/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9457119]

How's your reading challenge going?

[Anonymous No.9457129]

>>9457119
Pretty well. Was aiming for sixty. On pace for 80ish. Good year so far. Hoping to maintain it, but I want to tackle some big books this summer. Might bring the number down a bit. Only 600+ page book I've read this year was The Recognitions.

[Anonymous No.9457141]

>>9457119

Super slow! :-(
Who knows some fun short books so I can inflate my numbers? I've already read all the Hunger Games -- that pesky Peter! -- and am looking for more of the same!

[Anonymous No.9457144]

>>9457141
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.9457146]

>>9457119
>two books behind
Gonna knock out a couple of Shakespeare's tragedies this week.

[Anonymous No.9457147]

>>9457141
Keep at it anon. YOU can do it!!!

[Anonymous No.9457148]

Pretty bad, I've lost my drive to read for the past 2 months and can barely do 50 pages a day, who's to say my 150-200 mark. Still 4 books ahead of schedule though

[Anonymous No.9457163]

[Anonymous No.9457182]

>>9457144

Aw, someone's sad. You must be a little short in the numbers game yourself!

[Anonymous No.9457196]

I'm on 10/15

considering I almost got no time to read due to being a wage slave, I'm happy the way it is going

[Anonymous No.9457231]

>>9457196
This is my list and I live alone and have a full time job where I can't read, you are just making excuses.

[Anonymous No.9457276]

>>9457231
Nice, anon. How'd you like Answer to Job? I read it this year too and loved it. Are you religious?

For me I've read 26/100, so I'm a little behind. Learning Latin 3+ hours a day has put a healthy dent into things. Also half a dozen of mine are really short.

>The Crying of Lot 49
>Walden & Civil Disobedience
>Butcher's Crossing
>Answer to Job
>The Republic*************
>On Interpretation
>The Categories
>The Sound and the Fury**********
>Nicomachean Ethics************
>Poetics
>Philoctetes (re-read)********
>The Girl from Samos
>De Anima
>Oedipus Rex (re-read)
>The Rape of Lucrece
>Antony and Cleopatra
>On the Sublime - Longinus
>The Sorrows of Young Werther*********
>Shakespearean Tragedy - A.C. Bradley******
>Faust: Part 1
>Ulysses (re-read)*****
>The New Bloomsday Book
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Wheelock's Latin
>The Art of Love*****
>Twilight of the Idols

****** favorites

[Anonymous No.9457298]

>>9457231
I'm guessing you don't work in a third world country having to plunge for 10/11 hours a day and having to juggle a relationship as well. But I guess you were just trying to motivate me.

Also, We is a fucking great book, one of the 10 I read

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[Anonymous No.9457335]

>>9457119
22 of my 35 I pledged for the year. Also getting an MBA while working full-time so that hurts my progress a little. Audiobooks help too (inb4 "those don't count")

[Anonymous No.9457341]

8 books ahead of schedule so far. Going for 30, but I'll probably go above that

[Anonymous No.9457386]

I'm sort of behind my schedule, as I've only read 9 books so far. But I'm always much slower in the spring and really pick it up over late summer and into fall/winter. Not sure why, just the way it always goes for me. I typically hit about 50 books and I'll do the same again this year I imagine.

Anyways, so far:

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop
Storm of Steel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Based On a True Story
Butcher’s Crossing
No Country for Old Men
The Tiger : A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Snow Country

[Anonymous No.9457433]

2/15, 3 if you count The Minority Report. Aside from that, I've read A Farewell to Arms and Dr. Bloodmoney.

[Anonymous No.9457454]

40 / 200

Feelsbadman

[Anonymous No.9458351]

Almost on track, but I've cheated a lot, I've read many short books

[Anonymous No.9458358]

0.6

[Anonymous No.9458369]

>>9457298
>having to juggle a relationship
You don't have to do that at all

[Anonymous No.9458377]

3 out of 10 and they aren’t even particularly long or difficult.

The Sound of Waves
In the Miso Soup
Lolita

[Anonymous No.9458378]

10/52 although i will finish another within two days

I read 8 books in January then went and got a full time job like a fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.9458380]

12/?

Reading the 13th atm (pic related). Last year I think I read 42 or something. Perhaps this year I'll read 50. I'm learning Ancient Greek and writing my undergrad thesis, so that might prevent me a little from achieving my goal, but as long as I can read what I want to read I don't care.

[Anonymous No.9458384]

Doing fairly well.

[Anonymous No.9458394]

What challenge? Are you gay? Play vidya if you want a real challenge and high quality entertainment, fucking plebs.

[Anonymous No.9459563]

[Anonymous No.9459914]

54/150
Pretty good.

[Anonymous No.9459993]

>>9457119
A-am I doing good /lit/?

[Anonymous No.9460189]

22/50
reading fat ones each month, so this is good progress.

[Anonymous No.9460256]

>>9458394
please go back to your containment board

[Anonymous No.9460900]

>>9457231
Pale Fire is a masterpiece.

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[Anonymous No.9460981]

>>9460912
U a good boy sean

[Anonymous No.9461051]

I'm meeting my "goal" but not nearly enough of these are actual books, but it's been a busy year for me. I am reading "From Hell" now, and want to get to Ubik and Blindsight when I can.

[Anonymous No.9461186]

I'm getting pretty far behind then where I was at last year. Got caught up on Les Miserables, still have 160 pages to go...

[Anonymous No.9461216]

Am I doing it right?

