/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4916364]

how are you doing so far? can't be worse than me.

[Anonymous No.4916391]

I assume you can't get partial credit for books you started but then abandoned to start something else?

[Anonymous No.4916418]

Pretty damn shitty

Will meet my goal though. Going to read non-stop through the summer.

[Anonymous No.4916431]

[Anonymous No.4916438]

Terrible since this fucking site deletes all my accounts within a day or two of creation and ignores all my emails asking why.

[Anonymous No.4916449]

>>4916438
you're too patrician for it

[Anonymous No.4916451]

>>4916364
24 out of 52, tell me how pleb I am /lit/:
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Fools Die by Mario Puzo
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Last Don by Mario Puzo
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Mountain Redemption by Nick McRae
World War Z by Max Brooks
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
The Court and the Constitution by Archibald Cox
Charity by Mark Richard
The Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes
Tracer by Richard Greenfield
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Night of the Hunter by R.A. Salvatore
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck

[Anonymous No.4916452]

;_;

[Anonymous No.4916456]

I don't use Goodreads (assuming that's where the pics are from), but I've finished 21 books so far this year.

[Anonymous No.4916457]

i'm glad everybody else is also a failure

[Anonymous No.4916458]

>/lit/
>everybody has read only 5 books in 5 months

51/80, keep it up cumberbitches

[Anonymous No.4916460]

>>4916364
>setting long-term, complex goals for yourself, that are ends to themselves

Do you guys like failing at everything you do?

[Anonymous No.4916463]

>>4916451
Forgot my picture

[Anonymous No.4916464]

>>4916458
>going to school and working a full time and part time job
>sad that I'm still too lazy to read more

Help me

[Anonymous No.4916477]

>>4916464
>I'm an american

[Anonymous No.4916902]

>>4916438
Are you sending dick pics to all the housewives that are on that site?

[Anonymous No.4916909]

>/lit/
>nobody reads books

Remind me why I even bother with 4chan?

[Anonymous No.4916913]

It's going very nicely.

I'm probably going to finish The Blind Owl and Reading Like a Writer sometime today.

[Anonymous No.4916944]

>>4916364

[Anonymous No.4916959]

[Anonymous No.4916969]

>>4916959
How did you like the Gay Talese essays? I'm always looking for more essayists to read.

[Anonymous No.4916978]

>>4916944
>nearly all novellas
>douglas adams' shit
>watchmen

[Anonymous No.4916980]

>>4916978
What's wrong with novellas? There are very many excellent ones.

[Anonymous No.4916981]

>>4916969

Really enjoyable. Especially his 'Origins of a Nonfiction Writer', which details his own background and how he developed his New Journalism style.

He captures moments and general atmospheres without any pretense or sweeping claims, very readable.

[Anonymous No.4916983]

Not bad

[Anonymous No.4916985]

how the fuck do you add books to that goodreads thing

[Anonymous No.4916989]

>>4916985
By rating them. You can add the date you finished reading the book later.

[Anonymous No.4916994]

meh i should really read more/better

[Anonymous No.4916996]

>>4916980
it implies he's reading them just so he can get a high 'count' of how many he's read

[Anonymous No.4917005]

>>4916994
I read Man in the High Castle last week. Top notch. Sorry for not offering some sort of analysis or in-depth opinion, I have to leave for work.

[Anonymous No.4917029]

>>4916996
i.e. he's an insecure child.

[Anonymous No.4917042]

I've read ~100 novels this year already

I get up at 7:30 and read until noon, then usually read at night or in the evening

Feels weird being better than everybody else ITT but hey ho

[Anonymous No.4917051]

>>4917042
Have a Goodreads?

It's always inspiring to have people who read a shit ton on there, like the Hadrian guy.

[Anonymous No.4917058]

>>4917051
No, I'm not a poser

[Anonymous No.4917062]

>>4917058
Review writing isn't really posing. It's a decent way to make side money, if you're good enough to publish.

[Anonymous No.4917078]

>>4917062
How much can/do you make?

I already get pre-published books sent to me for free through a professor at my uni, but I'd be happy to provide my thoughts for a fee.

