/lit/ - Literature

>>10500054

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/66601812-alephwyr

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57922091-william

>>10500056
>harry potter
I'm hoping this is just an old good reads account that you made when you were a kid

>>10500068

There's nothing wrong with including books you've read in an account for keeping track of books you've read.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14141270.John_von_Dorf

:(

>>10500054
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/75297518-zachary-mccrea

>>10500068
pseud

>>10500068
>>10500140
>being this lonely
did you post your goodreads? then kindly fuck off

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16651419-steamboat

add me people!

here we go https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29410942-alex

>>10500183
Ah, The Talos Principle.

Pretty good game.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72829839-sean

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/10779539-eric

Geez all you guys have only read 10-20 books each

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/66253492-vivec

>>10500224
I'm at 56. Here you go.

Mathematics, Economics, Philosophy, and Theology.

As regards Philosophy, I am primarily concerned with theological works and political science.

My profile is pretty hit or miss, though I did read some popular fiction works, I don't anymore. I read exclusively non-fiction.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27498265-tyler

>furry blogs
>self published dreck
>YA fiction

>>10500246
What is this graph, can i find it online?

>>10500064
>average of 2 two star ratings
>the driest taste possible
JOYLESS

>>10500264
It's On Conic Sections by Apollonius.

It's a pretty fun logical exercise I do daily. I'm on book III, there are eight books in general.

I guess I went the ol' route of "Euclid's Elements" and had a blast so I wanted more. So that's where I am.

I still read books with words in it though.

But to answer your question, no I don't think it's online anywhere for free like The Elements are.

>>10500276
https://archive.org/details/treatiseonconics00apolrich

I think i found it, thank you.

>>10500304
>https://archive.org/details/treatiseonconics00apolrich
Psh. That's T.L. Heath.

I guess if you want a bastardized version of On Conics that's fine. I am reading Taliaferro's translation.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16169031.George_Billions

I mostly read various flavors of pulp: crime, horror and weird fiction. I've fallen down the rabbit hole of indie stuff on Kindle.

>>10500054
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/73796008-mattatja

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/67783745-niklas-tidelius

>>10500356
How are you finding reading War and Peace in German? (or are you reading it in English?)

>>10500312
Not the guy you're replying to, but taliferro's translation is flawed. There are quite a few mistakes in it. adler is a somewhat good writer but as an editor he's not good at all.
btw your profile indicates you're reading heath(?)

>>10500407
Am reading the most recent german trans by Barbara Conrad, it's good has lots of annotations, french is in footnotes, 1-2 times I felt some dialogue was kinda clumsy, but I guess that not avoidable when u translate ~2k pages, haven't read another trans to compare obv, but all in all I'd say it's really really fucking smooth, I can read like 150 pages a day without a problem

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/61520406-naurathel

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27579248-lorenzo

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51635060-niko

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34219103-zigmas

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/75843227-chromosome-dodger

Created my account on Tuesday so i could keep better track of the book challenge

>>10500683
>>>/pol/

>>10500683
>hasn't read Mein Kampf
0/10. You're a terrible /pol/tard.

>>10500683
>https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/75843227-chromosome-dodger

>this is the average /lit/ poster in 2018

>>10500683
this guy fucks

>>10500755
/lit/ has gone downhill fast since the /pol/tards showed up.
Non-stop "is X a meme?", theology threads, and /pol/ threads with nothing but stale memes...

>>10500723
>>10500728
>>10500755
>>10500759
>>10500773

>>10500723
I'm no /pol/tard but this image is fake

>>10500846
It's accurate

>>10500516
Yeah that picture above is my edits of Taliaferro's translation.

Let me tell you what I don't like about T.L. Heath's version: they are all one big list of propositions. Instead of separating everything by book, T.L. Heath has hundreds of propositions and some of them have been altered or changed because he thought it would be easier to explain or something.

Basically it's not the original. I've seen Heath's version. Didn't like.

I changed my profile now. I have Taliaferro's translation for the first three books and Fried's translation for the fourth.

I read Euclid and Archimedes with Heath's translation because there were no real other options.

never got to post this image. don't even know if it will be readable

https://www.goodreads.com/g_euclides

also, did the 2018 challenge already showed up for you guys? I can't find it anywhere to make my new goal

>>10500886
you can do it on your profile or on the homepage

>>10500952
got it, thanks

>>10500683
Read Animal Farm and Brave New World, you pleb. Lay off the self-help books.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54260515

Isn't there some kind of group people could join instead of sharing profiles? I don't like interacting with people one on one.

>>10502108
No.

