/lit/ - Literature

I'm at 9 books so far.

>>21843826
I also will drop some books halfway through, I stopped keeping count when I found myself choosing books for their length.

>>21843868
>infinite jest
>don quixote
>bros k
>ulysses
>moby dick
bro you got some long-ass books on that list

>>21843826
20 books so far, but I'm currently stuck in the quagmire that is Authority by Jeff Vandemere. After devouring the first in the trilogy, Annihilation, this second book is such a fucking slog. There's no plot, no character development, just the protagonist reminiscing all the time. There had better be a reason for all this, or I'm skipping the 3rd.

>>21843875
there aren't really any long-ass books i want to read besides maybe volume 2 of world as will, but i feel like i'm "beyond" that intellectually. just seems like a waste of time

>>21843826
Cover to cover 13, skimmed/dnf 39.

>>21843885
hadn't heard of vandemere, sounds kind of interesting. as you see, i'd only planned to read 25 books this year and am way ahead of schedule

>>21843899
damn. please don't tell me you bought those 39 books lol

19 so far, although I dropped Cryptum 67% through.

>>21843948
anon, you have to be 18+ to post here

Oh, I am such a starter. I never read any books in my entire life until now. I hate myself bc of that. But i have read 4. Very bad i know.

>>21843868
>>21843948
Why is it that when anons share actual evidence of books they've read the selection is always extremely disappointing?

one
I've been slacking off this year, been having concentration issues
currently almost done with one more book and started three others

1. Snow Country by Yu Kawakami
2. The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
3. The House of The Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe
5. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Abominable by Dan Simmons
7. The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
8. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
9. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
10. The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs

Currently reading pic related

>>21843973
most people don't read at all anon. it's fine. even people with master's degrees in philosophy and literature stopped reading after school. you know who does read? millionaires and billionaires

>>21844005
i have difficulty concentrating too, just stress. i read like 10 pages an hour now. exercise helps with concentration, or reading somewhere other than home

>>21844016
>1. Snow Country by Yu Kawakami
i think you mean yasunari kawabata?

>>21844032
Just seeing if anybody is paying attention

>>21843964
I'm 27

>>21843826
cant concentrate worth shit this year and ive been sick a while
>black company first two books, pretty sweet
>all the darkness that comes before, was alright
>the alchemist, written for children i should not have read this
>life is a dream, gonna try reading the spanish version soon to improve my spanish skills
currently reading titus groan and its my favorite this year so far

Making good headway, most of them are shorter dialogues from Plato but I'm on a schedule to finish his complete works in June

>>21844199
nice anon. i'm starting otherwise than being by levinas today. just got a novel in the mail but i need a philosophy fix

unfortunately only 5
I got stuck on a book I was reading on my phone, I couldn't focus on it anymore halfway through and had to buy the paper copy and start reading it again
and i also read an 800 page book in the beginning of the year which took me ages to finish because it was historical

>>21844214
which 800 page historical book, anon? was it a novel or actual history?

Soon to be done with my 9th book of the year. My goal was 30, so three per month is a good pace

>>21843826
>9/14

>>21844199
>he counts every dialogue as a book
KEK, you should also add youtube video-essays and audio-books to your count

>>21844654
yeah i'm at around 3 books a month too. not great, it'd be better if i read a book a week, but i have a drinking problem

just finished my 30th, life is good as a NEET who actually reads

37, I have like 4 books I haven't finished yet

12 so far, finishing the 13th right now. I've mostly read McCarthy and Houellebecq this year, planning on reading Philip Roth and Paul Auster the next.
All the pretty horses
The Crossing
Cities of the plain
The Road
Blood Meridian
No country for old men
The death of Artemio Cruz
Atomized
Platform
The map and the territory
The possibility of an island
Ulvene fra evighetens skog

>>21843826
17 and damn it feels like a great year of reading already. started to chip away at my ignorance of religions and i've got some classics out of the way, enjoying them all.

