/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22353257]

How many books have you finished this year?

[Anonymous No.22353270]

>>22353257
counting is reddit

[Anonymous No.22353283]

>>22353270
So 0, I take it

[Anonymous No.22353300]

>>22353283
THIS IS REDDIT THIS IS MEMES

[Anonymous No.22353307]

>>22353257
A more fitting metric would be words read

[Anonymous No.22353319]

>>22353257
finishing my first book

[Anonymous No.22353321]

>>22353307
Not at all
>The apple is red
>Anachronistic

[Anonymous No.22353347]

>>22353321
Lol what?

[Anonymous No.22353360]

>>22353257
I've read: Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep (shit), Catcher in the Rye (shit but not as shit as the previous), My Work is Not Yet Done (kino)
And I've dropped like 4 or 5 different books.
Also and most importantly, I fucking love feet.

[Anonymous No.22353425]

>>22353307
"Words read" doesn't indicate anything. A lot of simple words are not equal to a few hard ones. Quality over quantity. Using "words read" is not very different from being a white woman reading 84 books in 3 months and being proud of it. It means nothing.

[Anonymous No.22353445]

>>22353360
>Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep (shit)
filtered

[Anonymous No.22353534]

>>22353257
I mostly keep track to get some nice looking graphs in grafana

[Anonymous No.22353541]

>>22353534
pic related is the grafana graphs, I use grafana for other stuff but once I set it up I just drag and drop the csv file to a static file server every few books and it all auto updates

[Anonymous No.22353558]

>>22353257
31 books

[Anonymous No.22353568]

2
1 and ½ actually

[Anonymous No.22353573]

>>22353257
No idea. But toddler makes it hard. Havent found many books Ive hit it off with. Maybe 20 25.

[Anonymous No.22353574]

2
1 and ½ actually

[Anonymous No.22353614]

>>22353257
In some culture, they say putting your feet on a book makes you dumb, because that means you disrespect the book.

[Anonymous No.22353751]

I haven't finished anything this year. I keep getting bored halfway through and switching to another book.

[Anonymous No.22353762]

18 so far.

Mostly shorter novels. I've been trying to work my way through a stack of paperbacks I got at the thrift store.

[Anonymous No.22353771]

>>22353257
About 20 but 7 of those were b*kker so I guess that only really counts as 1. Didn't really realize that I'm still somebody who habitually reads books until you made me count.

[Anonymous No.22353779]

>>22353257
29
I'm slowing down a lot now

[Anonymous No.22353787]

Around 15 or so. I read slower than the average reader though I try to remain attentive and look more deeply into things.

[Anonymous No.22353809]

65 so far this year

[Anonymous No.22353882]

Not many. I think 7 or 8. But they've mostly all been super long doorstoppers.

[Anonymous No.22353943]

>>22353882
Name one

[Anonymous No.22353951]

>>22353257
15

[Anonymous No.22354020]

>>22353270
fpbp
reading a hundred YA books is easier than going through Itzykson&Zuber.

[Anonymous No.22354029]

>>22353951
>Cormac McCarthy
>Type: Non-Fiction Genre: Fiction

[Anonymous No.22354036]

>>22353257
22
>>22353270
I used to think so too, last year my cousin asked me if I've read some book and I just couldn't say. I felt like I'd read it long ago but I didn't remember anything, so I decided to keep a list going forward

[Anonymous No.22354038]

>>22354029

[Anonymous No.22354142]

63

[Anonymous No.22354152]

Probably around 17-18. Most of them have been really long though

[Anonymous No.22354191]

>>22353257
1 I genuinely find it hard to read since I started working full time again

[Anonymous No.22354200]

I haven't been counting, But based on the stack on my bedside table, this summer I've read House of Leaves, A Scanner Darkly, A Confederacy of Dunces, Life and Death are Wearing Me Out and the Monkey Wrench Gang.
As for the rest of the year, I'd guess somewhere between 40 and 50

[Anonymous No.22354218]

>>22353425
same goes for books, the difference is you can at least quantify the number of full sentences down to words, whereas we both know you're reading Clifford the big red dog and counting it as a book.

Midwits need not apply.

[Anonymous No.22354723]

>>22353257
Probably 0, maybe 1
I have read a little bit this year but I never finished anything, rn I'm reading the Bible

[Anonymous No.22354731]

>>22353257
1, I might finish 2 more, I'm not a /lit/ regular either

[Anonymous No.22354780]

>>22353951
>In the Name of the Rose
What?

[Anonymous No.22355128]

I only listen to the audiobook versions now because I'm a lazy cunt

[Anonymous No.22355138]

Just finished my 19th but I only started reading in June.

[Anonymous No.22355202]

>>22354780
shut up

[Anonymous No.22355223]

Over 60 but half of them were audiobooks and of the remaining books a few were picture books.

[Anonymous No.22355347]

>>22353943
Garden of Seven Twilights

[Anonymous No.22355526]

>>22353951
Based Peter Kemp enjoyer

[Anonymous No.22355550]

>>22353347
He is pointing out that 4 words and 1 word can be the same length.

[Anonymous No.22355579]

10. I was shooting for 20, but I’m not sweating. Just got back into reading early this year. It’s been really fun. Got in by reading The Idiot. Then after reading some Faulkner it’s just been really fun.

[Anonymous No.22355731]

>>22353951
what do you use?

[Anonymous No.22355743]

>>22355731
My friends set up a google doc to collectively keep track.

[Anonymous No.22355800]

Slowest year ever.

[Anonymous No.22355803]

none. I don't finish books i just read whatever i feel like reading at the moment.

