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I’m convinced there are only about 50 of us ever here on this board, butterfly not included
Also I’m convinced only about a dozen of us read, butterfly still not included
Post last book you read, next, and prove you exist.

>> No.15793169

>>15793159
Why would I care about your concern about /lit/ demographics?

>> No.15793190

>>15793169
obviously an illiterate habitual samefag over here

>> No.15793197

last full book I read was CHAOS by charles manson. next reading I did was flipping through a biography of Lenin. Randomly flipped to a chapter about his time in London and read until he moved to Switzerland, then stopped reading because the used book smell was too overwhelming (I bought it used)

>> No.15793212

>>15793159
I don't post here anymore because too many people are screaming about trannies or capitalism or whatever. The last thing I read was The Pale King and I'm currently reading Le Morte D'Arthur.

>> No.15793222

>>15793159
I’m reading Lolita now and will be reading Treastie of human nature next. I want to read bible as well

>> No.15793246

>>15793222
is there an illustrated version of lolita?

>> No.15793281

>>15793246
No but that would be hot

>> No.15793295

>>15793159
Mainly reading through a collection of Emerson's Poetry. Last book I read was the Tartar Steppe. I try not to plan my next book, my reading list would be insurmountable if I did.

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15793296

>>15793159
>Last: Roughing it
>Next The 10x rule
I exist. That enough for you?

>> No.15793312

>>15793159
I finished the Outsider by Camus last night, and an old Penguin copy of the Odyssey a few days before. How are you coming up with your poster count? Must have been at least four of us in the last poetry thread.

>> No.15793326

I finished Make Room! Make Room! a few days ago and have been reading Lolita since then. I'm also reading A New History of Western Philosophy because all of the philosophy talk on here made me want to start going through some of the stuff there. Don't know what I want to read next. A few things that are the most likely pool of things though
>As I Lay Dying
>Moby Dick
>Middlemarch
>Some Sherlock Holmes book

>>15793222
There seem to be a lot of people reading or wanting to read Lolita recently. Not sure why that is. I wasn't encouraged by /lit/ or anywhere else to do so, it's just been something I've always wanted to read but only recently have started reading frequently.

>> No.15793334
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15793334

>post last book you read
I'm reading Democracy in America, it's making unironically believe in american exceptionalism.

>I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States. The Americans have no philosophical school of their own; and they care but little for all the schools into which Europe is divided, the very names of which are scarcely known to them. Nevertheless it is easy to perceive that almost all the inhabitants of the United States conduct their understanding in the same manner, and govern it by the same rules; that is to say, that without ever having taken the trouble to define the rules of a philosophical method, they are in possession of one, common to the whole people. To evade the bondage of system and habit, of family maxims, class opinions, and, in some degree, of national prejudices; to accept tradition only as a means of information, and existing facts only as a lesson used in doing otherwise, and doing better; to seek the reason of things for one's self, and in one's self alone; to tend to results without being bound to means, and to aim at the substance through the form;—such are the principal characteristics of what I shall call the philosophical method of the Americans.
>...America is therefore one of the countries in the world where philosophy is least studied, and where the precepts of Descartes are best applied.

>next, prove you exist
I am American, therefore I am

>> No.15793339

>>15793190
No, anon. I'm just not retarded enough nor I spend enough time in here to get fucking sick of some anons. Which would probably be your case if you actually spent some time reading as you are trying to imply that some anons don't.

>> No.15793351

Gogol, Dead Souls.

>> No.15793360

>>15793159
Last book I read was Last of the Wine, currently reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton but so far I'm not a fan.

>> No.15793489

>>15793360
Had to read Last of the Wine for college, literally sucks dick

>> No.15793494

finished stoner reading we are all completely beside ourselves

>> No.15793522

Currently reading David Copperfield. If you see any girls out there, let them know anon is willin'

>> No.15793542

>>15793159
Last thing I read was wind, stars and sand by antoine de saint exupery. I'm at part 6 of anna karenina but am taking a break and reading some short stories by anton Chekhov. I want to read the fall of the roman republic (plutarch) next.

>> No.15793549
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15793549

The Third Policeman, I've finished it 3 weeks ago and made picrelated for the REG thread that was up. I haven't finished anything since, I'm just starting books and dropping them midway in.

>> No.15793561
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15793561

Almost done with the rationalists

>> No.15793562

>>15793494
halfway through stoner right now will finish tonight.

>> No.15793597

>>15793159
I'm reading The Gift right now by Vladimir Nabokov. Is his first name Vladimir? I don't know. The last book I read was harrassment architecture. I bet Mike Ma browses this board. Mike, you're a conceited faggot. The next book I'll read is absalom absalom.

>> No.15793611

>>15793562
Stoner is very good. I want to read it again sometime.

