2019 is almost over

[Anonymous No.14346525]

2 weeks left, anon. are you happy with your books this year?

[Anonymous No.14346538]

Do you read just to increase your read count?

[Anonymous No.14346542]

>>14346538
it helps
read count is representative of a real value

[Anonymous No.14346576]

I went from reading ~50 books last year to ~25 this year. Feels badman. Need another daily reading routine

[Anonymous No.14346580]

>>14346576
all in all 25 isn't bad

[Anonymous No.14346589]

>>14346525
Yes. Read about 20 books which is mre than last year and enjoyed most of them

[Anonymous No.14346676]

>>14346525
No; but I'm going to make reading 26 books my goal for next year so hopefully I'll challenge myself into a better reading regime

[Anonymous No.14346684]

>>14346676
may be try to set your goal as 2 for the first month, then bump to 4, etc.
that way you'll achieve the goal every month and won't lose track of the rythm

[Anonymous No.14346704]

Depending on if I can finish The Idiot by the end of the year it will be 20 or 21. I started reading at the end of June this year though after years of not reading anything but VNs.

[Anonymous No.14346719]

>>14346704
What's Hitchhiker's like? Normies seem to froth over it and a friend asked me if I had read it.

[Anonymous No.14346726]

I hit my goal. keep thinking that i should be more focused and look at several books on a single topic, but when it comes to actually choose a new book i pick up whatever seems good at the moment.

[Anonymous No.14346737]

>>14346719
A lot of people here complain that it's just lolsorandumb shit. I disagree, it has some nice ideas that especially come together in the second book. It's "random shit", but there's a connection between things and it's fun for a bit.
The third book though is complete shit. It's a very obvious cashgrab that exists simply because the first two were succesful, it has almost no connection with them aside from the characters returning (but they still act out of character and basically all of them have become the same character with different names) and the story is all about completely random shit that has no tie from scene to scene and is just dumb. Third book is exactly the stereotype people make of it here.

I wouldn't say it's required reading or anything but I had fun with the first two books, avoid going further if you read it though.

[Anonymous No.14346749]

>>14346525
Almost completed my five books challenge, I know it isn't much but last year I completed zero books.
I do not regret spending an hour each day in reading, in fact I feel like reading has improved my life signicantly.

[Anonymous No.14346780]

Goal was 50, only made it to 32 so far. I'm just a bit sad that even if I reach my goal every year, in 10 years it adds up to a meager 500... on the other hand, there are so many more great books to read.
Oh well, I'm enjoying myself (more or less) so fuck it

[Anonymous No.14346794]

>>14346737
>I watched the Movie
>Loved it
>Read the book
>Hated it
>Didn't finish it

Could I read the second book having only watched the film?

[Anonymous No.14346810]

What about this top's year?

[Anonymous No.14346838]

>>14346794
I didn't watch the movie so I dunno, but if you hated the first book I doubt you'll like the second. I thought the second was better because it tied everything together and gave "answers" to the questions of the story, but it's still the same shit in the end, if you hated the first you won't magically love the second.

[Anonymous No.14346890]

>>14346719
I really loved the first one, I had no preconception of what to expect.

I've read the second this year, and found it a little less funny.

The ideas are nice, they make sense within the story. >>14346726

>but when it comes to actually choose a new book i pick up whatever seems good at the moment
Is it that bad then? If you do any other way, you will stall.

>>14346794
The movie was almost a 1/1 of the book, so you can start reading the second book if you want to try it.

[Anonymous No.14347464]

>>14346525

Our lives are almost over. Time is almost over. Rejoice!

[Anonymous No.14347482]

>>14346704
God damn it we have a lot of the same reading done. I wish you were in my bookclub, anon.

