/lit/ - Literature

Well done anon

Congrats bro!

>>17010386
Nice anon. I'm glad you achieved the goal you set yourself! Nice books too. What were your favourites read this year?
This being said I'm noting a severe lack of poetry. Try to get into it sometimes :)

>>17010386
have you get what you've read

>>17010386
Congrats Anon. I read 20 books this year after about 8 years of not reading anything but the internet and magazines. Hope in a few years I too can reach an achievement like yours.

>>17010432
Thanks brew. My top 5 from that list are
1. The Betrothed
2. Jane Eyre
3. Confederacy of Dunces
4. Homage to Catalonia
5. Aristophanes' plays

>>17010386
How did you do it? How many hours a day?

Nice job but I don't see why Carmilla wouldn't go into the classics category

>>17010386
based OP, I'm happy for you

>>17010386
Very impressive anon, well done

>pynchon
>classics

>>17010507
Nice one. I think 20-30 is a reasonable number to read in a year; I don't intend on repeating this experiment. I have 32 unread books in my stack which I plan on having leisurely fun with.

>>17010529
It honestly wasn't difficult at all. I think my cerebral circuits are so addicted to stat-farming in video games, every book I finished I got the same kind of adrenaline boost. That's why I think having a concrete goal and deadline is important, even if it's just one book per month.
This might sound like bullshit, but I really don't feel like I read a lot this year. I waste hours every day online, worked a full-time job, and do most of the cooking/cleaning in my house. Unemployment during lockdown gave me a little boost, but I genuinely had an easy time sticking to 8 books/month.

>>17010536
I'd be more inclined to put it in the Edwardian vampire lolicon category

>>17010478
I think my appreciation/understanding of each individual book was about 95% of what it could have been if I'd lingered over it. I don't think that's too bad.

>>17010386
>be OP
>be afraid to read a proper thick ass book
>REDDIT TOLD ME I GOTTA READ 100!!
Shut the fuck up. Fucking cringe.

>>17010386
You should try and read some longer fiction now. Is there a book here that is more than 500 pages long?

>>17010386
Congratulations, we’re in the same boat. I did the same thing. It’s a good feeling

>>17010628
I read the books I want to read, and length has nothing to do with that. Though I did ensure for every short book I read this year, I balanced it out with a long one. Just to ensure the integrity of the experiment.
My longest book this year was The Betrothed at 700+ pages. Fanshen was also a brick.

>>17010386
thank you for this thread op

>>17010386
Good job fren

>>17010679
>My longest book this year was The Betrothed at 700+ pages
So you read one novel and 99 pamphlets.

Reddit tier

>>17010622
Cope

>>17010386
Good job anon, I only read 45 books this year. Wasted a lot of time that I could have spent on books

>>17010386
Quality over quantity.

>>17010386
anglo moment

>>17010679
>Though I did ensure for every short book I read this year, I balanced it out with a long one
Post average page count coward, also
>Moomin book
Do you actually feel like you have an achieved an intellectual feat or are just looking for people to satisfy your ego here?

Get a job, anon

>>17010978
t. hasn't read the Moomins

>>17010386
unironically happy for you, god job. but don't do it again

>>17010386
>this cover of confederacy of dunces
WHERE

>>17010978
Let’s try to be positive and encouraging now, okay?

>>17011665
it's the new Penguin Essentials edition, but I prefer the original one. also, given the books history no publisher should earn any money from it.

>The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
Incredibly based, cancels out any cringe there may be on this list

>>17010386
small books don't count faggot, try harder

>>17011697
maybe, but I don't read ebooks. I'll try to buy it used.

>>17010386
Great job!

Why are you autists so obsessed with how mich books you read per year

>>17011711
and there's not much cringe
very well, anon

>>17010386
>classics
>fiction
>nonfiction
so classics are netiher fictional nor nonfictional works?

>>17010386
Congrats OP, I'm happy for you. Did you pick the 100 in advance or did you just decide you would do 100 and kept reading till you got that many?

Also, how was Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? I liked Dubliners, will I like this?

>>17012192
They are usually grouped separately at book stores so I can see OPs logic

>>17012082
>Michael chrichton
>not much cringe

>>17012381
Crichton is great

>>17012387
>twister

>>17012399
Okay he's not universally great, but he's a step above other airport fiction authors

>>17010386
Kinda cringe but good on you little buddy

>>17010386
Anon what are your thoughts on Endurance by Lancing? Is it looks interesting

>>17010526
How did you enjoy the bethroted/I promessi sposi translated in english? I loved the book when i studied it in high school and appreciated it even more rereading it as an adult, I always think it's a pity that it's not that well known internationally, I'm thinking of reading it in english to understant if it's a matter of it not translating so well in eng

>>17010386
woman in the dunes is not nonfiction

>>17013048
That book changed my world. Some anon recommended it as plague-related literature to read during lockdown. Every page was pure joy.
It's hard to comment on the translation since I don't speak Italian but the subtle humor was definitely conveyed well, which is not easy for a translator (I had to go through 4 translations of Le Rouge et le Noir before I found one that preserved the original humor). I laughed (and cried) a lot while reading it.
But I don't think prose is such an important factor in whether or not a book becomes popular globally. Language doesn't change the fact that it's 1) a compelling story and 2) a successful satire.

>>17013060
No I'm pretty sure it's a completely true story

>>17012272
>I liked Dubliners, will I like this
I didn't.

>>17013048
Actually I think it's not popular in English because the title sounds really, really boring.

>>17012987
Endurance is a classic; the alternative is the book Shackleton wrote, but that's apparently fairly dry. Also Lansing's telling of the story has the value of being unbiased and portrays Shackleton's darker sides.
I think most people think they know the story of the Shackleton expedition as "they got stuck and escaped and it was hard". The actual story defies description.

>>17013817
Which translation was it?

>>17013868
Bruce Penman; the Penguin Classic edition

>>17010604
>It honestly wasn't difficult at all. I think my cerebral circuits are so addicted to stat-farming in video games, every book I finished I got the same kind of adrenaline boost.
You are a literary whore. You gorge yourself on words, devouring any and all meaning. Books aren't menus, but you are what you eat. This is the most disgusting behavior imaginable and, ironically, only possible through the auspices of a willfully sickened mind. No average person - not a single animal - could stumble unto such foolishness; it is the deliberate and definite product of an ill mind addled by, as you say, stat-farming and neurochemical abuse.

>>17014526
B8

>>17014561
Pure assertion. All pathos. WEAK.

>>17014526
You sound jelly. No need to be... some people read faster than others and others have more free time. It’s an experiment, a test, a challenge accomplished to be lauded. OP is well aware of the drawbacks as they’ve discussed. You coming in here to do nothing but reiterate them makes you seem like a buttmad sperg. I hope your outlook brightens up, because we can all be friends here (:

>>17014526
Seething

>>17010386
did u make this pic manually

>>17014659
>a challenge accomplished to be lauded.
Achievements are lauded, challenges are ontologically hollow; do you congratulate yourself for stringing together an English sentence? It seems quite a challenge, well done.
>>17014699
Can I get (you)'s not written by third-worlder subhumans, please?

>>17014526
No I think this guy's got something. Why does it have to be commodified in this way? Surely what matters is that you read for pleasure, not to tell people that you've done 100. A book a month sounds like a depressing chore

dog shit list, fuck off pseud. read kant