READING CHECK

[Anonymous No.20619737]

You did read today, right anon?
If not, go and read right now.

[Anonymous No.20619772]

>>20619737
About to go read some Dracula before bed

[Anonymous No.20619798]

>>20619737
I did read today.

[Anonymous No.20619799]

I was on page 121 of The Phantom Menace when I started this morning. I read Revenge of the Sith 2 months ago.

[Anonymous No.20619834]

>>20619772
It was a bit of a disappointment but I can see how it was scary in its time.

>>20619798
Nice

[Anonymous No.20620588]

>>20619737
i did read today! :D

[Anonymous No.20620991]

>>20619737
yea, rereading a scanner darkly

[Anonymous No.20621018]

>>20619799
This is so gay and tedious it's insane.
>>20620991
Nice. I need to reread that one. I happened to be thinking today in fact that I need to give High Castle a reread, but since I didn't like that one very much I might give Scanner a do over first.

[Anonymous No.20621057]

>>20621018
I think the period between his experience and at least up to VALIS he was tapping into something. Not in a mystical way (usually) but just facets of the brain that most people are blind to which is why I think all the books from that era are great. I could just be a retard though.

[Anonymous No.20621536]

>>20619737
thats my image OP, i recognise that filename

[Anonymous No.20622920]

>>20621536
Probably. I downloaded it from 4chin a couple weeks ago. I'm not gonna pay you any royalties ree

[Anonymous No.20623062]

>>20619737
Of course desu. Finishing up the Odyssey right now, going to read T.H. White's The Once And Future King afterwards.

[Anonymous No.20623076]

I read a short story today and then I fell asleep for the rest of the afternoon.

[Anonymous No.20623095]

>>20619737
sat down and read acts of the apostles during a fast yesterday, couldn’t put it down until i finished
waiting for Phantastes to arrive today, opening romans until then

[Anonymous No.20623137]

fuck yeah out in the sun sweating my face off

[Anonymous No.20623691]

250 pages into Infinite Jest. Started it for the meme but it's actually pretty cool, there part where he lists things you realize at the halfway house was my favorite so far. Especially the line "That (both a relief and kind of an odd let-down) black penises tend to be the same general size as white penises, on the whole" Also the way he described the etiquette and experience of video calling as a household technology before1996 is very interesting to me

[Anonymous No.20623745]

>>20619737
Yes, i read about 120 pages or so today

[Anonymous No.20623773]

>>20619737
Read 20 pages hungover, drank more and will read before bed

[Anonymous No.20623799]

>>20619737
Reading through The Anatomy of Melancholy. I was rushing it this past week since its due back at the library on Tuesday. I don't feel like schlepping downtown anytime soon so ill just take the library fine and use my gfs library card.

[Anonymous No.20623876]

>>20623799
Devilishly based

[Voluntary Fool No.20623949]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

[Anonymous No.20624019]

>>20619737
I read the flowers for Algernon pdf because someone posted it. I have been bummed out since.

[Anonymous No.20624023]

>>20619799
Are you the same person that hit their goodreads goal with random Star Wars books, or are there two of you?

[Anonymous No.20624104]

I’m gonna read Albert Camus’ The Fall and then read Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.

[Anonymous No.20624113]

>Why yes, I did read 20th century poetry today, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.20624117]

finally started Stoner today.

[Anonymous No.20624139]

diz niggaz read lmao

[Anonymous No.20624149]

>>20624117
Prepare to be totally underwhelmed. Should have read his book about slaughtering buffalo instead.

[Anonymous No.20624220]

Yes I’m reading through the works of F. Gardner.

[Anonymous No.20624443]

>>20619737
I'm following this daily reading schedule and just started on the audiobook of The Republic of Plato.

[Anonymous No.20624502]

>>20619737
I only read anime sorry

[Anonymous No.20624531]

>>20624502

[Anonymous No.20624541]

>>20619737
Yeah, I finally picked up One Hundred Years of Solitude today and read through 60 pages, it's quite good. Also holy shit people weren't joking about all the incest and characters with the same names.

[Anonymous No.20624549]

>>20619737
I will read the first book that gets dubs or more.

[Anonymous No.20624560]

>>20624549

[Anonymous No.20624561]

>>20619737
I'm reading Kazuo Ishiguro. Haven't read him until now but he's pretty alright. I'm also following along with /lit/ reads Ulysses and I finished the last poem in James Dickey's 10 year long collection so I will start reading Ezra Pound's poetry next.