>>21845376
very nice, anon. roth is pretty good imo, haven't read auster.
>>21845395
good for you anon. i should read the analects and the quran this year as i have both in my stacks

>>21844208
Always good to see another philosophy anon, what novel are you planning on reading? I'm currently reading Les Chants de Maldoror myself

>>21844199
>most of them are shorter dialogues from Plato
I have no idea why you'd cheat like this. It's the opposite of people who put up omnibus collections when they could've instead listed individual works and padded it it.

>>21845003
WHY ARE YOU GAE?

>>21845876
I'm not they just have very compelling stories

>>21844032
Is this as good of an aesthetic experience as Snow Country?

>>21843826
I didn't read much in February, so I'm lagging behind a little bit. I plan on making up for it next month, though

>>21845934
weeb af, nice kawabata, dazai, and soseki though

I don't feel so good bros

zero. i am ashamed of myself

Austerlitz
TBK
A Hero of Our Time
The Savage Detectives

I dont do that reading challenge because im not a woman.

>>21844016
>4. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe
>5. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Based underrated reader

>>21843826
12 full novels and a bunch of short stories by Stevenson, Wilde, Dickens, etc. Read a lot of mystery while I was on vacation.
The Hunting Party
And Then There Were None
The Pale Blue Eye
Mrs. Dalloway
The Alienist
The Dante Club
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
The Black Country
Death on Gokumon Island
The Honjin Murders
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Moonstone
Currently reading Confessions of an English Opium Eater and thinking of reading Robinson Crusoe next. Both played a role in The Moonstone and I get autistically excited by making those sorts of connections.

>>21846290
>t. woman

>>21846260
>>21846278
bros stop smoking pot, playing video games, and jacking off to pornography, or at best, what, hooking up off tinder? and read some books. you can read books before/after you smash btw

>>21844199
>most of them are shorter dialogues from Plato
"Bigger number is better" mentality. Americans are disgusting.

Finished 8 and reading 2, plus have Dekameron on standby for when I finish a book but don't want to start next one yet

>>21843826
8 so far, I didn't went to an american highschool so I'm trying to read the "American" classics. I also read 2100 pages in other long books, I just didn't finish them yet

>>21843868
the only worthwhile Sherlock Holmes books are a Study in Scarlet and the Valley of Fear. others are just lame copies of the previous ones.

>>21843885
Second book sucks. I didn’t bother with the third

>>21843826
4
>Lolita
>The Dwarf
>Telluria
>Everything is Totally Fine

Currently reading GR and The Man in the High Castle

How have so many people here read like 10, 20 or even 30 books 3 months into the year?
Do you actually remember anything about those books you've read?

>>21843826
31 so far. Feeling pretty good this year.
Best works are Ex Captivitate Salus by Carl Schmitt, Art of Dying Well by Roberto Bellarmino, Soldier novels by Gene Wolfe and Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

>>21847067
Forgot picture

>>21847073
>kull exile of Atlantis
What was your favorite story?

>>21843826
1) The savage tales of solomon kane
2) Dead man’s hate
3) Flashman and the redskins
4) Simplicissimus
5) Mason & Dixon
6) The Long Ships
7) The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
8) Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy
9) Sirius, the Hero Dog of 9/11
10) Northwest passage
11) The pyrates
12) Morning on horseback

Currently reading dead souls and the bibble

>>21847078
The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune was the best IMO. Interesting concept, fantasy solipsism.

1. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Now I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov.

>>21845903
Why yes.

Nothing special; haven't read any canonical works so far this year. I did discover Philip K. Dick, who's phenomenal

>>21847088
>The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
Yeah I thought it was good too.
The kull stories I found to be a little more philosophical than some of the Conan stories.

Besides mirrors, my other favorite was the shadow kingdom. Howard is underappreciated I think when people consider him to be just another pulp author

>>21847109
>Caves of Steel
How'd you feel about it?

>>21844669
To be fair it isn't like each book is just one short dialogue, two of them are compilations of 2 (Hippias Major & Ion, Laches & Charmides) however Meno is by itself, which is short as fuck. I do it more so to see what I've read and to keep the translators the same since I'm using Hackett's big fuck-you complete works.