[Anonymous No.14347541]

[Anonymous No.14347547]

Possessing a goodreads means you are already doomed to failure

[Anonymous No.14347654]

>>14346525
I don't understand Goodreads. This is my list with dates, author's name and where I was when I finished them.
09/01/19: Las Muecas del Miedo (Enrique Medina) (Futakotamagawa)

12/01/19: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman) (Sakurashimmachi)

02/02/19: The Terror (Dan Simmons) (Sakurashimmachi)

06/02/19: Deuda de Honor (Enrique Medina) (Sakurashimmachi)

15/02/19: Surprised by Joy (C.S. Lewis) (Sakurashimmachi)

24/02/19: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) (Sakurashimmachi)

05/03/19: The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) (Futakotamagawa)

22/03/19: Dracula (Bram Stoker) (Sakurashimmachi)

04/04/19: The Monk (Matthew Lewis) (Sakurashimmachi)

11/04/19: Star Wars Red Harvest (Joe Schreiber) (Akihabara)

26/04/19: The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole) (Sakurashimmachi)

25/05/19: The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Sakurashimmachi)

11/06/19: The Fall of Gondolin (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Futakotamagawa)

30/06/19: Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Edogawa Rampo) (Sakurashimmachi)

07/07/19: The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Sakurashimmachi)

21/07/19: Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Sakurashimmachi)

01/08/19: Lost Worlds (C.A. Smith) (Sakurashimmachi)

07/08/19: The Last Man (Mary Shelley) (Sakurashimmachi)

15/09/19: Tales from the Perilous Realm (J.R.R. Tolkien) (Futakotamagawa)

30/09/19: J.R.R. Tolkien a biography (Humphrey Carpenter) (Sakurashimmachi)

07/10/19: Classic Locked-Room Mysteries (edit. David Stuart Davies) (Komazawa-daigaku)

09/10/19: A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) (Sakurashimmachi)

13/10/19: The King In Yellow (Robert W. Chambers) (Futakotamagawa)

09/11/19: Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James (M.R. James) (Shirokanetakanawa)

10/11/19: Melmoth the Wanderer (Charles Maturin) (Sakurashimmachi)

21/11/19: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories (Robert Louis Stevenson) (Sakurashimmachi)

24/11/19: Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis) (Sakurashimmachi)

08/12/19: The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Gaston Leroux) (Sakurashimmachi)

12/12/19: Ghost Stories (Charles Dickens) (Shirokanetakanawa)

I'm currently reading The Wind in the Willows.

[Anonymous No.14347672]

>>14346525
i finished 1 book this year... i used to read a lot. last year i read about 12, the year before 19, the year before 30-somthing. It keeps going downhill. Work sucks the mental vigour out of you. All I want to do is sit and play videogames after.

[Anonymous No.14347682]

>>14346525
How do I look at these stats? Is this goodreads?

[Anonymous No.14347688]

>>14346737
>it has some nice ideas that especially come together in the second book. It's "random shit", but there's a connection between things and it's fun for a bit.

Anon this is a description of every sci-fi book written over 15 years ago.

[Anonymous No.14347805]

>>14347482
why don't you just add him on goodreads senpai

[Anonymous No.14347812]

>>14347672
nothing wrong with that senpai
sit, play video games

[Anonymous No.14347818]

>>14347682
yes it is
>my books
>year
>see next year

[Anonymous No.14347843]

>>14346704
>Heart of a Dog
>2 stars
Are you a bolshevik apologist or just a complete fucking brainlet?

[Anonymous No.14347868]

Next year i'm trying 104

[Anonymous No.14347912]

ITT:

