How many books have you read in 2014? I'm up to 53 which is the most I've ever read and a reflection on my non-existent social life.

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Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:01:03 2014 No.5462167 [Reply] [Original]

How many books have you read in 2014? I'm up to 53 which is the most I've ever read and a reflection on my non-existent social life.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:03:37 2014 No.5462179 83

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:05:04 2014 No.5462188 84

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:06:17 2014 No.5462193 >>5462167 89 thus far, but I expect my reading will slow to a crawl once I start a new job in a month.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:06:19 2014 No.5462194 85

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:07:25 2014 No.5462196 86

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:08:13 2014 No.5462198 >>5462167 87

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:08:22 2014 No.5462199 4 :)

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:08:33 2014 No.5462201 >>5462167 20 so far.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:08:53 2014 No.5462204 Do you take pleasure from reading? I mean do you sometimes avoid social situations because you get more pleasure reading? Or do you read because, shit, you just suck at social situations and reading is the next best thing?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:10:40 2014 No.5462210 362

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:15:29 2014 No.5462225 >>5462204 I enjoy reading and I'm quite happy to spend hours every week with a book but I'd still rather be out being sociable if I had friends.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:15:59 2014 No.5462228 File: 910 KB, 1360x2068, 2014.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have a problem with reading nothing but library books and neglecting my increasingly intimidating personal collection

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:19:05 2014 No.5462243 28, which I thought was pretty good until just now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:21:06 2014 No.5462248 >>5462167 61

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:22:13 2014 No.5462255 >>5462225 So why do you think you don't have friends

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:23:26 2014 No.5462264 >>5462255 he's not a normalfag

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:27:55 2014 No.5462287

>>5462228
A lot of stuff I liked on this list, hope you've liked it too. Any favorites in particular?

>>5462243
28 is good, it definitely puts you way above most people (and probably above most people who browse /lit/ too, this thread is just self selecting).

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:29:00 2014 No.5462294 >>5462255 I have friends they just live at the other end of the country.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:29:14 2014 No.5462297 File: 3.06 MB, 1272x1676, 2014 read sept.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5462228 I do that too. Sometimes I even borrow books I bought just so I'm forced to read it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:29:43 2014 No.5462299 >>5462264 yeah but I'm just prodding into why he specifically is an unnormal fag

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:30:49 2014 No.5462306 >>5462294 k

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:32:35 2014 No.5462310 20. I'd have probably read more if I hadn't taken two months with Mason & Dixon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:35:10 2014 No.5462319 47 which is pretty weak compared to this time in recent years. I moved across the country in July and started grad school in August, so I haven't really read in a few months...

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:35:55 2014 No.5462322 File: 79 KB, 745x488, 2014.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not much I guess.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:36:10 2014 No.5462327 File: 225 KB, 724x634, Untitled copy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5462319 damnit, I forgot the pic

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:38:31 2014 No.5462339 >>5462297 Almost to 100, good job! What have liked best so far?

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:39:33 2014 No.5462347

>>5462167
like 1

and i have no social life, i just get to antsy to keep reading

how old are you op?

anyone have any ideas to help?

when i spend alot of time reading i feel like i should be doing something else, like i'm just wasting time

then i can't focus
i rather spend time browsing 4chan

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:46:50 2014 No.5462405 >>5462347 i also feel like i have to absorb every single thing written, so i'll read a little and think about it for a long time this gets me bored and i have to stop shortly

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:47:34 2014 No.5462407 >>5462297 How the fuck do you do it? A book every 2-3 days. How can you mentally process all that info, our is it a fuck comprehension type of deal? How can you even physically go through all that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:52:21 2014 No.5462429 >>5462287 I think the Raymond Carver was was my overall favorite, though Faust and Woman In The Dunes impressed me. Shoutout to IJ too, most consistently funny book I've read in a while.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:55:33 2014 No.5462449 >>5462347 OP here, I'm 28

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:56:52 2014 No.5462453 >>5462339 Furioso, Metamorphoses, Mansfield Park, Hume's Enquiry, The Waves, Boorstin's The Image, 'Winesburg. Ohio', Bloom's commentary on Plato >>5462407 A lot of them are plays, poetry and shorter stuff. There's not that many novels or big works.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:57:45 2014 No.5462457 Maybe 12?