>>10500064
Billy boy

>>10502186

https://www.goodreads.com/magister_ludi
>Joao Guimaraes Rosa
nice. have you read Os Sertões?

>>10502186

>>10502212
oops, meant to quote >>10500886

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/47618805-sheepo

>>10501899
I was about to add you but then I read your reviews

>>10500064
Why did you only read the first and sixth volume of humes history?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/24891808-doug

>So many faggots joining in on a shiteating goodreads thread

Back in my day we used to hang goodread faggots by their dicks on /lit/, boy how things have changed.

>>10502375
Nobody cares, shriveldick. /lit/ is under new managemeant

>>10502354
>The History of England, 6 Vols
not sure where you're getting that. I read all six

>>10502375
Why do you care?

I tried just adding people in the thread but only got so far before it said I hit the daily limit of adding people, so here's a link to mine for anyone I didn't get to ad.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23652313-tim

>>10502375
We've been having this kind of thread for a while now. Also there's nothing wrong with gr per se.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/71372085-allison

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74428631-matheus-lima

Also, do you guys have friends in real life who like to read and discuss literature?

>>10502506
>Also, do you guys have friends
no

>>10502506
I have a pretty decent circle of people who I discuss different kinds of literature with on a one-on-one basis, but I don't like to talk about books in groups because of groupthink tendencies

>>10502420
My mistake I saw the Vol 1 and assumed the other was Vol 6 not 6 Vols.

>>10502506
I thought I did until I discovered they were a psued who was using wikipedia and cliff/spark notes to get into my pants.

>>10502584
Classic

>>10502342
I almost never write reviews, and if I do, they're mostly jokes. What stopped you?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/53661244-the-dude

I'm Pseud

>>10502470
Allison, I'm lost.

>>10502634
In the funhouse? Or my eyes?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/31544336-a

friends pl0x

>>10502634
Or do you want me to tell you I'm just fine?

>>10502435
Degradation of individuals becomes the degradation of communities which becomes degradation of society.

Don't worry I am jumping from this sinking ship.

>>10502375
You're just pointing out a couple of bad accounts out of the entire website, just don't friend/follow those people if they annoy you.
I've been here since 08 and we have always had the same kind of thread as this one and there has always been a few spergs like you raging about it.
Nothing new.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/49277198-jaquo

Just realised how much time I spend reading on painting than actually painting.

>>10500054
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/42809878-christian-ave-lallemant

>>10502711
>He says this while posting on Italian pizzamaking forum

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46557497-abbe-sieyes

>>10501551
Thanks for the advice

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/75862641-solomon-grundle

>>10500683
If this is a joke, well fucking done.

If this is unironically who you are, God help you.

>>10500160
your profile picture isn't funny

>>10503016
but it's fuckable boipussy

>>10500383
>gave 3 stars to dorian grey

true chump

>>10502212
>>10502216
yes, its also on the image I posted. I really liked it, one of my favorites for sure, Euclides can talk about brazilian geography, history, sociology and culture and still be extremely entertaining. And the contrasts he makes between different regions gave me a whole new perspective of what is Sertão and about the north generally

>>10500683
HOLY

>>10500683
this is the sociopathic porn addict starter kit in action.

His life must be a collection of strange encounters leaving the person feeling like they need to go fuck someone else immediately

>>10500759
>the way of men By Jack Donovan

Fucks dudes apparently

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

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6261192-bbrown

>>10502906
>>10500683
don't read animal farm or brave new world

read Harold Bloom's Prologue to "How to Read and Why" (you can read it for free on it's amazon preview)

then read good canonical works:

The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE)
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Proverbs
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1914, 1922, 1939)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68123481-aur-lienc

https://www.goodreads.com/christophalus

Why don't they allow for half stars?

>>10504295
i wish they gave thumbs up thumbs down.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57115665-kyoukek

Sure are a lot of new friends on /lit/ "recently"

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51940724-miguel

>>10500054
Time to add a bunch of people:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21146342-j-name

>>10502795
>lefty that's into art
cool
>in the alt-right group
explain

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/75799600-hudsonab

I have no lit friends

>>10502795
Great taste in paintings regardless. I've never studied art at any great length and have always felt strangely drawn to Sorolla's paintings at a young age than any I have or since

Okay now I have friends. What do I do?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7656933-bill

>>10504556
read and then write thoughtfully about what you're reading about and pick up names of what other people are reading that you might be into and if you're feeling social reach out to someone about a topic

>>10500054
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/76157685-matheus-martins

>>10500056
I dropped Steppenwolf 20% in. Do you still want to be friends? also
>59

>>10500097
>https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14141270.John_von_Dorf
kek. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28674405-my-diary-desu

>>10504621
is this a new account?