>> No.15793619
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15793619

Just finished all 500 pages of this bad boy. Now I'm off to free myself from servitude to the will and become an insubstantial nothingness free from the pangs of desire.

>> No.15793658

>>15793339
obv you do not exist

>> No.15793678

>>15793658
KEK cry.

>> No.15793697

>>15793678
>[internet forum lingo] cry
peak nonexistent

>> No.15793725

>>15793159
Burton’s Arabian Nights
Herodotus’ histories
It’s interesting to see similarities between some of the stories. E.g the hidden passage to a treasury of silver/gold/etc that is known by someone to whom it shouldn’t be. And their family member gets caught, cut into pieces by the protectors of the treasury, and the other family member must retrieve their body and remain concealed. This is Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, as well as Herodotus’ story about one of the Egyptian kings.

>> No.15793779

>>15793697
Oh anon, as if I care about that. Think about me, and I won't regret it; do not think about me, and I won't regret it. Whether you think about me or you don't think about me, I won't regret it.

>> No.15793783

still only 23 posters in this thread
OP is not wrong

>> No.15793790

>>15793779
>I don’t care
>just wanted to let you know
you’ve convinced me

>> No.15793793

>>15793779
And this is the sum of all I care about this thread.

>> No.15793810

>>15793779
>>15793793
Also, I’m a proud trans woman, and I don’t care who knows it

>> No.15793815

I’m convinced butterfly starts these threads because she wants a lot of attention from /lit/ and it’s really embarrassing and I just wish she would do cool stuff so that we could like her instead of cringey stuff that makes coming to this board seem like a minefield

>> No.15793825
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15793825

>>15793159
Guenonfag reporting in

>> No.15793829

>>15793810
Muh trans KEK anon. Are you unironically underage?

>> No.15793835

>>15793815
>she

>> No.15793836

Last book I read was...
the Oxford Annotated Bible

>> No.15793841

>>15793159
Moby dick, now kokoro.
I don’t post much but sometimes I go on the shelf threads and argue with people. I’m not only reading kokoro but also a book about the Meiji period while also writing an essay while getting ready for the second trimester of uni.
Not a fresher, I’m epic guy

>> No.15793872

>>15793334
That book was published in 1835, you don’t think anything has changed since then?
Pretty sure America isn’t even a full democracy anymore, it also isn’t the most economically or socially free country. The most free country by both measures is New Zealand. The most economically free country is probably Hong Kong, the most socially free is probably Sweden but last time I checked New Zealand had the most freedoms overall.

Your conservatives and progressives are pro censorship and that’s fucking gay.

>> No.15793882

Le Morte D'Arthur
almost teared up at the end

>> No.15793886

>>15793825
At 6’5 you must be slaying pussy brahhhh

>> No.15793894

>>15793829
Also I still don’t care

>> No.15793896

It’s taken me two years to finish platos republic. Does that count as reading?

>> No.15793900

>>15793894
Of course you don't, you kept responding to my first post because you don't care.

>> No.15793905

>>15793900
And here I am, talking to myself, to prove to everyone on this anonymous website how much I don’t care

>> No.15793910

At the 4th vol of W & P
To prove I exist... It was very nice weather today in northern new england

>> No.15793917

>>15793905
Yes, anon. Keep ruining your shit thread. This was my plan all along. This thread is fucking shit and I managed to ruin it. Admit it.

>> No.15793927

>>15793917
>I’m here to ruin your thread
>bump tho

>> No.15793932

>>15793927
Yes, but filled with shit.

>> No.15793934

>>15793917
How are pseuds this easy to rustle?

>> No.15793938

>>15793932
>posts in thread 2 dozen times
>look at all the shit in here

>> No.15793971

Other Minds
The Recognitions
I do not exist, unfortunately :(

>> No.15793980

>>15793934
insecurity

>> No.15794050

Godel's Proof
A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality (and then, or maybe concurrently, Process and Reality)

>> No.15794088

>>15793159
The kid in that pic means fucking business. I've never seen a facial expression showing more lethal intent. I bet he grows up to be a highly capable bodyguard or hitman.

>> No.15794105

finished robinson crusoe today and started the secret history

>> No.15794118

>>15793549
i've sometimes seen this book compared to Twin Peaks. is that so? like weird stuff happens?

>> No.15794133

>>15793872
gay measures of freedom

>> No.15794142

I just finished Conversations with Roger Scruton and I'm now reading the Hunting Sketches by Turgenev.

>> No.15794183

Growth of the Soil, finishing Army at Dawn, and then MAYBE Winesburg, Ohio after that.

