/lit bingo

[Anonymous No.3257996]

/lit/ Bingo time!!!

Yes, it's stupid and fun. Yes, discussion of books can result from the posting of your results. No, you don't have to shit on the thread because you disapprove of fun.

Most of these come from the /lit/ achievements with slight modifications to balance difficulty. I kept out the non-achievement ones for the most part, like reading Twilight or Ayn Ran or Dan Brown.

Post yours regardless of whether or not you get a bingo.

[Anonymous No.3258169]

50 different countries ? are you sure we hve at least 30 countries which managed to produce anything worth readng?

[Anonymous No.3258230]

>>3258169
Sure. There are a little over 200 countries in existence right now. The original achievement was to read something from each, which is stupidly improbable. I figured 50 was more feasible.

China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Turkey, India, Angola, USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, UK, New Zealand, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Cuba, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Romania, Czech Republic, Serbia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, South Africa, Nigeria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Estonia all have produced authors worth reading.

[Anonymous No.3258274]

mmmm I dont know any Japanese authors...

Pic- is the bookshelf in my room, have more books in the other bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.3258290]

>>3258169
>>3258230
And just in case you don't believe me, here are some example authors. Left out USA and Russia and the biggest guys, because they're obvious.

China - Lu Xun
Japan - Natsume Soseki
South Korean - Pak Wan-so
Iran - Omar Khayyam
Iraq - Saadi Youssef
Egypt - Naguib Mahfouz
Afghanistan - Atiq Rahimi
Kyrgyzstan - Chingiz Aitmatov
Sudan - Tayeb Salih
Turkey - Orhan Pamuk
Angola - Pepetela
New Zealand - Katherine Mansfield
Brazil - Machado de Assis
Mexico - Juan Rulfo
Colombia - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Guatemala - Augusto Monterroso
Cuba - Virgilio Pinera
Uruguay - Cristina Peri Rossi
Peru - Mario Vargas Llosa
Chile - Roberto Bolano
Argentina - Borges
Romania - Gellu Naum
Czech - Bohumil Hrabal
Serbia - Danilo Kis
Poland - Bruno Schulz
Hungary - Lazslo Krasznahorkai
Netherlands - Harry Mulisch
Portugal - Fernando Pessoa
Belgium - Amelie Nothomb
South Africa - Coetzee
Nigeria - Amos Tutuola
Sweden - Strindberg
Norway - Knut Hamsun
Finland - Kalevala
Iceland - any of the sagas
Switzerland - Robert Walser
Austria - Thomas Bernhard
Denmark - Isak Dinesen
Estonia - Jaan Kross

[Anonymous No.3258294]

>>3258274

>I don't know any Japanese authors
Really? Not even Mishima or Tao Lin?

[Anonymous No.3258305]

No bingo ;_;

[Anonymous No.3258313]

>>3258305
Read some ebooks of books published in the last 10 years! I could hook you up if you want

[Anonymous No.3258315]

T_T

[Anonymous No.3258322]

[Anonymous No.3258327]

fucking almost

[Anonymous No.3258332]

>>3258322
For the ? one, you can use fuuka.warosu.org to search and see. It was mostly a "read some books not in /lit/'s canon" sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.3258336]

>>3258327
Salinger's an easy one for oeuvre. His other work is better than Catcher.

[Anonymous No.3258339]

yeah nigga

[Anonymous No.3258341]

>>3258339
fuck yeah, two bingos

[Anonymous No.3258342]

>>3258336
or do two at the same time by reading proust

[Anonymous No.3258348]

>>3258342
That'd be three at the same time even. The 1,000+ page one too.

[Anonymous No.3258351]

>>3258342
>>3258348
and the 1,500 page too. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.3258384]

>Read 12 books by female authors

[Anonymous No.3258389]

>>3258384
there's more out there than Austen and Meyer.

[Anonymous No.3258390]

does anyone around here still have the thing from http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2793540 ?

[Anonymous No.3258394]

>>3258390
whoops nvm

http://tozetre.net/achievements/index.php?group=lit

[Anonymous No.3258398]

>>3258384
>Harry Potter = 7
>First three Earthsea books = 3
>Other random shit = 2
>Total = 12

[Anonymous No.3258402]

Whoops! Posted in the wrong thread.

Can someone please recommend me a good book by each of the following?

James, Fitzgerald, Sinclaire, Faulkner, Verne, Wells, Clarke, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Turgenev, Lermontov, Goncharov

[Anonymous No.3258412]

And OP doesn't have bingo either. Maybe I did make it too hard.

I'm planning to read more Jonson and Marlowe anyway. And I would just need to read Kosztolanyi's Darker Muses to get the oeuvre one, which I'd really like to do.