And yes, Goodreads is primarily about boasting and seeking validity from others, a herd of freethinkers.

Also most of the reviews I read on there are incredibly superficial. I tend to stay away from terse reviews, as they are often echoes of other, longer reviews and usually lack any critical value

[Anonymous No.4917085]

I've read 9 GRRM books this year

[Anonymous No.4917087]

21 out of 62. It would be much more but I've been busy and depressed. Didn't finish one book in April.

My goal is 62 because that's how many I finished last year, which was my highest number to date.

[Anonymous No.4917096]

>>4917078
Depends on where you're publishing, mostly by distinction of printed journals and zines or online journals and blogs. Academic journal reviews give the most, though that's only if you read academic works and keep up with releases in any subfield.

Are the pre-published ones from your uni's press? I get pre-published works out of the publishers I do work at, though they're not reviewable at that point.

In general, I would expect $0-100 for online reviews, $100-300 for published reviews in a physical journal and upwards of that for scholarly reviews.

Depending on what you want to review, there are probably dedicated journals catering to that. Many of the ones I know focus on contemporary works and translation. If you care for those, I can drop some links.

[Anonymous No.4917100]

15/50 so far. I kinda got bogged down reading The Stand. Not counting re-reads or short stories/novellas though.

[Anonymous No.4917107]

45/100

[Anonymous No.4917120]

>>4917096
Pre-published are a mix of books forthcoming from staff at my uni and since my creative writing prof. is friendly with publishers he gets sent them and passes them onto me since he's busy and is currently trying to get my own novel published and keeps me up-to-date with contemporary literature (most of which is absolute tripe)

Wow that's interesting, though I assume it would take a lot of work hours to reach the stage of earning money. But thanks for your response, it's certainly interesting, and yes please do post some relevant links.

[Anonymous No.4917237]

>>4917120
Augh, I had a wordy post written and hit the back button.

You didn't give me specifics on taste, but I'll repeat there are journals out there for most things. A lot won't pay, however. Your best bet is to get with your prof and see if the publishers he's in with also do journals.

For translation, there's Asymptote. Absinthe Literary Review goes for " transgressive works dealing with madness, sex, death, disease, and the like; the clash of archaic with modern day; archetype, symbolism, disaffection, surrealism, magical realism, irrealism." If you happen to be a fan of Irish Gothic and Supernatural, The Green Book by Swan River Press. Japanese culture and literature? Monumenta Nipponica.

[Anonymous No.4917270]

Going alright. Goal so low because I will start studying from August on and then my reading will decrease significantly.

[Anonymous No.4917279]

>>4917078
>And yes, Goodreads is primarily about boasting and seeking validity from others, a herd of freethinkers.

Says the guy who just boasted that he reads just so much and he's so much better than everyone else.

Idiot.

[Anonymous No.4917286]

I started classes at march, so my reading has decrease a bit since then (the first row has the books I've read since then)

Reading now:
>A Rebours
>Metaphysics
>Better Never to Have Been
>Nicomachean Ethics

[Anonymous No.4917294]

[Anonymous No.4917301]

>>4916364
>elementary tier gamification
holy shit dropped

[Anonymous No.4917425]

>>4917237
That's darn annoying, but thanks for posting it again, I honestly appreciate your diligence. Very cool insight into this whole reviewing business.

You mentioned you worked at a publishers, where abouts do you work and what does your job entail?

I'm quite curious, though I assure you I'm not asking to further my own burgeoning "career"

[Anonymous No.4917429]

>>4917279
That was a joke pal, I've spent enough time around bookish proffesors who are book smart but are severely lacking in the type of knowledge rural housewives possess.

[Anonymous No.4917453]

Is a book a week a reasonable goal? I set mine for 52 books as well and I'm well behind schedule. I don't want to give up but I've been reading as fast as I can without sacrificing my enjoyment just because I want to show everyone I can read lots of books. I feel like an idiot.
To be fair, I was doing camp work for six weeks that took me away from my reading, but I don't like making excuses.