>>21847117
It was good. Asimov writes in a very pulpy style, so the prose and characterization aren't always there, but it's super dense thematically. It's proto-Philip K. Dick, but without the mysticism.

Also, Asimov's robots in the book were very clearly meant to represent WASPs, which I wouldn't have realized if I didn't also ready his autobiography. He was very ethnically insecure.

1. The Discourses and the Handbook
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship years
4. The Gambler
Wilhelm Meister took me quite a while, so I'm hoping to pick up the pace a little bit now

>>21847145
>Asimov's robots in the book were very clearly meant to represent WASPs
Did not know that. Odd thing to do

>>21847073
How was Hunger? Have you read anything else by Knut, like Growth of the Soil?

>>21843948
First stars wars EU trilogy was pretty kino and just made me disappointed that obviously no one developing the sequel trilogy touched them. The rest of your list is something my 12 year old son would read.

>>21845376
Are McCarthy's other books as quick and easy to read as No Country? I keep reading giant dense books lately and I could use a switch up. On the same topic, I'm about halfway through Lonesome Dove and I really enjoy it.

>>21844095
Mervyn Peake is having a crazy renaissance right now.

War and Peace
The Kite Runner
Napoleon the Great
Notes from the Underground
Ron Paul on Foreign Policy
Two of John Muir's books in the collection
Making good progress I guess

>>21843973
You don't have to hate yourself for that.
>But I have 4. Very bad I know
Everybody gotta start somewhere.

>>21847113
I've read all of his major characters and he's pretty damn good. The pinnacle of adventure stories.
>>21847212
This is my first Hamsun and Hunger is the best novel I've read in a while. Not the novel I enjoyed - it's a difficult read. Incredibly hard because I feel nausea when reading it too much. It's an incredible work of delving deep into a psyche tortured by hunger and his own strange moral code. It's an incredible work. I'll be reading him again in the future. One of those seminal authors, up there with the best.

>>21846875
It's shockingly bad. 200 pages in and the first decent event has happened. Lunacy.

I've heard the third is better. But I liked the first so much it's hard to imagine it would top it.

>>21846707
haha yeah man... Nah but by this time last year I'd read 13 or so

>>21847265
Especially the Border Trilogy is pretty easy to read. Blood Meridian is a bit denser, but nothing too bad.

>>21843868
>Blood Meridian
>BOTNS
Of all the millions of books that exist, it's always the same shitty memes. /lit/izens don't read

>>21847440
I still need to read Solomon kane. If you haven't read the horror stories collection from del Rey and want more stuff from Howard pick it up. Stuff like worms of the earth and a couple Solomon kane stories are in there, but alot of other stuff is unique like the horror of the mound

currently a bit sitting on 18 cause 19th i gr but those are what ive read this year so far
grapes of wrath
farewell to arms
siddharta
dubliners
tbk
the wall from sartre
Slaughterhouse-Five
to the lighthouse
old man and the sea
gambler
eugene onegin
a hero of our time
the idiot
white nights
anna karenina
the fall
master and margarita
a portrait of the artist as a young man
the kreutze rsonata
+like 500 pages of books that i didnt finished like swanns way or 100 years of solitude

damn I thought I was doing well until I found this thread

Republic
Politics
Letter to father
Art of war
Kim
Men at arms

Maybe a couple others that I forget as well.

Do you guys buy/ torrent, hit up libraries, or what? I've resolved that once I deplete my current stack (mostly jung, nietzche) I'm just going to use the public library to save space and money

>>21844004
why don't people who comment this ever have the balls to post theirs?

>>21847932
People who actually read don't call good books memes because they are popular on /lit/. Stop pretending.
>>21847947
I have, his horror stories are better than Lovecraft I'd say. More human and there's a heroism and meaning to them that Lovecraft lacks. Solomon Kane is incredibly cool as well, I think I like him best of all Howard stuff.
>>21847286
Is he? I read him a few years back, seems to be about as well known as ever. But I'm glad people like him, he's a good writer.