[Anonymous No.3258415]

>>3258402
Sinclair - The Jungle
Faulkner - As I Lay Dying or The Sound and The Fury
Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground,Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov
Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Fitzgerald - Gatsby

[Anonymous No.3258419]

[Anonymous No.3258423]

>>3258402
>Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Turgenev, Lermontov, Goncharov

jesus dude...

notes from underground, eugene onegin, some short story collection x2, spring torrents, a hero of our time, oblomov

[Anonymous No.3258426]

>>3258402
I read Turn of the Screw from James, but I couldn't get into it. If you like ambiguous psychological horror, you may enjoy it.

Read Eugene Onegin from Pushkin. Gogol and Chekov should both be short story collections, or plays from Chekov if you like plays. Turgenev = Fathers and Sons. Lermontov's most important is A Hero of Our Time, Goncharov's is Oblomov.

[Anonymous No.3258425]

>>3258415
>>3258423
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.3258428]

>>3258419
Why ? on Penguin Classics?

[Anonymous No.3258429]

:(

[Anonymous No.3258439]

>>3258428
Don't feel like counting. Also French and that isn't exactly the standard paperback classics format here.

[Anonymous No.3258447]

so close...

[Anonymous No.3258449]

As if anyone would have done half of this

[Anonymous No.3258451]

get on my level

[Anonymous No.3258454]

>>3258402
James - 50 Shades of Grey
Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
Gogol - Dead Souls
Chekhov - The Steppe, or just get a collection of his short stories
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time

[Anonymous No.3258455]

>>3258451
Which three?

[Anonymous No.3258462]

>>3258449
>>3258451
>hasn't read a book in a day
do you even winter break?

[Anonymous No.3258467]

>>3258462
250 pages is a lot to read in a day, unless you're speed reading and not thinking about it

[Anonymous No.3258471]

>>3258294
Being Latin I'm more exposed to more Hispanic, Anglo, Europe and Eastern Asia authors :(


But seems like i'm missing a lot so would Love recommendations though ;).....

[Anonymous No.3258472]

>>3258467
Get some easy to read genre fiction and spend a day with it.

[Anonymous No.3258494]

>>3258471
there's a nice big section on the wiki for them.

I personally always rec Ryunosuke Akutagawa as a starting point, especially if you're someone intrigued by folklore or the grotesque. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is a great collection.

[Anonymous No.3258497]

Hmm, granted the foreign language book I read was "The Giving Tree" in Mongolian.

[Anonymous No.3258499]

>>3258472
No

[Anonymous No.3258502]

>>3258497
Yeah, mine was a kid's book too. I read Le Petit Prince after four years of French.

[Anonymous No.3258521]

>>3258497
>Mongolian

You some kinda steppe monkey?

[Anonymous No.3258532]

>>3257996
It certainly is bourgeois in here.

[Anonymous No.3258544]

It appears the easiest way for me to get bingo is to read 200 pages of correspondence from a single author. Does anyone know an author with a particularly good correspondence?

[Anonymous No.3258548]

i win motherfuckers

[Anonymous No.3258550]

>>3258544

oops, forgot pic

[Anonymous No.3258554]

I have completed 13.

[Anonymous No.3258556]

>>3258548
i dont win anymore because I, too, forgot my pic

[Anonymous No.3258560]

>>3258544
I was wondering the same. I guess there's the Joyce fart letters, but...

[Anonymous No.3258571]

>>3258544
Pliny. Cicero.

[Anonymous No.3258575]

>>3258560
That's not exactly 200 pages worth of material.

[Anonymous No.3258578]

>>3258521
You some kinda racist?

[Anonymous No.3258579]

>>3258544
Phillip Larkin

Kafka would have a lot of white space

[Anonymous No.3258583]

I got a PLEBIAN bingo.

[Anonymous No.3258592]

>>3258579
Orwell, Penguin edition multiple volumes.

[Anonymous No.3259116]

>tfw you can't tick any of those boxes except for read an entire book in one day

I actually read 2 in one day, they were books from A Series of Unfortunate events and I doubt either was over 250 pages, but combined they were more than that.

[Anonymous No.3259119]

"_"

[Anonymous No.3259141]

While making the options, op you must've forgot 'claiming intellectual superiority' and 'fingering own asshole'

[Anonymous No.3259172]

[Anonymous No.3259213]

i want his love, love's going to leave.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.3259221]

I came SO close to having a binjo, top left to bottom right, but I've never read an e-book in my life.

[Anonymous No.3259230]

might've bingo'd if I had an ereader.

the center square is because i read a book every day of the 7th grade, but they were almost exclusively unmemorable trash. it's possible I've done it since, but I don't really keep track like that.

