Goodreads thread

[Anonymous No.5710892]

Can we have another goodreads friends thread? Post your own profile and make new friends.

Here I am:

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/32386530-cincospenguinos

[Anonymous No.5710924]

bump

[Anonymous No.5711155]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/36770801-miranna

I'm still new to goodreads, feel free to add me

[Anonymous No.5711156]

add me

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/32190649-margaret

[Anonymous No.5711158]

>>5710892
>life of pi

sorry m8 cant add u

[Anonymous No.5711238]

is there any active /lit/ group?

[Anonymous No.5711277]

>>5711156
>1 of 5000 by 2015
gl

[Anonymous No.5711578]

>>5711277
You should read the story I made.

[Anonymous No.5711914]

Goodreads- a site for talentless, delusional people who can't write something worthy of being published to validate their existence by surrounding themselves with other talentless, delusional people who also can't write anything worthy of being published.

[Anonymous No.5711944]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3181744-atlas-can

mfw no one has read over 100 books

[Anonymous No.5711969]

>>5711914
It's a website for reading, not writing.

[Anonymous No.5712034]

>>5711969
You can also write:

https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/380327-true-love-by-fate-or-the-love-between-two-gay-individuals

[Anonymous No.5712126]

>>5711944
My numbers go up faster on Letterboxd so I focus my effort on movies instead of books

[Anonymous No.5712145]

>>5711914
>1914▶>>5711969
>Goodreads- a site for talentless, delusional
Or people who like making lists of the books they've read. I fucking love lists.

[Anonymous No.5712147]

>>5711155

What movie is that still from? Yojimbo? Sanjuro? Red Beard?

[Anonymous No.5712162]

>>5711944
i've read more than a 100 this year alone

>14 of 5000 by 2015
gl

[Anonymous No.5712167]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian

[Anonymous No.5712173]

>>5711944
i've read a lot more over my life, but less since i started using the site this year and i can't be fucked adding everything i've read ever, i'm just using it to track what i read from that point on

[Anonymous No.5712198]

>>5712126

Tfw want to make an account but dont want to invest the time looking up the films ive watched.

[Anonymous No.5712231]

>>5712147
Yojimbo

[Anonymous No.5712273]

>>5712147
Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai having a break on the Sanjuro set

[Anonymous No.5712309]

>>5712273

Nakadai, one of the few japanese golden age actors left alive, japanese national treasure.

[Anonymous No.5712332]

>>5712273
chambara behind the scenes is glorious

[Anonymous No.5712394]

>>5712198
you keep track of the films you watch you idiot

[Anonymous No.5712962]

I've read many books that just won't show up on Goodreads and that makes me sad.

L-let's be friends.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4769248-diego

[Anonymous No.5712972]

>>5712962

You can add a book that's not on GR, I've done so with Dutch translations.

[Anonymous No.5712978]

>>5712962
>murakami

dropped.

[Anonymous No.5712984]

>>5712972

Also, this is my profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23200897-berber

[Anonymous No.5712994]

>>5711944

mfw people claim they read hundreds of books in a year

[Anonymous No.5713046]

>>5710892
I have every single one of you losers who post on 4chan, and specially all the worthless scum on lit. Why would anyone want to be your "friend"?

[Anonymous No.5713082]

>>5712994
>he isn't NEET

top pleb

[Anonymous No.5713192]

treat me gently, please.
https://www.goodreads.com/hacklasoul

[Anonymous No.5713488]

I just made an account today. What are some good lists to browse through that are likely to bring up books that you've read so you can go ahead and easily tick them as 'read' without having to remember them all off the top of your head?

[Anonymous No.5713616]

>>5713046
*hate, not have

[Anonymous No.5713628]

>>5713488
https://www.goodreads.com/list

Check them.

