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ITT: /lit/ achievements.

Endurance Reader: Finish "In Search of Lost Time".

Second Best: Read two Palahniuk novels and think the second one was much worse than the first.

The Grand: Finish a book that is over 1000 pages long.

The Collector: Have at least 5 books in your library that are over 200 years old.

Speeding Ticket: Read War & Peace in less than a month.

An Apple a Week..: Read 52 books in a single calendar year.

Classical Scholar: Read Poetics and The Birth of Tragedy as well as at least two plays by each of the following playwrights: Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles.

>> No.625547

Masochist: read any Joyce book without using notes.

>> No.625551

Fanatic: Read more than 200 pages of correspondence written by an author.

Zealot: Read the entire oeuvre of an author who has published more than three novels.

Under the Bell Jar: Read five books written by female authors.

High Seas: Read Heart of Darkness, Moby-Dick, and Robinson Crusoe.

>> No.625557

Austenite: Read at least three Jane Austens and realize by the end of the third that they're all the same book.

>> No.625562

Fantastic Fetishes: Fap to the "arse full of farts" Joyce letter.

>> No.625566

Small Steps: Read 100 short stories.

>> No.625568

>>625562

On the Marquis Tip: Read 120 Days of Sodom without masturbating.

>> No.625570

Armchair Philosopher: Read at least one each of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hobbes.

>> No.625572

Nobel Whore: Read at least one book by every Nobel Prize in Literature winner.

>> No.625581

Religious Zealotry: Read the Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita, and one text each of Taoism, Confucianism, Tibetan Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism.

>> No.625583

The Analytic Tradition: Read at least one book by the following: Hume, Russell, Frege, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chalmers, Dennet, Quine, Kripke, and Searle.

>> No.625586

>>625568
that only applies to inmates of an insane asylum treated for anti-social sadism

>> No.625594

Paris PoMo: Read at least one book by each of the following authors: Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze.

>> No.625603

Sit Tight: Pay more than $1000 for a reading armchair.

>> No.625607

Globe Trotter: read a book by an author from every country.

>> No.625610

Is This All They'll Publish These Days?: Read 3 books in a row that involve childhood sexual abuse.

>> No.625615 [DELETED] 

H + t P : // @ T . K Ì m M Ó @ . S 3 /

>> No.625616

Doctorat in Revisionist History: Ready every Turtledove book.

>> No.625620

Bridge Toll: Read three of the following: Twilight Saga, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Catcher In the Rye

>> No.625625

The Talker: Spend more than three consecutive hours in the /lit/ chatroom.

>> No.625626

Questionable Advice: Read twelve books featured in Oprah's Book Club

>> No.625627
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625627

ARCHIVE THIS

>> No.625630

>>625627
not yet...

>> No.625632

My record so far:
The Grand
Classical Scholar
Masochist
Fanatic
Zealot
Under The Bell Jar
Fantastic Fetishes (did not cum tho)
Armchair Philosopher

>> No.625636

>>625625
Achievement - unlocked

>> No.625640

You're a Wizard, Harry- Read the entire Harry Potter Series, consecutively.

>> No.625642

Scholar's Shelf: Own the complete Norton Anthology collection.

>> No.625643

This is Addicting: Your book collection habit is forcing you to eat ramen frequently.

>> No.625649

Perhaps we could get some generous drawfags to provide icons?

>> No.625652

>>625649
perhaps after the archiving.

Should these get point values?

>> No.625653

Pringles Man: Read The Book of the New Sun.

Monopoly Man: Read The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Frost Giant in a Hat: Read the Soldier series.

>> No.625655

>>625640
Harry Potter who?: Read the Dresden Files right afterwards.

>> No.625659

Hobby Confused: Read three or more novels based off of a popular video game.

>> No.625661

>On the Marquis Tip: Read 120 Days of Sodom without masturbating.
Well, I lost that one. HARD.

>> No.625666

Mo' money' Mo problems - Have over 50 books unread that you purchased.

>> No.625671

>>625642
GOLD TROPHY for having this and only having to get one of them for a class

>> No.625673

The Sniffer- you like to smell books; especially when no one is looking.

>> No.625674

Classic SyFy: Read at least one science fiction book by the following authors: Verne, Wells, Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Bradbury, Le Guin, and Vonnegut.

>> No.625676

Expat: Read a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein written while they lived in Paris.

>> No.625677

Holy smokes, these are awesome.

>> No.625679

Stoic to the Max: Watch 'Bright Star' without raging.

>> No.625686

>>625679
Try again, said the little red hen.

>> No.625688

Questionable Motives: Read 'Anarchists Cookbook', 'The Turner Diaries', and 'Patriots'.

>> No.625697

Just Beat It: Read at least two works by Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Cassady, Corso, and Conrad.

>> No.625699
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625699

I CAN SEE FOREVER: Marry a feminist writer.

Your Little Beaver: Continue having open relations while married to a feminist writer.

>> No.625701

this thread gives my reading life a whole new focus.

>> No.625704

From Russia With Love: Read one by each of by the following: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Ivanov, Lermontov Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn,

>> No.625713

>>625534

read in search of lost time last summer, have many books over 200 years old, have also read both the poetics and the birth of tragedy

so basically the only one's i'd care to bother with i've already done

>> No.625716

Cross-Eyed Sartre: Your reading habit forces you to buy perscription glasses.

>> No.625718

MANLY MOTHERFUCKER: Read the following: The Red Badge of Courage, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, The Call of the Wild, The Iliad and the Odyssey, The Road, Hamlet, and any three books by Hemmingway.