Zero

>>21843885
Same experience. Annihilation feels like a fluke, and much of the interesting stuff he stole from Roadside Picnic anyway. Read that one and Hard to be a God instead.

>>21843883
That basedbean is going to skim through that shit without batting an eye I'm telling you.

>>21844070
And you lie to your mother like this!?... shameless.

Nine. The Sound and the Fury and Moby-Dick are rereads though, and I'm rereading J R right now.

>>21844022
>most people don't read at all anon. it's fine. even people with master's degrees in philosophy and literature stopped reading after school. you know who does read? millionaires and billionaires
While it is true that not everyone reads, it is important to note that reading is a beneficial activity for personal and professional development. The benefits of reading include improving cognitive function, expanding knowledge and vocabulary, reducing stress, and increasing empathy and social skills.

It is also true that many successful people, including millionaires and billionaires, attribute their success in part to reading. However, this does not mean that reading is only for the wealthy. Reading is a valuable and accessible activity for anyone who is interested in it, regardless of their financial status.

Ultimately, whether or not someone reads is a personal choice, but it is important to recognize the potential benefits and opportunities that come with reading regularly.

I've read 20 books so far this year, most have either been really short or extremely long. I find myself wanting to explore novel cycles more and long form fiction. I feel like there's a totality to books which are longer. Once you read a ton of Zola, there's an intimacy, I also feel like it helps me avoid encountering (some) tired clichés. The short stuff has all been nonfiction.


>>21843948
Yeah, the forerunner Trilogy is pretty boring, I don't remember anything about it aside from one or two pieces of trivia. I've been thumbing through Troy Denning's novels since I got back into the franchise last year.

>>21848317
How are Blindsight and A Naked Singularity?

I've finished two routes of this visual novel and two other very short visual novels. I'm currently munching my way through a third route.
My goal this year has been to increase my reading speed in Japanese. I'm going to be testing my speed again soon and I hope to read ten pages in fifteen minutes (without rushing).

>>21847992
I buy most of my books. In my case that means importing them but if I'm going to be putting the effort into studying I prefer to treat myself with a nice book I can hold in my hands.
My library actually has a nice Japanese section, but having to remember to read and return everything on time stresses me out.
I usually torrent visual novels though. I'm happy to support a studio by buying merchandise, but I hate spending a bunch of money on a book I might not even like.

>>21848353
A Naked Singularity is pretty long (about 700 pages) but it's length is a bit overstated since a lot of it is dialogue where characters give short answers. Most of the book is various philosophical conversations about human nature, justice, and the media with the main character's coworkers at his job as a public defender and with his apartment neighbors. It's a bit all over the place but pretty accessible despite everything and at the heart of it there's an interesting crime story as the main character and his coworker attempt to commit the perfect crime. Good fun overall, although a bit strange. Blindsight is much shorter (my copy was almost exactly 300 pages) and asks some interesting questions about the nature and utility of consciousness. Thematically it's concerned with how people relate to one another. I thought it was interesting. It tries not to handhold too much and wants readers to figure some things out for themselves, which I appreciated. Actually thought it was pretty interesting but I can't say that I was too invested in the characters' emotional arcs. It's free on the author's website, if you want to check it out: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

>>21848407
Thanks I'll probably check out Blindsight for sure. I don't reach much scifi, and never even heard of Blindsight before I saw your chart, but it sounds more like the scifi I read when I actually do read it (Egan).

Would you say A Naked Singularity is worth it? Recently I've read some more contemporary "maximalist" novels that feel like the author read Gravity's Rainbow (just as an example) and tried to imitate it (stuff as many bits of knowledge in the book as they can) without actually getting what made GR (or IJ or whatever) so good. It just feels a bit blasé to me at this point, almost as if it's become its own genre.

