>NOOOOOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF MY HECKIN moronic WANNABE ECELEB BOOKTUBER WAIFUERINOOO >NOOOOOOOOOO YOU MUST HAVE READ ZERO BOOKS BECAUSE YOU INSULTED MY 60-IQ ETHOT WHO TREATS READING YA SCHLOCK AS A PERSONALITY TRAIT
Reading Toby Martinez de Las Rivas at the moment. A bit like Geoffrey Hill, complex syntax and imagery, very rooted in the English landscape. I think people here would like him if they could be persuaded to read modern poets.
Plus after I realised I liked him I researched more about him and he is more than a little /misc/ - there was controversy when he was shortlisted for the Forward Prize.
I just checked btw. Are these books always this cheap or there is some sale going on or something?
where can i get em in paperback? I want to read some schizo shit and for the parts ive seen they are just that
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726
no one is interested in reading that crap, those are obvious shills or memers
2 years ago
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they're literal discord trannies trying to ruin the board. another board I go to is getting ruined with a similar pattern. it's literally just bunkertrannies raiding the site nonstop and they got a bunch of troony jannies helping out
2 years ago
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They do it for a few hours each day. Right now is a quiet period.
I reread the first 8 books of the Honor Harrington series this year, as well as the novelization of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. I no longer read important, serious books. I'm 46, I have nothing left to learn about life and it'd be too late anyways.
I don't see the emphasis number of books. Sense of accomplishment for a beginner, perhaps. But otherwise pointless. Read quality and enjoy it rather than focus on quantity.
It is pointless but I like tracking things like this. Its especially fun with a site like candl or goodreads where you can look back and remember your thoughts/ what your life was like while reading certian books.
It helps me keep myself on track, since it gives me a pace of books (in this case, one about every two weeks) that I can sustain. It's not a hard and fast rule.
i have read 10 in entirety (12 if you count each section of new history of western philosophy as their own book) as well as some short stories by gogol, prometheus bound, half of the essential plotinus, and some other short form stuff.
Just finished Gravity's Rainbow, abobawdely loved it, list goes from beginning of the year to the present. Was aiming for bigger books this year, I see a lot of people read a shitload of short or YA shlock, but I went out of my way to read the big boys. Might cap the year off preparing myself for Ulysess by reading Dante and rereading Hamlet, as it is I guess the anniversary.
>The Dead Zone >Christine >Needful Things >Swan Song >Blood Meridian >Suttree >The Road >Stoner >100 Years of Solitude >The Stranger >The Plague >The Fall >The Metamorpheses >Don Quixote (with reading group on here) >Invisible Man >The Brothers Karamazov >The Crying of Lot 49 >Gravity's Rainbow (finished it last Tuesday)
need to read some more kafka, metamorpheses was promising, still need to read the Trial.
Thought it was pretty good, I think those others of his were stronger, but that's marginal at best. I liked the Stranger the most, if you're just starting with Camus.
Thank you fren, looks juicy. Have you read it? What is your experience with this companion? Would you say it's particularly helpful to understanding Plato?
read the first few chapters and the introduction.
im not sure i didnt finish it, but yeah its probably better than knuckle dragging through ten thousand lines of plato straight from the source. but i could be wrong, its your choice really.
38 so far. I think I've found my upper limit for how much I can read and for it not to be just all mush in my brain. I'm enjoying it while I can because in a couple of years I'm taking a break from work to do a degree and I know that my reading for pleasure will plummet to almost nothing. Stand outs of the year is Barthes: some of the most entertaining essays I've ever read, Don Quixote, 'nuf said, Maupassant's Bel Ami, what a delightful, charming and amoral book, and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, what a raucous adventure, never have I laughed out loud so much at a book before.
You might notice that I only mentioned fiction. This year I've mostly stuck to lighter non-fiction hence why none of it is in my favourites for the year.
*key, dark grey = non-fiction, light grey = fiction.
This fricking shithole is slowing me down. I'm not working, not doing shit, and I'm reading way less than when I was in Tokyo. I'll go back to normal in late July or august.
>books men read go like:
Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot.
>books women read go like:
The cow goes moo. The cat goes meow. The duck goes quack.
Most "booktubers" lie out of their ass regarding the amount of books they read. It's basically just to impress their audience, audience which uses them to feel good as "readers by proxy". Frick "booktubers". Anyone who wishes to read would actually do so instead of watching them. Even reading blogs is slightly more dignified because you'd be, well, reading.
I think booktubers like reading books and talking about them. None of the ones I've watched possess the lit pseud mentality prevalent here and none of the appear to be "showing off".
>Audience that wants to feel good as readers by proxy.
That's a funny statement. I've found a booktuber that has good tastes and his recommendations and they up end up on my wishlist about a quarter of the time. It's a good way to get exposed to things that I otherwise wouldn't have heard about; I don't exactly have a literary friend group
frick
9 dostoevskys
w & p
some neetzsche
some jung
some homer
handful of plato
not much im pretty upset that i didnt finish the greeks yet.
im just going to read the continuum guides instead of 3000pages of greek autists debating the color of the sky
sonya from c & p is my favorite woman in the dostoevsky canon.
i wish there was a repentant prostitute in my apartment passionately reading proverbs to me
This part really stuck out to me, more so as a Christcuck fantasy than an incel fantasy. Either way, it was incredibly unrealistic for Sonya to forgive Raskolnikov immediately after she learned he had killed her friend.