[Anonymous No.4917477]

>>4917425
Remote editing, with some website design. I get files of the book-to-be-published, copy-edit and revise, comment changes, send back, discuss any problems. One's a very specialized small press that takes someone who adores the field, and another is I think filed with the sort of contemporary literature you hate, though they have several of my favorites in with the garbage.

I'm hoping to get to Ann Arbor for the rest of my graduate studies and do publishing work around there, as there are lots in that area with things I like. Though no worries, I'm probably no further along in my career than you are. I don't even have a book ready to be passed around for rejecting yet.

>>4917429
Funnily enough, though I'm not that poster, I am nearly a bookish professor while currently a rural housewife.

[Anonymous No.4917483]

>>4917477
You sound like a real interesting dude, and I honestly wish you the best with your pursuits.

And yeah, the "bookish professor" thing was only aimed at those within my own university who are this way, I'm not slating all academics (as writers too often do, by portraying them with erectile dysfunction, mid-life crises, etc - which is really just a cheap anti-academic slur to whip up the plebs).

How old are you might I ask?

[Anonymous No.4917488]

>>4917483
Woops, I mean person, only read about your being a housewife midway through posting

[Anonymous No.4917493]

>>4917483
Thanks! I wish you luck too, I imagine you're quite well-read with 200+ books a year.

Twenty-four. For an unwarranted digression to nostalgia, I've now been on /lit/ more than four years. Four years ago I had barely read anything, had really only read five books the year before and knew nothing about what I enjoyed. It's weird to think of myself this far now. How about you?

[Anonymous No.4917505]

>>4917493
I'm 22. And yeah I'm similar in that regard, although /lit/ does tend to distract me from "serious work" quite often, it really is the most self-aware and interesting place I've found on the internet thus far. To have a community of people come together anonymously to talk about literature, with the only benefit being their own self-improvement, is pretty special I think, and even the shitposting makes this place worthwhile.

I'm pretty well read I think, although my obsession is in part down to my pleb upbringing, and the fact that I felt so inferior and less intelligent than my peers in coming to university that I have since felt a desperate need to outdo them in every way I can, which I've so far succeeded in doing, albeit at the price of a social life and any relationships with the opposite sex.

I imagine you know your stuff do doing the work you do and being so clear about your ambitions and so on.

[Anonymous No.4917512]

i haven't set myself a challenge, but i've read 21 books so far

[Anonymous No.4917518]

>mfw polite conversation on /lit/

[Anonymous No.4917526]

Solid so far, my actual goal is in pages and not books though so the challenge graphic is misleading. I'm at 16725/36500 pages, so only about 45% done.

[Anonymous No.4917528]

>>4917505
I actually think my own desire to be well-read started for the same reasons - all my family is functionally illiterate, I was the only one to pursue higher education and one of the very few who ever graduated high school. Does it make it difficult to associate with your family now?

If you want to continue talking later on (I really would - I don't have anything to call a social life either, and live off of email penpals), I put in my 4chan email.

[Anonymous No.4917556]

>>4917528
For a while it did make it difficult, because I felt a grudge against them for not encouraging me at a younger age, and for buying into the anti-intellectual culture of my town, but now I appreciate that culture for what it is, and feel quietly pleased that my childhood was the way it was, because I've read so many books, especially recently, written by the sons and daughters (Zoe Pilger's 'Eat My Heart Out' comes to mind) that are just terrible, and funny in a superficial, smug way which suggests they've never had to struggle with their self confidence and so on.

Yes, I'll email you sometime soon that would be cool, although I have to go eat right now.

[Anonymous No.4917598]

I've started to dislike counting the books I've read

I'm more likely to choose a shorter book than a long one.

I've read 29 books this year (mostly non-fiction) + books for university. Started Bleak House recently (~900 pages)

[Anonymous No.4917628]

Only 15/75, and I started reading the Bible today. I'm never gonna complete the challenge

[Anonymous No.4917859]

[Anonymous No.4917865]

>>4917453
yeah but you dun goofd.

[Anonymous No.4918158]

I'm doing alright.

[Anonymous No.4918167]

>>4917512
How was Butcher's Crossing?

[Anonymous No.4918178]

>>4918167
really really good
it's very different to stoner but has a similar simple poetry in the writing. i found it extremely gripping although not that much happened, and read it through in one sitting.