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 19:59:27 2014 No.5462470

Too lazy to make an image so here's what I've read, based on my bookqueue. I just started reading seriously in July:
Hawthorne- the Scarlet Letter
Fitzgerald- the Great Gatsby
Green- The Fault in Our Stars (i know)
Orwell- 1984
Salinger- the Catcher in the Rye
Hemingway- the Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
Dostoyevsky- Notes From Underground
James- the Beast in the Jungle
Harry Potter 1-7 (i know)
Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Nabokov- Lolita
Nabokov- Pale Fire
Joyce- Dubliners
Camus- the Stranger
Fitzgerald- the Beautiful and Damned
Mann- Death in Venice
Kafka- the Metamorphosis
Fitzgerald- the Diamond as Big as the Ritz
McCarthy- All the Pretty Horses

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:02:14 2014 No.5462483 6 and I'm proud of it

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:06:53 2014 No.5462503 >>5462299 because making friends is difficult?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:08:58 2014 No.5462513 >>5462503 >actually believing this me and my enormous group of friends are laughing at you. we all have monster cocks

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:09:44 2014 No.5462516 >>5462513 pics?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:10:13 2014 No.5462518 >>5462516 of our monster cocks? no can do. we only show our cocks to our friends.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:11:24 2014 No.5462523 >>5462518 c-c-can i be your friend then?

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:16:05 2014 No.5462547
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20
Because I use literature more as a pause when I'm not reading books on history.

>tfw you always will be the intellectual alpha in a group of language students and other dudes from the humanities

Enjoy your "b-but I get a grasp on the human condition because of stories."

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:18:37 2014 No.5462553 >>5462547 >you will always be the guy who goes off on boring tangents without actually impressing anyone

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:21:06 2014 No.5462568 >>5462553 >history is boring

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:21:40 2014 No.5462571 >>5462547 >I have trouble with creative abstraction and lateral thinking and I'm super insecure about it >>>/spectrumfriends/

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:21:57 2014 No.5462572

I've read:
Midsummer Night's Dream
Richard II
Measure For Measure
Bleeding Edge
To Kill A mockingbird
Crime & Punishment
Gravity's Rainbow (current)

Think that's pretty much it. I'm pretty busy most of the time so I certainly don't feel plebian or anything.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:23:47 2014 No.5462577 >>5462571 >I'm assuming a lot based on hearing someone's passionate about history

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:25:33 2014 No.5462583 >>5462547 >he thinks history isn't presented in the form of stories

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:28:28 2014 No.5462589

>>5462297
How'd you like Understanding Poetry? If you read it because of here, you can probably blame or thank me.

>>5462407
You could probably read a novella, a play, or a short collection of poems every day. I'm actually planning to do that January of next year.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:29:21 2014 No.5462592

>>5462583

I know the narrativist point of view very well. But you do need more than "just stories". They'll never elucidate enough in the pursuit of truth, or at least the more true.
Don't get me wrong. It's fun, it's enlightening. But at the end of the day I love to lose myself in the study of history.

>DATS SO AUTIST THO xD

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:31:11 2014 No.5462594 >>5462577 I'm assuming based not of your attitude toward history, but your uniform disregard of everything else. You're just another spectrumlord who has trouble with creative abstraction so you try to write it off as pointless. Stay basic etc.

>>	walf !.P87xQl3Pg Sat Sep 20 20:31:27 2014 No.5462596 15. Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Infinite Jest were huge timesinks.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:35:49 2014 No.5462607

>>5462594

Disregard? Where?

I'm just saying most /lit/ types aren't knowledgeable about history at all and get BTFO quickly in a debate about actual data.