>> No.625719

Flightless Flock: Own 50 Penguin trade paperbacks

Fatmans Misery: Read Confederacy of Dunces and Lord of the Flies

>> No.625727

>this thread gives my reading life a whole new focus.
Seconding this.
Especially because the only achievements I've unlocked so far are
-Fantastic Fetishes
-The Sniffer

Not something to be proud of...

>> No.625729

The Basementdweller: Read American Psycho and complain about it being not graphic enough

>> No.625734
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>>625697
>Just Beat It

>> No.625736

Middle East Beast: Read one by each of the following: Mahfouz, Pamuk, Darwish, Kadare, Maalouf, Shafak, Oz, Khayyám.

>> No.625737

The Hipster: Read the books /lit/ talks about

>> No.625740

Presidential Library: Read a biography of every US president.

>> No.625742

>>625737
More like, 'The Rand', amirite.

>> No.625746

Idealist Folly: Read all books by Kant and Hegel.

>> No.625750

Fantastic FanFiction: Read The Aeneid and any two of Plato's early dialogues.

>> No.625752

The Red Badge of Courage: Read everything Published in the MEGA (Marx Engels complete works)

>> No.625755

Crossover Appeal 1: Read No Country for Old Men, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Jurassic Park, The Godfather, The Exorcist, To Kill a Mockingbird, and In Cold Blood.

>> No.625757

The Braggart: you read books for showing off only.

>> No.625758

Christfags Fucked My Shit Up: Read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

>> No.625761

I'm not Tao Lin, I swear: Make a thread about _Shoplifting From American Apparel_.

>> No.625762

The Hivemind: read more than 5 books at the same time.

>> No.625767

The Regular: Be disappointed when the daily House of Leaves thread doesn't materialize.

>> No.625769

The Bukowski: finish a book whilst being drunk

>> No.625775 [DELETED] 

I read The Brothers Karazamov when I was 16, and now I can't remember a fucking thing about it. I feel cheated. I've actually read that sodding endless profound book and I have no profound insights to show for it.

>> No.625777

The Eschatologist: Read Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", SPenglers "Decline of the West" and Barzuns "From Dawn to Decadence"

>> No.625778

>>625767
more like
The Regular: Be content when the daily House of Leaves thread doesn't materialize.

>> No.625779

The Cosmopo/li/tan: Only read books mentioned on /lit/ more than 5 times in 24 hours.

>> No.625782

I am Dr. Kashmir: Contribute 7 pieces to ZWG

>> No.625784

>>625620

Holy shit I have legitimately done this.

>> No.625785

The Evangelist- Convince a hater that books are not gay, but are actually enjoyable.

>> No.625787

I'm a Hippie: Read Stranger in a Strange Land, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Doors of Perception, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, and Inherent Vice.

>> No.625789

The /. - Only read Sci-fi and Fantasy.

(aka The SlashDot)

>> No.625791

The Queen: Read all the plays, essays, fairy tales and Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.

>> No.625796

>>625785

The Antichrist- Convince a litfag that books are gay and not very intellectual.

>> No.625797

Old School: Read only books published before 1792 for a whole year.

>> No.625799

>>625796
Enter Godmode.

>> No.625803

Yeah, Infinite Jest was pretty great: Pretend to have read a book that you haven't read.

>> No.625804

The Decadent: Rip out every page you just read for 1 month.

>> No.625805

The Whole Bard and Nothing But The Bard: Read and seen (in a theatre) the complete works of Shakespeare.

>> No.625809

Renaissance Man: read 2 plays by each, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson. Plus: THe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli is obligatory

>> No.625812

The Accidental Evangelist- Accidentally leave a lesser-known work by a classic author in a public place.

Unlocked... I left The Defense by Nabokov in a subway. I hope whoever found it actually read it. ;_;

>> No.625814

The Good /lit/izen: Don't buy books, just use the library.

>> No.625818

>>625562
can't find it, any hints?

>> No.625819

Chief Rabbit- Read Watership Down without stopping to read something else.

>> No.625822

>>625758
Did this but it was abridged.

>>625547

Dubliners, Ulysses. Yes for pretentious adolescence!

>> No.625825

A hole in one: Read a complete book of length more than 300 pages in one sitting. (yes pee/coffee breaks are ok)

>> No.625826

Blast from the Past: Re-read at least ten books from either the Goosebumps series, the Animorphs series, or the Deltora Quest series.

I want to make one about the whole 'below the dead the living strive' bit in Deltora Quest, and one about Sideways Stories of Wayside School, but I don't have any good ideas.

>> No.625828

The Mariner: Read "The Nigger of the Narcissus" "Moby Dick" "The Sea-Wolf" and "20000 leagues under the Sea"

>> No.625829

Weeaboo: Read fifteen novels written by Japanese authors.

>> No.625831

Classic Yankee Prose: Read at least one prose book by: Poe, Melville, Twain, James, Sinclair, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Henry Miller.

Latino Lit: Read at least one book by: Borges, Casares, Paz, Llosa, Marquez, Bolano, Neruda, and Cortazar.

Gonzo!: Read A Mencken Chrestomathy and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

>> No.625832

Big Dickens: Read Dickens entire corpus consecutively.

>> No.625834

Perfect childhood: Read every Redwall novel without turning into a furry.

>> No.625836

The Tin foil hat: carry a copy of The Catcher In The Rye and The Day Of The Jackal at all time.

>> No.625844

The Horrorshow chelloveck/devotchka: read A Clockwork Orange without using a dictionary.

