/lit/ - Literature

Did you retain any of it? Do you have anything interesting to say about any of those books besides basic summaries?

Fuck you

>>15923081
>Penguin Translations of Dostoevsky
It doesn't count unless it's Constance Garnett

>>15923081
No you didn't you fat shit

>>15923193
Garnett is literally google translate tier. P&V is the best.

man you must be a fucking loser lol

>>15923184
Yes I think I took it in and didn’t just speed read. I had a lot of time and read fast

>>15923232
Yes

>>15923195
I did I swear to God

>>15923081
How many pages a day? How many books do you read simultaneously?

>>15923081
>he hadn't read such a huge part of the Western Canon until one month ago

>>15923212
>look at me - I'm a teen edgelord!

Cool story bro.

Read this, queer.

>>15923286
Like 150 - 250
I read like 12-3 then 11-12 and 4am to 6 am if I feel devoted

i read that in 2 weeks lol. /lit/ lifestyle is only compatible with being a neet.

>>15923298
I just started reading 2 months ago for the first time in 4 years

>>15923343

>>15923343
nice dick bro but that hand is too femenino. try to lift more

>>15923365
Disgusting

>>15923421
Why?

>>15923343
nice cock bro

>>15923081
Nice bro I’ve read quite a bit this month as well. What Dostoy novel did you like the most out of those?

>>15923193
what about eva martin translations?

How can I read this much without fatiguing?
I can read just 20 pages a day.

>>15923472
Brothers or crime and punishment. Also the double was much better then I had expected

>>15923262
So what do you have to say that's interesting about one of those books?

>>15923644
You obviously don't enjoy what you're reading. Either that or you're a coombrain

the only thing goofier than bragging about your scalp count is the people who get mad about it

>>15923644
Do what works for you. If you read 50 pages just to read then you won't retain anything.

>>15923377
thank you so much I needed this laugh

>>15923081
>95% fiction
You think this is impressive? Did you at least take notes?

>>15923081
congrats, this is impressive
I find it so difficult to concentrate on stuff these days; well done for maintaining focus
hope you took something away from the experience
which did you enjoy the most?

this thread is fuckin litty bro

>>15923677
Nothing.

>>15923081
>Plato's Republic
I have a question about my copy of this book. My copy has been translated by Henry Davis, M.A. I started reading it expecting to be reading Plato's writings, but instead i ended up reading 5 or 6 pages of the Translator's thoughts and opinions on Plato and his works. Is this every translation, or did i buy a retarded version?

>>15924099
The Jowett version has nothing like that at all. It only includes some notes in the end explaining the meaning of ancient terms.

>>15923280
I believe you. Once when I was out of work for a month I read a book a day. Having said that none of the books I read were over about 350 pages and me reading 350 pages when I get into it is only about 5-6 hours. So if I'm up for 16 hours a day with nothing else to do, that's lots of time.

>>15924129
thanks. i might of picked out the wrong version. First Greek philosopher i bought, so i didn't know what i was looking for at the time

>>15923212
Both suck ass. Garnett translation is ancient and outdated.

>>15923081
Doubt it.

>>15923193
>>15923212
>>15924179
what translation of C&P and TBK are the best???

>>15925292
McDuff is quite nice

>>15925292
There are comparisons across translations online. I've read both Garnett and P&V's translations of his works, the latter I enjoyed better. Garnett's translations are a bit stiff imo. t. ESL

>>15923081
Yeah, I, too, remember living with my parents and not having to work.

>>15923677
It's just as silly to read books so as to 'have something interesting to say about them'.

>>15923212
P&V is literally taking the google translation then change the text into readable prose with no knowledge of Russian.

>>15923081
Is this something you’ve done often ? Like 6 months from now how much will you actually be able to retain?

And secondly are you anywhere on the autism/Aspergers spectrum ?

>>15925292
Constance Garnett, because she actually understands the meaning of the text, instead of merely translating the words.

>>15923212
P&V is meme trash people fell for five years ago

But how many anime did you watch last month?

the spine never looks that pristine after i read a penguin classic

>>15923081
Threads like this are embarassing. Validation seeking mong

>>15925995
>Five years
One thing that's always stuck with me is P&V being memed as the go to translation ever since the beginnings of /lit/, same as Kafka translated by the Muirs. Not sure which one is better because I didn't read them in English.

>>15925957
>actually understands the meaning of the text, instead of merely translating the words

>>15923298
better late than never anon

>>15923081
Most of it is fiction, doesn't count.