How you know I'm anything but a creative thinker or don't appreciate it has more to do with possible projection or just the usual "ur a fedora tipping spergshit."
Go get your DSM-V and stick it up your conceited shithole.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:36:17 2014 No.5462608

>>5462592

>But you do need more than "just stories".

in the information age the main measure of power comes from controlling the narrative. wars are justified to the populace, power relations maintained, foreign enemies established to swindle the people into galvanizing to defend their ruling class. trillions of dollars made.

it all comes through controlling the means of discourse.

these matters are all fluid things. these "stories" that are made up on a geo-political level for control end up becoming the cold and clinical lines of history that you want to study and follow later.

it's all "stories" because societies function on a strata of conflicting forms of narrative.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:37:51 2014 No.5462614 >>5462607 >>Disregard? Where? >Enjoy your "b-but I get a grasp on the human condition because of stories." >How you know I'm anything but a creative thinker You're some kind of retard who forgets what he posted moments ago is what you are.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:38:31 2014 No.5462616 History fuckdick ruined the thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:39:37 2014 No.5462619 >>5462616 >watching some guy get btfo by multiple people ruins a thread yeah, nah

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:40:02 2014 No.5462622 >>5462607 >Enjoy your "b-but I get a grasp on the human condition because of stories." yeah buddy you're not trying to start shit at all

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:42:40 2014 No.5462632 >>5462614 And now I'm a retard? Shitty psychologist you are friend. Go read it again. You just saw a provocative comment and couldn't help but responding to it. That's the average /lit/ intellectual I'm talking about.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:43:00 2014 No.5462635 File: 71 KB, 445x657, 1398383346235.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5462547 >intellectual alpha >only read 20 books and it's almost October Summer kids are kamady gald.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:44:07 2014 No.5462641 File: 156 KB, 500x505, epic historygasm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5462616 >I wanna talk about all the books I read so I can feel good about myself! please pat me on my back /lit/!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:45:25 2014 No.5462643 >>5462641 oh yeah well your dick is small

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:45:35 2014 No.5462644 >>5462632 >And now I'm a retard? Yes. >You just saw a provocative comment That you denied ever making in the following post. >inb4 he gets tired of being BTFO and tries to maymay it up like he was baiting all along

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:47:57 2014 No.5462657 >>5462608 Nice post-structuralism bro. But still, you need actual empirical data to construe a story, especially a historical monograph.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:49:50 2014 No.5462662 File: 54 KB, 500x300, online hearts.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5462644 How do you expect me to reply to this "ur dumb"? I mean you did a nice job, but you failed. Go convince yourself some more I got BTFO.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:50:30 2014 No.5462663 >>5462547 Haven't you read what Aristotle says about poetry as compared to history? I love history too though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:51:18 2014 No.5462668 >>5462635 20 /lit/ type books dork. This thread is comparing dick sizes for indie faggots >muh book list

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:52:06 2014 No.5462672

>>5462657

>Nice post-structuralism bro.

give me a detailed reasoning as to why this isn't the case.

i am of the opinion that you are one of these pseudos who tries to throw out a catchword as rebuttal but you've no depth of understanding behind it

elucidate as to why this isn't the case in simple terms. do not try to fall back on obscurantism as a crutch.

i expect you to sidestep this request in some way, but i'll entertain the notion of you actually living up to the task and i'll wait

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:57:12 2014 No.5462690

>>5462663

I largely agree with the notion that history needs to be approached as an art form and not as a discipline that needs to emulate the hard sciences.
That's one recent development I can get behind.

Still, let's be real, a scholary study requires more than just a "I'm conscious of discourse" these structuralists are propagate. To some of them it even becomes redundant to write history.
A lot of hard work in the field ( archives etc. ) is needed before you get anywhere.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 20:57:17 2014 No.5462691 >>5462662 You took a shot in your initial post and then you said - >Where? Like you didn't. I called you out on this. You entered full spin mode on some panic.jpg shit instead of owning it Typical basic bitch.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:01:32 2014 No.5462708 >>5462691 You called out shit son. You were provocated, you decided to call me spergshit tier and then you can't handle the fact I kinda agreed with you on the importance of literature. Try not to do that too much in real life.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:05:45 2014 No.5462726 >>5462708 >>Disregard? Where? >Enjoy your "b-but I get a grasp on the human condition because of stories." I'm officially giving this a 6/10 because there is no way you can be this consistently oblivious to your own contradictory bullshit. I'm out.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:07:18 2014 No.5462730 >>5462726 I was obviously referring to the dumbshits that mostly engage with literature and not literature itself. Otherwise I wouldn't read it, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:11:24 2014 No.5462750 File: 447 KB, 996x1207, 2014read.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hoping to at least get to 24.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:16:05 2014 No.5462759
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>>5462167 About 25. Planning for at least 35 this year, which is actually the first that I went back to reading since reading mostly YA crap as a kid.
That's basically the good side of my accident that left me with a constant headache since about 6 months now.