You underestimate how ready some people are to forgive. Sonya and some others see mercy as so incredibly transformative that to see sorrow unto repentance, even the chance of it, is worth forgiving someone. It's been seen in plenty of murder trials. Honestly the most touching thing in the story isnt the confession of guilt in the police station, it's the confession before Sonya in Siberia which was Raskolnikov finally understanding what Sonya was asking of him, to believe that God can forgive.
26. My goal at the beginning of the year was 100 so I read 13 of those in january alone and then I stopped reading for multiple months lol. Now I'm reading about 50 pages a day (about 1 book a week)
haven't been keeping track but I've just started The Rings of Saturn after reading all of Sebald's other fiction work and that's all that matters for the entirety of 2022.
This is mostly correct. Reading dense books takes a few days if not a week for serious scholar.
As a full time academic I could, at one point, before kids, and without a teaching load, read many books. Most often, most of us, read only a few chapters of books, and the intro and conclusion. The only books one reads through and through are for review or central to your incredibly narrow field.
Many people lie about reading a book, and those who have read cover to cover can tell, and I've often caught people in lies about the books they've read.
I imagine that I can read literature faster than most of you. It took me two sessions over two days to read blood meridian, and about four sessions to read the possessed by Dostoyevsky, three sessions to read Madame Bovary. Some things take longer because they're less interesting for me, like the classics or 20th century lit. In fairness, the possessed captured my attention because of my research interests and aversion to commies and socialists.
My wife reads lots of books each year. They're bestsellers, romance, etc. When I look at some of them, I notice that the font is huge like 16pt, there are no footnotes, and the dialogue cuts down on total text.
>Did he really? How the frick is that even possible?
He's obviously speed reading. But, at the same time, many people on IQfy would have you believe that anyone reading more than one book a month isn't understanding anything. In reality you can read an average sized novel in a single day if that's all you do. I recently read an excerpt from a letter from Tolstoy where he talks about how he read Dostoevsky's House of the Dead in an afternoon, and that is about 350 pages, and that alone would seem to be a supernatural feat to some of the zoomers here.
No, he's just trained to dissect books. So while you're reading for pleasure, he's scanning the content and analyzing the first sentences of paragraphs, the last sentences, chapter structures, and creating a plot map of the essence. He's reading some scenes, but not the whole thing. This means he's skipping a great deal of content, but he will get the gist of what's going on.
But yeah, I don't like Harold Bloom or neurotic academics like him.
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>read cover >read first page >read last page
Yea no I totally read it anon, I was just uh, deconstruction, uh, scanning the essence. I`m a brainlet and that`s how brainlets read I promise.
I've read about 30 books this year so far, none of them were YA, a few were novellas but even if you don't count those it is still more than 20 already.
I'm confused to frick and back by people who count up how many books they read and other shit like this. It's like they're not even pursuing literature in and of itself, but instead playing some sort of fricking BINGO game where they have to scratch titles off their list and tally them up. It's just so fricked up.
dude it's not that hard to remember the books you have read since january and add them up. it'snot like you need an excel sheet
I usually get pissed about stuff that people do but your idea is very stupid
Bro, youre going to have to start with Dr. Seuss and move on to Berenstein Bears if you're going to catch up. This is a mountain you can climb. I believe in you.
I don’t count how many books I read. When I’m done one, I move on to the next. I read everyday but keeping track to reach a goal like an achievable in a video game seems pointless. Maybe it’s good for beginners to have motivation? But I still think it’s better to just read some everyday so you don’t get in a rut
Like 4? I read slowly since I like to take notes and go back and reread stuff I underlined earlier. Also I have other hobbies that I like more than reading.
Also is this really what an average booktuber reads?
There are some amazing books there. I read Migration to the North and Ice Palace this year too and they were fantastic, and Paramo is one of my all time favourites. I haven't heard of the others.
Not at all. We need fresh blood. The oldgays are an embarrassment. The more an anon lurks the more unfortunate habits they'll pick up from the long time residents.
I read all of Berserk (half of which I'd read years ago), then I read:
Books 1-6 of Wheel of Time (mostly good, occasionally great)
No Longer Human (loved it, though not as much as The Setting Sun)
Dark Emu (shitty ahistorical book about Aboriginal Australian history written by a delusional white man who started identifying as Aboriginal in his 30s and has refused to prove it, even ignoring requests by Aboriginal community leaders to stop identifying as Aboriginal. I hate this c**t.)
My Idea of Fun (shit)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (loved it)
And that's it... It's sad but I stopped reading almost entirely for the past 5 years due to heavy drug use, which I've since quit and am now starting to read again.
4 books around 800 pages total but if you factor in that im on a computer most of the time reading then far far more, i spend most of my waking hours reading random stuff online.
I’ve had to reclaim my reading speed from years of internet distractions turning my brain into mush. I read 350 page books in a day when I was a teen. Then I read barely 5 books a year for many years. Really it’s just habit and consistency. I removed the movie watching and mindless tv watching and internet browsing. I switch between fiction that works for audiobook so I can still do chores while listening. Harder books go on the reading tablet. It’s better than a tablet or computer because it can’t do anything but read books.