However gratefully one may go to welcome an objective spirit—and who has not been sick to death of everything subjective and its accursed ipsissimosity [Ipsissimosität: coinage from ipsissima, "very own"]!—in the end one has to learn to be cautious with one's gratitude too and put a stop to the exaggerated way in which the depersonalization of the spirit is today celebrated as redemption and transfiguration, as if it were the end in itself: as is usually the case within the pessimist school, which also has good reason to accord the highest honors to "disinterested knowledge." The objective man who no longer scolds or curses as the pessimist does, the ideal scholar in whom the scientific instinct, after thousandfold total and partial failure, for once comes to full bloom, is certainly one of the most precious instruments there are: but he belongs in the hand of one who is mightier. He is only an instrument, let us say a mirror—he is not an "end in himself." The objective man is in fact a mirror: accustomed to submitting to whatever wants to be known, lacking any other pleasure than that provided by knowledge, by "mirroring" he waits until something comes along and then gently spreads himself out, so that not even the lightest footsteps and the fluttering of ghostly beings shall be lost on his surface and skin. Whatever still remains to him of his "own person" seems to him accidental, often capricious, more often disturbing: so completely has he become a passage and reflection of forms and events not his own. He finds it an effort to think about "himself," and not infrequently he thinks about himself mistakenly; he can easily confuse himself with another, he fails to understand his own needs and is in this respect alone unsubtle and negligent. Perhaps he is troubled by his health or by the pettiness and stuffiness of his wife and friends, or by a lack of companions and company yes, he forces himself to reflect on his troubles: but in vain! Already his thoughts are roaming, off to a more general case, and tomorrow he will know as little how to help himself as he did yesterday. He no longer knows how to take himself seriously, nor does he have the time for it: he is cheerful, not because he has no troubles but because he has no fingers and facility for dealing with his troubles.

[Anonymous No.14347916]

>>14347912
His habitual going out to welcome everything and every experience, the sunny and ingenuous hospitality with which he accepts all he encounters, his inconsiderate benevolence, his perilous unconcernedness over Yes and No: alas, how often he has to suffer for these his virtues!—and as a human being in general he can all too easily become the caput mortuum [dross] of these virtues. If love and hatred are demanded of him, I mean love and hatred as God, woman and animal understand them—: he will do what he can and give what he can. But one ought not to be surprised if it is not very much—if he proves spurious, brittle, questionable and soft. His love and his hatred are artificial and more of a tour de force, a piece of vanity and exaggeration. For he is genuine only when he can be objective: only in his cheerful totalism can he remain "nature" and "natural." His mirroring soul, forever polishing itself, no longer knows how to affirm or how to deny; he does not command, neither does he destroy. "Je ne méprise presque rien" ["I despise almost nothing"]—he says with Leibniz: one should not overlook or underestimate the presque [almost]. Nor is he an exemplar; he neither leads nor follows; he sets himself altogether too far off to have any reason to take sides between good and evil. When he was for so long confused with the philosopher, with the Caesarian cultivator and Gewaltmensch of culture, he was done much too great honor and what is essential in him was overlooked—he is an instrument, something of a slave, if certainly the sublimest kind of slave, but in himself he is nothing—presque rien! The objective man is an instrument, a precious, easily damaged and tarnished measuring instrument and reflecting apparatus which ought to be respected and taken good care of; but he is not an end, a termination and ascent, a complementary man in whom the rest of existence is justified, a conclusion—and even less a beginning, a begetting and first cause, something solid, powerful and based firmly on itself that wants to be master: but rather only a delicate, empty, elegant, flexible mold which has first to wait for some content and substance so as "to form" itself by it—as a rule a man without substance or content, a "selfless" man. Consequently nothing for women either, in parenthesi. —

[Anonymous No.14347939]

>>14347843
No, I liked the idea and I thought the cover looked sick which is why I decided to read it but I didn't enjoy it at all.
I "get" it but I didn't like it. I didn't find it funny, it didn't make me think, I didn't like any of the characters and most of all I thought the prose was dreadful. One of the hardest books to read I've encountered and not because of the contents, simply because it's badly written. If you compare it to Against Nature which I read soon after (in Italian translation, my mother tongue), that book has many long and contorted sentences too but they still went down much better for me than Heart of a Dog's prose.

Of course you can say it could be the translation and that may be true, though I find it hard to believe a translation can ruin a work that badly and even then I can only judge what I read, I'm not gonna reread another translation of a book I disliked just to make sure I actually dislike it.

[Anonymous No.14347953]

>>14347868
Children of time is a one star read, pleb.