To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History By Lawrence Levy
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
By Robert Iger
Zero to One By Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarhty

have dropped many. would like recs if anyone has any

>>21847073
interesting selection anon

>>21847505
i hate reading but i can't stop. i don't have friends

>>21848274
dreadful

>>21848326
>it is important to note that reading is a beneficial activity for personal and professional development. The benefits of reading include improving cognitive function, expanding knowledge and vocabulary, reducing stress, and increasing empathy and social skills.
very true and very based, anon. i don't understand why watching professional sports on television is considered normal whereas reading is not. don't get me wrong, i like sports, but not north american sports culture. and then they call you gay for reading a fucking book while watching this homoerotic spectacle devoid of sportsmanship
>It is also true that many successful people, including millionaires and billionaires, attribute their success in part to reading. However, this does not mean that reading is only for the wealthy. Reading is a valuable and accessible activity for anyone who is interested in it, regardless of their financial status.
also very true and very based. once when i was homeless for an extended period, i just went to the library every day and read. i didn't even care that i was homeless. even homeless people with no money have access to books.
>Ultimately, whether or not someone reads is a personal choice, but it is important to recognize the potential benefits and opportunities that come with reading regularly.
i start to lose my mind when i don't read. reading reduces stress and makes me happy. i tend to read difficult texts, though, so oftentimes i feel drained and depressed after reading for an extended period of time. i think ultimately it's important to push yourself in anything you do, whether it be sports or intellectual endeavours

>>21848452
A Naked Singularity didn't really strike me as a GR pastiche or as being overly ambitious. A lot of the book is a comedic in-depth look at the justice system, which the author was well-suited to describe since he is an actual defense attorney, and another major portion of it was a high-stakes crime thriller. The philosophy conversations seemed more supplemental and, frankly, it's unlikely it will be anything that seriously challenges you if you read regularly. It read more like a bestseller with enough meat on its bones to not feel like you're wasting your time. It's definitely not going to change your life, though. I read it in between more difficult stuff and enjoyed it enough.

Five so far. Two of these (The Graduate and Cinema Speculation) were pretty bad, and I tend to read great fiction faster than anything else.

>>21848576
Thanks for the detailed reply, anon. I think I'll add it to my tbr.

11

>>21848617
based

this desu

>>21848617
kek

>>21843826
15. But ten have been in the past month.
>>21843948
Just skip to Silentum, it actually quite good. If you want you could try Primordium but it is very dry, though slightly better than Cryptum in my opinion.
>>21848334
I’ve been enjoying Denning’s works so far, even his weaker entries are readable.

>>21848617
based

>>21848617
I count 18

>>21848407
Good assessment of Blindsight. I think he went overboard with the indecency and reductive nature of man in the first half but the second half of the novel is much better and opens up the philosophical questions.

15

>>21843826
12 about to be 14

Only nine books so far but two of them had over 1000 pages.

>>21849947
>hunger games
>twilight

>>21843826
I might make a thread for this, but

My question, have many of you ever achieved anything in life from your reading?
You aren’t just a repository of unapplied theory right?

You spend your time seeking enlightenment in all quarters and not merely to whittle away Time and Life just to be, very meagrely content right?

That you take away lessons from these stories and texts and permeate your life with the will to power yes?

Or are some of you as stereotypical as you imagine yourself?
Glasses, scarf, whatever other weak virtue signalling you’re attempting to define

That you read obsessively to an end in itself and not to convey some image?

>>21850871
Stay mad and insecure

>>21849947
I’m at 12 and he a couple fat boys in there too

>>21850926
You know how I know you have weak emotional awareness?

>>21850926
I’m just saying, philosophers wrote books to disseminate their ideas and enlighten people.

Then you have people in here remarking on the length of the books they read and nothing further.

I’m just saying.

>>21848126
>his horror stories are better than Lovecraft I'd say. More human and there's a heroism and meaning to them that Lovecraft lacks.
Agreed, Howard's characters even when facing truly monstrous things and possibly being on the verge of insanity pull it together to survive.
I honestly don't care for Lovecraft that much but then I've also only read at the mountains of madness

>>21848617
Are they worth reading again anon?

