodreads I read an average of 100 pages a day, then take out frontmatter and indexes and stuff and I don't see that's too insane.
>>19527270
I loved Murakami. He's not hard to read, so no wonder /lit/ doesn't like it, but I find his style of storytelling really compelling, a lot of these I read in a day.

They can get a bit samey after a while though. Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, Dance, Dance, Dance, Hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world and Norwegian Wood are probably the best ones.

[Anonymous No.19528246]

>>19528229
high five on the 105!
i've only read 26990 pages though, i read a lot of novellas

[Anonymous No.19528310]

>>19528165
if you enjoyed the abnormal, dissociative pragmatism in convenience store, I think you'll like earthlings, which features a similar, though more 'active' protagonist. whereas convenience store covers a specific period in the adult life of such a person, earthlings begins from a childhood already conscious of its incompatibility with normative conceptions of societal behavior and expectation. you can think of it as convenience store woman with the addition of a before and after.

[Anonymous No.19528376]

I doubt it. I could do it if I just read 5 short books but everything I want to read right now is 600+ pages, and I am a slow reader. I tried bros but I just wasn't consistent enough to make it this time.
I did read a lot of short stories however, which I didn't count for obvious reasons. So it wasn't a total failure.

[Anonymous No.19528496]

>>19516474
Probably not, 43/60 at this point. But I've built a bookcase and done a lot of writing, so I'm still fairly satisfied.

[Anonymous No.19528528]

>>19527318
This is one of those weird copes that I always see in these threads. It's always people that don't read shit that try to turn that into a virtue. No, you're not retaining more, you're just reading less.

[Anonymous No.19528709]

>>19522084
An hour ago I was reading about how Carl Schmitt likened himself to Benito Cereno, and now I see this
haha crazy

[Anonymous No.19529014]

>>19528376
youve done well goodspeed anon

[Anonymous No.19529272]

>>19527211
Setting your target low and exceeding it somehow feels better than barely reaching a higher one, especially for something that is supposed to be a leisurely activity.

[Anonymous No.19529298]

>>19529272
you can adjust the goal immediately before you achieve it a million times. keep on winning.

[Anonymous No.19529331]

partially read books count...right?

[Anonymous No.19529364]

>>19529331
go for 4.20/69

[Anonymous No.19529374]

>>19529364
I'm already halfway through Dune and the jew book, so I'd have to stop reading altogether

[Anonymous No.19529386]

I did read TBK twice, thats not a mistake

[Anonymous No.19529402]

>>19529374
nice

[Anonymous No.19529508]

>>19528528
cope

reading is not about quantity

[Anonymous No.19529510]

>>19529508
nuh uh it is

[Anonymous No.19529537]

>>19527070
>Is the very short introduction to Jung any good. I read a couple others from the same series this year with mixed results
The quality of the series varies a lot. I found the Intro to Jung to be excellent. It starts with a biographical background of Jung, and follows him throughout his life in the development of his psychology.
The list at the end of recommended reading is also great, and I hope I can get to read those books next year.
I recommend it a lot. I cannot think of a better intro to jung in 150 pages.

[Anonymous No.19529646]

>>19529508
Nobody said it was. It's you idiots that assume reading more equals comprehending less because you feel inferior. Cope is a word that gets misused but that's literally what it is.

[Anonymous No.19529708]

>>19516723
Is Norm's book /lit/ approved?

[Anonymous No.19529813]

only a few more weeks and we can all post our 'what you read in 2021' and talk shit about each other

[Anonymous No.19530279]

>10/12
bros... I don't feel too good...

[Anonymous No.19530344]

fug

[Anonymous No.19530498]

>>19527318
Cope

[Anonymous No.19530551]

>>19529510
>>19529646

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher. Accordingly, in reading, the work of thinking is, for the greater part, done for us. This is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else’s thoughts. And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal — that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk.

Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid. For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralyzing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one’s own thoughts.

Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person’s thoughts continually forced upon it. And just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read if one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like.

From all this it may be concluded that thoughts put down on paper are nothing more than footprints in the sand: one sees the road the man has taken, but in order to know what he saw on the way, one requires his eyes.

-- Schopenhauer

TL;DR you aren't smart just because you read a lot. In fact, having read a large amount of books is a pseud red flag.

[Anonymous No.19530576]

>>19530498
seethe

[Anonymous No.19530589]

>>19530498
>>19529646
>>19529510
>>19528528
you've read yourself stupid, my friend

[Anonymous No.19530591]

>>19530551
Who said anything about being smart?

[Anonymous No.19530633]

>>19530551
The only thing you know about him is that he reads a lot. From this you think he's claiming to have some superior intelligence and that's a direct consequence of your feelings of inferiority.

[Anonymous No.19530674]

>>19522086
How was Nabokov’s The Gift? I hear it’s one of his
best

[Anonymous No.19530714]

>>19516738
>1 book
wat

[Anonymous No.19530782]

>>19516474
What website do you use?

[Anonymous No.19531300]

Is goodreads down for you guys too?

[Anonymous No.19531508]

>>19516474
I hit 55 a month ago. Now I'm shooting for 80.

[Anonymous No.19531513]

>>19516693
You may not like it, but this is the average /lit/ poster.
Bet all four of those were really obscure philosophy and religion texts purely for the sake of shitposting cred and bragging rights.

[Anonymous No.19531523]

>>19529374
Admit it, that's already what you're going to do.

