/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20334301]

How many books do you have in your backlog?
Any titles you look forward to the most?

[Anonymous No.20334312]

>>20334301
like 700 lol
I'm eagerly waiting for Cocksucker (Milliron) and Bad Gays (Lemmy) to be uploaded to libgen

[Anonymous No.20334377]

>>20334301
Depends how you define it. I have maybe 1500-2000 books either bought, downloaded, or bookmarked on public domain sites as an explicit "backlog", but I've also noted various other things (bibliographies of books/wiki articles, or just specific search terms on google books) that, if I indulged my desire to go through and specifically "collect" everything that catches my eye, would amount to probably 2-5x what I currently have. I am a very sick man, please help.

[Anonymous No.20334405]

Way too many
Definitely want to read The Long Ships, Charterhouse of Parma, The Woman in the Dunes, American Pastoral,The Hamlet and East of Eden.

[Anonymous No.20334413]

>>20334377
Oh and that's just the bibliographies/lists I currently have saved, if you account for another "layer" of expansion from there it's obviously exponential. Not to mention all the languages I'm supposedly going to learn someday which each have their own sub-canon and scholarship to read.

[Anonymous No.20334422]

>>20334301
I've got a pile consisting of
>Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
>Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
>Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky
>Wernern Herzog: A Guide to the Perplexed
>Goethe
I'll be reading these in the near future.

[Anonymous No.20334425]

Calibre says 1318 books in my library. I probably read 3-400 and there are another about 1,000 I haven't added to Calibre. I don't see anything wrong with it, I'll read for the rest of my life, and I'll discard many of them and add others.

[Anonymous No.20334429]

>>20334425
>Created by Covid Goy

[Anonymous No.20334437]

>>20334301
I remember that one anon posted a 15k book backlog several months ago. He posted a large list but it was probably incomplete. I still revisit that thread now and then to find new stuff because it's so fascinating.

[Anonymous No.20334456]

>>20334437
Don't be a tease anon, post it.

[Anonymous No.20334474]

>>20334301
Hundreds. Personally I think it's more important to have the information readily available at hand than just reading through it. To me owning a book is not so much about reading it now but having it available so when the need arises I can read it.

[Anonymous No.20334488]

I also keep a large backlog because I have a dread that they'll shut down pirating websites at some point and I won't be able to get anything else other modern propaganda garbage

[Anonymous No.20334514]

>>20334301
I've got a lot, but I'm saving a few in particular for the summer which I'm excited to read. I just gotta finish Dr. Zhivago first. I hope to finish Journey to the End of the Night too.
>Black Sun by Edward Abbey
>Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
>Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
>Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

[Anonymous No.20335056]

>>20334456
I wasn't teasing, sorry. I didn't expect that people would be interested so I didn't bother to post it.
Here you go:
https://archived.moe/lit/thread/18660807

The link is safe

[Anonymous No.20335064]

>>20335056
I should add that the majority of books listed are very obscure history books and the like. If you are an autist like me or that OP then you will love it

[Anonymous No.20335094]

I've stopped having a large backlog. I buy or download books that look interesting, maybe have one or two books ready on my desk at any time. If I'm reading a series or reading through an author I keep somewhere a record of what book I'll get to next.

[Anonymous No.20335098]

>>20335056
>>20335064
Oh yeah this guy has the same sort of autism I have, he just went way further down the rabbit hole. To be fair he seems to have a more broad view in his interests though, I was compulsively focused on trying to understand certain periods that felt like they didn't "fit" whatever narrative I wanted to believe about history and humanity, so I was obsessively looking for something that wasn't there. The books are probably still interesting but now I'm at least able to prioritize more fun stuff and actually spend some time reading literature (although I still think history makes for a better story in some ways, truth being stranger than fiction). But yeah I think history is probably the widest subject in some sense, especially because every other field can be analyzed through its own history. Often when I read old stuff it's more about understanding the time than actually being into what I'm reading, although by the end I usually end up appreciating it for what it is. Anyway thanks for posting, I can't imagine why he put it in a fucking Amazon list though that sounds like a nightmare to manage.

[Anonymous No.20335215]

>>20334301
lmao literally me
I was obsessively downloading ancient Greek/Roman shit for a while even though I'll probably only read a few of them

[Anonymous No.20335224]

>>20334301
21st Century is about filtering information, not acquiring it.

[Anonymous No.20335313]

>>20334301
I always had to deal with an insane amount of scientific books, so I already knew the secret of how to avoid this problem.

My "secret" of how I never have to deal with a backlog
>ALWAYS COMMIT
The most important thing. If I read a book, I ALWAYS plan to reread it. This means every book I read must be god tier and already honored by a lot of other people (like for example Tolkien who is the source material of literally everything in regards of Fantasy).
>I always buy the books I read
Before anyone even starts to argue why this is retarded: I only buy a few non scientific books. So far I have around 20 non scientific books in total and those 20 are also the only one I read. That's why I buy my books, because I put so much commitment into them, that at this points it's cheaper (time is money, you know), to just buy the book once and call it a day, instead of redownloading pirated copies.
>I'm very selective
If I buy a book, it has to be a real game changer. I don't buy fast food literature like famous kids books about stuff like the "MUH YOU ARE A WIZZARD" shit show. If I buy a book and read it, I need reviews from any kind of angle, and the only reason I need reviews about books is to make sure it's a real game changer.
>outside of reading very specific books, I write my own book
That's why I only read top tier books in the genre I love. I use the way of top tier writers, to get the most out of writing my own book. In fact, my own book will most likely be never published anyway, or if published, only to make sure my copyright is not stealable.
If you write books to make money, just look at the most famous trash tier books about shit like a school life of kids in a magical school and copy the slice of life school life parallel universe. But writing a top tier book should be the hobby of any reader. Not because of making money, but simply to finally interact more with your books.
It's one thing to just braindead read a book. But the moment you actually try to write your own book, you will have much more enjoyment in small details of books, like how some topics are introduces, or how the writing style is in general.

It's just a fact that 10 books you love and are dedicated to are much better than 1000 book you "read" and forgot.

[Anonymous No.20335346]

>>20335224
what’s your filtering strategy anon

[Anonymous No.20335370]

Post the one book on your back log that would instantly get you kicked out of lit. I‘ll start.

[Anonymous No.20335380]

>>20335370
>book on your backlog that would immediately get you kicked out of /lit/

Impossible. I dictate /lit/‘s taste.

[Anonymous No.20335384]

physical backlog:
David copperfield
The house of the wolfings
coleridge collected poems
The Cenci
kjv Bible
The Histories
De Anima by Aristotle
Catcher in the rye
Ivanhoe

[Anonymous No.20335390]

>>20335384
oh also:
The Silent Cry by Oe
Endgame
Hemingway short stories

[Anonymous No.20335402]

I think I have around 20 unread on my shelf and twice that in ebooks.

[Anonymous No.20335443]

>>20335380
Prove it. No cheating or you‘re a weak faggot who censors himself for the approval of a handful of fat pedos.

[Anonymous No.20336833]

>>20334301
Zero.