Currently reading some more short stories by PKD, a book on Neurology and just started Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.
Next up: Valis 2, Goethe's Faust, Steppenwolf, Kill Decision & Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:18:23 2014 No.5462766

Why does /lit/ always talk about books like they're trophies? It's always a series of names or a number, with you guys.

This place would improve overnight if you guys cared more about thoughtful discussion than you did about taking photos and running a yearly tally.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:22:23 2014 No.5462785

>>5462766
>This place would improve overnight if you guys cared more about thoughtful discussion than you did about taking photos and running a yearly tally.
>implying those 2 things are mutually exclusive
I think it's because the thread's specifically asking about it. And if these threads are a problem to you: they're made relatively rarely and aren't polluting the board or anything.
Also...what's the problem with seeing a read book as a trophy ?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:36:03 2014 No.5462848 >>5462228 Is The Tropic of Cancer actually worth reading? I'm worried it's just going to be contemporary raunchy romance shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 21:46:46 2014 No.5462889 >>5462167 20

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 22:14:29 2014 No.5462972 >>5462848 Not that person but it certainly is though it's not an absolute erotic modernist masterpiece of the "American 30s Paris experience" or anything. It's worthwhile reading Orwell's essay on Henry Miller with it.

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Anonymous Sat Sep 20 23:34:01 2014 No.5463220
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like 6 or 7 let me count them
wow it actually is 11
almost 13 because i am reading 2 books at the same time
this is like
10 more than last year
and the year isnt even over!
feeling good thanks op

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 23:37:51 2014 No.5463232 >>5463220 this was adorable

>>	VernonDavis'sLeftNut !!5DnuW6JvKCr Sun Sep 21 00:41:11 2014 No.5463499 12, all fantasy and/or science fiction. Granted, I have been writing a considerable amount, so my reading time has been cut down to size. I haven't read so little in a year in maybe 5 years or so. >feels bad man.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 02:58:37 2014 No.5463925 30 including my new favorite book

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:33:21 2014 No.5463999 >>5463050 these are really interesting choices

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:40:00 2014 No.5464010 85

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:41:03 2014 No.5464013 14 so far.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:42:32 2014 No.5464015 >>5462785 >Also...what's the problem with seeing a read book as a trophy ? You're using something someone else made as if it'your personaly achievment. You haven't actually done anything, apart from reading it, which everyone can do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:44:49 2014 No.5464025 File: 97 KB, 435x435, 1407265589645.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] about 2

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:47:35 2014 No.5464030 File: 8 KB, 224x250, 1406309189491s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 264 1 book per day bitches

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:48:49 2014 No.5464032 >>5464015 It's from the video game industry >complete level/task >"you've unlocked trophy ect." >people praise your virtual accomplishments strange times we live in

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 03:59:44 2014 No.5464065
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>>5463999

thanks. I seem to have been reading a lot of foreign contemporary authors, but I never made a conscious decision to do that. a lot of those books were recced by various anons. I also learned just how many books I could get for free at my uni library this year. If I was disciplined instead of faget I could read 85% of the books I wanted for free, but I am so covetous.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:02:00 2014 No.5464073 File: 220 KB, 554x1104, books2014.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 49 meh

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:03:16 2014 No.5464077 >>5464065 im gonna save your image for future reference, which one(s) did you like the best?

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:09:53 2014 No.5464091

>>5464077

Salter, Vollmann, Kis.