[Anonymous No.5713639]

>>5712984
plebb

[Anonymous No.5713655]

>>5713639
During transsexual male to female transformation my mind turned and I became plebeian status, no longer am I a human or dancer or cat but I am become Death, destroyer of time. Heed my warning, for none shall pass. Though I walk through the mountains of darkness, I shall not fear evil, only fear itself; or, God the purveyor. Do not tempt my hand, good sir. God bless and love always. May you live prosperous.

[Anonymous No.5713673]

>>5713655
Did you get your HRT in a japanese porn comic?

[Anonymous No.5713704]

>>5713655
>During transsexual male to female transformation my mind turned and I became plebeian status
no wonder
you lost the status of human too, you are now 'it'

[Anonymous No.5713718]

>>5713655
want to be my trap literate Gf?

[Anonymous No.5713757]

https://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM1OTQ0MDQyNDA6NDE4

[Anonymous No.5713876]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/36848458-cromwolf

I really need to read more nonfiction.

[Anonymous No.5713903]

>>5712978
>murakami buttpain meme
dropped

[Anonymous No.5713915]

once more
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/35959535-crito

[Anonymous No.5714498]

>>5711944

I'm actually mocking people who see reading as a challenge, as setting an unreachable number, 5000

[Anonymous No.5714574]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/31485734-cuong-dang

Third-world country bro. I started reading seriously this year and using goodreads in May, only adding books I've read since then. Pls add me so I can stalk and not feel so lonely anymore. ;_;

[Anonymous No.5714648]

>>5710892
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29831737-pinkyivan
Hope it is the right link.
Also I have around 175 read on the list so I am not full pleb.

[Anonymous No.5714676]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16652983-eadweard

[Anonymous No.5714761]

Feel free to add me
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17984689-abdellah

[Anonymous No.5715142]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27289347-rooster
>genre, genre everywhere

[Anonymous No.5715602]

>>5714676
You're the most interesting person so far. You really should read Red Cavalry and The Blind Owl. Any recommendations of Russian lit the average reader might not have heard of?

[Anonymous No.5715634]

Lots of sci-fi.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/9220751-david

[Anonymous No.5715670]

>>5713757
nice try zarflax

[Anonymous No.5715791]

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6574173 -plebeius maximus

[Anonymous No.5715816]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/36792513-jacob
New account or I just don't read.

[Anonymous No.5716811]

>>5715602

Thanks dude. Did you send me a FR? If so, who are you? Red Cavalry is in my 'priority russian' shelf, but i havent found an ebook, have to buy it instead, and i mean physical copy.

>buying ebooks

[Anonymous No.5717215]

>>5716811

As for recs, not sure, check out the russian shelf, the read/rated books and see if you've read some of them. People should dig deeper into russian lit, its not all just Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gogol. Ive been meaning to read Life and Fate, Grossman's short stories were really good, I highly rec them, and his WW2 nonfiction work is also good. My next 'big' russian book will be The Petty Demon, by Sologub. Andrei Bely's Petersburg is very good.

[Anonymous No.5718617]

bumpin for friendship

[Anonymous No.5718678]

>>5713616
k

[Anonymous No.5718679]

>>5718617
The theme of this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEVwun0ikRo

[Anonymous No.5718681]

>>5717215
>My next 'big' russian book will be The Petty Demon, by Sologub.

I want to read this, you getting the Coiran or Wilks translation?

[Anonymous No.5718685]

>>5713046

>>5718679

[Anonymous No.5718812]

>>5718681

Not sure which one I have. I think one is called the petty demon, the other, the little demon? So the petty one.

Whats your account?

[Anonymous No.5718833]

Why would I add random people I don't know as friends?

[Anonymous No.5718844]

>>5718833
i wouldn't either but lots of ppl on 4chan are oh so very ronery.

[Anonymous No.5719876]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.5719919]

>>5718833
because it's an anonymous account

[Anonymous No.5720131]

>>5718833
That's the same thing I ask to people with a facebook account.