>>10504556
if you were not desperate and actually picked people who have same tastes as you than you can enjoy the books they have listed

>>10504471
What did you think of the The Monk? I see 3 stars but no review

>>10504333
get off your ass and read or stop adding books to the "to read" list. I can't respect people whos list is 90% "to read" backlog.

>>10504295
>>10504303
I wish it had 3 options .good, bad and meh. half stars are like 10 star ratings, just more subjectivity. There are books that are often high 2 star or low 2 star but clarification is what reviews are for

>Joined in January 2018
so many troll and joke accounts. I actually want some friends desu

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/73162861-toby

Just started.

>>10504701
just trying to be the next great internet author, don't mind me

Reminder to join the /lit/ Goodreads group if y'all are interested. It is long dead and is occasionally revived for a few days in threads like this.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/67886-lit

>>10504782
I want friends from lit but I don't want to be associated with lit

>>10504715
It was interesting, very different from what I consider "normal' English lit. I'd recommend it

side note: Why is the movie poster used as a book cover ? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34066636-murder-on-the-orient-express

>>10500068
stfu mudblood

Anyone here from Perth Western Australia

>>10504679

I had 200 books listed but I deleted my original goodreads and all its reviews in a fit of psychosis/terror and now I don't remember what I read, plus I decided not to list my occult readings

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/36847808-wilhelm

R8 and h8, my dudes.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7002468-carlos-eduardo

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23457888-kastel

>>10500683

>>10504705
Yeah, I've made it today just because of this thread(not kidding).

Im on my cell and have no idea how to post my user from here. The name is joaco, ive sent requests to most so feel free to add me if I missed anyone

>>10502212
fuck off Sean

>>10506077
just copy the url duderino

>have most people added already from the few years of these threads
>everyone else I have no reason to add because they have sub-100 books and don't write reviews
I'm not feeling it these days guys.

>>10504821
Because that edition uses a movie poster cover. Pick a different edition.

Unsurprisingly none of you goys have photos up of yourselves. I wanted to see how ugly /lit/ is.

>>10506302
I find the ones who don't review every single book and who haven't read 500+ books more insightful. Joaco guy would be an example or that.
Bbrown would be an exception.
I have very few people though (like it that way), I'm sure there are others worth adding itt.
Even the ones who have read fewer than 50 can be very insightful. And the ones who don't write reviews can be useful at giving ideas what to read as well.

I'm not sure if it's exactly wise to only add /lit/ people btw

>>10506356
I mean zero reviews, absolutely none. The people I've added are the most meaningful when I look up a book and see a bunch of ratings from friends whose taste I know and understand. If someone has rated 30 books and most of them are American Psycho, Harry Potter, 1984, Ray Bradbury, etc. then it'll only serve to pad out my friends list and I don't really care for friend collecting. If on top of that they don't even write about books I'll probably never know they exist. Just venting some honest frustrations here, I understand some people are starting to read and I encourage them to keep it up, but they just don't gel with what I'm on Goodreads for.

>>10506420
maybe they fear being mocked on /lit/ if they write something that could be regarded as pretentious by the /lit/ community. you can always comment on their rating to get their opinion.
I have one girl who never writes reviews so i gave her a recommendation last year. She was silent for months, but then one day messaged me out of the blue and now she keeps talking to me about books. People can be weird (not the best word) or they just lack the time to write reviews.

>>10506302
Maybe you should off yourself.

>>10506518
there is no reason to be mean, anon.

>>10506420

I'm one of those people that never really talks or writes reviews. I have a hard time talking and being sociable on any sort of website where you have to have a name. When you have a history attached to your name people you don't have the freedom to change your opinions on the spot or say what you really think. Everything has to be sugarcoated, just like in real life. It makes everything they say feel fake so I quickly lose interest in interacting them. It's the difference between 4chan and Reddit.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/45642444-m

>>10500683
At least read good /pol/ tier books like For My Legionaries and The Outlaws.

what are you doing my man

>>10506582
there is hardly anything more that being pseudonymous brings aside from consistent interaction. not to mention you put too much stock into what people think of you. start writing a little bit about what you read and I guarantee your readings of books will improve. in my experience nobody engages a lot on each others reviews but it's at least there as a feedback resource which is more valuable than it is intimidating. the important thing to note is you're adding /lit/ people, we're peers, everyone is more or less on the same page even if individual opinions vary.

