/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2230666]

Question time, bitches.

1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)

2. How often do you read per day/week.

3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?

4. What are you currently reading?

5. Last book you finished?

6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?

[Anonymous No.2230693]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
in bed (my shitty little flat doesn't even have any chairs at the moment.)

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
everyday, for two hours minimum.

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
always before bed, and if it's a particularly compelling book then in the late afternoon/early evening as well. And on train journeys.

>4. What are you currently reading?
On the Road - Jack Kerouac. I'm a bit underwhelmed, I don't really like Dean Moriarty or Sal Paradise.

>5. Last book you finished?
The Odyssey

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
Just over fifty, I only really started in late spring though (I'm a new reader.)

Favourites were Lolita, Notes from Underground and The Odyssey.

[Anonymous No.2230700]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
Outside on a comfy bench or on my couch. I get too sleepy on the bed.
>2. How often do you read per day/week.
Usually daily, at least one hour a day. More when I need to procrastinate.
>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Whenever I get a chance/feel like it. While waiting for anything or between classes/before school, or just whenever I'm sitting around the house and want to.
>4. What are you currently reading?
Villette by Charlotte Bronte, Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, and Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else by Daniela Fischerova.
>5. Last book you finished?
Time Gifts by Zoran Zivkovic
>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
156, and I had too many favorites. I can maybe narrow it down to Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms, Kornel Esti by Dezso Kosztolanyi, and Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling.

[Anonymous No.2230706]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
On public transportation (bus, subway, wherever)

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
Every day

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
When I'm travelling from one place to another

>4. What are you currently reading?
The Hidden Flower, by Pearl S. Buck

>5. Last book you finished?
The Holidays, by Countess of Ségur

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
I have no idea, but I read about one new book every two weeks or so (in average, it really depends on how big and intricate the book is) My favourite was probably "The Year of Death of Ricardo Reis" (O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis) by José Saramago

[Anonymous No.2230716]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
On my bed when at home, in the canteen at work.

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
At least thirty minutes each day

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Before bed, generally. If I'm at work when I'm on my meal breaks.

>4. What are you currently reading?
American Psycho

>5. Last book you finished?
A Wild Sheep Chase

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
A pitiful amount. 1984 was my favourite though.

[Anonymous No.2230780]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)

Wherever

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
Not enough

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
When I get a chance

4. What are you currently reading?
Brief Interviews with hideous men

5. Last book you finished?
Candide

6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
13: Petersburg, by Andrei Bely

[Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) No.2230797]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
Usually my livingroom, on the couch.

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
erryday. Various times

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Usually just whenever.

>4. What are you currently reading?
Right now, nothing. Just finished The No Hellos Diet

>5. Last book you finished?
See above:

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
Good reads says 15, so about 20.
Probably Hurt People by Sam Pink

[Anonymous No.2230806]

1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
Bed
2. How often do you read per day/week.
i read everyday
3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Before bed
4. What are you currently reading?
A murder of quality - John le carré
5. Last book you finished?
Call for the dead - john le carré

[Anonymous No.2230819]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
Bed

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
Every day.

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Whenever I am not at work or at school

>4. What are you currently reading?
Discipline and Punish by Foucault
You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik
The Northern Clemency by Phillip Hensher

>5. Last book you finished?
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
123 - probably Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes or A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott

[Anonymous No.2230831]

>Where do you read?
Either lying / sitting in bed, or in the bathroom. Most always in the bathroom.

>How often do you read per day/week?
I don't read every day. It varies widely. When I do read it can be for a few hours, though.

>When do you read?
Whenever I feel like it. I don't have a structured reading life.

>What are you currently reading?
Lolita (online) and finishing up The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. I guess I also have HoL in progress, and I read a few Sherlock Holmes stories every now and then (I have the full collection).

>Last book you finished?
Shit, uh... I don't know. I was trying to read Vineland but it was shitty so I stopped. Maybe Of Human Bondage.

>How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
Less than ten. I don't know. If I finish a book I have something nice to say about it; I don't have a favorite anything.

[Anonymous No.2231156]

Bed, nightly, Ulysses, and abridged Course in Miracles, haven't counted, Ulysses.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2231162]

> 1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)

In bed, in the garden, and in the shower.