[Anonymous No.5720317]

Pleb overload
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27234213-vitemn

[Anonymous No.5720468]

>>5716811
This is my profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/22100142-lisajean
Life and Fate is really interested, but you can definitely feel the influences of socialist realism; he's trying hard to be accessible. I'll check out his stories though. Petty Demon is great, the best of Sologub's prose, lots of discussion about sex, morality, and aesthetics. I definitely need to read Petersburg!

[Anonymous No.5720504]

Going through this list of people and masturbating to their profile pictures.

[Anonymous No.5720535]

i dislike when people use the 'to read' or 'backlog' shelves because all i do in these threads is go into the compare books things and see what they've read that i've read and it throws me for a second when it's full of books i like and for a second i think i've encountered a kindred spirit and then i realise they haven't actually read any of them, not that i'd friend them anyway, but you know, it would feel warm and nice to see someone who has enjoyed the same books that i have, and i could imagine that we were friends, or even the same person

so in conclusion: please don't use this helpful feature of the website so that i can more accurately fantasise about connecting with you in an abstract and creepy way

thanks, i appreciate your understanding

[Anonymous No.5720552]

>>5720535
Are you really that technically incompetent?

Look in the top right of the compare books page. You can select which shelves are included.

Choose: "their shelves" -> "read"

Your entire "dilemma" is solved.

[Anonymous No.5720555]

>>5720504
Don't tease me

[Anonymous No.5720558]

>>5720552
i understand that i can subsequently filter the results, but this is an extra step that i am forced to take after having the initial thrill of excitement at seeing just how much me and the /lit/ poster have in common crushed when i realise that they were all in the 'i haven't actually read them' bit. i'm sure you can imagine that this is quite distressing

[Anonymous No.5720563]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27234213-vitemn

[Anonymous No.5720566]

>>5720558
I don't find easily preventable things distressing, because I'm not an entitled child.

[Anonymous No.5720586]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/32610996-carlo

Sorry for the shit-tier YA books.
Sorry for <100 books (i've only existed for a short amount of time)

[Anonymous No.5720811]

>>5720586
You don't have to be sorry to enjoy books, you big pussy

Who cares if you like YA novels or read them? Everybody on this board has read HP or Narnia at some point in their life anyway, there's nothing to be ashamed of

[Anonymous No.5720817]

>>5720811

You should be embarrassed if you're an adult reading YA fiction.

[Anonymous No.5720832]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/31729142-stephen

[Anonymous No.5720881]

>>5720468

No friends?! You have great tastes, lots of russian. I will send you a FR.

I need to find more people that are heavily into japanese/chinese lit. There are 2 other /lit/ bros that are into it, but we are already friends.

[Anonymous No.5720897]

>>5720817
Not really, if it's well written and/or enjoyable, why shouldn't you?

A lot of adults have read Harry Potter, hell it was my aunt that bought me the books 10 years ago because she had enjoyed them

[Anonymous No.5720958]

>>5720897
You should absolutely be embarrassed for reading YA fiction, but not because it's written for YAs, rather because all of it is bad.

[Anonymous No.5720981]

>less than 150 books read
>lots of entry level books
>mostly anglo centric books
>lots of sci fi and fantasy

;_;

[Anonymous No.5721027]

Damn I read some sick books

https://www.goodreads.com/farge123

[Anonymous No.5721287]

JUST started on gr last week;

https://www.goodreads.com/_Morning_Star

[Anonymous No.5721308]

>>5721027
are you from San Antonio?


https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21203517-david
Underworld is an impending 5/5, damn

[Anonymous No.5721331]

I haven't any friends there, mainly use it to keep track & read reviews. We can be friends though. :)

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28966654-archetypus

[Anonymous No.5722952]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5725009]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5726141]

>>5720981
>anglo!

post yoself

[Anonymous No.5726193]

https://www.goodreads.com/mrsbunny1

[Anonymous No.5726221]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21883291-jurjen

Feel free to add me. Not active on it, just scrolling lists. And more lists. And all the lists.