[Anonymous No.4918201]

I can never manage to bring myself to use Goodreads consistently enough to get anything out of it, but so far this year I've read (excluding short stories not in collections, comic books, audio books, and things that I've been assigned):

Carmilla (Le Fanu)
The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Calvino)
Marcovaldo, or the Seasons in the City (Calvino)
The Bloody Chamber (Carter)
The Moon Over the Mountains (Nakajima)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (Wilde)
Early Greek Philosophy (various)
The Song of Songs (anonymous; Bloch translation)
The Virago Book of Erotic Myths and Legends (various)
Africans and Their History (Harris)
The Graveyard Book (Gaiman)
The Chronicles of Conan vol. 1 (Howard)
The King in Yellow (Chambers)
Invisible Cities (Calvino)
Gaslight Grimoire (various)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick)
Showa Japan (Brinkman)
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Chesterton)
Shogun: the Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (Sadler)
Kwaidan (Hearn)

Currently reading the Penguin edition of Ovid's erotic verse.

21/50

[Anonymous No.4918229]

I haven't read much because I've had a bout of the old brain problems this year.

[Anonymous No.4918255]

I've only read 13 books this year, which is quite pathetic considering i'm NEET. Need to step my game up.

[Anonymous No.4918261]

>tfw this puts in to perspective how selective you have to be with reading and how few books you will be able to read in a life time

[Anonymous No.4918308]

I'm on the last chapter of a book right now as well.

[Anonymous No.4918312]

I'm at 45, according to Goodreads. I don't set goals though, because fuck it.

[Anonymous No.4918334]

Pliny's Natural History (4 volumes).
Plutarch's Parallel lives (2 volumes)
Camus' The Plague
Pratchett's Eric
Pratchett's Pyramids
Pratchett's Guards Guards
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Mann's Buddenbrooks
Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy
Reread Plato's complete Works (except The Republic)
Halfway through Aristotle's
Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy
Apuleius' The Golden Ass
Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Dick's The Man in the High Castle
Dosto's Demons
Hemingway's The Sun also Rises
Peter Pan
The Stranger
Vidal's Julian
Grave's I Claudius
Chatwin's In Patagonia
Melville's Moby Dick
Crowley's Little Big
Celsus' Treaties on Medicine
The Bell Jar
Pessoa's The Book Of Disquiet
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
Steinbeck's The Pearl
The first book of " The once and future King" by TH White


And that's that so far. It's a good half of the year, considering a few of them are long as shit (looking at you romans).

[Anonymous No.4918346]

What's a good goal for a newbie?

[Anonymous No.4918350]

3/52

17 behind schedule

implying i won't catch it in vacations

[Anonymous No.4918357]

>>4918346
How many books do you normally read in a year? How fast can you read an average (300-400) paged book?

Set it to something manageable for this year. If you take a half a month to read a book, set it to 24. Then next year up it a little. Try 26, then 28, then 30.

[Anonymous No.4918373]

I was shooting for 50 this year.

Dont think Im gonna reach that, Im at 14 now.

1. Bleeding Edge: Thomas Pynchon
2. Maus I: Art Spiegelman
3. Maus II: Art Spiegelman
4. Divergent: Veronica Roth
5. Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse
6. Taipei: Tao Lin
7. How Fiction Works: James Wood
8. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Flannery O’Connor
9. V.: Thomas Pynchon
10. The Pillowman: Martin McDonagh
11. The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler
12. The Cripple of Inishmaan: Martin McDonagh
13. Notes From Underground: Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. The Fall: Albert Camus

[Anonymous No.4918386]

>>4917453
Well the way things are right now for you, you're gonna have to push out at least 2 books a week for some time, which is dang hard with a job and youre reading good books that might take a while

[Anonymous No.4918391]

>>4917100
>not counting novellas
but why
That's how I plan on reaching my goal

[Anonymous No.4918492]

>>4918346
If you're actually interested in reading you should be able to hit 30 per year, even if you're working a 60+ hour per week job.