Bolano, Le Guin and Coetzee are old favourites but I didn't care for those two Coetzee novels that much.

Where Late the Sweet Birds sang was intense/emotionally wrenching.

Crash was the most difficult for me to get through.

If I had to recommend one author from that list it would be Danilo Kis. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead are really excellent story collections.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:18:15 2014 No.5464109 Is there a way to generate these in Goodreads?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:31:24 2014 No.5464123 File: 145 KB, 778x483, 1 of 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5464109 Whatever, I just cobbled it together in paint.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:32:41 2014 No.5464126 File: 87 KB, 749x485, 2 of 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5464123 2/2 31 total. Pretty impressive given I also wrote the bulk of my MA thesis earlier this year (guess what subject).

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:33:54 2014 No.5464129
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This is what I got so far. Didn't really start reading this year until the end of June, as I had a very severe workload which sucked away all my reading time.

As you can see, I'm working myself through what some consider to be /lit/core.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:44:00 2014 No.5464140 >>5464123 How's the Satie biography?

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 04:47:24 2014 No.5464143

>>5464140

It's interesting since it's so early (1948). Myers seems to kind of understand Satie which is impressive since no one really payed attention to him until Cage started getting into him in the 50s. It's really British though, focuses a lot on Satie's reception in the UK and has crazy asides like a lot of British scholarship of the time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 05:39:00 2014 No.5464237 4 in the last 4 or 5 weeks none before then

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 05:40:12 2014 No.5464239 >>5462547 >"b-but I get a grasp on the human condition because of stories." >Implying you don't

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 05:48:48 2014 No.5464252 >>5462327 >jan 01, Tue >jan 02, Thu

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 05:52:32 2014 No.5464256 >>5462327 Death on the Installment Plan or Journey to The end of the Night?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 06:02:47 2014 No.5464274 72 now, I read 100 last year.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 07:14:35 2014 No.5464411

>>5464015
>You haven't actually done anything, apart from reading it
Never implied something else.
>which everyone can do
Wrong. Or at least: most can but simply won't.
Also if in your narrow view you're wondering how reading (or at least: reading much/...) can be abnormal in our times maybe see this:
youtube.com/watch?v=cdawqlu0_JU

>>5464032 It's called gamification

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 07:18:39 2014 No.5464416

>>5464411
So not a lot of people read, that doesn´t mean you should be proud of doing it. Nothing about it should make you proud of it.
But then I guess people get proud over the most stupid shit nowadays. Their country, race, football team, and about everything else that they haven't contributed to in any way shape or form.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 07:21:55 2014 No.5464422 >>5464416 Everyone can read, but not everyone can become a good reader.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 08:13:02 2014 No.5464567 >>5464256 I'd say Death first. It's longer and a bit more rambly. It's also funnier without losing the black humor. In terms of the events of the two books, it comes first so you'd get more of a linear progression.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 08:28:18 2014 No.5464592 What is the point of counting the books you've read? Do you also count the number of steps you take, or the number of glasses of water you drink?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 08:28:47 2014 No.5464594 >>5464592 social capital, duh

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 08:39:21 2014 No.5464618 >>5464592 I do it because once you've done it for several years it's fun to look back on what you read when and notice trends. It also helps you remember some books you might have otherwise forgotten, and it's fun to show to certain friends.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 08:40:10 2014 No.5464622 Stop trying to turn reading into a competition.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 08:59:43 2014 No.5464676 >>5464618 >this post is not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the board itself! Hey Anon!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:03:04 2014 No.5464687 8 since July. Before that, none for years.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:16:56 2014 No.5464731 File: 211 KB, 924x548, Montage.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5464687 working through sticky has been fun

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:22:15 2014 No.5464745
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>>5462167
The amount of books itself is quite an irrelevant number.
An average reader could finish The Death of Ivan Illych in a day or two, for instance; but a comprehensive reading of In Search of Lost Time could take several months if you don't have much free time, and they both would count as "one" in your list. I keep myself a record of what I've been reading too but I don't fancy showing up a number and look like a pretentious brat.
Also, quality over quantity; and enjoying literature above everything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:25:23 2014 No.5464755 File: 116 KB, 627x550, 1345055930820.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5464745 well said