[Anonymous No.14347976]

Anybody here knows how to make a vote for the usual "top-100 books of lit" ranking for this ending year?
Is there a website or programme we can use?
>>14347639

[Anonymous No.14348017]

>>14347953
ultimate retard vol.17

[Anonymous No.14348051]

>>14346525
I have read only 2 or 3 books this year .
Serotonin
A book on Lovecraft. Weird Realism Lovecraft and philosophy
and Papa Goriot

>>14347654
you don't understand a software that keeps track of the books you read and have to read yet you take the time to write down when you start the book and where you finished reading it ?

you're a weird one lad.

[mitchell heisman - suicide not(...) No.14348080]

>>14346525
I read exactly one, and it's name related.

[Anonymous No.14348111]

>>14347812
there is tho isn't there?

[Anonymous No.14348161]

>>14348111
he'll just be a dudebro playing video games
would you actually affirm that reading books actually give any perk in life that video games' perks won't?

[Anonymous No.14348207]

i read like 5 books, and liked all of them. fuck you all

[Anonymous No.14348225]

>>14348207
just to list them:
>the trial
>name of the wind
>sapiens
>a study in scarlet
>the hobbit

[Anonymous No.14348243]

>>14346525
no
>won't make it to 80
>many books were disappointing

[Anonymous No.14348364]

I am.
I am still adding too, there is still time.

[mitchell heisman - suicide not(...) No.14348419]

>>14346525
Wait, did they actually delete my previous post?

[Anonymous No.14348428]

I'm at 20 books for this year. My goal was 20 books.

I'll finish Posterior Analytics by years end, so it'll be 21/20. :3

[Anonymous No.14348454]

Pretty good year but a friend convinced me to read Warhammer 40k books which are complete trash.
I know they are shit but I can't stop, it's like fast food

[Anonymous No.14348475]

I don’t really like the idea of a book count past a certain number. When you hit past 50, it means you’re reading more than one book a week. Unless they’re small books, I question whether you’re reading anything valuable or even remembering the contents. Reading for pleasure is great, but why would anyone care how many books you consumed if it’s mindless stuff for pleasure?

[Anonymous No.14348490]

>>14348475
Depends if you have a job or not. You can easily read and absorb 100+ dense books if you only focus on that.
Also, maybe you want to achieve a high level of understanding on a certain subject? Not all reading is for pleasure

[Anonymous No.14348557]

>>14348490
>Not all reading is for pleasure

Anon, that was his point...

[Anonymous No.14348580]

I've decided to take a break for the rest of the year. I read 38 things, not all novels. Pretty happy with this considering I was in my last year of study for a science degree.

The Lottery and Other Stories by Jackson
Pan by Hamsun
At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Campbell
The Horla (short) by Maupassant
Tree and Leaf by Tolkien
The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Dunsany
The Castle of Otranto by Walpole
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Poe
Master and Man (short) by Tolstoy
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
The Haunting of Hill House by Jackson
Ancient Greece (a very short introduction) by Cartledge
Classical Literature (a very short introduction) by Allan
The Iliad of Homer
A Little History of Literature by Sutherland
The Tunnel by Sabato
The Collector by Fowles
The Celts by Roberts
Mythology by Hamilton
The WoW Diary by Staats
Aesop’s Fables
Diary of a Madman (short) by Gogol
No Longer Human by Dazai
Wabi Sabi: the Japanese Art of Impermanence by Juniper
The Denial of Death by Becker
Environmental Ethics (a very short introduction) by Attfield
How Fiction Works by Woods
Titus Groan by Peake
Will My Cat Eat my Eyeballs? By Doughty
Unfollow by Phelps-Roper
Gormenghast by Peake
In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki
Titus Alone by Peake
The Swords (short) by Aickman
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury
The Gutenberg Revolution by Man
A Nervous Breakdown (short story collection) by Chekhov

[Anonymous No.14348746]

>>14348161
Imagine WoW for example. You grind and grind away... for this and that. 4 hour raids, getting materials, grinding pvp, reputation, etc. What for?

