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How many books do you read per year? Anonymous Tue Jul 12 19:09:58 2022 No.20668241 [Reply] [Original]

Since this is a board of literature, I assume people here read a lot of books every year, so I would like to have a benchmark for a fair comparison. I usted to read around fifteen books every year. (Is that too low?)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 19:43:12 2022 No.20668438 File: 19 KB, 692x340, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20668241 >(Is that too low?) This is not a challenge. Read what you want.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:04:59 2022 No.20668580 >>20668438 >This is not a challenge. Read what you want. I know what you mean but I was just trying to have someone or something for comparison.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:06:01 2022 No.20668586 >>20668241 20 a year, is my goal, I'll probably blow through that this year.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:09:14 2022 No.20668608 5-10 at the most I only read to be challenged, rarely for entertainment

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:12:28 2022 No.20668627 >>20668241 >reading entire books

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:14:20 2022 No.20668638 >>20668627 ????

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:16:06 2022 No.20668648 >>20668580 >I was just trying to have someone or something for comparison. Fair If that can help, for statistical reasons, people who read 12 books/year are considered "strong readers" in my country - that's around 6% of the population (over 6)

Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:17:01 2022 No.20668653
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I've read 26 this year so far, but a lot of it is non-fic. I think if it was just fiction I'd read a ton more. I only read for a couple of hours a day and I'm a slow reader so you should manage more than fifteen..

read this year:
Adams' The Law of Civilization and Decay
Hamilton's Mythology
Gordon's Children of the Sun
Bergson's Matter and Memory
Adams' The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma
Machiavelli's The Prince
Mosca's The Ruling Class
Kleist's Anecdotes
Kleist's Marquise of O and Other Stories
Cowen's Hamilton on Finance
List's National System of Political Economy
Fuentes' Aura
Fischer's Ablion's Seed
Wicksell's Interest and Prices
Freud's Intepretation of Dreams
Homer's Iliad
Homer's Odyssey
Sappho's Fragments
Simmel's The Philosophy of Money
Aechylus I and II
Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Euripides I
Husserl's Logical Investigations Vol I

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:20:02 2022 No.20668668 File: 620 KB, 1200x800, Hercules e a hydra.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20668438 Fuck it! For me is a challenge I want to be the best!! I AM FAUST!!!!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:27:49 2022 No.20668703 Two, but they're very good ones.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 20:30:40 2022 No.20668726 My idea of a stereotypical "reader" would probably read around 30 a year.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 22:21:40 2022 No.20669203 >>20668586 I'm sure there aren't 20 good books in the whole world, anon. Unless you count Martial as Fourteen Books and use it to pad the list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 22:24:02 2022 No.20669212 >>20668638 He has a point >>20669203 You're a moron, I don't care if there isn't 20 good books according to your chart.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 22:30:08 2022 No.20669244 >>20669212 >20 good books oh please, you probably sit with an upside down copy of george rr martin on every train journey.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 22:33:03 2022 No.20669253 >>20669203 Probably bait but I’ll take it. If you think there are only 20 good books, you don’t like reading

Anonymous Tue Jul 12 22:40:33 2022 No.20669280

>>20669253
I'm being kind of high-brow troll to be honest yes. I read quite a lot, and when I said this I meant that there're probably less than 20 titles that can be considered high brow. It's about refined taste and you probably wouldn't understand.

think: Constantine VII, for instance.

We also ought not count monographs or works as fictions under this same banner, of course.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 23:48:05 2022 No.20669571 >>20669203 >I'm sure there aren't 20 good books in the whole world, anon. name 2

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 23:52:56 2022 No.20669587 >>20668241 ca. 50, not including fanfic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 23:54:04 2022 No.20669593 Typically 52 of varying sizes. At least four books in the 800 - 100 pg range (one per season), most of them are going to be 200 - 500 pages however.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 23:55:35 2022 No.20669602 >>20668438 Damn bro did you get married after 2019 or what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 13 00:40:49 2022 No.20669780 >>20669602 LMAO nice one

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