[Anonymous No.19531527]

no mom

[Anonymous No.19531547]

>>19531527
Yeah, this is excessive to the point where I don't think you're properly retaining things. That or you padded out to an extreme degree with very short books or YA fantasy, the kind of things that don't possess much information regardless.

[Anonymous No.19531553]

>>19516738
Actual Chad right here.

[Anonymous No.19531567]

>>19531547
>That or you padded out to an extreme degree with very short books or YA fantasy
nope

[Anonymous No.19531594]

>>19531513
>yes i only skin philosipcal books just for shitposting how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.19531606]

>>19531567
Ah, Light Novels, I see.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and not assume manga volumes because I've heard those are catalogues individually on Goodreads.

[Anonymous No.19531614]

>>19531606
>Light Novels
you wish

[Anonymous No.19531633]

>>19516474
Why yes, yes I am. It's been a year where my bigotry has went from slightly-joking, slightly serious to hide-your-power-level-or-get-fired serious.

[Anonymous No.19531641]

>>19531633
Looking back, I read a lot of trash this year. Could be why I'm going to cut back on my reading and just read higher quality books instead.

[Anonymous No.19531654]

>>19531633

It's both a blessing and a curse. The blessing of being awake and the curse that this awakening brings with it which is being surrounded by a sea of sleeping minds. In the land of the dead you are not allowed to look alive.

I also have to hold back my thoughts / ideas in order to avoid being fired. The world really is a shit place with dumb faggots existing in it.

[Anonymous No.19531678]

>>19531527
>>19531567
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/28067164
fag

[Anonymous No.19531703]

>>19531678
>111,000 pages read in 2020

[Anonymous No.19531710]

>>19516474
In a word: yass.

[Anonymous No.19531735]

>>19531703
>nooooooooooooooooo you can't read 111,000 pages in one sitting!

[Anonymous No.19531755]

>>19531678

Either "speed reader" meaning you don't have deep comprehension of what you've read (aka you read for metrics) or you read 20 out of 24 hours every day.

I'm willing to bet my life it's the first version.

[Anonymous No.19531780]

I didn't even know there WAS a reading challenge (I don't usually browse /lit/). I'm at ~14/20 rn.
I intended to read more this year but you know how it goes. Even though I doubt I'd get to 20 in the next few weeks, mostly because I can't read most of the books I want to read that quickly, I'm still happy to simply improve my quantity of reading over 2020 (~4-5 books). I think I've also improved in parsing meaning from text too and I'm less intimidated by the prospect of reading books well despite still struggling with perfectionist urges. Maybe next year I can read somewhere around 30 books.

[Anonymous No.19531794]

>>19531780
*14/25
There's no way I'm reading that many this year, but everything else I said still applies.

[Anonymous No.19531808]

>>19531780

Good. Don't read for numbers, read to learn and extract information. No need to rush or anything.

[Anonymous No.19531814]

>I've seen more racism in 30 pages of this novel than in any novel about european colonialism. The book caught my attention, but it's a real shame the author had to resort to trash talking classical culture and disrespecting white people, and what's more scandalous is that there are readers who are willing to overlook this despite the pains she takes to pointlessly slander whites. I'm not a white person at all by American standards, but that doesn't give me any more reason to gloss over her ridiculous attempt to punch down a whole ethnicity. This isn't brave or politically correct, it's an outrageous and cowardly way to offend countless people, which i imagine could nonetheless be potential buyers that are alienated by the author's outspoken racism and bigotry.

[Anonymous No.19531815]

I'm not sure whether to read something specific to mark the century or to just let it be whatever book I happen to finish at that time.

[Anonymous No.19531839]

>>19531814
t. anti-white bunkercuck tranny

[Anonymous No.19531881]

>>19529708
Yes, read it. But also listen to the audiobook version of it. He narrates it, and it's very good.

[Anonymous No.19532443]

Here's what I recall reading. I also read a bunch of short stories online, if that counts. I'll keep track of stuff starting next year.

[Anonymous No.19532815]

>>19532443
>My Eyes!

Very fitting

[Anonymous No.19532850]

>>19516474
I've read about 2 this year and started about 15

[Anonymous No.19533744]

>>19516474
51/36.

[Anonymous No.19533820]

>>19530782
Looks like Good Reads.

[Francis Riddlin, Tennessee. No.19533822]

>>19527704
i ate >>19522430 (You)
>>i ate ur mothers groid
>i ate ur mothers groid
I ate your mother's groin

[Anonymous No.19533958]

>>19533822
nice!

[Anonymous No.19534022]

>>19516474

[Anonymous No.19534079]

I was in graduate school for half the year so my stats are heavily inflated compared to what they would normally be. I never would have set a goal for 50 if I wasn't in school.
Next year I'll probably go for 25 or lower.

[Anonymous No.19534097]

>>19516723
I also read some Hillaire Beloc this year
his "cautionary tales for naughty children" is unironically hysterical

[Anonymous No.19534385]

>>19521724
2019: 9
2020: 7
2021: 29
Guess which year I finished university.

[Anonymous No.19534396]

>>19534097
I'll have to check them out because I only got into some of his history and economic stuff. I've really move away from libertarianism largely because of him.

[Anonymous No.19535646]

>>19533822
>>19527704
i ate >>19522430 (You) (You)
>>i ate ur mothers groid
>i ate ur mothers groid
I ate your mother's groin
>i ate ur mothers groid
>i ate ur mothers groid

[Anonymous No.19535788]

24/50
i'm ngmi