[Anonymous No.4918503]

>>4918373
>Maus

[Anonymous No.4918509]

>>4917598
>>4918391
Yeah, this is why I have a page goal instead of a book goal. I don't want reading shorter books to feel like cheating, nor do I want to be discouraged from tackling longer works. A page is a page, whether from a novella or from some thousand page tome.

[Anonymous No.4918521]

>>4918509
>he's saying Heart of Darkness is the same as A Dance With Dragons

Nice try, faglord.

[Anonymous No.4918559]

Quality, not quantity, gentlemen

[Anonymous No.4918563]

>>4918503
>>4918521
Let's see your list so far samefag.

[Anonymous No.4918640]

>>4918563
should I include comic books?

oh wait, I haven't read any because I'm not a pleb

[Anonymous No.4918654]

>>4918640
Well, let's see your list.

[Anonymous No.4918769]

>>4918654
If you must, in no particular order. Turns out I've read far more than I had thought this year.

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Herningway
A Farewell to Arms - Herningway
The Old Man and the Sea - Herningway
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Sound of Waves - Mishima
Poor Folk - Dostoevsky
The Luzhin Defense - Nabokov
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf - Gazdanov
The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Farewell my Lovely - Raymond Chandler
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Inverting the Pyramid - Jonathan Wilson
Moneyball - Michael Lewis
The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
Why I Write - George Orwell
The Waste Books - Lichtenberg
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Coriolanus - Shakespeare
Hesiod - Theogony/Works and Days
Republic - Plato
Poetics - Aristotle
Conquest of Gaul - Julius Caesar
The Prince - Machiavelli
Selected Essays - de Montaigne
The Decameron - Boccacio
Probability: A Very Short Introduction - John Haigh

[Anonymous No.4918795]

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/1312211

Dont know if I can catch up, but I am planning on going to the beach alot this summer

[Anonymous No.4918843]

>>4918769
I mean, that's a solid bunch of books, but are you just going through some list of the classics you found somewhere?

[Anonymous No.4918913]

>>4918843
>are you just going through some list of the classics you found somewhere?

yes, on my bookshelf. isn't that what you asked me to do?

[Anonymous No.4918953]

>>4918843
why do you care?

[Anonymous No.4918957]

>>4918795
did you really read that translation of Burnt Njal? I read like 30 pages a few months ago and gave up at how atrocious it was.

[Anonymous No.4918987]

>>4918957
The gutenberg one from 1861, yeah. I enjoyed it, except for the improper use of the word 'but"

[Anonymous No.4918995]

How much of a pleb am I? Should start reading more after finals.

[Anonymous No.4919006]

>>4918995
You can start by not asking a bunch of weeaboo highschool kids and undergrads if you're a pleb or not.

[Anonymous No.4919008]

>>4919006
shut up pleb

[Anonymous No.4919132]

[Anonymous No.4919773]

>>4919132
>Joan Rivers

[Anonymous No.4919775]

>>4919132
>Feminism is for EVERYBODY

[Anonymous No.4919792]

>>4916463
top kek at all those image artifacts

[Anonymous No.4919804]

>>4919773
>>4919775
>not liking the Queen of Comedy
>not liking babby's first radical feminism

[Anonymous No.4919809]

>>4919804
>not liking the Queen of Comedy
I like Joan Rivers, but I would read a Joan Rivers book.
>not liking babby's first radical feminism
>wasting your time reading any kind of radical feminism

[Anonymous No.4919832]

>>4919809
Her comedy translates decently to writing. And I had just watched her documentary.
The bell hooks book was kind of a waste of time. Way too introductory and repetitious.

[Anonymous No.4919867]

It's almost June and this is all of I have read. I did start "Jane Eyre" and got to Ch. XIII and realized that I had, indeed, seen the film. Just plebbin' at art/aesthetics, classic Gothic escapism and poetry.