I agree that reading should serve a purpose instead of being an end in and of itself (reading random fiction just because), but whatever that purpose may be at least you have the benefit of knowing something. WoW knowledge is useless.

[Anonymous No.14348769]

I'm happy with it

[Anonymous No.14348778]

>>14346525
>caring about quantity
Fuck you. FUCK YOU. One good book is worth more than 100 toilet young adult books.

[Anonymous No.14348812]

>>14348778
Couldn't agree more, but some people also read good quality literature and strive to read more of it.

[Anonymous No.14348826]

>>14348778
The only people who should really be denounced are those who read only YA shit and then try to reach their 52 book challenge by finishing off with graphic novels.

[Anonymous No.14348865]

>reading translations
might as well just read the wikipedia article pour être honnête

[Anonymous No.14348931]

>>14348865
Not this meme again. If people didn't read translations, the world would be vastly more illiterate. Just deal with it. Also, shock and horror, good translations don't even differ from the native text.

[Anonymous No.14349496]

Why do you guys read? When I look at your lists of books read I rarely see any semblance of structure. As if you're reading books at random.

[Anonymous No.14349538]

>>14349496
>Autism: The Post

[Anonymous No.14349572]

I think we can all agree I had the most lit-kino reading list this year

[Anonymous No.14349584]

>>14346525
>longest book 659 pages
fucking pleb kys

[Anonymous No.14349873]

>>14349538
1) I don't have Autism
2) I am genuinely curious why you guys read so much. Reading at random, to me, means you read for entertainment. That is perfectly valid. But I'm curious if my assumption is correct.

[Anonymous No.14349998]

>>14349538
it's a normal thing though
if i'm reading about a specific topic that interests me, then i'll most definitely would like to read more books on the subject
if i'm reading a work from a specific country/era/movement whatever and i like it i'll probably try to read more works from that category

[Anonymous No.14350070]

>>14348051
Exactly, I don't.

[Anonymous No.14350579]

I feel like a really enjoyed everything I read this year, which is quite rare for me. I made some good head way on my piles of unread books.

[Anonymous No.14350661]

I read for about 8 or 10 hours per day.

[Anonymous No.14350663]

>>14349496
/lit/ is an entry level board. Don't mistake everyone being anonymous for the board demography never changing, there's always someone making a topic about books that have already been discussed here to death, it's just that they haven't seen those threads/read those books and are curious. A lot of it seems to be people trying to find their footing. I read a lot of things to find my footing but now I see my primary interests are russian lit and mythological/religious texts. So were I to post a stack that consisted of Thomas Mann, Tolstoy, Milton, and Steinbeck, all from different cultures and milieus, it might seem arbitrary to you but it's entirely consistent with those interests of mine. Then there are other things that you feel obligated to read, as an English speaker let's just say Joyce or Melville or Shakespeare, because they're so exalted above everything else. And whether those things actually appeal to you is only discovered by engaging with them.

[Anonymous No.14350707]

Rate

[Anonymous No.14350713]

>>14350661
Christpilled and enlightenedpilled

[Anonymous No.14350722]

>>14350663
There was a poll a while ago, most of the people here are 18-21 as the huge majority are current uni students.

[Anonymous No.14351046]

Feel proud, desu

[Anonymous No.14351212]

>>14349496
>Tfw 31 and not well read

[Anonymous No.14351216]

>>14350707
Sublimely uninteresting. 1/10.

[Anonymous No.14351487]

>>14347976
We should not have it anymore, considering what the board is like now. It would just be embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.14351496]

>>14350722
Which also implies a pretty large turnover rate of regulars. I'm 30, I haven't been here in a couple years, but besides an increase of generalized state-wide shitposting, the threads are all the same as they were two years ago. The more things change the more they stay the same, I guess.