[Anonymous No.5727031]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5727049]

>tfw you have a Goodreads and you use it a lot and you wouldn't be opposed to being friends with people from 4chan and reading their reviews but you are irrationally afraid of your IRL friends somehow figuring out that some of your connections on Goodreads come from posting on 4chan, which you would never admit to anyone

[Anonymous No.5728500]

>>5727049

Most of my friends know I post on 4chan, and many of them post too. But I don't tell people I've just met. I saw one of my coworkers browsing /sci/ the other day but I haven't talked to him about it. It's a weird feeling.

[Anonymous No.5729483]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5729516]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5194655-lemon-man

[Anonymous No.5729548]

Is there a way to add my libib library into goodreads?

[Anonymous No.5729555]

>>5729548
Or even the .csv file

[Anonymous No.5729562]

>>5728500
Yeah same here. I've a few friends who used it independantly years ago, a couple who like /x/ still for late night stories, one who I've taught what "shitposting" means because we've been hanging out a lot lately etc

[Anonymous No.5729606]

>>5729555
>>5729548
I figured it out.

[Anonymous No.5729623]

>>5720981
I'm the same. Shit loads of historical fiction and fantasy from my teen years. I say only 10-20% of my catalog is proper literature.

[Anonymous No.5730784]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34984319-rachel-rhodes

[Anonymous No.5731555]

>>5712173
This is the same for me and why I can't post my account in these threads. I've only read fantasy/sci-fi and historical non-fiction recently so that's all I have on mine

I read most of the /lit/ classics a long time ago but I'm not gonna go and add them all now. Way too tedious and my memory isn't good enough for accurate ratings anyway. I enjoy being a pleb shit now more anyway

[Anonymous No.5732171]

Random pleb account about to start adding... Rejoice in my poor choices andclow ratings of book you probably love

[Anonymous No.5732211]

the database isn't terribly complete

[Anonymous No.5732304]

>>5732211

That's why you become a librarian and start adding to it.

Or you are terrible at searching.

[Anonymous No.5732327]

>>5732304
how to become librarian

[Anonymous No.5732328]

>>5720131
Are you retarded? In Facebook you actually know (or should know) your friends irl, same with Goodreads for me.

[Anonymous No.5732337]

>>5732327

Honestly, if you can't figure it out on the site on your own you probably shouldn't be doing any editing.

[Anonymous No.5732341]

Is this what (il)/lit/erates are actually like? I mean almost all of these profiles have under 200 books read and almost only entry-level, do any of you actually read?

[Anonymous No.5732773]

>>5732341

theres a few with more than that. How many have you read? Favorite books? Have a GR account?

[Anonymous No.5732777]

>>5732341
it's because most people have started using the site in the past couple of years
it's not all the books they've ever read, it's the books they've read since making the profile
well, at least in my case, i assume it's the same for everyone else

[Anonymous No.5732819]

>>5732777
Well I guess that makes sense.

>>5732773
I have a GR account, but I only share it with my actual real life friends.

[Anonymous No.5732829]

>>5732341
Anybody naive and pompous enough to use a retarded site like 'goodreads' seriously is 100% guaranteed to be a pleb.

[Anonymous No.5732831]

>>5732829
it's funny because you come across as pretty pompous there

[Anonymous No.5732839]

>>5732819

Cmon, dont be afraid. At least name 15 of your top rated or favorite books.

[Anonymous No.5732882]

>>5732831
I'm slightly pompous (just enough to speak the truth freely) but certainly not naive.

[Anonymous No.5732973]

>>5732829
It's a very useful site and a tool for yourself, better than using Excel. I like statistics and lists.

[Anonymous No.5733002]

>>5732829
Anybody naive and pompous enough to use a retarded site like '4chan' seriously is 100% guaranteed to be a pleb.