[Anonymous No.9461260]

>>9461051
>counting short stories
You're only lying to yourself

[Anonymous No.9461270]

I've read only 6, for some reason I don't have any motivation even though I really want to read. Since three days ago I've been back on track (after not reading for over one month), hopefully I'll stay this way. I wish I had more time, but I study Medicine and I'm tired out.

[Anonymous No.9461278]

>>9461260
I usually exceed my goals, but yeah you are correct. I just use to list all the things I've read in a year anyway.

I don't really consider comics or manga as "books" all the time either.

[Anonymous No.9461548]

>>9461051
how's from hell so far? been wanting to read that for a while.

[Anonymous No.9461584]

>>9461548
It is very good. There's a really interesting philosophy about the power of symbols and patterns as what is commonly believed to be Magic and the power of Magic in the book that's very interesting to me. Some really high-octane insanity and gruesome violence inside too. The art is very simple ink drawings, but they get so crude when things get violent that it is difficult to really see what the panels are depicting, and it makes the awful violence even worse.

[Anonymous No.9461640]

This is my first year reading heavily/on good reads so I think I under estimated. Also I read Te-Nehisi Coats for class and it was awful so do not judge me.

[Anonymous No.9461659]

>>9459563
fuck I wish that were me

[Anonymous No.9461700]

>>9461640
Coates is good, stop apologizing and trying so hard to fit in.

[Anonymous No.9461707]

>>9461640
/lit/ is full of fags you don't want to fit in with. I like some of those books you read! Gonna read my first Toni Morrison later this year, how did you like her?

[Anonymous No.9461821]

>>9457141
I want that cute little emoticon face to gag on my dick.

[Anonymous No.9461852]

>>9458380

Hey that looks pretty good, would you recommend it? Also does it have the Nahuatl originals alongside or is it just the Spanish translations?

[Anonymous No.9461860]

>>9457119
I'm like 5 books behind...20 was my goal this year.

[Anonymous No.9462043]

>counting your books
You people are pathetic

[Anonymous No.9462066]

>>9462043
the fuckn scum o the earth!

[Anonymous No.9462095]

>>9457119
>Quantity reading over quality reading

What a shit challenge. I'll just read a bunch of Dr. Seuss books and finish this challenge right now.

[Anonymous No.9462096]

>>9461852
It's a parallel text edition, with the Nahuatl on one side and the Spanish on the other.

It's actually pretty good if you want to learn about Nahuatl poetry and philosophy. León-Portilla is one of the greatest scholars of Aztec culture, and his introduction is well-written and well-researched.

[Anonymous No.9462111]

Wait a minute people sign up to a website to keep track of numbers under 100? lmao

[Anonymous No.9462228]

should probably read more

[Anonymous No.9462246]

>tfw goal of 5 books
I've read 2. Fuck me, my major is hard. At least I'll have more time to read this summer.

[Anonymous No.9462288]

>>9462246
i feel for you freg

[Anonymous No.9462299]

>>9462288
thanks friend, hopefully your goal is going more like you wanted :)

[Anonymous No.9462640]

>>9457119

good reads is for faggots. What do you do first each day, tell the internet "ooh I'm going to read allllll these books, that makes me a clever and interesting person" or take selfies with your "book hauls" and post them to Instagram? You are shallow and an attention seeker.

[Anonymous No.9462674]

>>9457141
an evening of long goodbyes by paul murray what is one of the funniest books i've ever read

[Anonymous No.9463052]

i dont have a job and read all day. second or third year doing this (1/2)

[Anonymous No.9463057]

>>9463052

[Anonymous No.9463262]

>>9461659
I read The Bluest eye years ago and liked it but beloved i really had to force myself to read.

[Anonymous No.9463268]

>>9463262
This response is meant for>>9461707

[Anonymous No.9463280]

who are some good 'minimalist writers'? not sure that's the right term. hemingway, rulfo, williams. not necessarily just the short confident sentences of hemingway, but more like the un-affected, humble way of delivering dope prose. i don't know. any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.9463347]

Stuck into Gulag's Archipelago and SICP (a book about programming).

I had such a good start in January/February. Read 15 books in two months.

[Anonymous No.9463479]

>>9462640
this is exactly what I do in the morning

[Anonymous No.9463530]

>>9463052
why no job man? do you ever get bored of just reading and no other hobbies?

[Anonymous No.9463550]

Currently reading News From the Empire which is quite long and dense, so I am a bit behind.

>>9462640
Not keeping track of aspects of my life leads to idle hands

[Anonymous No.9463554]

>>9463280
Willa Cather

[Anonymous No.9463638]

>>9457119

It's going fine because I don't treat reading like some kind of race

[Anonymous No.9463643]

>>9463530
not yet, but i probably will. have an active social life and all that.

[Anonymous No.9463670]

>>9462640
In my experience the lit folks on Goodreads are all introverted as fuck. We're all just silently motivating each other.

[Anonymous No.9463678]

>>9463280
Have you read Carver?

[Anonymous No.9463681]

>>9457196
You aspire to read 15 books in a year? Are they all War & Peace length, or are you a brainlet?

[Anonymous No.9463692]

>>9461051
>Counting manga

[Anonymous No.9463696]

>>9463692
>counting

[Anonymous No.9463714]

>>9461051
>goodnight punpun
>3 times

Hey, I'm also reading Babylon Revisited! What did you think about it.

[Anonymous No.9463799]

>>9463714
Babylon Revisited was great! I really like the relation between paying money to make things go away or the way you ant them against transacting with someone to win-back their respect or trust, where currency has no value. I hadn't read Fitzgerald since High School and it was so well written and made me want to check out more of his stuff.

[Anonymous No.9463968]

>>9463280
salter