[Anonymous No.14351511]

>>14351496
You know what they say.
No matter how old you get, shitposters always are the same age.
Or was that about prostitutes? Nevermind

[Anonymous No.14351943]

Books read this year, from most recent to oldest;

Can Life Prevail? by Linkola
Dialogues with Leuco by Pavese
Unwritten Song by Trask
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, unknown
Dialogues of the Dead, Gods, and Sea Gods by Lucian
Ishmael by Quinn
Book of Ephraim by Merill
Anti-Tech Revolution by Ted
Autobiography of Red by Carson
Fragments by Parmenides
Ancient Egyptian Readings by Van Den Dungen
Prose Mahabharata
Prose Ramayana
Story of Sinuhe, unkown
Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, unknown
Tender Buttons by Stein
Gnostic Bible by Barnstone
Corpus Hermeticum by Mead
Earth, Air, Fire, Water Poems by McCullough
Demian by Hesse
Siddhartha by Hesse
Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by Eliot
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus by Berkeley
Twilight of the Machines, Zerzan
Technological Slavery by Ted
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
If Not, Winter-Sappho translated by Carson
Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Blake
Tartuffe by Moliere
This Vital Flesh by Baylebridge
Oblivion by Wallace
Jane Eyre by Bronte
Decreation by Carson
Gulliver's Travels by Swift
The Dead by Joyce
Transformations by Sexton

For 36 books in total.

[Anonymous No.14352644]

>>14349572
way to only read peer approved books

[Anonymous No.14352651]

>>14346538
Since I read comic books, I set my reading goal to an arbitrarily high number (usually 100, I read a lot of comics and they're quick as fuck reads), and then let the real book reading happen naturally at my leisure.

[Anonymous No.14352887]

had some time off recently and read these

[Anonymous No.14353080]

46 books finished so far this year. Got another couple on the go that should be done by the end of the year. It bugs me a bit that I'll get so close to 50 without quite making it. Blowing through a couple of novellas just to reach an arbitrary target would be stupid though.

[Anonymous No.14353102]

>>14353080
>Blowing through a couple of novellas just to reach an arbitrary target would be stupid though.
Why?
Would the novellas lose their value?
Retard.

But congrats on the 46.

[Anonymous No.14353123]

>>14351046
Hey that's a nice list.
Which would you say were your favourites?

[Anonymous No.14353125]

>>14346525
Yikes what the fuck are you reading??

[Anonymous No.14353167]

>>14353123
I agree he has good taste. I've read Convenience Store Woman from him, and put on my to read list Last Idol.

It's rare that people here actually have their own taste, as illustrated by people who only read /lit/ approved stuff.

[Anonymous No.14353209]

>>14347654
>I'm currently reading The Wind in the Willows
How is it?

[Anonymous No.14353323]

Took a couple months hiatus from reading during the summer after giving up on 'The Savage Detectives', and another break the past month. Currently reading 'The obscene bird of night'.

>>14350579
How was Augustus and if you've read any of Williams' other books, how does it compare? I've read Butcher's Crossing and Stoner and enjoyed them a lot, am currently waiting for Augustus to arrive in the mail.

[Anonymous No.14353358]

this year i was a total failure, stopped reading and just watched animu for the first six months. but im slowly getting my shit back together. I like seeing what you guys read, it's how I get all my next recs https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/45642444-m

[Anonymous No.14353875]

>>14347672
read Marx

[Anonymous No.14353906]

I feel really based now that I've completed the yearly challenge. I am filled with contempt for the non-readers of this board.
I will probably read manga and watch documentaries for the rest of the year. I am blessed with dedication.

[Anonymous No.14354042]

>>14353906
based

>>14353323
not completely related, but if you like ancient Rome, I would really recommend Quo Vadis. I was expecting it to just be fun time-filling historical fiction, but it was fantastic. Finished it today, couldn't put it down.

[Anonymous No.14354109]

>>14346704
>The Fall
>2 Stars

[Anonymous No.14354300]

>>14353323
I have not read any of Williams other books but Augustus was breathtakingly good. It was the best book I read this year

[Anonymous No.14354324]

>>14350707
1

[Anonymous No.14354381]

>>14354109
I absolutely hated the second person writing style and the book feels like all the worst parts of Notes from Underground without any of the good parts.