I wake up before 7 every day, try to do some reading before work. Then I do some reading at lunch time. I'll do some more reading after work if time permits. I try to read more on the weekends but sometimes I just don't feel like it. You just have to be consistent. I seldom ever take a day off of reading even if I only read 5 pages. I have books on my nightstand that I plan to read after I'm finished with my current book. Sometimes this comes at the expense of other hobbies. Also I hate starting something and not finishing it so now I only pick up something I know that I will commit to.
About 20 so far (I think just under actually).
Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses took me quite a while to get through. Might try to have 35 or 40 by years end.
Anon this is a very specific question that comes from the depths of my sperg heart, but what languages does Ulysses contain? Does it contain Ancient Greek? I'm seriously thinking about putting it off for a few years until my Greek is good enough since I heard that it has a lot of it, latin, Italian, french and spanish are not a problem btw, I hope It doesn't contain German though since i have no plans to learn it.
It does contain some latin, from what I remember about 20 unique sentences total, considering most of the time it just repeats the same sentence again or slightly different. I don't remember any german being in it. (Not that anon btw.)
I've only read Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations so far. I'm at the start of Notes from Underground by Dostoyevski but it's an incredibly painful read for me, it's like reading my own thoughts and I don't like it.
1. Dune
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. God Emperor of Dune
5. Heretics of Dune
6. Chapterhouse Dune
7. Hyperion
8. Starship Troopers
9. The Fall of Hyperion
10. A Boy and his Dog
11. I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream
12. Shadow of the Torturer
13. Stranger in a Strange Land (dropped)
14. Claw of the Conciliator
15. The Hobbit
16. A Brave New World (dropped)
17. The Sword of the Lictor
18. Citadel of the Autarch
19. Temple of the Golden Pavillion
20. The Urth of the New Sun
21. Endymion
22. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
23. Heart of Darkness
24. Roadside Picnic
25. Ubik
26. Deus Irae
27. All Tomorrows
28. Tarnsman of Gor
29. The Godfather
30. Nightside of the Long Sun
31. The Sicilian
32. Lake of the Long Sun
Soumission - Houellebecq
Augustus - John Williams
Mysteries - Hamsun
Kill ’Em All - John Niven
The Class of '49: A Novel and Two Stories - Don Carpenter
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Monsieur - Toussaint
Dubliners - Joyce
The Elementary Particles - Houellebecq
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship - Bernhard
Television - Toussaint
Platform - Houellebecq
War and Peace - Tolstoy
January
(1995) On Industrial Society and its Future by Theodore Kaczynski
(1958) The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
February
(1965) Dune by Frank Herbert
(1969) Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert
(~200) Roman Lives by Plutarch
March
(~65) Letters by Seneca
April
(1998) Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
May
(2021) Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and War Elephants by Garrett Ryan
(1888) Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche
(1999) Manifesto for a European Renaissance by Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier
(49 BC) Commentary on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar
June
(46BC) Commentary on the Civil War by Julius Caesar
(2018) How to Judge People by What They Look Like by Edward Dutton
how is dutton? i imagine most of it to be bullshit, but ive never read his stuff before.
January
(1995) On Industrial Society and its Future by Theodore Kaczynski
(1958) The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
February
(1965) Dune by Frank Herbert
(1969) Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert
(~200) Roman Lives by Plutarch
March
(~65) Letters by Seneca
April
(1998) Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
May
(2021) Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and War Elephants by Garrett Ryan
(1888) Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche
(1999) Manifesto for a European Renaissance by Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier
(49 BC) Commentary on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar
June
(46BC) Commentary on the Civil War by Julius Caesar
(2018) How to Judge People by What They Look Like by Edward Dutton
>I fricking love skimming over 40 books a year without thinking so that I can get the heckin' high score and impress strangers on the internet!!! >Who cares bro I "read" 40 books that means I'm a gigachad, this infographic from /misc/ says so! >What do you mean "what have I learnt from the books I've read"? I... uhh... that like you should... uh be patient with people and uh... not do bad things because uh... philosopher guy #1829 said [quote with no substance] and I live by that. >Of course I don't live by that in a strict sense, I just parrot it when I'm virtue signaling, I haven't changed whatsoever.
lmao, I was on a books discord and someone got booted for saying this. Then the mods spent a few paragraphs commenting on how any form of reading is "valid" and that the discord is a safe space.
40 books is possible to read in a year and still understand what you read. Like it's going to take an hour and a bit a day and you'll be good. Although I'd probably stick to 30 or so.
25 of them but 5 were short story collections. I read novels, short stories, a little poetry and a little non-fiction. I think I may read a lot more history and foreign texts next year, I havent read the big 4 Chinese classics yet.
The amount of readlet seethe in this thread is astouding. Can people really not handle 80k words in a week? Granted plenty of novels are twice that length but most aren't. Why get mad because you don't have enough time?
I'd say 10, I was trying the 52 book challenge but I really can't see myself reading if it isn't for writing something or to lull me to sleep, so it is hard to find the mood to read the kind of book I want to read, pic related
26 so far but I’ve finished short stories and poems that don’t count towards books. I’ve also begun several books I haven’t finished yet. I set myself book “goals” so I stop browsing the internet and instead do something productive.