[Anonymous No.3259240]

>>3258454
>James - 50 Shades of Grey
are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.3259259]

>>3259230
fuck, I forgot my pic AND i found out I have something in common with a shitty tripfag.

[Anonymous No.3259263]

what's a good book that has over 1500 pages? war and peace is the longest i've read and it's about 1400 according to goodreads

[Anonymous No.3259269]

>>3258454
>James - 50 Shades of Grey
Lolled.

[Anonymous No.3259272]

>>3259263
Das Kapital

[Anonymous No.3259278]

>>3259263
Les misérables is more than 1500

[Anonymous No.3259284]

So close...

[Anonymous No.3259290]

>>3259278
alright, i'll read les mis sometime next year.

[Anonymous No.3259350]

>>3259263
Pages seems a bit silly because IJ is 1100 and its word count is nearly the same as War And Peace/Les Miserables

[Anonymous No.3260057]

Only one person here has read In Search of Lost Time? No wonder /lit/ is so shitty

[Anonymous No.3260081]

>>3260057
Well, I'm definitely too young to read book with main theme, and title like this. I'm 20, btw.

[Anonymous No.3260082]

> have over 100 books unread that you've purchased
Jesus Christ, I'm sure I have over 500.

[Anonymous No.3260086]

>>3260082
Same. It's a little ridiculous. I didn't want the number to be too high, as then it's more of an anti-achievement.

[Anonymous No.3260100]

>>3260082
All right, here's mine. A few of these are worthy goals, but most IDGAF about.

[Anonymous No.3260122]

bummer

[Anonymous No.3260129]

>>3260100
Which are the one's you don't care about? Everything else you have left seems pretty important for a widely read person, save maybe the correspondence one.

[Anonymous No.3260162]

>>3257996

I'm not actually playing the game. The ones I crossed out should be replaced with better squares because they are not literary achievements

[Anonymous No.3260183]

bingo mattafakas

[Anonymous No.3260202]

>>3260162
Why do you not think Japanese or female authors are worthwhile?

[Anonymous No.3260227]

can someone post the original lit achievements?

[Anonymous No.3260238]

wow the thread is still alive
>>3258455
Some obscure shit you've never heard of before.
No, seriously, I'm chilean so I had to read some bullshit chilean books back then in school.
>>3258462
Why the fuck would I force myself to read like 200 pages in one day. No way.

[Anonymous No.3260244]

>>3260227
They were already posted at >>3258394

[Anonymous No.3260259]

>>3260244
oh neat

this sounds like fun

[Anonymous No.3260273]

>>3260202
I am not saying they are not worthwhile.

I am saying that squares for "Read 15 Japanese book" and "Read 12 Female authors" are really bad. They are not accomplishments

[Anonymous No.3260275]

>>3260238

Some people who like reading have to force themselves not to read 200+ pages a day. Very often I get carried away and won't put a book down even when other things come up, like forgoing outings with friends to continue reading, or eating dinner much later than I had intended.

[Anonymous No.3260295]

>>3260273
So they should be higher? I was thinking of switching the Japanese one to a style like the American, Russian and sci-fi ones, with specific authors. Soseki, Kawabata, Mishima, Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Dazai, Endo, Oe and Abe, but I felt bad keeping it to 20th century literature.

For female authors I didn't want to go specific though, as there are thousands of great ones to choose from. Maybe appending "literary" onto it would help. What would you suggest?

[Anonymous No.3260296]

>>3257996
Close on two accounts, but I've only read a few ebooks and Dostoy and Tolstoy for the Russian one.

[Anonymous No.3260314]

>>3257996

Bingo!

[Anonymous No.3260317]

>>3260314
Triple Bingo nigga you get three prizes

[Anonymous No.3260320]

>>3260317

I know man, who ever thought that pirating all those e-books would bring such kudos. I thought it was impossible till the last square, but it just shows that you should never give up, and if you give 110% you'll be over the moon at the end of ninety minutes.

[Anonymous No.3260322]

>>3260317

Quadruple.

[Anonymous No.3260325]

>>3260322
Holy shit I didn't see the southwesterly one.
Four prizes nigga you get my virginity

[Anonymous No.3260341]

>>3260325

I'm pretty sure I've read 200 letters by Lenin as well, so I'm going to resubmit.

If I could be 100% sure about that 50 countries one, I think you'd have to let me do your mum. In the bum.

My wife owns at least 50 Penguin Classics, but I'm not claiming them.

[Anonymous No.3260452]

>>3258402
>Arthur C. Clarke
I've heard Rendezvous With Rama is good. I've read the entire 2001 series and enjoyed them though I don't know if they're "good".