>> No.625846

Love is my Craft- Read the Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

>> No.625848

Eldritch horror: Read 20 stories based on the Cthulhu mythos.

Sagging Gambrel Roofs: Read 40 stories based on the Cthulhu mythos.

I am Providence: Read the entire works of H.P. Lovecraft

>> No.625849

"Storm and Stress":
Read any 10 Works from the German literary period between
170 to 1780. A work by any other author than Goethe and Schiller will count twice...

>> No.625854

Hipster:
Read books written by Easton Ellis, Murakami and Vonnegut

>> No.625855

Never Doing That Again: Lend a book. The borrower never returns it.

>> No.625857

A Hitchhiker through and through: Know where your towel is.

>> No.625858

Celluloid Freak: Every time you watch a film you read the book it was based on if there is one, and viceversa.

>> No.625860

I'm so into this.

>> No.625862

I did The Grand. Swedish translation of Order of the Phoenix was 1001 pages long.

>> No.625864

I've done the gRand.

lolatlasshrugged

>> No.625868

Dog Pound: leave dogear tabs in 100 books.

>> No.625869

The Devils Advocate: Read "Faust", "Paradise Lost", "Master and Margerita" "His Dark Materials" and "Inferno"

>> No.625871

Reading Pals: Lend someone a bookmark when they desperately need one.

>> No.625878

>>625844

People use a cheatsheet for that? Man, that kills all the fun. Faggots.

>> No.625879

Cogito Eco Sum: Read "The Name of The Rose", "Foucaults Pendulum", "Baudolino" as well as one academic work of Umberto Eco.

>> No.625891
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The Canadian Experience: Read "The English Patient", "Life of Pi", 2 novels by Farley Mowat, 2 novels by Margaret Atwood, 3 short stories by Margaret Laurence, and Pierre Trudeau's autobiography.

>> No.625893

Keeping Up With The Brontës: Read all the Novels written by the Brontë sisters.

>> No.625896

>>625891
Add the Deptford Trilogy to this one.

>> No.625897

>>625878
sorry, since i didn't grow up in a socialist country, I don't know Russian, my bad...

>> No.625899

Bookworm: Have over twenty images of books, libraries, bookshelves, etc. saved to your harddrive.

>> No.625900
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>>625891

>> No.625904

Upside Down Words: Read 5 books by 5 different Australian authors.

>> No.625905

>>625900
By the end you will be bleeding maple syrup.

>> No.625909

>>625855
I don't want the copy of Lolita I lent you if you've been holding on to it for a year.

>> No.625911

5 Under 35: Read five books written in the last ten years.

>> No.625912

>sorry, since i didn't grow up in a socialist country, I don't know Russian, my bad...
You're supposed to not understand it. The beauty of the book is that it shows you how quick you learn to use slang yourself.
I have to admit that I used a dictionary for the first 3 chapters though, after that,the language started to feel naturally.

>> No.625917

Brilliance and Banality: Read 3 works by Jane Austen

>> No.625922

The Deviant: read Naked Lunch, Gravity's Rainbow, Crash, Salo, and rape a child in an unusual fashion

>> No.625925

The Monocle And Top Hat: Only read books written over 100 years ago.

>> No.625926

Asia on Viagra: Read any novel of James Clavell's Asian Saga.

>> No.625930

Over9000: Own more than 500 books.

>> No.625935

Archive please-

http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/main.php?mode=submit

thread id:625534
board: /lit/

>> No.625937

>>625935

Why not wait until we hit the reply limit?

>> No.625949

>>625917
that was in the goddamn third reply

>> No.625954

>>625926
I got 500 pages into Shogun, can I get partial credit?

>> No.625961

>>625937
Doesn't the archive update the threads until they die?

>> No.625962

>>625937
Are we ever going to?

>> No.625969

>>625961
yes, therefore it doesn't matter.

>> No.625971

Supreme Erotomania: The Tropic of Cancer, Quiet Nights in Clichy, Delta of Venus, Justine, Philosophy In The Beaudoir, Venus in Furs, The Kamasutra, Songs Of Salomon, Fanny Hill,The Decamerone, Lady Chatterleys Lover, Fear Of Flying, Lolita, Casanovas Memoirs, La Ronde.
Also Fap furiously while reading them.

>> No.625972

>>625954
I do believe that's sufficient.

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>Thread 625534 has already been archived.

>> No.625979

Platinum Membership- Become a member of the rewards program of three or more bookstore chains.

>> No.625983

FUCKING BORDERS!: The Borders you just went to didn't have any of the books you were looking for.

>> No.625984

Garage Sailor: Obtain a used book for <10% of what it would have cost at a chain book store.

>> No.626002

>>625857
>>625855
>>625846
>>625762
>>625762
>>625737
>>625674
got all these
also
Turned my life around: /lit/ reminded you how great reading can be.

>> No.626006

Someone artistically inclined should design medals/trophies for these, if they're up to it.

>> No.626011

>>625984
This is the best part of summer

>> No.626017

>>626006
I volunteer my time, once i get around to it. I'll do them in the order i get ideas for them.

>> No.626021

>>625984
I bought four books for a grand total of 40 cents.
Felt good, man.

>> No.626022

>>626006
Maybe we should filter out the best ones first.

>> No.626028

>>626022
That may take time...

>> No.626030

>>626028
Time well spent.

>> No.626031

>>626006

Perhaps some magnanimous drawfags from /ic/ (or wherever it is they hang out) could help us out with that..