[Anonymous No.14354387]

>>14352644
>have a limited time on earth
>more books than one could ever read in a lifetime
>spend time reading books that aren't good
Why would you do this?

[Anonymous No.14354474]

>>14350579
Going to the Dogs was fantastic for me as well, any recs of things like it?

[Anonymous No.14355778]

>>14354474
I wish I had some more recs like it. I've been searching for a book with similar themes since I read it.

[Anonymous No.14355902]

>221 books
Did you actually read them, or just look at their covers for a few minutes?

[Anonymous No.14356348]

>>14346542
retarded

[Anonymous No.14356878]

>>14346525
>putting 221 pieces of trash into your head
do you also shit in your bed and piss on your floor? why surround yourself with garbage?

[Anonymous No.14356886]

>>14346525
>was talking with some normies
>they all have university degrees and have pretty good jobs, live in a major urban area
>ask them how many books they read this year
>was expecting 10-15
>the one guy read 3, everyone else read 1 or 0, mostly 0

What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.14356923]

Read most of Dostoevsky this year, as well as some other stuff (the Foundation books, a bunch of Socratic dialogues). Now I'm feeling burn out.

[Anonymous No.14356942]

I've finished 50 so far and I might finish 51-52 before the New Year.

[Anonymous No.14357172]

>>14346704
>A Hero of Our Time and Kokoro not 5/5
Never gonna make it
At least you didn't give a 5 to The Stranger. Hell, that book is a straight 3.

[Anonymous No.14357175]

>>14356923
How would you rate the Dostoevsky books that you've read, from best to worst?

[Anonymous No.14357179]

>>14356942
Can you post the list of those 50 books?

[Anonymous No.14357206]

>>14357175
Yikes let's see:

The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment (an extremely close second)
Demons
The Idiot
Notes from Undergound

powergap

The Gambler

[Anonymous No.14357230]

>>14357206
>Powergap before the gambler
Never gonna make it, lad - The Gambler, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov are three of his best works. Also, read his short stories, they're great as well. "A Nasty Story" is the best of the bunch, and the funniest thing that Dostoevsky has written. I'd argue it's even as funny as Gogol's "Dead Souls".

[Anonymous No.14357256]

>>14353123
Ballard stories were great, even if it actually took me like 2 years to read it for different circumstances.
Last and First Idol was a nice suprise, and El Complot Mongol was great too.
Morderan resonated with me in a deep way, really I don't think that any of those books were bad, maybe On Killing a bit lacking but that is my perspective.
>>14353167
T-thanks!

[Anonymous No.14358092]

>>14351046
Nice list, would friend

[Anonymous No.14358165]

>>14350661
>Longest book 1,488 pages

[Anonymous No.14358179]

It's not likely I would finish Anna Karenins before the year ends so the number should be 20, not much but I consider it good for the year I start reading seriously again and stop playing video games. I'm thinking of buying an ereader to boost my number next year.

[Anonymous No.14358237]

>>14356348
ok retard

[Anonymous No.14359433]

>>14350661
do you have a job?

[Anonymous No.14359479]

>>14356886
most normies don't read at all m8, they watch tv series or play video games

[Anonymous No.14360601]

>>14359433
he'd be blessed not to

[Anonymous No.14360674]

>>14353209
So far so good. I like it, it's the kind of book that makes you feel comfortable, although I'm a bit confused about the role of the humans in this story.

[Anonymous No.14361742]

>>14358179
if you're reading 20 books on the longer side (like AK) you're doing well

[Anonymous No.14362915]

>>14356886
most people don't read unless it's for university or trash YA

[Anonymous No.14362916]

Homos lol

[Anonymous No.14363212]

Had to split this in two and put them side by side
Currently reading O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

[Anonymous No.14364034]

>>14346525
Didn't get 52 but don't really care

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