>2. How often do you read per day/week.

An average of 4 hours a day.

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?

On and off between 8am and 5pm.

>4. What are you currently reading?

>5. Last book you finished?

Cosmopolis by DeLillo. It was shit.

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?

106, and probably The War of the End of the World.

[Anonymous No.2231172]

>>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
In my bedroom, as i live with my parents.

>> 2. How often do you read per day/week.
1-3 hours, at least 4 days a week.

>> 3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Whenever i can, but usually before bed.

>>4. What are you currently reading?
Lolita.

>>5. Last book you finished?
The Greatest Show On Earth- Richard Dawkins.

>>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favorite?
Only 6 or 7. Just recently got back my interest in reading. My favorite would be "Guns, germs and steel- Jared Diamond".

[Anonymous No.2231177]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
I can't read sitting down. I also can't do math sitting down. I have to be walking or on my stomach or back or in a bath or something of that sort.
>2. How often do you read per day/week.
It depends on whats going on. Near the end of a school quarter I can't read, I'm too busy going insane. I tend to read more while I'm currently writing something. If it's a school break I read almost all day, almost every day.
>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
I read while walking to and from school depending on weather, in the bath, and before bed accompanied by a flashlight.
>4. What are you currently reading?
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. As well as Ulysses, but I plan to take that slow and not finish in the foreseeable future. I'm really enjoying it.
>5. Last book you finished?
Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut. Hilarious, and he's really good at plugging other authors. Need to read Twain and Celine now.
>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favorite?
About 30. Favorites are Cat's Cradle, Catch-22, Kafka on the Shore, The Trial, and Fahrenheit 451.

[Anonymous No.2231184]

1) bed, chair, sofa
2) don't really keep track
3) whenever
4) some stuff
5) uhhh, genealogy of morals, i guess
6) idk, i don't keep track

[Lute !!s3QTS/z+NRy No.2231205]

1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
>My bed room or the couch
2. How often do you read per day/week.
> A few times a week but for really long periods.
3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
>Whenever the mood strikes me
4. What are you currently reading?
>A Dance With Dragons
5. Last book you finished?
>Feast for Crows
6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
>Um, probably like 50. Dunno what was my favorite.

[Anonymous No.2231210]

how many books do you brosefs be reading at anyone time? i find i usually got one technology/technical book, one general non-fiction like a fucking history or philosophy and like one fiction.

[Anonymous No.2231211]

>>2231172
typical atheist reading. start with blasphemous nonsense then move on to child porn. disgusting.

[Anonymous No.2231213]

>>2231162
Read in the shower? I always drink beer in the shower if i'm going out that night.

[Anonymous No.2231216]

>>2231211
>Implying catholic priests haven't had more young cocks in their mouths than every chicken eater in america.

[Anonymous No.2231218]

1. living room couch usually
2. an hour a day, on average, i guess
3. while i'm watching tv, sometimes while i'm eating, when i can't sleep
4. orphans of the sky by robert heinlein
5. dirty money by richard stark
6. 65, watership down

[Anonymous No.2231217]

>>2231162
>in the shower
How does one accomplish this?

[Anonymous No.2231232]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
mostly in bed, sometimes while walking through my apartment, sometimes I just sit on my couch in the living.

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
dude, it really depends on the book

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
whenever I get the chance I'm lying in the bed

>4. What are you currently reading?

Homer - Odyssey
Umberto Eco - The name of the rose

>5. Last book you finished?

Italo Calvino - A Plunge into Real Estate

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?

geez, have no idea, probably 15-20

[Anonymous No.2231234]

>>2231211
What can i say? We truly are the worst kind of humans.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2231240]

>>2231213

lol wut, that's even worse than me.

>>2231217

I got the idea from The Savage Detectives, I think. Definitely something by Bolano. You have to face away from the water (obviously), but it's fine. The water vapour wrinkles the pages though.

[Anonymous No.2231246]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
In the living room sitting on the couch, in the campus of my school and in my bed.

>2. How often do you read per day/week
Very often

>3.When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Whenever I want.