Cognito ergo sum

>> No.15794237

>>15793159
>Currently reading 12 Rules for Life (Don't judge.)
>Reading Thus Spoke Zarathrusta next.
>To prove I am real: fuck s o i b o i s

>> No.15794375

>>15793619
Who is the broad

>> No.15794382

>>15793159
>last book
currently reading Augustus
>next
idk, but probably The Invention of Morel
>prove you exist
i done a capcha

>> No.15794663
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15794663

/lit/ has 8350 average posts per day, and I doubt those are only from 50 people unless they're complete degenerates

>> No.15794683

>>15793159
Finished The Confusions of Young Torless a couple days ago, now reading Ulysses. Have also been slowly reading The Flowers of Evil for the past few weeks.

>> No.15794708

>>15793159
I just started browsing /lit/ again after taking a hiatus for a year. Sad to see that butterfly is still shitting up the board

>last book you read
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

>next book
Not sure, but thinking about finally cracking open Look Homeward, Angel

>> No.15794869

>>15793619
sauce?

>> No.15794931

Awareness by Anthony de Mello. Ive been into spiritual stuff lately.

>> No.15794933

>>15793159
Last book i read was the republic, now reading critique of pure reason

>> No.15794936

A separate peace
Hero of our time
Today I hitchhiked 50 miles to my moms house, ate a nice spaghetti dinner, and am now finishing ASP on the couch

>> No.15795031

I disagree due to the following;
The spanish general threads had, at a peak, c. 50 people all posting in (somewhat) fluent spanish.
The "good english translations" threads get over >60 anons. A handful of these fiends constantly shill the [Gross]man translation.
While I agree that these may be polyglots that are simply to stupid to read the original Spanish, I'd venture further and say that these people are simply to stupid to be polyglots; therefore: there must be at least more than ~100 somewhat active posters.

>> No.15795091

Rarely post here, I would not be among a hypothetical 50 top regulars. Last night at bedtime I read 3 MR James ghost stories. Comfy writer. I have a hardcover Poetic Edda in the mail, and I'm contemplating ordering the complete works of William Blake next.

>> No.15795277

>>15793159
Honestly it's just me. I get really bored and just populate this board to amuse myself. God I should go to therapy.

>> No.15795282

>>15793159
Buckminster Fuller's Critical Path.

>> No.15795645

>>15793159
Read a couple of chapters of Blood meridian a few days ago, need to finish it so I can move on to something else. The book kinda drags a bit when you realise it's a loop of
>Arrive somewhere new
>Party hard
>Kill some poor cunts
>The Judge does something weird or fucked up
>Leave the town in fucking shambles
>Get in to a skirmish with some other psychopaths
>Arrive somewhere new

Going to finish Children of Dune after because I'm a scrub who has multiple books on the go at all times.

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>>15793159
Last: The God That Failed
Next: The Extended Phenotype

>>15794663
> I doubt those are only from 50 people unless they're complete degenerates
Where do you think you are?

>>15795282
Great stuff. A bit crazy, but not any more so than, say, Freud or Jung. Very outside-the-box thinking

>> No.15795772

>>15793159
>52 unique posters in several hours on a dumb thread
Posters come in cycles. That stupid political influx finally died which ran off regular posters plus we have an asston of lurkers

>> No.15795812

>>15793872
>The most economically free country is probably Hong Kong
You were not paying attention. Hong Kong is done.

>> No.15795867

>>15795772
lurker here. I like to read.

>> No.15795881

Polished up Plato's ol' Timaeus, now I'm onto Aristotle's ethics. I'm really starting to love philosophy guys. And the sad thing is, I can credit this board with getting me into it. Shoot me.

>> No.15795883

>>15793159
there are probably a couple thousand people here between regular and occasional posters
not even including lurkers

>> No.15795908

>>15793522
Well my so very good and fair master, since I am your 'umble servant, I shall try my hardest to do your bidding, although because of mine and mother's so very lowly and 'umble means I cannot promise anything. Still, maybe some beauty will take pity on my 'umble means, mother has always told me 'umbleness can get you anywhere. *proceeds to squirm about like a spastic*

>> No.15795914

>>15793159
Last: Mythology by Hamilton
Current: Rabbit, run by Updike
Next: Dunno

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15796211

Laiseca and Mcelroy poster here .
Pic related is the last book i read but i am not sure what to make of it .

>> No.15796266

>>15793872
Nowhere in the post you replied to mentioned freedom, you are spooked

>> No.15796333

Last one I finished was Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens by Krasznahorkai. Quite good even if a bit boring at parts. Had some interesting conversations about culture and tradition
Next is probably Don Quixote
I don't exist btw

>> No.15796508

Just finished 1929 Storm of Steel and I'm reading Dracula now

>> No.15796542

>>15794118
Haven't seen Twin Peaks, but I guess it's about right. It's dreamlike.

>> No.15796551

I've read 28 books so far, I have a lot of free time.
>>15793619
I watched this video, she’s too pure bros.
>tfw no qt azn gf

>> No.15796577

The Imitation of Christ

>> No.15796665

>>15794663
source?