Sup lads no way I'll add everyone who posted itt like we used to do so be nice
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3072559-bernardo-mozelli

>>10506582
>>10506751
I'm not following your talk but I don't post reviews because people who speak my language and frequent goodreads are usually YA / momcore readers and I'm not secure enough in my english to articulate more complex thoughts and impressions about the work. Anytime I try it ends up either too personal or too vague / simplistic, and any attempts to dig further into the analysis end up very weird sounding.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/45553370-hoodwinkoholic

Please?

>>10506751

I would be lying if I said I didn't care at all what people thought of me but I don't think that's much of a problem. The issue I have is that there's always a certain amount of dishonesty when you're having a discussion on any forum with a name attached to your identity. A good example of what I mean would be when people talk about abortion. On 4chan when somebody says they're pro-choice they have no problem giving you the real reason they're pro-choice. They might say they support abortion because it kills blacks and I absolutely love the honesty because it gives me an opportunity to try and change their minds by arguing against their real reasons for believing the things they do.

If I were to try to have that same conversation with the same person on a website with a semi-permanent identity they would never reveal their true beliefs since they could be shamed and so I could never have a meaningful conversation where I can attempt to change their mind. It would be a pointless exercise and while this example of a conversation about abortion is a little extreme, I think there's a little bit of this attitude and dishonesty in every non-anonymous conversation.

Even if all the people are from /lit/ there's still an added level of dishonesty because everyone is trying to make friends and they want others to like them so they're going to be overly nice to the point of fakeness. When you're in that frame of mind you're not going to be critical or if you see somebody say something dumb you may let it pass.

I don't know, maybe I'm just autistic.

>>10506795
>>10506887
Write reviews for yourself, so that when you remember a book you can look up what you wrote about it. Too sincere thoughts go in the notes field. Reviews don't have to be a complete analysis, just write what you think of it and what you found interesting and why it's worth reading.
English in both posts seems very decent (not sure if both post belong to the same person), so i don't know why you'd be afraid to make grammatical mistakes or those pertaining to incoherence. Keep in mind that practice makes perfect.

>>10506887
>They might say they support abortion because it kills blacks and I absolutely love the honesty
>honesty
How naive are you? This is just shitposting, people are more dishonest on 4chan than anything. and writing a paragraph on homer is a completely separate thing from a debate on eugenics. And besides I think you're just projecting your own insecurities about your own identity. There is no reason to give a fuck. Even the anons who have their real names and photos attached to their goodreads don't seem to have problems expressing themselves.
>>10506795
I guess that's legitimate but I see some anons posting in their native languages and I like to see it when they do even if I only understand broken phrases. Hi hack.

>>10506944
Eh..
*posts
*be afraid that you would make ...

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/60459474-tanner

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/65113799-piotr

>>10500054
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/53578196-jombo

>>10506194
rude

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57217101-a-w

I mostly read philosophy stuff with the rare pleb novel and paranormal or fringe science book once in a while.

who's still here from 2015? 2016?
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/60497947-ethan
>>10504782
revive it

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/73951785-ceasium

It would make me happy if there is another Dutch or German person in the thread here, so we can suggest eachother books in our native language. Sadly very few Dutch works get translated.

>>10506944
>>10506887
>>10506751
>>10506795
>>10506582
>>10506420
>>10506356
>>10506302
HA. GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

>>10503955
just say 'the bible'

>>10504723
Should have picked your percentages better, my to-read list is actually 77%!

https://www.goodreads.com/EenN

decided to remake account each year as i don't like having a bulk of books but like seeing what i read over year

>>10507943
I got you, my dude.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57669508-nothim-portant

goodreads should add half stars t.bh. a lot of times i think 3 stars is too harsh, but 4 stars is too much

>>10508173
Going to make a trip to Amsterdam this easter, any good Dutch lit you think might help me value the city more?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/43892222-matt

>>10504397
>in the alt-right group

Total reactionary a year ago. Bunch of things happened including getting a job and reading Engels' pamphlet. Instant conversion.

>>10504511
Yeah, turn of the century painting was insane. Brush work, palette and subject matter was peak. Its a shame the lineage of works like Monet and Fechin never caught on big. They basically died just a little over the super autistic Academics and we get shit in a can for a century.

>>10509296
No point, the ratings are a complete joke because the site is filled with plebs. I wish there was a less mainstream alternative like there is for other media.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15078502.Mattia_Ravasi

Select me for friendship!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23943987-braden

I've found a lot of cool books from people I've added already from lit. It's been worth it imo.

>>10509360
i wanna samovar like that. so comforting.