>> No.626040

The Rocket Ship: Read every book that has won the Hugo Award
Starman: Read every book that has won the Nebula Award

>> No.626042

>>626031
/co/ has some good (and mostly nice, what with /co/ being love) ones. maybe we should ask around in there?

>> No.626052

>>626042

Sounds like a plan..wanna start the thread over there?

>> No.626053

The Kindred Spirit: Start up a conversation with every stranger you see reading a book you have read

>> No.626057

>>626052
nah. You go right ahead.

>> No.626063

>>626052
>>626057

>/lit/ is too scared to ask other boards for help

>> No.626069

>>626063
What on earth for? The Anons of /co/ are practically family!

>> No.626070

The Inner Child: Read every Newberry-winning book.

>> No.626073

>>626063

I was just thinking >>626042 was more familiar with /co/. I might unknowingly commit some horrible faux pas, and this is 4chan after all.

>> No.626083

Picture Books Are Literature Too: Read every Caldecott Medal winner.

>> No.626088

>>626073
I don't think it's possible to do something like that on /co/. They're pretty chill most of the time, and I don't see how you could mention any of the few things that might set them off if you're just asking for some drawfag help.

>> No.626093

The Grand
An Apple A Week
Fanatic
Zealot
Under the Bell Jar
This Is Addicting
Hobby Confused
The Evangelist
The Good /lit/izen
A Hole In One
Never Doing That Again
Dog Pound
Bookworm
Fucking Borders!
Garage Sailor
Turned My Life Around

All the ones I have...

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>>626083
High Five!

>> No.626101 [DELETED] 

The Russian: Read at least five books by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Chekhov, or Strugatsky.

>> No.626109

The Undistracted: Continue reading a book while going to the bathroom.

The Dedicated: Continue reading a book while using a urinal.

Mile-Wide Attention Span: Successfully read two different books at the same time.

>> No.626110

>>625557
>>625917

>>625704
>>626101

Okay, repeats are starting to pop up. F3 is your friend, guys.

>> No.626116

Grand And A Half: Read a work that is 1500 pages or longer.

>> No.626117

Compiled these to a .txt document

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nnwgmymwmnn

>> No.626129

>>/co/16493196

>> No.626134

>>626117

Might as well use pastebin for that..much easier access.

>> No.626136

>>626117
Oh, you're wonderful!

>> No.626151

The Distracted: Have at least 15 books in your to-read list.

How Do You Turn This Thing On: Read at least 30 ebooks.

The Lover: Read 20 books with explicit sex scenes.

>> No.626155

>>626134
http://pastebin.com/ZWnSdUwv

A bit weird looking right now. Will fix.

>> No.626168

The Grand
Grand And A Half
An Apple A Week
Fanatic
Zealot
Under the Bell Jar
This Is Addicting
Hobby Confused
The Evangelist
The Good /lit/izen
A Hole In One
Never Doing That Again
Dog Pound
Bookworm
Fucking Borders!
Garage Sailor
Turned My Life Around
The Undistracted
The Dedicated
Mile-Wide Attention Span
The Distracted

A few more for me...

>> No.626176

How the hell do so many people have Fanatic? Which author's correspondence did you read?

>> No.626190

What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: Read 7 works by Tom Clancy

>> No.626197

The Idealist: Refused to dislike a book until you attempted to read it.

The Assumption: Hate a book you've never attempted to read.

>> No.626207

I feel insecure that I don't have as many of these as I thought I would.

>> No.626218

again and again: read a book until you know the plot by heart.

>> No.626222

>>626218
I've read Black Hawk Down five times and own the DVD. I've lost count of how many times I've seen the movie.

>> No.626227

Dan Browned: Found the hard way that Dan Brown is full of shit.

>> No.626228

>>626222
*bleep bloop*

>> No.626234

>>626207
The conspicuous lack of people posting their achievements suggests you're not alone.

>> No.626238
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>The Assumption: Hate a book you've never attempted to read.

>> No.626239

Hipster Tier: I read a Bukowski book in under a month once. I reread it later in the same amount of time. And get this: The second time through I didn't even puke or get mad at how bad of a writer he was.

>> No.626240

>>626238
Yeah, I assumed that would nab almost all of /lit/. Either Ayn Rand or Twilight or something along those lines.

>> No.626244

>>626234
ive been posting a few but I have to look around the room to find more things to come up with.

also
Darksider: wrote a fanfic. (more like an anti-achievement)

>> No.626248

Speed Reader: Read an entire book in one day.
Double Down: Read two different books in one day.

>> No.626250

>>626129
>>>/co/16493196

>> No.626255

The Contributor: Have a novel that your wrote successfully published

Iamb is an Iamb: Write a sonnet completely in iambic pentameter

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee: Read the complete words of Shakespeare.

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>The Monocle And Top Hat: Only read books written over 100 years ago.

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>>626218
>Again and again

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>Sit Tight: Pay more than $1000 for a reading armchair.

>> No.626281

>>626273

>Faggot Tier: Posting a thumbnail.

>> No.626283

>>626255
Trochee is a Trochee: Write a poem in trochaic tetrameter

>> No.626285

The Dragon Dancer: Dedicate your life to a book that will never be finished.

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626290

>This is Addicting: Your book collection habit is forcing you to eat ramen frequently.

>> No.626297

>>626281

Just standardizing them at a manageable size so they can easily be tiled into a single large pic with all the achievements.

>> No.626300

>>626290

Way to post another thumbnail you cunt.

>> No.626308

>>626290
see >>626281

>> No.626314
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626314

>The Sniffer- you like to smell books; especially when no one is looking.