Same and I had to put down Melmoth the Wanderer after part 1 to come back later. It goes off on such a long tangent about the Spaniard monk that I grew frustrated. Maturin has some interesting insights into religion but some gothic novels really are slogs.
Does anyone ACTUALLY have books and research on internet celebrities and how they work? Like the woman in OP, what kind of audience does she have? Is it lonely men who jerk off to her while she's talking? Is it young women who see her as some sort of life coach? Do people actively listen to what these people say or do they keep them in the background so they have a human voice to fill their loneliness? Outside of the most obvious examples e.g. hot girl showing her breasts and lonely 30-40 year olds simping, there are many other types of e-celeb I just don't understand. Are they astroturfed? An example is videogame streamers, sometimes they receive like, 5000 dollar donations from randoms. I assume these guys do not shove things up their ass for that money, because they're usually ugly to average guys. Why do people throw money at them? Is it astroturf shit to get people to believe that they're wildly successful? Is it a sockpuppet to make people excited and fabricate a personality cult? How much money that circulates around these people is real? How much of their growth is organic and how much is astroturfed by some company they work with? Do they skirt the law? I have so many questions. I hate all this shit and I wish they all dropped dead and YouTube and social media went down forever, but at the same time I am morbidly curious to know all the ins and outs and how rotten and israelited up it all is.
>Does anyone ACTUALLY have books and research on internet celebrities and how they work?
they exist, im sure, but most of the information in them could be known to you if you simply spend some time in internet communities in which livestreaming is the common interest. >Like the woman in OP, what kind of audience does she have? Is it lonely men who jerk off to her while she's talking? Is it young women who see her as some sort of life coach? Do people actively listen to what these people say or do they keep them in the background so they have a human voice to fill their loneliness?
its mostly young women who are interested in reading. look to the comments of these videos to find who the audience is. >I assume these guys do not shove things up their ass for that money, because they're usually ugly to average guys. Why do people throw money at them?
reasons for throwing money at livestreamers differ depending on the situation. if the streamer is very small--such as a regular working man doing it in his free time--you may donate money out of a genuine desire to help him out financially. when it gets to the point where a person is a professional streamer making thousands or millions off their streaming, then the reasons for doing so become odd. people who donate are usually a certain breed of terminally online who often just want to be acknowledged by the streamer, who they see as somewhat of a friend. >Is it astroturf shit to get people to believe that they're wildly successful?
maybe, it doesnt seem necessary to do so when people are constantly growing without it. streamers usually grow from notoriety gained by outside activities: porn, twitter, esports teams, etc. It's uncommon for someone to gain more viewership exclusively from livestreaming. they need to do other things or they need to social climb AKA dickride someone more popular to leech off of their notoriety.
none of what ive said is absolute and i encourahe you to throw yourself into the livestreaming world and come to your own conclusion.
>if you simply spend some time in internet communities in which livestreaming is the common interest
this is not true because the people in these environments treat each other as their audience, so all you see is the end product of all the grifting. they will obviously not say that they've made an illegal agreement with a company or they're recycling money. I want clear, truthful data. another aspect that makes direct observation difficult is that communities where streamers are reachable are completely divorced from these guys who come out of the blue and get tons of followers. The reasons why a seemingly random person would climb to notoriety so quickly are opaque. They're not special people, they're not attractive, they're not necessarily good at the games if they play games, they just come out of nowhere and blow up, like one day some new face appears on TV. Did that new TV girl suck tons of wiener to get there? Maybe, but I would like hard data on how it actually works and what actually happens. Considering that the Internet has replaced TV almost entirely I can guess that things have become really convoluted and there are a lot of hidden mechanics behind what people ascend and what people do not. There is also a very valuable element of looking "average", I think marketers discovered that if a person is not remarkable, e.g. a girl not too attractive or the production value of a show looks "homemade" people feel more warm toward this shit and develop a parasocial relationship faster. So the bullshit keeps piling up and up. It's not like on TV where you know that there's tons of money behind it. With streamers there's a vested interest in making them look like normal people, like you and me, who bought a camera and started making videos in their living room. >look to the comments of these videos to find who the audience is.
people who comment are a tiny percentage and they are not necessarily the people who make up for most of the audience, nor they necessarily constitute the paying audience. again, no clear organized and truthful data >you may donate >people who donate are usually
again, no data, only conjectures. I can make all sorts of conjectures too about people who donate 5 grand to a guy playing minecraft but I'd like to have actual data and truth. it could be a marketing maneuver, money laundering, anything. >none of what ive said is absolute
no offense but you have said nothing at all, I can make assumptions just fine on my own.
what I was curious for was hard data exactly because I didn't want to run on conjectures.
>people who comment are a tiny percentage and they are not necessarily the people who make up for most of the audience, nor they necessarily constitute the paying audience. again, no clear organized and truthful data
its impossible to know the motivations of silent viewers. the best window into the general fanbase of a content creator is to look at the fans who are participating in the discussion of them. >again, no data, only conjectures. I can make all sorts of conjectures too about people who donate 5 grand to a guy playing minecraft but I'd like to have actual data and truth. it could be a marketing maneuver, money laundering, anything.
its hard to measure it because of how vast and balkanized the streaming world is. many things such as money laundering, dick sucking, wouldn't be public knowledge due to them needing being kept secret. the psychology of the viewers and streamers is also not measurable in an absolute manner. >no offense but you have said nothing at all, I can make assumptions just fine on my own. what I was curious for was hard data exactly because I didn't want to run on conjectures.
unfortunately, most of what you will find is conjectures. its why i recommended you involve yourself in the streaming world so you can perceive it for yourself.