[Anonymous No.5733279]

And I just wondered how I'd go about aquiring some friends on goodreads, too.
Convenient thread is convenient.
Add me!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17173586-ermin

[Anonymous No.5733292]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/24222581-charles-s

[Anonymous No.5733445]

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3213907-sasha-brogan

[Anonymous No.5733586]

I only pirate books on my kindle. How does goodreads work with that?

[Anonymous No.5733696]

>>5711277

for some reason goodreads isn't tracking my read books. I mean I'm showing off to no one, since I have no friends on goodreads, but it still ticks me off when it says I have read 0 books.

[Anonymous No.5733711]

>>5710892
Make way for the 18th most followed Dutch person last week, boys.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28232108-tailers-tail

I'm going places.

[Anonymous No.5733734]

>>5733711
>The Bell Jar
>5 stars

[Anonymous No.5733738]

>>5733586
It don't know. I don't know I buy books then pirate audiobooks.

>>5733711
You have two followers.

[Anonymous No.5733786]

>>5733696
You have to set the "Date Read."

[Anonymous No.5733801]

>>5733734
>>5733738
Don't be jealous m8s.

[Anonymous No.5733840]

>>573234
No, no reading. We just come here to read you.

[Anonymous No.5733862]

So many dutchbros wtf

[Anonymous No.5733889]

>>5733696
You have to set the "date read" for these challenges to work, by default it's unset

[Anonymous No.5733902]

>>5733586 It's not autodetecting any ebooks or alike. Or what did you mean ? I plan on writing a collaborative reading app even though I don't read ebooks myself. Maybe that's the wrong term: people can make comments on text-passages and stuff like that - and it should also interface with goodreads (ie updating the progressbar of a book automatically as you read).

>>5733738 Why both and not one or the other ? Or dou you first read and then listen to the audiobook afters ?!

Mine: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/30313835-stre4ddm

[Anonymous No.5733925]

>>5733801
Why'd you impersonate me?
>>5733734
Yeah, great book. What's wrong with it?
>>5733738
Yep. Goodreads isn't the most viral website in Holland, it seems.

[Anonymous No.5733940]

>>5733902
I like having the physical books and supporting local indie bookshops. Also I look well read to all the visitors I don't have.

I have a condition which makes it nigh impossible to read a book for more than fifteen minutes which means if I want to make progress I pop on a book on tape and break out the puzzles.

[Anonymous No.5733956]

>>5733940
Maybe I have sth similar - got a permanent headache from an accident for about 9 months now. It's way easier to listen to audiobooks for me (I only read them anymore if there's no proper audiobook of them), but after all the accident is what got me back to reading after all.

[Anonymous No.5734357]

bamp

[Anonymous No.5736289]

>>5711944
>>5711944
When I created my goodreads profile I listed all the read books I could name off of the top of my head at the time. I came up with 246...

I'd be working on that library for days if I counted all the books I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.5736303]

>>5736289
do you want a cookie?

[Anonymous No.5737327]

>>5717215
Life and Fate's great, though Petersburg is hard to beat.

[Anonymous No.5738247]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5738285]

pls be my friend
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33224669-williamren

[Anonymous No.5738544]

>tfw when have the full ASOIAF as read so I'm too embarrassed to post my profile

[Anonymous No.5738559]

>>5711944
I have almost 200. Most is serious stuff.
I'm 20 so in 10 years with this tempo I'll be at 500.

[Anonymous No.5738575]

>>5738544
>tfw I finished them all before I joined goodreads so I don't add them
Seriously though
>being this insecure

[Anonymous No.5739186]

Bump for justice and to catch any stragglers

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7452320-hub-masaq

[Anonymous No.5740313]

Lol at you fuckers all being this vain. No one cares what you have or haven't read.
Read what you please, list what you've read. GR isn't for showing others how very heducated you are, it's for cataloguing your books and finding others you may like.