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>>626151
how do you turn this thing on: read 30+ ebooks

>> No.626320

>>626300

chill bro

>> No.626322

Osmosis: For whatever reason, sleep with a book under your pillow once.

>> No.626324

>>626281
>>626300
>>626308
see
>>626297

You need to think ahead.

>> No.626327

>>626314
i lold

good job anon

>> No.626332

Unlocked:

Second Best
The Grand
The Collector
An Apple a Week
Fanatic
Under the Bell Jar
Small Steps

The Talker
This is Addicting
Mo' money' Mo problems
The Sniffer

The Basementdweller
The Hipster
The Hivemind
A hole in one
Never Doing That Again
Reading Pals
Bookworm
5 Under 35
FUCKING BORDERS!
Garage Sailor

The Kindred Spirit
The Undistracted
Grand And A Half:
The Distracted
How Do You Turn This Thing On
The Idealist
again and again
Speed Reader
Double Down
Turned my life around
Osmosis

>> No.626341

The Serial Killer: Read "The Catcher In The Rye" and "A Clockwork Orange" and genuinely find them to be your favorite books of all time.

>> No.626350

The Double-Metro Insert: have two hardback copies of the same book from the same printing year; book must be from prior to 1970.

>> No.626354
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>>625782
> I am Dr. Kashmir: Contribute 7 pieces to ZWG

>> No.626358

I think I got 5 under 35 when I read the Deltora Quest in like 3rd grade when I bought each one the week it came out.

>> No.626362
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626362

>Questionable Advice: Read twelve books featured in Oprah's Book Club

>> No.626367
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626367

>MANLY MOTHERFUCKER: Read the following: The Red Badge of Courage, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, The Call of the Wild, The Iliad and the Odyssey, The Road, Hamlet, and any three books by Hemmingway.

>> No.626372

>>626362
can she even read? I mean with her whole 'BAWWWWW I GREW UP IN AN IMPOVERISHED BLACK NEIGHBOURHOOD AND GOT RAPED BY A PENIS' story? Or perhaps that's all bullshit.

>> No.626375

Enemy of anon: read any L. Ron Hubbard book.
(dont have. dont want.)

>> No.626378

>>626367

>implying Hamlet is manly

>> No.626380
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626380

>Paris PoMo: Read at least one book by each of the following authors: Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze.

>> No.626387
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>From Russia With Love: Read one by each of by the following: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Ivanov, Lermontov Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn.

>> No.626394

I hope someone is making a graphic/Bingo chart for these things.

>> No.626397

The Grand: Finish a book that is over 1000 pages long.
Grand And A Half: Read a work that is 1500 pages or longer.
An Apple A Week: Read 52 books in a single calendar year.
Zealot: Read the entire oeuvre of an author who has published more than three novels.
Under the Bell Jar: Read five books written by female authors.
This Is Addicting: Your book collection habit is forcing you to eat ramen frequently.
Hobby Confused: Read three or more novels based off of a popular video game.
The Evangelist: Convince a hater that books are not gay, but are actually enjoyable.
The Good /lit/izen: Don't buy books, just use the library.
A Hole In One: Read a complete book of length more than 300 pages in one sitting.
Never Doing That Again: Lend a book. The borrower never returns it.
Dog Pound: Leave dogear tabs in 100 books.
Bookworm: Have over twenty images of books, libraries, bookshelves, etc. saved to your harddrive.
5 Under 35: Read five books written in the last ten years.
Fucking Borders!: The Borders you just went to didn't have any of the books you were looking for.
Garage Sailor: Obtain a used book for <10% of what it would have cost at a chain book store.
Turned My Life Around: /lit/ reminded you how great reading can be.
The Undistracted: Continue reading a book while going to the bathroom.
The Dedicated: Continue reading a book while using a urinal.
Mile-Wide Attention Span: Successfully read two different books at the same time.
The Distracted: Have at least 15 books in your to-read list.
What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: Read 7 works by Tom Clancy
The Idealist: Refused to dislike a book until you attempted to read it.
The Assumption: Hate a book you've never attempted to read.
Again and Again: read a book until you know the plot by heart.
Darksider: Wrote a fanfic.
Speed Reader: Read an entire book in one day.
Double Down: Read two different books in one day.
Osmosis: For whatever reason, sleep with a book under your pillow once.

>> No.626399
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626399

>mo money mo problems: have over 50 books unread that you've purchased

>> No.626407
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>Religious Zealotry
>Scholar's Shelf
>A hole in one
>The Undistracted
>Speed Reader
>again and again
>Love is my Craft
>Never Doing That Again
>Bookworm
>How Do You Turn This Thing On
>FUCKING BORDERS!
>The Kindred Spirit
>Double Down

Awww yeah!

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626408

>The Hipster: Read the books /lit/ talks about

Going to sleep now..if someone would collect the latest achievements into a new textfile/pastebin it would be pretty sweet.

>> No.626410

/b/tard - Read Lolita, American Psycho, 120 Days of Sodom. Fap to all three.

Linguist - Read Kafka in German, Dostoyevski in Russian, Les Miserables in French

Sadist - Read Finnegans Wake, with no spark notes or any such analysis

>> No.626445

Is This Real Life?: Read only non-fiction for one year.

>> No.626456

Just Want to Fit In: consciously hold your books with the title facing inward as you walk.

Check Me Out: Consciously hold you books with the title facing outward as you walk.