Damn seeing all the books you've guys have read I'm feeling like a brainlet cause it feels like I've read a lot (time wise) this year:
Revolt against the modern world
Schopenhauers essays
Nietzsche - the gay science
Animal Farm (reread)
Brothers Karamazov (this one took me a while to get through)
Hamlet
Blood meridian
The overcoat (short story)
Gösta Berlings saga (Swedish classic)
Currently reading Ulysses and taking my time with it, doing a lot of secondary reading.
3, I stoped reading when i stop watching movies, i don´t know what happend but i just can´t keep my mind in one place, too much anxiety and problems in my life.
I haven't finished anything but most of the stuff I read is long. Started the LotR trilogy in February and I'm only halfway through. Planned on reading City of God too, finally, but I don't think I'll get to start it until Octobre at this rate. Now that I think about it, I could be reading the Japan and China history books I put on my 2022 to do list at the same time as LotR tho.
(I'm also a very slow reader...)
Only 7 so far. My goal is 14 (my lucky number)
1. Dune - Frank Herbert
2. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
3. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
4. Pines - Blake Crouch
5. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
6. Mode One - Alan Roger Currie
7. The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
I've really just been reading two java programming books, two books on networks and security, and parts of the bible. I think earlier in the year I read a book from joseph ratzinger. I haven't had the luxury to just read books because im studying for other things
Great >fear and loathing (reread) >trainspotting >pimp >millenium series (reread)
Good >kitchen confidential >angelas ashes
I am neutral on the rest, didn't like Tina Fey's book at all
7 /sig/ books, 3 fiction books, 1 play
Right now :
The bible - page 353 which would be 1/5
How to make friends and influence people : almost finishing it 30 pages left
so that would make 11 books read.
Have any anons read pic related books and could tell me which would be better to read and if i should add others
Not even close to enough and I fricking hate myself for it. I don't know what's happened to me this year. Currently reading Shogun which is pretty good.
I read so slow yet regularly that at this point I can predict how many books I can finish. Approximately one a week, but usually I am chipping away at a few books at a time, usually one novel and then collections of shorter work. It sometimes takes a couple weeks to read the big ass novels.
A friend recently suggested I start a channel on books. He said that there would be an audience for my discussion and description of bindings, binding, printing, and acquisition of rare and fine books.
He suggested using the monetization for the acquisition of further volumes.
I'm sorry but you do not have the thumbs for a public facing role like that and I worry that if you were to employ a hired hand the expenses would bury you. It's okay for hobbies to remain hobbies!
Hands, seen or unseen, are very much like the roots of a plant: their influence will be felt in anything you do. You can hide your hideous thumbs completely, but the viewer will still feel the aftershocks of disgust that runs in the undercurrents of your content. I'm sorry but there is no way around it.
Thanks, I've been getting lots of these smaller private books, like Collins, kelmscott, kynoch, eragny and the like. I got an 1813 anatomy of melancholy
For me it's the 2 volumes of Aristotle's Complete Works published by Princeton University Press. These are the only two books I will ever need to read again. I love studying Aristotle after a hard day of sucking off construction workers.
Piers Steel - Procrastination Equation (skimmed a lot because it's littered with useless anecdotes that nobody cares about)
Mircea Eliade - The Forge and the Crucible
Julius Evola - The Mystery of the Grail
Julius Evola - The Hermetic Tradition
Ernst Jünger - Battle as an Inner Experience
Oswald Spengler - Man and Technics
So 6 in total so far. Currently reading:
Chris Voss - Never split the Difference
Ernst Jünger - Fire and Movement
I've read almost every Platonic text before and only have an interest for it out of a historical perspective. The actual philosophy is useless when already knowing its significance when referred to in modern philosophy. I'm reading it perfetly well.
>all YA schlock that can be read in an hour by anyone with an IQ higher than 75
But I have a negative IQ
My IQ is an imaginary number
My IQ is a square root of a negative number
My IQ is (√i)^2
My IQ is 1/x at x=0.
Approached from -1
Under-appreciated response
>NOOO you cant read things you enjoy
>NOOOOOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF MY HECKIN moronic WANNABE ECELEB BOOKTUBER WAIFUERINOOO
>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU MUST HAVE READ ZERO BOOKS BECAUSE YOU INSULTED MY 60-IQ ETHOT WHO TREATS READING YA SCHLOCK AS A PERSONALITY TRAIT
So why aren’t you reading?
He just likes to feel better about not reading.
thats the quarto format, not the octavo.
she reads college books.
>she reads college books
Here’s your “college books,” simp
About 60. But I read a lot of 60 page poetry collections you can read in a day
>About 60. But I read a lot of 60 page poetry collections you can read in a day
Post poetry collections.
Reading Toby Martinez de Las Rivas at the moment. A bit like Geoffrey Hill, complex syntax and imagery, very rooted in the English landscape. I think people here would like him if they could be persuaded to read modern poets.