[Anonymous No.4919891]

>>4916364
divine comedy
don quixote
pale fire
zuckerman bound
portnoy's complaint
farewell to arms
hamlet
macbeth
othello
king lear
troilus and cressida
the tempest
richard ii
1 henry iv
self portrait in a convex mirror
gravity's rainbow
infinite jest
v
white noise
rabbit, run
paradise lost
a bunch of blake stuff
waiting for godot
leaves of grass 1855
poetic meter and poetic form
thus spoke zarathustra

reading: underworld

that's all i remember

[Anonymous No.4919920]

Alright let's see
>Woman In The Dunes
>City And The Pillar
>Slaughterhouse Five
>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
>Faust
>The Stars My Destination
>As I Lay Dying
>Masters of Doom
Eh I could do better.
Also I don't go near goodreads.

[Anonymous No.4919936]

How do I edit my goodreads to show covers for this year? I don't want to write list.

[Anonymous No.4919966]

Heart of Darkness
The Dream of the Celt
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Portnoy's Complaint
Meditations
Tinkers
Pimp: Story of My Life
Dubliners
Rendezvous with Rama
The Inimitable Jeeves
Glock: the rise of america's gun
Godel Escher Bach
Slapstick
The Weirdness
The Crying of Lot 49
A few Lovecraft stories
The Power of Habit

It's been a busy year

[Anonymous No.4919976]

>>4917505
*Tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.4919986]

>>4919132
>four comedies
>two tragedies
>one sentence

Who the fuck buys this kind of book, why not spring for a complete works of the author?

Jesus fuck, I hate your kind. I bet half of your books are abridged, too.

[Anonymous No.4920012]

>>4919986
Jesus, check your autism m8.

[Anonymous No.4920239]

>>4916913
By francine prose? That shit took four hours, and it was good, too. Why so tough for you?

[Anonymous No.4920253]

I don't know if this is quite a complete list

>The Book of Lies
>The Prince
>The Communist Manifesto
>The Stranger
>Slaughterhouse 5
>Cat's Cradle
>The Crying of Lot 49
>The Myth of Sysiphus
>Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
>Books of Blood pt 2
>Slow Learner
>The House on the Borderland
>Tai Pei
>White Noise
>Conscious of a Conservative
>The Nightmare Factory
>The Wasp Factory
>Don Quixote book 1
>If on a winter's night a traveler

Reading Gravity's Rainbow and Dubliners now.

[Anonymous No.4921258]

>>4920239
I didn't say it was tough at all. I finished it yesterday, as I thought I would. I just have a lot of books going at any one time, so they take a few days.

[Anonymous No.4921326]

I watch a lot of movies aside from reading.
And also animes.
I read mangos and bd/graphic novels too.

[Anonymous No.4921334]

>>4921326
>Being this 'tism

[Anonymous No.4921578]

>>4920239
>>4921258
>not taking your time to digest and close read the book
plebs. i bet you don't read for prose

[Anonymous No.4921595]

>>4919986
Because I didn't buy them, they were the only ones available to borrow and an author's complete works isn't worth reading. I prefer the highlights. And I don't have any qualms with reading a thoughtful abridgement.

[Anonymous No.4921694]

>>4921595
>an author's complete works isn't worth reading
>don't have any qualms with reading a thoughtful abridgement

Yes, you are the complete pleb I thought you were, thanks for comfirmation.

[Anonymous No.4921759]

This year I've read
>Shogun
>Tai-pan
>Gai-jin
>Towing Jehova
>I, Claudius
>Spin
>Waiting
>Naomi
>Blindsight
>Claudius the God
And I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones.
Looking back this was "plebbier" than I thought it would be when I set out with the intention of reading only for pleasure. Maybe I expected too much of myself.

[Anonymous No.4921801]

>>4921578
I'm not sure if you're trying to pun the fact that she's called Prose, or missing the fact that it's a book about close reading.

Several hours on a 250 page book is more than enough to close read.

[Anonymous No.4921872]

>>4921801
4 hours for a 250 page book is more than a page a minute. that is not enough for a close read.

[Anonymous No.4921877]

>>4921872
It's almost exactly a page per minute, given the last chapter is just a reading list of books.

Try reading the book before you pass judgement on the exact time allotment for a close reading of it.

[Anonymous No.4921892]

>>4921694
wanna fck now bb ;)

[Anonymous No.4921897]

>>4921877
Try actually reading a book thoroughly and not like a complete pleb. Does the irony of you skimming through a book on close reading escape your feeble mind?