>>15923081
>what I've retained

>it's all in translation

lol

>>15927008
Literary fiction isn't the same as genre fiction.

>>15923347
It would have had to be more than 250 a day by my calculations. That would be 7500 pages. W&P, BK, C&P, Notes and the Idiot add up to more than 5000. 6000 if you add Dead Souls, Mishima, Prince and Rousseau. 7000 with Plato, The Trial, The Castle and Metamorphosis. In any case, what I find more unbelievable is that someone who reads so much will have never read so many of the most famous books ever published. I suppose you could have been re-reading, but still. This certainly isn't impossible though.

what I read in a month

>>15923081

guys, i couldnt finish brothers karamazov when i started it. i tapped out when they were in the bar/cafe and one of the brothers just goes on and one with this one story. i dont even remember what he was talking about i just remember it being so dense. do i just read and re-read it until it sticks or what?

>>15927187
>Gorgias
based

>>15923081
>oh god I need to finish this book asap in order to start the next one

>>15923081
and? you want to flex on an anonymous board?
retard

>>15925794
If you read some of the greatest novels ever written and didn't have a single thought you would like to share or talk about from reading them you might as well go back to fapping to your cousins pics on facebook which is clearly what you were doing before you started trolling /lit/
All you losers are shit

How much did you read every day? I've been a lifeguard for 18 days now, reading around 5-6 hours each day. So far, I've finished 6 and a half books, most of them middle-sized.

So I doubt that I will reach this much of finished books before I reach a month of this new habit I've acquired. That's why I ask.

>>15927187
Im almost done reading everything gogol ever wrote, hes so good I wish he was one of those authors who produced a shitload of writing or at the very least finished the dead souls project

>>15923081
You wasted a month

>>15927271
op is most likely a bored neet.

>>15927187
All meme tier excepting Plato and Melville

Beware those who are always reading books

>>15925292
I read Oliver Ready's 2014 translation and thought it was quite good.

>>15923081
>literally all translations

Oh, Lord.

>>15923193
Garnett is the worst translator

>>15923081
you are pretty slow, op. i finished them in 15 days.

>>15927076
so 7.5h of reading, then?

what I read in a month

>>15929155
That's my afternoon reading

>>15923081
Loser reading books, I fuck 10 girls every month.

>>15923081
Based

>>15923081
We read Dostoyevsky and Kafka in school. Like in 10th grade man. Well power to you to trying to catch up with anons.

>>15923298
Imagine

>>15929283
Empty pleasure. You're a slave to desire.

all these comments got me wondering if I've been reading wrong translations the whole time... how would americans/brits know the difference anyway?

>>15923081
>a month
Too bad it all went over your head.

That's great. Keep it up, man. I'm proud of you.

I wanted to start to read books,
I started with A study in Scarlet, yesterday I read a hundred pages, but today I cannot focus to read it to the end, because its too boring for me.

What can I do? Should I force myself to end this book? Or I should move to another book if I lost interest? Guys how often do you not ending book?

How much are you supposed to retain from a book? How much commentary do you have to add? What is the metric for having "read" a book?

>>15923081
>hadn't read any of those essential books previously
>plows through because he prefers the value of saying he read something over actually understanding it
pseud detected

''I read X amount of books in a month! More than you, thus I am better than you. Please, somebody, give me attention''

You didn't comprehend one letter in that entire stack. Reading is supposed to be a mind broadening activity. Something that you sit down for and pay attention to. You have to experience what is being told, not scan over it. To make such a delicate and care-worthy concept into some sort of competition or 'MUH GAINZ' crap is steadfast proof of being an untermensch. Faggot.

>>15923081
>Republic
>1984
>Social contract
>The prince

Please tell me about how well read you are, and what great taste you have too

>>15929155
Thank you Mr. Borges, very cool.

>>15925292
I'm gonna tell you right now, Anon: nobody here really speaks Russian, and if they say they prefer a translation, it's because they bought/read that one and don't want to feel like it was a waste. Ask anyone "what makes it good?" and you'll get radio silence. It's worth noting though, that Garnett has been criticized for a while for editing certain things about the text to line up closer with Western sensibilities.

>>15929312
Imagine being this childish.

“I reAD DoStOyeVskY is HiGhSchOoL lOl iM LeAgueS ahEAd OfYou CAcH uP ANoN”

How myopic does your world view have to be to permit yourself to say something that stupid.