Plus after I realised I liked him I researched more about him and he is more than a little /misc/ - there was controversy when he was shortlisted for the Forward Prize.
damm she lookin washed
I’ve read all 11 F Gardner novels and L’Academie
where can i get em in paperback? I want to read some schizo shit and for the parts ive seen they are just that
I think they’re on amazon
I just checked btw. Are these books always this cheap or there is some sale going on or something?
Meant to quote
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726
no one is interested in reading that crap, those are obvious shills or memers
they're literal discord trannies trying to ruin the board. another board I go to is getting ruined with a similar pattern. it's literally just bunkertrannies raiding the site nonstop and they got a bunch of troony jannies helping out
They do it for a few hours each day. Right now is a quiet period.
I hope someone disembowels you IRL
and frick the janny prostitute who's not banning you
I’ve read Call of the Crocodile and Call of the Arcade. Both were amazing.
Gardner unironically inspires me now, even if it's him doing this whole thing or just some random neckbeard
6 (six)
one, and just because I didn't have anything else to do, I only come here to make fun of people who actually read shit
I reread the first 8 books of the Honor Harrington series this year, as well as the novelization of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. I no longer read important, serious books. I'm 46, I have nothing left to learn about life and it'd be too late anyways.
bout tree fiddy
36 books.
1.5 and i am guaranted smarter than u
>guaranted
or ur $ back
13 so far, 14 when i finish the Quixote which I'm in the half of the 2nd part.
20 was my goal for this year since I'm a new reader.
I don't see the emphasis number of books. Sense of accomplishment for a beginner, perhaps. But otherwise pointless. Read quality and enjoy it rather than focus on quantity.
Thread is about quantity, if you wanna talk about quality make your own, c**t.
It is pointless but I like tracking things like this. Its especially fun with a site like candl or goodreads where you can look back and remember your thoughts/ what your life was like while reading certian books.
It helps me keep myself on track, since it gives me a pace of books (in this case, one about every two weeks) that I can sustain. It's not a hard and fast rule.
Nine, which is more than I had read in the same amount of years before it
Kierkeegard - Sickness unto Death
Schulz - Shops and Hourglass Sanatorium
Huysmans - A Rebours
Cervantes - Don Quijote
Kafka - Amerika
i almost finished Capital vol 1 and i in half of In Search of Lost Time part 2
based. reading 100+ books of crap in a year is such a dumb trend that schools promote.
i have read 10 in entirety (12 if you count each section of new history of western philosophy as their own book) as well as some short stories by gogol, prometheus bound, half of the essential plotinus, and some other short form stuff.
Just finished Gravity's Rainbow, abobawdely loved it, list goes from beginning of the year to the present. Was aiming for bigger books this year, I see a lot of people read a shitload of short or YA shlock, but I went out of my way to read the big boys. Might cap the year off preparing myself for Ulysess by reading Dante and rereading Hamlet, as it is I guess the anniversary.
>The Dead Zone
>Christine
>Needful Things
>Swan Song
>Blood Meridian
>Suttree
>The Road
>Stoner
>100 Years of Solitude
>The Stranger
>The Plague
>The Fall
>The Metamorpheses
>Don Quixote (with reading group on here)
>Invisible Man
>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Gravity's Rainbow (finished it last Tuesday)
need to read some more kafka, metamorpheses was promising, still need to read the Trial.
What's your opinion of the plague anon, was thinking about picking up a copy.
Thought it was pretty good, I think those others of his were stronger, but that's marginal at best. I liked the Stranger the most, if you're just starting with Camus.
11. Was planning to make it through all the Greek stuff in a year but it's looking like that's not going to happen.
11 is commendable anon, dont give up.
here is a link to a pdf that might be of service.
https://br1lib.org/book/2385125/3ae101
Thank you fren, looks juicy. Have you read it? What is your experience with this companion? Would you say it's particularly helpful to understanding Plato?
read the first few chapters and the introduction.
im not sure i didnt finish it, but yeah its probably better than knuckle dragging through ten thousand lines of plato straight from the source. but i could be wrong, its your choice really.
zero (0)
None, I've just listened to 14 of them.
38 so far. I think I've found my upper limit for how much I can read and for it not to be just all mush in my brain. I'm enjoying it while I can because in a couple of years I'm taking a break from work to do a degree and I know that my reading for pleasure will plummet to almost nothing. Stand outs of the year is Barthes: some of the most entertaining essays I've ever read, Don Quixote, 'nuf said, Maupassant's Bel Ami, what a delightful, charming and amoral book, and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, what a raucous adventure, never have I laughed out loud so much at a book before.
You might notice that I only mentioned fiction. This year I've mostly stuck to lighter non-fiction hence why none of it is in my favourites for the year.
*key, dark grey = non-fiction, light grey = fiction.
This fricking shithole is slowing me down. I'm not working, not doing shit, and I'm reading way less than when I was in Tokyo. I'll go back to normal in late July or august.
Bel ami bro!
Very impressive I might checkout the concise history of Buddhism myself.
How can women read so many books? I barely read God Emperor of Dune in 6 months.
I know she's got a clown tier layer of makeup to become passable but I want to rail this woman
they lie
>books men read go like:
Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot.