>> No.626473

Small Steps
The Talker
Classic SyFy:
The Hivemind:
The Evangelist
A hole in one
Blast from the Past
The Horrorshow chelloveck/devotchka
Never Doing That Again:
A Hitchhiker through and through.
Reading Pals
5 Under 35:
FUCKING BORDERS!:
Garage Sailor:
Turned my life around
The Kindred Spirit
The Undistracted
Mile-Wide Attention Span
The Assumption
again and again
Osmosis:
The Serial Killer
Is This Real Life?


More than I thought I'd have

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626513

> The Sniffer-

> Osmosis:

> Again and Again:

> Garage Sailor:

> The Distracted:

> Fucking Borders!:

> Speed Reader:

> Check Me Out:

>> No.626522

>>626445
Or is this just fantasy: Read The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings / The Silmarillion all by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, Anansi Boys / American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.

>> No.626529

Timeline Traveller: Read the Silmarillion, the Hobbit and then the Lord of the Rings trilogy in order.

>> No.626568

What the Fuck am I Reading?: Read a choose your own adventure book like a normal book

>> No.626569

Well, it's been fun. Looking forward to seeing these in one list.

>> No.626575

>>626568
That is hilariously difficult (but not impossible) to follow. I did it once.

>> No.626669

certified il/lit/erate: don't read books, too busy reading /lit/.
Justin Bieber: Never read a work of fiction or nonfiction originally written in German. see below for sauce.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKqihEUmH4&feature=player_embedded

>> No.626696

Humbert is a Monster: Do not smirk at any joke or word-play in Lolita

>> No.626718

Screw Biology, I have Literature: As a child, you frequently read well after bedtime, in the dark.

American Education: You got in trouble in school for reading too much.

Done both.

>> No.626728

Too Deep for You: Attempt to discuss deeper meanings of books with others

ADMIT IT, YOU'VE DONE THIS

>> No.626731

>>626669
I will kill this child.

>> No.626788

>>626731
Get in line. I raged.

>> No.626901

Have You Heard?: Read and discuss a widely known book without knowing it is widely known.

>> No.626908

That's it?: Read an abridged book without realizing it is abridged.

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>>626788
Deutch Rage!

>> No.626914

>>625530
HttP://@+.Kimm0à.se/

>> No.626928

>>626908
I've done that before. I was a kid at the time, though, so.

>> No.626933

The Completionist: Read the intro to books.

>> No.626937

>>626933
Always.

>> No.626938

Fukken Saved!

>> No.626952

>>625531
H t t p : / / A T . k i m m

>> No.626954

>>626933
The Purist: Never buy or read books which have any sort of notation or introduction to them.

>> No.626958

>>625533
ht T p : / / @T . K

>> No.626960

Tactile defensive: can only read paper books.

>> No.626961

The Self-Sacrifice: You wear glasses because of a lifetime of reading in the dark.

>> No.626964

Spread the Word: Leave passionate opinions penciled into the margins of your books.

>> No.626966

Every Square Inch: any blank pages in your books are filled with notes about said books. Weather they were explicitly put there for notes or not. Silver level unlocked if this continues to the dedication and title pages, gold level if you added more blank paper for the purpose.

>> No.626977

Psychic Education: You've been able to be lazy during significant portions of English or Lit classes because you've read the book before, at least twice.

>> No.626981

>>626977
That is, "this has happened twice", not "you've read the book at least twice."

>> No.626984

>>625533
H t T p : / /

>> No.627027

In it for the long run (/lit/): 5 hour long thread.

>> No.627034

The Absorbed: Read a book while walking and run into something.

The Library of Babel: You've bought a book in a foreign language, even though you can't read it.

I Need Another Shelf: Have so many books that you stack them in piles on the floor.

Poor Syntax Turns Me Off: You've rejected someone because of their poor literary taste.

>> No.627035

>>627027
My book archive thread lasted six days. Is there another achievement for that?

>> No.627036

>>627034
I lost count of how many times I ran into something because I was reading.

>> No.627038

>>625829
FUCK YOU

Yes, I mad

>> No.627039

>>627038
I'm guessing you unlocked that achievement

>> No.627044

J. Gatsby: Have a room full of books, all unread.

>> No.627048

>>627035
Yeah. Probably. 5 hours is a lot for a former /b/tard where most threads could 404 in under a minute.

>> No.627056

Rosebud was the Sled, Snape Kills Dumbledore, Atlas is Fontaine, the Titanic Sinks: Learn the major plot twists of a book before reading it and still enjoy it immensely.

>> No.627066

Or Was It Just The IRC?: Dream in text.

>> No.627067

>>627056
shorter title.
the cake is a lie: learn the spoilers before reading and still enjoy it.

>> No.627069

The Professor: Read a new article in the Encyclopædia Britannica each day.

>> No.627070

>>627067
There WAS cake, you know.

>> No.627074

I Dream of Fanfiction: Have a dream in the canon of a book you are reading or recently read, that remains faithful to the canon, and does not follow the actual plot of the book.

>> No.627079

>>627056
>>627070

Both of you are unable to think of spoilers without them being videogame spoilers. That's pretty shameful.

>> No.627080

>>625826
Aren't you a bit old for that: Read five 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' books.

Honey, stay away from that man: Read a 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' book in a public area.

>> No.627084

>>627079
Er...what? There's a Titanic videogame?

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>>627079
>Rosebud was the Sled, Snape Kills Dumbledore, the Titanic Sinks
>Video game

>> No.627091

>Atlas is Fontaine
That isn't a reference to Atlas Shrugged?