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:35:16 2014 No.5464784 15 books. I wasted most of my reading time on Pynchon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:37:13 2014 No.5464788 >>5464784 >wasted A-at least you had fun, r-right?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:56:36 2014 No.5464827 >>5464788 I forced myself through Gravity's Rainbow, Son & Xon, and V so I must have derived some sort of masochistic enjoyment.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 09:59:02 2014 No.5464835

13 but I started reading in April
-Collected Ghost Stories by M.R James
- The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway
- The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
- Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Hardy
- Mythology by Hamilton
- The Stranger by Camus
- The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde
- Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (gf made me)
- Siddhartha by Hesse
- The Sun Also Rises by Hemmingway
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Illiad by Homer

Currently beginning The Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:00:04 2014 No.5464837 >>5464827 Why start another if you never enjoyed the previous ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:05:15 2014 No.5464852 48

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:05:43 2014 No.5464855

>>5464837
I just said I'm a masochist!

But I did get some enjoyment out of each, even if I didn't pay attention to many things I was supposed to.

I didn't sort Dixon and Mason into respective characters until the last 100 pages of a 773 page book.

I don't remember anything specific from V after the alligator-hunting bit except the attempted suicide played for humor.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:06:58 2014 No.5464862 >>5464835 nearly all novellas... dorian gray, old man and the sea, gatsby, catcher in the rye, stranger, siddhartha are all like 90-200 pages

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:07:43 2014 No.5464866 >>5464745 Agree. I don't know why people post just sheer numbers in this thread: you're supposed to list the books you've read of course.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:10:54 2014 No.5464878 Only 5 and a couple novellas since the start of August. I just started coming on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:11:26 2014 No.5464883 >>5462322 u read some big tomes tho

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:15:47 2014 No.5464896

Telegraph Avenue - Chabon
Boomsday - Buckley
Cosmopolis - Delillo
Jam - the Zero Punctuation guy
I pass like night - Ames
The LA diaries - Brown
Ask the dust - Fante
Long dark tea time of the soul - Adams
The oath - Toobins
The Long goodbye - Chandler
2666 - Bolano
Homer Economicus - Hall
Joy in the morning - Wodehouse
Dirk Gently - Adams
Pulp - Bukowski
The Pale King - Foster Wallace

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:16:20 2014 No.5464897 25

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:21:10 2014 No.5464907 >>5464862 >implying novellas aren't superior to novels

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:21:59 2014 No.5464910 >>5464907 >implying short stories aren't superior to novellas

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:24:15 2014 No.5464916

mikhail bulgakov - the master and margarita
zachary mason - the lost books of the odyssey
phil elverum - dawn
j a baker - the peregrine
brian aldiss - report on probability a
d m thomas - the white hotel
anais nin - the four-chambered heart
yann martel - the life of pi
amelie nothumb - the stranger next door
michelle paver - dark matter
david malouf - ransom
john williams - butcher's crossing
richard brautigan - in watermelon sugar
don delillo - cosmopolis
alfred bester - the demolished man
yasunari kawabata - a thousand cranes
cynan jones - the long dry
leo tolstoy - war and peace (edmonds translation)
gabriel garcia marquez - memories of my melancholy whores
anais nin - house of incest
h.p. lovecraft - the call of cthulhu and other weird stories
kurt vonnegut - galapagos
thornton wilder - the bridge of san luis rey
larry niven - ringworld
lao tzu - tao te ching (stephen mitchell translation)
anthony burgess - 1985
ferenc karinthy - metropole
roger zelazny - lord of light
kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled
charles l harness - the rose
john brunner - stand on zanzibar
jon mcgregor - if nobody speaks of remarkable things
clifford d simak - city
alfred bester - the stars my destination
ian fleming - from russia with love
david eagleman - sum
jose saramago - blindness
john wyndham - day of the triffids
laszlo krasznahorkai - war and war