>books women read go like:
The cow goes moo. The cat goes meow. The duck goes quack.
>The cow goes moo. The cat goes meow. The duck goes quack.
But what does the fox say?
Women truly has matrician taste because they prefer books like Ulysses
you're so full of yourself lmao
and then i literally started to cry like rain from the clouds though
Famous woman-centric author Cormac McCarthy.
I just read God Emperor and it took me 3 days. Make more time for reading or work on getting that speed up.
if they read anything besides YA MMF Smut, they skim it
maybe she's just smarter than you are.
Most "booktubers" lie out of their ass regarding the amount of books they read. It's basically just to impress their audience, audience which uses them to feel good as "readers by proxy". Frick "booktubers". Anyone who wishes to read would actually do so instead of watching them. Even reading blogs is slightly more dignified because you'd be, well, reading.
If it's your job then it's possible.
I think booktubers like reading books and talking about them. None of the ones I've watched possess the lit pseud mentality prevalent here and none of the appear to be "showing off".
>Audience that wants to feel good as readers by proxy.
That's a funny statement. I've found a booktuber that has good tastes and his recommendations and they up end up on my wishlist about a quarter of the time. It's a good way to get exposed to things that I otherwise wouldn't have heard about; I don't exactly have a literary friend group
I've read 5 books this far but I'm trying to read more but I can't find any books that really interest me.
Women outperform men in reading skills so it's not a surprise.
19 so far; my goal this year is 26.
1, bit it was ulysses
About 30 all things considered
frick
9 dostoevskys
w & p
some neetzsche
some jung
some homer
handful of plato
not much im pretty upset that i didnt finish the greeks yet.
im just going to read the continuum guides instead of 3000pages of greek autists debating the color of the sky
but also i read some less than ten technical analysis books when i steered from humanities into goymbling
sonya from c & p is my favorite woman in the dostoevsky canon.
i wish there was a repentant prostitute in my apartment passionately reading proverbs to me
Cool incel fantasy lmao
This part really stuck out to me, more so as a Christcuck fantasy than an incel fantasy. Either way, it was incredibly unrealistic for Sonya to forgive Raskolnikov immediately after she learned he had killed her friend.
Sonya was a wom*n, you can't really predict what they'll do next tbh
You underestimate how ready some people are to forgive. Sonya and some others see mercy as so incredibly transformative that to see sorrow unto repentance, even the chance of it, is worth forgiving someone. It's been seen in plenty of murder trials. Honestly the most touching thing in the story isnt the confession of guilt in the police station, it's the confession before Sonya in Siberia which was Raskolnikov finally understanding what Sonya was asking of him, to believe that God can forgive.
also i read some of the bible, puts me to sleep
Same. I gave up after i reached the book of Joshua.
>not starting with a gospel like John
What did you think of W&P? I'm about 1/3 through and it may be the best thing I've ever read.
26. My goal at the beginning of the year was 100 so I read 13 of those in january alone and then I stopped reading for multiple months lol. Now I'm reading about 50 pages a day (about 1 book a week)
8
same
*Sigh* *unzips dick* what's her name?
3
Idk I don't keep track, probably at least 25.
>It's another IQfy seethes at a woman who sincerely enjoys reading thread
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Phasma was great anon. Thanks for sharing. Wouldn't have read it without you.
I've read 16 books so far including the ASOIAF series
GRRM is so easy to read, I was reading 300 pages daily at one point
I never thought too highly of this b***h until I saw her feet. 10/10.
I checked her instagram and damn you were right
Don't leave a homie hanging
Shut the frick up wigger.
hope there's better ones
Jesus what a homely woman
yep. that's a man.
I love her
Post them
-Rage by King
-The black books by Jung
Only half a year left. Cheers
The only book you need
it’s actually garbage
haven't been keeping track but I've just started The Rings of Saturn after reading all of Sebald's other fiction work and that's all that matters for the entirety of 2022.
0 i think.
Are you sure?!
>reading my more than 20 books a year
kek this is just an admission you read YA or novellas. you dont even have to say the books you read.
this. maybe 40 tops if you have a ton of time in your hands, but when we are talking about 70+ range, it is an admission that you are reading crap.
This is mostly correct. Reading dense books takes a few days if not a week for serious scholar.
As a full time academic I could, at one point, before kids, and without a teaching load, read many books. Most often, most of us, read only a few chapters of books, and the intro and conclusion. The only books one reads through and through are for review or central to your incredibly narrow field.
Many people lie about reading a book, and those who have read cover to cover can tell, and I've often caught people in lies about the books they've read.
I imagine that I can read literature faster than most of you. It took me two sessions over two days to read blood meridian, and about four sessions to read the possessed by Dostoyevsky, three sessions to read Madame Bovary. Some things take longer because they're less interesting for me, like the classics or 20th century lit. In fairness, the possessed captured my attention because of my research interests and aversion to commies and socialists.
My wife reads lots of books each year. They're bestsellers, romance, etc. When I look at some of them, I notice that the font is huge like 16pt, there are no footnotes, and the dialogue cuts down on total text.
harold bloom read infinite jest in a single morning. using your own limited capabilities as a yard stick for the possible is not a good idea.
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I was hoping to read 100+ this year, don’t think it’s gonna happen
Did he really? How the frick is that even possible?