>> No.15796705

>>15795031
But that is the thing. Did OP mean that there are 50 people who visit this board at all? Or that there are only 50 simultaneous posters at max here at any given time? Because if it's the latter 50 might be too much actually.

>> No.15796778

>>15793351
That was honesty, a pain in the ass to read up until the last chapter or so, whereupon I was saddened by the pathos of it all

>> No.15796791

>>15793542
Ward No. 6 is really great

>> No.15796804

Homo Deus, Harrari. Reading "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. KENDI

>> No.15796805

>>15796665
4stats.io
a based anon on /g/ made it a while ago, it is my primary way to check up on 4chan now.

>> No.15796810

>>15793619
I think I'm in love

>> No.15796819

>>15796810
>>15793619
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEWcsxvmZmg

>> No.15796881

Theres a guy who's been here a long time but I can always recognize his posts because they are all exactly the same absurdist pseudo-trolling intentionally retarded beyond retarded nonsense.

He's that guy who always makes the first post in new threads with some bullshit like "lol idk" or something equally flippant, and he constantly replies to himself or goads people into replying to him until they realize he is just talking gibberish.

I know what you're doing you faggot.

>> No.15796884

>>15793619
>Now I'm off to free myself from servitude to the will and become an insubstantial nothingness free from the pangs of desire.
That's the dumbest bit honestly.

>> No.15796902

I read the Iliad last. I'm close to finishing American Psycho and next I'll read the Odyssey and a book about Sulla that was recommended on /his/.

What can I do to prove myself a real person? Are my hairy balls enough? they're not actually hairy but my attempt at deception should prove me to be human beepboop

>> No.15797002

>>15793169
why would anyone care if I exist?

>> No.15797009

>>15797002
I read your post. Is that not caring anon?

>> No.15797017

>>15797009
how do I know if you a) exist , b) read books , and c) matter?

>> No.15797028

>>15797017
A) I made the post above yours
B) see A)
C) why does it matter to you if I matter, if you by your own admission don't matter at all? it's a polite way of saying sudoku which ai discourage

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>>15793159
I read Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles II last and am now reading pic related. I exist now.

>> No.15797041

Been working through The Red Book and read Vergil's Eclogues today. Rereading Frankenstein tomorrow, probably in one sitting, because an older couple I know is starting a theatre company with their first project being a ~200year old Japanese puppet play and I want to write a script for puppet Frankenstein.

>> No.15797079

I really do think the overall ecosystem of /lit/ is quite small because you definitely can recognize individual posters after a while.

>> No.15797082

>>15797028
thenx fren

>> No.15797099

>>15797082
Sure thing bro

>> No.15797119

>>15797079
Do you care to list some examples? Out of curiosity

>> No.15797357

>>15797119
Not that Anon, but any post concerning Joanna Newsom, Joan of Arc, or George Eliot is probably me.

>> No.15797398

>latest read: the unbearable lightness of being
>next read: kafka's metamorphosis (probably)

>> No.15797462

>>15793212
I'm reading Le Morte D'Arthur as well. It's flowing surprisingly nicely.

>> No.15797700

>>15793246
In all of chans history how has there been no attempt to make an illustrated Lolita? I’m mostly thinking just a compendium of badly drawn smut.

>> No.15797721

>>15793872
How do they quantify economically free? Socially free? Isn’t it ironic to mention freedom around Hong Kong? These technocratic bullshit statistics are so lame.

>> No.15797734

>>15793159
Does listening to audiobooks count as reading? Because if so, I read a new book every month.

>> No.15797747

>>15793159
I just finished The Stranger, and am starting The Brothers Karamazov. This is while steadily working my way through Hamilton's Mythology.

>> No.15797749

>>15797119
I'm the guy calling everyone a fag

>> No.15797833

>>15793159
>Last Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
by Michael A. Hoffman II

>Next In praise of shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

I browse here alot and like making charts

>> No.15797844

>>15796819
my god why don't i will myself to have nice things

>> No.15797903

The makioka sisters and the book of disquiet simultaneously, in fact I’ve been reading it alongside the last 4 books I’ve read. Quite a slog at times.

>> No.15798258

>>15793896
No

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>>15793334
>Democra
I made a thread yesterday about the book sempai. Should I get abridged or unabridged?

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>>15793159
>Post last book you read, next, and prove you exist.
I'm not sure how to parse this but here it goes:
>last finished
The Hound by the Niggerman himself
>currently reading
The Bible
>reading next
not sure yet, I'd like to read Inferno and Paradise Lost but I also kinda want to wait until I have a good understanding of both the OT and the NT to do so.
Everything else on my list is either like those two where I want to wait until I've finished a certain text or its elevated-genreshit like Gibson and Verne

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>>15798368
explain pic pls