>> No.627094

>>627084
>>627086

>>No.627056
>Atlas is Fontaine

>>627056
>the cake is a lie
Video games

>> No.627097

>>627091
Bioshock IS a reference to Atlas Shrugged, so kinda.

>> No.627106

>>627079
So this post is more saying, "You made a reference to a video game. That's pretty shameful."

In which case, wow, New Media is Evil much?

>> No.627110

American: read Atlas Shrugged at least twice.

>> No.627111

Wait, what?: You were grounded from books as a kid at least once.

>> No.627137

I hate you, /lit/: Read five books recommended by /lit/ and hate them.

Modern Family: Your library has no books older then 50 years in it.

Archaeologist: Read a book from before 1 A.D

>> No.627141

Starstruck: Get one of your books personally signed by the author

>> No.627147

Rehab: Read a classical book recommended from /lit/ that you though you'd hate, and love it.

Go to bed, Jimmy: Finish a novel at 3 A.M after reading all night.

Well, it's nice to see you again: Borrow a book from the library and return it the next.

I hope no one notices this: Spill a drink on a book you borrowed and return it without mentioning anything.

>> No.627155

>>627141
Does a 1 in a 1000 25th anniversary edition of The Silmarillion with first edition plates, signed by Christopher Tolkein count?

>> No.627162

Speeding Ticket: Read War & Peace in less than a month.

Seriously? I read 150 books a year, and I finished War and Peace in under a week.

>> No.627166

Sleepreading: fall asleep while reading a book

>> No.627167

>>627147
That Motherfucker: Have a friend return a book to you that is stained.

>> No.627169

>>627079

Why? You one of those people who think that Video Games are not art? You know, film used to not be considered art, in its early days.

>> No.627174

>>627169

There are no video games that are art

>> No.627177

>>627162
Well Whoop-de-doo-da-doo: Tell someone that you read a new book every three days.

You Should Lay Off The Caffeine: Read through a book, then realize you know nothing of the plot.

Ok, you know what? Fuck this: Read ten pages into a book then put it down.

>> No.627180

>>627174
mario paint, okami, any game with an original plot.

>> No.627181

>>627174
Opinion=Opinion
You clearly did not play Braid.

>> No.627183

Mai Waifu: Become infatuated with a character from a book you're reading.

Nothing Great is Accomplished Without Passion: Read the complete works of G. W. F. Hegel.

>> No.627190

The Aliens Are Invading: Read 'War of the Worlds' without putting it down.

Welcome To 10th Grade English: Post a poem on /lit/.

>> No.627205

>>627155
Nope but that still is pretty awesome!

>> No.627214

How very droll: Read more than ten books by P.G. Wodehouse.

>> No.627231

>>627174

That's like saying there is no literature that is art. There's really no fucking difference. Video games have parameters and modes of expression unique to the form like literature and film and architecture. And just like those other artforms, there are artists working in the medium pushing boundaries and experimenting with technique and possibilities within the medium.

>> No.627232

No One Must Know My Terrible Secret: Publicly claim to like literary fiction, classics, and philosophy, but read trashy pulp at home when nobody else is around.

>> No.627233

The kid in you: Read a book/short story that your parents used to read to you before they tucked you in for bed.

>> No.627237

>>627232
Well I mean this is just a given...come on, that's like the 5 points acheivement...

>> No.627238

Sackett Clan Member: Own and read every Louis L'amour novel and short story collection

Warlord of Mars: Own and read every book in the Mars series by Burroughs, editions no later than 1960

Kingophile: Own and read every Stephen King novel and story collection

A galaxy far far away: Read every book in the Star Wars expanded universe

Pessimist: Read every Vonnegut story

>> No.627239

You're doing it wrong: Watch a movie based on a book before reading the book itself.

>> No.627240

>>627174

Art is pretty much anything that is created for no practical reason as far as I am concerned.

>> No.627244

I'm Not Talking To You Anymore: You own a copy of Lolita.. stashed underneath your bed

>> No.627247

Biblio-caravan: When packing for a trip, a book is packed for each day, weather you seriously intend to get through a book a day or not. It's a just-in-case thing.

>> No.627250

Between the lines: convince at least 3 people of a ridiculous subtext in a popular novel.

>> No.627252

>>627232

I wish I could be like that. I always wanted to read a Stephen King book just for pure entertainment or something, but then I think I could be reading something important instead. I don't consider "literature" to be a chore though. If they are highly acclaimed, they should at least be fun to read from a technical standpoint.

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>>627247
>weather

>> No.627264

>>627239
Ha! good one. Continuing that:

Exceptional: Watch a movie about a book before reading the book, but find the movie to be better (think Jurassic Park or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

>> No.627284

>>627264
>hitchhikers movie
>better then book
no. Just.. no.

>> No.627285

Zymurgist: Read at least five books about brewing beer

>> No.627289

>>627264

>Exceptional: Watch a movie about a book before reading the book, but find the movie to be better (think Jurassic Park or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

>but find the movie to be better (think ... Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

8/10, almost had me

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>>627264
>but find the movie to be better
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

>> No.627296

Marathon Reader: Read 2600 pages in one week.