17 Books so far
1. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (audiobook)
2. Rabbit is Rich, Updike (audiobook)
3. To the Lighthouse, Woolf (audiobook)
4. Babel-17, Delany (audiobook)
5. Vurt, Noon (physical)
6. Crash, Ballard (audiobook)
7. Stand on Zanzibar, Brunner (audiobook)
8. The Pastel City, Harrison (physical)
9. Seize the Day, Bellow (audiobook)
10. The Sheltering Sky, Bowles (physical)
11. Freedom, Franzen (audiobook)
12. What We Talk About..., Carver (audiobook)
13. Neuromancer, Gibson (audiobook)
14. Herzog, Bellow (physical)
15. Invisible Man, Ellison (audiobook)
16. Naked Lunch, Burroughs (audiobook)
17. Flow My Tears..., PKD (audiobook)

>>21850846
Those are still some of the audiobooks I kinda enjoyed. I've had much worse ones in my list of popular genre fiction.
If you only ever read "/lit/'s top 50" you're going to lose touch. That's why I also mix my reading with genre trash. And they're audiobooks. I listen to them when I draw or do other things.

>>21850996
this is my first time reading them all. i love them they are fun reads. attack of the mutant isnt exactly scary and thats why i loved it so much it was so different and interesting. i also enjoyed why i'm afraid of bees. They may be under most people's reading level but i definitely enjoy them

>>21848981
horrorland i remember finishing in december. therefore everything under is from the year before

>>21851016
I remember them being fun, but I haven't read any in over 15 years
Haunted mask was my favorite, liked the second one too.

The choose your own adventure ones were cool too

>>21851106
i really enjoyed haunted mask too i thought she would never get it off! didn't read choose your own adventure yet

>>21851116
>didn't read choose your own adventure yet
There are ways to win. Only ever finished the arcade one though (and specifically the alien game cause at the beginning you can either choose it or an arctic game with some witch queen).

I distinctly remember the hotel one. Could die at the beginning if you took the sleeping mints

I was on a reading slump for month since last year but I am better now. About to finish reading Mythology by Hamilton to prepare to reread the Greeks again and also read the things I missed.

>>21851144
>About to finish reading Mythology by Hamilton
Have you not read it before?

>>21851156
No, I was too busy reading scifi. But now that I've been reading more literary fiction I decided to brush up on ancient myth and it seemed like a good start.

>>21851190
I remember it being ok but it's been awhile. I've read apollodorus library of myths since and that's mainly how I remember said myths. He covers heracles, theseus, the voyage of the argonauts too iirc

>>21851004
>17 books
You've only read 4 by my count

>>21849947
>>21851004
>audiobooks
Lol. Pathetic. If you think you can count audiobooks as books you have “read” then I guess I can count all those podcasts and lectures I’ve have listened to as books I’ve read.

>>21851410
I didn't count them, you tard. Are you sure you are literate?

>>21851416
Keep coping. You audiobook listeners are the ilk of society.

>>21851421
>ilk
Do you know what the word means?

>>21851426
Kek, I realized I didn’t add a word after I typed it. Lolz.

>>21851421
Anon...

>>21851427
Sure, buddy. Whatever makes you feel better :^)

>>21847440
Yes his writing is amazing. Your post is my excuse to read Hunger after I'm done my current book. I just found out that a friend lost my copy of Growth of the Soil (which has my notes in the margins) so I'm devastated. Based on what you liked about Hunger, have you read anything by Jack London on the Klondike? Another interesting foray into the human mind during times of imminent death is his To Build a Fire. It's a short read, scary at times, but an easy introduction to London's work/style

>>21851431
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Whatever bro. I’m just phoneposting and living my best life. Keep being a gay faggot who “reads” audiobooks.

>>21851524
Phoneposters are the ilk

I've only finished five so far. The first I started last year and finished at the beginning of January, but I'm counting it anyway. The five are...
1. War and Peace
2. The Sirens of Titan
3. Confessions of a Mask
4. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
5. All Quiet on the Western Front

>>21851544
GUY HAS A POINT THOUGH. THE WAY WE TAKE IN INFORMATION IS CERTAINLY AFFECTED BY WHICH RECEPTIVE SKILL IS USED

READING REQUIRES THE INDIVIDUAL TO DRAW ON MORE TOP DOWN PROCESSING FOR ONE.