[Anonymous No.22356058]

23 so far. I'm averaging about 40 a year, sometimes more or less depending on what I read.

[Anonymous No.22356108]

>>22355550
Okay, why?

[Anonymous No.22356223]

12, which is pretty good because that's my average year

[Anonymous No.22356437]

>>22356108
some books say in 200 pages what concepts and lessons take others 2000

[Anonymous No.22356523]

>>22356437
And some say less in 2000 than some do in 200, could you get to your fucking point brainlet?

[Anonymous No.22356553]

Words arent even real.

[Anonymous No.22356841]

>>22353257
Feeta (sexo)

[Anonymous No.22356868]

>>22356523
Brevity is the soul of wit, you fag.

[Anonymous No.22356922]

>>22356841
finally someone said it

[Anonymous No.22357019]

I'm at 3 right now and that's considered a good year for me.

>The War of the End of the World (Mario Vargas Llosa) - 8/10
The sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus) - 7/10
>The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) - 9/10

[Anonymous No.22357025]

>>22353257
Four

[Anonymous No.22357226]

26 books.
By Cormac Mccarthy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities Of The Plain, No Country For Old Men, Blood Meridian, The Road
By Michel Houellebecq: The Possibility of an Island, Platform, Serotonin, The Map and the Territory, Soumission, Elementary Particles
By Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Morning Star, Ulvene fra evighetens skog
By Honore De Balzac: Eugenie Grandet, Pere Goriot, Cousin Pons, Lost Illusions, A Harlot High and Low, Gobseck
By Philip Roth: Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, Portnoy's Complaint, The Counterlife
By Carlos Fuentes: The Death of Artemio Cruz
I also re-read all of Sebald's work as well as a few novels by Kundera. Right now I am reading The American Pastoral by Roth.

[Anonymous No.22357250]

>>22353257
about 1 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 if I'm counting correctly. Maybe 700 pages total.

[Anonymous No.22357346]

>>22353257
about 8
>>22353270
*obsessed

[Anonymous No.22357843]

55
'The Eagle Has Landed' Jack Higgins
'Edgar A. Poe : A Study' John W. Robertson, M.D.
'The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud' Translated and Edited by Dr. A. A. Brill
'For Whom the Bell Tolls 'Ernest Hemingway
'Beyond Good & Evil' Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
'Our Town' Thorton Wilder
'Understanding Electricity and Electronics' Buban and Schmitt
'Dune' Frank Herbert
'Zealot' Reza Aslan
'A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents : 1789-1906 : Volume IV' James D. Richardson
'Engaging Crystallization in Qualitative Research' Laura L. Ellingson
'The Secret Life of Bees' Sue Monk Kidd
'Alcoholics Anonymous'
'Discovering the Universe' Neil F. Coming, William J. Kaufmann III
'Introduction to Organizational Communications' Kent Bradshaw
'Pearl Jam: The Illustrated Biography' Brad Morrel
'Duty' Bob Greene
'Digital Culture' Charlie Gere
'Platform Revolution' Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
'Understanding Digital Culture' Vincent Miller
'Balkans' Life World Library
'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' As Told to Alex Haley
'Fourteen Byzantine Rulers' Michael Psellus
'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' Mark Twain
'Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts' Joshua C. Taylor
'Indigo Reflections' Lori Frank
'How to Be a Record Producer in the Digital Era' Megan Perry
'Doctor Dolittle' Hugh Lofting
'The Unstoppable Organization' Shawn Casemore
'Innovation by Design' Thomas Lockwood and Edgar Papke
'Designing the Mind : The Principles of Psychitecture
'India' Life World Library
'Your Self Sabotage Survival Guide' Karen Berg
'Decisive Intuition' Rick Snyder
'The Travels of Marco Polo'
'Make the Most of Your Workday' Mary A. Camuto
'Emote' Vikas Gopal Jhingran
'The New Glucose Revolution' Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD, Thomas M.S. Wolever, MD, PhD, Stephen Colagiuri, MD, Kaye Foster-Powell, M Nutr & Diet
'Yes to Life' Viktor E. Frankl
'Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha' L. Kaifa Roland
'The Luftwaffe' Time-Life Books
'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' William L. Shirer
'Dune Messiah' Frank Herbert
'Otherworldly Politics' Stephen Benedict Dyson
'Writing with Style: APA Style Made Easy' Lenore T. Szuchman
'Candide' Voltaire
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' Ken Kesey
'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Harriet Beecher Stowe
'When Work Disappears' William Julius Wilson
'The Rest of the Robots' Isaac Asimov
'The Naked Sun' Isaac Asimov
'The Life and Times of Dante' Curtis Books
'Slavery by Another Name' Douglas A. Blackmon
'Paradise Lost' John Milton

[Anonymous No.22357855]

>>22354200
How was A Scanner Darkly?

[Anonymous No.22357861]

>>22353541
What Time units are you using?

[Anonymous No.22358076]

7 or 8
i dropped a few, or at least started and haven't finished yet, also i'm not in the process of reading them

[Anonymous No.22358179]

>>22357861
hour then % of 60 minutes 1.5 = 1 hour 30 minutes it's just what I've always used for work

[Anonymous No.22358184]

>>22357861
also the average read time should be renamed to average time to read a book

[Anonymous No.22358190]

>>22353257
16 (not counting shorter books).
I've also read 2000 pages of books I haven't finished yet.
I guess my biggest mistake this year was to start Shakespeare with The Tempest (His last work which has references to previous works) and read a translation of Blood Meridian instead of the original.

t. newfag

[Anonymous No.22358200]

This picture is subtly autistic, really nicely done. Each distinct element suggests a profoundly stupid and dissociated artist.