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:25:26 2014 No.5464919 >>5464916 shit taste

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:26:54 2014 No.5464929 >>5464919 :(

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:28:38 2014 No.5464937 >>5464929 we're all gonna make it brah

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:34:18 2014 No.5464956 >>5464937 Tougher to define who has on this board, though. Those published, perhaps.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:36:21 2014 No.5464962 >>5464956 Tao, pls

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:37:49 2014 No.5464965 >>5464962 Slavoj Zyzzek

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:44:04 2014 No.5464977 >>5464126 >Pretty impressive Not really.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:44:27 2014 No.5464978 >>5464965 I do not jooshh. Joos, maybek.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:52:58 2014 No.5464992 20 books that's almost 6000 pages.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:53:07 2014 No.5464993 >>5462297 are those the complete essays of Montaigne? If so, good job. That's like 1200+ pages

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:57:04 2014 No.5465014 >>5464855 man you've gotta read those again, then. do you at least understand who/what V is?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 10:59:03 2014 No.5465021 >>5465014 >implying you can ever know

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 11:09:38 2014 No.5465063 >>5462297 Very nice lot here. Top 5 reads out of them?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 11:11:24 2014 No.5465069 >>5465021 true, but this guy does a pretty good job of making an attempt (scroll to the really long post at the bottom): http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?26935-Thomas-Pynchon-s-V-discussion

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 11:47:54 2014 No.5465198
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I was reading Bulgakov's The White Guard but it bored me so much I only read 100 pages in 3 weeks, so I stopped.

>>5464916
>amelie nothumb

HAH, she's so shitty.
Nice to see War & War though.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 11:52:31 2014 No.5465217

>>5465198
hey, that's the only book of hers i've read but i enjoyed it a lot. not the best thing i've read this year for sure, but it was a fun story that appealed to my sense of humour (and social anxiety). what's the issue with her?

war & war is GOAT for me at the moment though. it might be because i only just finished it, but it blew me the fuck away and i can't stop thinking about it

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 12:01:37 2014 No.5465268
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>>5465217
I can admit she wrote nice things, but she can also be awfully bad, so I tend to shit on her easily.
Pic related, if you can read french.

And I agree, War & War had the same impact on me. If you haven't read anything else by Krasznahorkai, check his The Melancholy of Resistance. The prose is likely, with very long and fluid sentences, and it will blow you probably even harder than War & War.
Especially the last chapter. Damn, I must reread it now.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 12:07:37 2014 No.5465295

>>5465268
i can't read french i'm afraid, i'll take your word for it
i'm going to have a break from laszlo for a bit for this to sink in, but i think i might go for seiobo down below next. i really love the films he's done with bela tarr, but for some reason i'm not sure i want to read the books werkmeister harmonies and satantango were based on yet. even though i'm sure they're at least as good, if not better, i just kinda want them to sit in my memory in the form they are at the moment.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 13:29:45 2014 No.5465592 >>5464855 Your comprehension is absolutely terrible.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 14:37:33 2014 No.5465889 >>5464622 where's the 'competition'? why are you so insecure?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 14:41:21 2014 No.5465897 >>5462167 Have you got to The Uses of Literacy yet OP? It seems to be the direction you're heading in.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 17:25:53 2014 No.5466593 >>5462167 I'll be your friend OP hit me up on aim (allienotali) we can talk about all these books we seem to like that is if you still use aim

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Anonymous Mon Sep 22 02:03:28 2014 No.5468560

In 2012 when I bought my first kindle I set out to read AT LEAST a book a week. By April I had read 23 books. Seeing how far ahead I was I slowed down quite a bit and by the end of July I'd only read 30. Then I got a new job and had no time to read. I think I finished out the year with just 36. I stopped counting after the 30th.

As for this year my interests are spread too thin. I've only read like 9 books this year. Unless we count graphic novels (which none of you do) so it'd be like 30+.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 02:05:32 2014 No.5468566 >>5464030 >because it's difficult to read a 25 page short story Having said that, 99% of literate people wouldn't even bother to take the time for that. In which case good for you. Just trying to keep you humble m8

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