[Anonymous No.20624572]

>>20624549
In Search of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.20624614]

Yep been working my way through some more Korean webnovels

[Anonymous No.20624622]

>>20624614
What you working on anon? What genre is your poison at the moment.

[Anonymous No.20624643]

>>20624622
Ending Maker, right now. It's fun enough, this time TWO people got isekai'd, and they fall in love. Cute, decent action, perfectly entertaining schlock

[Anonymous No.20624657]

>>20624643
Oh neat. I've had that open on a tab for the last few days but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Ill move it up on my queue since I like reading fun shit in between reading depressing books.

[Anonymous No.20624777]

>>20624549

[Anonymous No.20624785]

>>20624549
Better read >>20624777

[Anonymous No.20626285]

>>20623691
>Also the way he described the etiquette and experience of video calling as a household technology before1996 is very interesting to me
He really called the Zoom dysmorphia wave 25 years early
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/03/zoom-dysmorphia-covid-coronavirus-anxiety

[Anonymous No.20626300]

>>20619737
still trying to decide whether to read Understanding Media or On War, need some input for my next read.

[Anonymous No.20626336]

Why did the Japanese stop making mecha novels? The "modern" ones are just isekai with little to no mecha action.

[Anonymous No.20626339]

As a matter of fact, I did read today!

Specifically, I'm making my way through Saint Teresa of Avila's The Way of Perfection. I read the first two chapters today.

[Anonymous No.20627781]

>>20626300
I read pic rel which is a good alternative to reading On War because On War is known for being hypocritical and unfinished leading to confusion but this author is an expert on the work so he explains what's what, what Clausewitz meant, what some translations got wrong, why some things contradict each other, and adds background to Clausewitz's writings and conclusions. It's also shorter at 200 odd pages instead of whatever the unabridged On War is.

[Anonymous No.20628950]

>>20619737
I mainly read either before bed or at doctor's offices. Night is the time for me to read.

[Anonymous No.20629118]

>>20619737
I read the menu in some restaurants.

[Anonymous No.20629153]

>>20619737
Just read your post. Thoroughly disappointed. You need to go read.

[Anonymous No.20629423]

>>20629153
FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?!

[Anonymous No.20629795]

>>20619737
>used to read sporadically as in 400 pages a day because i felt pressure to read ungodly amounts of books
>would get burnt out super quick and stop reading for months
>force myself to read a minimum of 30 mins a day
>i actually enjoy reading now and frequently find myself reading well over an hour everyday
>finish way more books than i used to and enjoy them all the more
take the /~50 pages/ a day pill and actually finish your books lit.

[Anonymous No.20629806]

>>20619737
I read this post

[Anonymous No.20630397]

>>20629795
I have the opposite problem. I read too little a day which means I take too long to finish a book, get bored and drop reading for some time.

[cat No.20630409]

>>20619737
finished voyage in the dark, read some reflections in a golden eye for my book club

[Anonymous No.20630413]

Yep. I’ve been working my way through Emerson’s journals for a bit, reading A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys as my main novel, and started DH Lawrence’s novella The Captain’s Doll

[Anonymous No.20630430]

I read Goosebumps 2 and 3, later I will read some Marlowe

[Anonymous No.20630733]

Read my 20 some pages for the day, currently having fun going through I,Claudius. Really trying to keep reading as a habit now after dropping a few others like The Gulag Archipelago and Anna Karenina halfway through

[Anonymous No.20630743]

>>20619737
I read 86 pages today, it was degenerate pervy cosmic horror fiction though sooo...

[Anonymous No.20631218]

Read a couple of pages of Bolaño’s Cowboy Graves. Didn’t realize it was published posthumously, anybody know how polished it’s considered to be/ if it’s a good representative of his work?

[Anonymous No.20631223]

>>20631218
Idk but I liked the vibe that Last Evenings on Earth had, especially the titular story. I need to reread Bolano soon. I always have a good time with him

[Anonymous No.20631386]

Read some Storm of Swords today and will read more before bed.
I wish I liked non-mainstream, or high-art literature more, because I know it's better, but even if I enjoy it and can recognize its quality, it ends up feeling like work or being exhausting to read. I can only stomach "easy" books for long periods of time.

[Anonymous No.20631580]

>>20619737
>You did read today, right anon?
No one reads here.

[Anonymous No.20631606]

>>20619737
I'm reading shitposts on /lit/ RIGHT NOW