>>21851566
WHICH IS WHY I DONT COUNT MY AUDIOBOOKS AS "BOOKS READ" AND WHY I ONLY LISTEN TO EASY GENRE TRASH WHILE DOING OTHER STUFF

>>21851493
I haven't read either of those guys. My next books will, as far as fiction goes, probably be Death Comes for the Archbishop and a return to Thomas Mann. Bruddenbrooks were fantastic and I'm going for The Magic Mountain.
>>21850991
I don't like Lovecraft much either. But he is probably the most well regarded author of horror that I know of.

6 or 7, I think. I've honestly stopped keeping track or even setting a goal. The only thing I hold to myself is staying consistent and I've noticed that it comes out to about a book a week.

There's zero reason for me to keep track of this information.

14

6

>>21843826

>>21843826
I've only read 2 books this year so far. I haven't had the time. Academia (Muh maffs) is taking up most of my time.

>>21851846
>The Bible
How long did it take you to read? Do you have a favorite book from it?

>>21851986
>How long did it take you to read?
It took me it a little under a year.
>Do you have a favorite book from it?
I really liked Paul's writings.

>>21851004
audiobooks don't count

>>21852044
i liked psalms, book of john, job, ecclesiastes ofc. book of paul's a seething pile of hateful shit, he's such an angry and revengeful bastard. most of the new testament is shit, book of john has good prose style though

01 - Complete Cicero (finished it, started it ages ago)
02 - Why We Fight
03 - Small Victories
04 - Rules for Radicals
05 - Uncommon Law
06 - Slouching Towards Gomorrah
07 - More Uncommon Law
08 - The Satyricon
09 - B.U.F. Oswald Mosley and British Fascism
10 - The Golden Ass
11 - Virgil's Georgics
12 - The Bucolics and Eclogues
13 - A Critical History of Early Rome
14 - A History of Abyssinia
15 - Herodian
16 - The Jewish War
17 - Letters of Pliny the Younger
18 - Epigrams of Martial (not all of them, just a collection)
19 - Complete Isocrates
20 - Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot

I'm doing well so far.

>>21843826
0

>>21852837
>t. khv

>>21851524
Seeing people try to save face is hilarious.

>>21843826
Since there's nothing stopping me from including short stories in the reading challenge count: 27

>>21852044
>less than a year
That's pretty good anon. Last time I read it all the way through in order, took me a couple years i think.
>Paul's writings
I like his as well. One of my favorite set of verses
>And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Colossians 2:13-14

>>21852786
If you find Paul's writings hateful, I'd encourage you to read them again. He is by no means hateful, and when he is harsh towards a given Church, he is trying to get them to do better in their walk. An example would be the Church at Corinth

>>21843868
Moby dick fucking sucks

>>21855105
eat shit christcuck
>>21855021
cheater

>>21843826
I've been slogging through Romance of the Three Kingdoms for at least a month now, as I decided to start from the beginning with a different translation

>>21857789
anon, im not mad at you.
again i just suggest you give it another shot

>>21850871
Reading is just a hobby bud, why don’t you go build a pyramid or something.

>>21850871
>scarf
Anon where do you think you are?

>>21857805
and i suggest you shoot yourself in the head. if we killed every goddamned christian and every goddamned catholic, maybe humanity would have a chance. genocide all fucking hindus too. christians, catholics, and hindus are fucking subhuman degenerates. anon, just fucking kill yourself. you're a worthless subhuman parasite. fr. kill yourself you piece of shit

>>21843826
6 novels and 21 capeshit comic book volumes

>>21850871
Buddy I read 90% trash erotica and thrillers I don't know what lessons you think I'm trying to take, sounds like projection on your part. If you don't like reading why are you on a lit board