>4.What are you currently reading?
The Republic by Plato

>5.Last Book you finished?
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami

>6.How many books have yo read this year and which was your favourite?
Like a 100 books. My favorites were Putas Asesinas by Bolaño & Sexus by Henry Miller.

[Anonymous No.2231280]

1. In bed or in my library

2. Oooh, it differs. I sometimes have a hard time getting started at all, but, say, 30min-2 hours or so at best.

3. Whenever I get the chance/am in the mood

4. The Road by McCarthy

5. Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima. Gonna check out The Sea of Fertility when I get time for sure.

6. 15 or so. Not as many as I had hoped. My favorite has been The Old Man and the Sea. Can't believe I hadn't read it before.

[Anonymous No.2231325]

1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
On my bed or outdoors on campus.

2. How often do you read per day/week.
Every day, unless I'm unusually busy.

3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Whenever the spirit moves me.

4. What are you currently reading?
Ulysses

5. Last book you finished?
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
An embarrassingly low amount. Count of Monte Cristo was my favorite, but Ulysses might overtake it.

[Anonymous No.2231341]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)
In the bathroom mainly.

>2. How often do you read per day/week.
On average about 2-4 pages about 1-2 times a day

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Whenever I take a shit.

>4. What are you currently reading?
A nontechnical introduction to Game Theory

>5. Last book you finished?
The Neronomicon, And part 1 of the illuminatus trilogy on audiobook. Also the walking dead series.

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
Book of short stories by hemingway. The walking dead 1-89. Some of the invisibles. part one of the illuminatus trilogy. The necronomicon. A bunch of short stories by Twain and Lovecraft. I'd have to say The nameless city and part 1 of the illuminatus trilogy where the best.

[Anonymous No.2232343]

I know these surveys are a bit pointless, but I'll answer since this actually asks about the books anons are reading and I always like getting suggestions from them.

1. In my bedroom, on my bed usually. Sometimes at university before class or in the commuter room if I have time to kill and no one to hang with.

2. Usually a few days a week. Just started uni this year and I haven't been able to read much at all. :( But the weekends give me a lot of time to do so, and I read as soon as I wake up on the weekends (assuming my bf isn't over).

3. Answered.

4. Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami.

5. number9dream by David Mitchell.

6. I wouldn't be able to state an exact number, but quite a few. One of my favorites has to be Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates. Man, his books just wreck me.

[Anonymous No.2232870]

bump

[Satago110 No.2233309]

(One) on the subway and (two) twice a day on weekdays, (three) when I get a chance also daughter has to read for 30 minutes a day and I join her in the quiet time, (four) is The Illustrated Man, (five) is A Pleasure To Burn (F.451 bonus stories!), and (six) I don't know how many but Watership Down is tied with Farenheit451.

[Anonymous No.2233372]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)

Bed mostly. Unless I'm reading pdf's, then it's at my desk in front of the computer.

>2. How often do you read per day/week.

At least two hours a day. More if I have the time.

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?

At night for the most part. Anytime between 11pm and 2am

>4. What are you currently reading?

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

>5. Last book you finished?

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?

About 40

Fiction: 2666 - Bolaño
Non-Fiction: Discipline and Punish, takes some beating.

[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ No.2233376]

>Where do you read?

[Anonymous No.2233388]

1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)

Laying in bed.

2. How often do you read per day/week.
Right now I'm reading 150 pages/day

3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?
Right now (I'm on a college break), whenever I feel like it.

4. What are you currently reading?
Neuromancer, Beyond Good and Evil, Dubliners and a Napoleon biography.

5. Last book you finished?
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse.

6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?
About 40, and it was Siddartha.

[Anonymous No.2234796]

>>2231240
I read in the shower too!

[Anonymous No.2234810]

>1. Where do you read (which room, do you sit on a chair/bed etc.)

Bed, bus, outdoor swing.

>2. How often do you read per day/week.

A few hours every day.

>3. When do you read? Whenever you get a chance? Before bed?

Whenever I can, for the most part.

>4. What are you currently reading?

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

>5. Last book you finished?

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

>6. How many books have you read this year and which was your favourite?

I didn't count them and I'm afraid to hazard a guess. Maybe 50? My favorite was probably A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.