>> No.627312

Done all these:

The Grand: Finish a book that is over 1000 pages long.
The Collector: Have at least 5 books in your library that are over 200 years old.
An Apple a Week..: Read 52 books in a single calendar year.
Zealot: Read the entire oeuvre of an author who has published more than three novels.
Under the Bell Jar: Read five books written by female authors.
Austenite: Read at least three Jane Austens and realize by the end of the third that they're all the same book.
Classic SyFy: Read at least one science fiction book by the following authors: Verne, Wells, Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Bradbury, Le Guin, and Vonnegut.
From Russia With Love: Read one by each of by the following: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Ivanov, Lermontov Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn,
MANLY MOTHERFUCKER: Read the following: The Red Badge of Courage, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, The Call of the Wild, The Iliad and the Odyssey, The Road, Hamlet, and any three books by Hemmingway.
A hole in one: Read a complete book of length more than 300 pages in one sitting. (yes pee/coffee breaks are ok)
Love is my Craft- Read the Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
Eldritch horror: Read 20 stories based on the Cthulhu mythos.
Sagging Gambrel Roofs: Read 40 stories based on the Cthulhu mythos.
I am Providence: Read the entire works of H.P. Lovecraft
Bookworm: Have over twenty images of books, libraries, bookshelves, etc. saved to your harddrive.
5 Under 35: Read five books written in the last ten years.
Over9000: Own more than 500 books. (when I was a kid)
Garage Sailor: Obtain a used book for <10% of what it would have cost at a chain book store.
The Undistracted: Continue reading a book while going to the bathroom.

>> No.627315

>>627312
And these:

The Dedicated: Continue reading a book while using a urinal.
Mile-Wide Attention Span: Successfully read two different books at the same time.
Grand And A Half: Read a work that is 1500 pages or longer.
The Distracted: Have at least 15 books in your to-read list.
How Do You Turn This Thing On: Read at least 30 ebooks.
What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: Read 7 works by Tom Clancy
The Assumption: Hate a book you've never attempted to read.
again and again: read a book until you know the plot by heart.
Speed Reader: Read an entire book in one day.
Double Down: Read two different books in one day.
Osmosis: For whatever reason, sleep with a book under your pillow once.
Timeline Traveller: Read the Silmarillion, the Hobbit and then the Lord of the Rings trilogy in order.
Humbert is a Monster: Do not smirk at any joke or word-play in Lolita
Screw Biology, I have Literature: As a child, you frequently read well after bedtime, in the dark.
The Absorbed: Read a book while walking and run into something.
I Need Another Shelf: Have so many books that you stack them in piles on the floor.
Archaeologist: Read a book from before 1 A.D
Sleepreading: fall asleep while reading a book
Ok, you know what? Fuck this: Read ten pages into a book then put it down.
How very droll: Read more than ten books by P.G. Wodehouse.
You're doing it wrong: Watch a movie based on a book before reading the book itself.
Biblio-caravan: When packing for a trip, a book is packed for each day, weather you seriously intend to get through a book a day or not. It's a just-in-case thing.
Marathon Reader: Read 2600 pages in one week.

And I helped someone else achieve "Never Doing That Again: Lend a book. The borrower never returns it."

>> No.627342

This is one of the longest threads I've ever been in. I've had fun. Cant wait for the actual achievements to be posted. I'm going to read a bit in the Stranger and go to bed. Keep burning the night oil (there's an achievement for it).

>> No.627415

Full-Time Job: Work in either a bookstore or library, use this time to peruse the shelves in case anything catches your eye.

Just One More Page: Put off romantic relations in favour of finishing the page/chapter that you're reading.

I have both, not so proud of that last one.

>> No.627441

The Grand
Speeding Ticket
An Apple a Week
Fanatic
Under the Bell Jar
Small Steps
From Russia With Love
Weeaboo
Latino Lit
Never Doing That Again
Bookworm
The Undistracted
The Assumption
Speed Reader
Double Down
The Monocle And Top Hat

>> No.627499

Special Snowflake: The Catcher in the Rye is/was your favourite book ever at some point in your life.

>> No.627509

True believer: Read a book about a paranormal subject.

Do the impossible, see the invisible: Read a theoritical science book.

Oh mein führer!: Read Mein Kampf.

Haters gonna hate: Read a controversial book in a public place.

Haters gonna hate (Expert mode): Read lolita in a public place.

>> No.627517

Haters gonna hate (God mode): Read lolita next to a playground.

>> No.627531

>>627509
I should really learn how to spell

>> No.627564

>>627517
Does reading it while playing with small children count? Or near an elementary school?

>> No.627578

>>Does reading it while playing with small children count
Pedobear mode.

>> No.627589

>>627578
I should've seen that coming.

>> No.627687

>>627578
only counts if you're reading it out loud.

>> No.628363

>>627509
>>627517
Normal, expert and godmode achieved.
Could someone update the pastebin file?
I'd to it, but I'm off to class in a few minutes (may be able to do it when I get back, though).

>> No.628399

Every mention of Lolita of this thread has been uneducated except for the one about witty word play.

>> No.628406

Desperate Times: Lay on alternating sides as you read alternating pages because you're too sleepy to sit up.

>> No.628408

Where is the paste bin for this? I'd like to find out which ones I've achieved.

>> No.628449

The Time Traveler: read five different books on the same topic from five different eras.

>> No.628451

Just In Case: Bring a book to a social event where it would be totally inappropriate to be reading.

>> No.628455

Sneak Peek: Read the last page of a book before you start it.

>> No.628461

That Part Wasn't Important: Read an entire fiction novel without memorizing the main character's name.

Let's Try This Again: Read the same page three times before understanding in a single word.

Where Was I?: Daydream reading while continuing to move your eyes and turn the pages.

>> No.628554

Just making sure this doesn't die..

>> No.628562

Shit, bump limit.

It's over here http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=625534 if anyone wants to compile the remaining achievements into a text file..