>How the frick is that even possible?
It is not. A 1000 page book can not be read in 1 day, let alone 1 morning.
Brainlet cope.
If you think reading 1000 thousand pages in one morning is possible then I'm not the brainlet here, brainlet.
if you just read the page numbers you can officially declare you read every page without lying.
checkermate bruh
>Did he really? How the frick is that even possible?
He's obviously speed reading. But, at the same time, many people on IQfy would have you believe that anyone reading more than one book a month isn't understanding anything. In reality you can read an average sized novel in a single day if that's all you do. I recently read an excerpt from a letter from Tolstoy where he talks about how he read Dostoevsky's House of the Dead in an afternoon, and that is about 350 pages, and that alone would seem to be a supernatural feat to some of the zoomers here.
So harold bloom is a lying pretentious douchebag what else is new
No, he's just trained to dissect books. So while you're reading for pleasure, he's scanning the content and analyzing the first sentences of paragraphs, the last sentences, chapter structures, and creating a plot map of the essence. He's reading some scenes, but not the whole thing. This means he's skipping a great deal of content, but he will get the gist of what's going on.
But yeah, I don't like Harold Bloom or neurotic academics like him.
>read cover
>read first page
>read last page
Yea no I totally read it anon, I was just uh, deconstruction, uh, scanning the essence. I`m a brainlet and that`s how brainlets read I promise.
I've read about 30 books this year so far, none of them were YA, a few were novellas but even if you don't count those it is still more than 20 already.
I don't know how to read, I just come here because I like the idea of books.
Same tbqh
probably ten so far
None.
I barely read this year, but the last couple of months I read 17 books. Mostly Shakespeare though.
About 10, longest one so far is lonesome dove
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Is she /ourgirl/ guys?
no
Nope. That would be Alice Cappelle.
I finished 3 books in January and only 1 more since then. (But I've read about 2000 pages out of a bunch of different books).
I'm confused to frick and back by people who count up how many books they read and other shit like this. It's like they're not even pursuing literature in and of itself, but instead playing some sort of fricking BINGO game where they have to scratch titles off their list and tally them up. It's just so fricked up.
People like you shouldn't be on this board. There are guys actively reading and keeping track of what they read and you call it "fricked up".
Anon is so dumb he believes if someone counts the books they've read it means they read them for the purpose of counting them.
dude it's not that hard to remember the books you have read since january and add them up. it'snot like you need an excel sheet
I usually get pissed about stuff that people do but your idea is very stupid
12, 13 if you count iliad and odyssee as separate despite that i have them in one book.
Probably around 20-30 so far, but I was a NEET throughout January and had around four or five weeks of holidays afterwards.
How do I fix this /bros/? I wanted to at least finish 20 books this year.
Reaf
Breh
literally just read a book Black person
Bro, youre going to have to start with Dr. Seuss and move on to Berenstein Bears if you're going to catch up. This is a mountain you can climb. I believe in you.
I don’t count how many books I read. When I’m done one, I move on to the next. I read everyday but keeping track to reach a goal like an achievable in a video game seems pointless. Maybe it’s good for beginners to have motivation? But I still think it’s better to just read some everyday so you don’t get in a rut
Like 4? I read slowly since I like to take notes and go back and reread stuff I underlined earlier. Also I have other hobbies that I like more than reading.
Also is this really what an average booktuber reads?
I hate women so fricking much.
There are some amazing books there. I read Migration to the North and Ice Palace this year too and they were fantastic, and Paramo is one of my all time favourites. I haven't heard of the others.
I got bored of Ice Palace halfway through not gonna lie. I really really didn't like the writing style of that author
This thread explains why people should lurk for a few years before partiicpating on this site
Not at all. We need fresh blood. The oldgays are an embarrassment. The more an anon lurks the more unfortunate habits they'll pick up from the long time residents.
Precisely, the people replying here clearly haven't picked up on our habits enough.
Why don't women read Jung?
I read all of Berserk (half of which I'd read years ago), then I read:
Books 1-6 of Wheel of Time (mostly good, occasionally great)
No Longer Human (loved it, though not as much as The Setting Sun)
Dark Emu (shitty ahistorical book about Aboriginal Australian history written by a delusional white man who started identifying as Aboriginal in his 30s and has refused to prove it, even ignoring requests by Aboriginal community leaders to stop identifying as Aboriginal. I hate this c**t.)
My Idea of Fun (shit)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (loved it)
And that's it... It's sad but I stopped reading almost entirely for the past 5 years due to heavy drug use, which I've since quit and am now starting to read again.
One (1). Brideshead Revisiterd by Evelyn Waugh.
For me? It's Cathy
4 books around 800 pages total but if you factor in that im on a computer most of the time reading then far far more, i spend most of my waking hours reading random stuff online.
I finished 17. I put down about three or four books, and I plan on having 45 read by the end of the year
How the frick do you guys read so much?
I’ve had to reclaim my reading speed from years of internet distractions turning my brain into mush. I read 350 page books in a day when I was a teen. Then I read barely 5 books a year for many years. Really it’s just habit and consistency. I removed the movie watching and mindless tv watching and internet browsing. I switch between fiction that works for audiobook so I can still do chores while listening. Harder books go on the reading tablet. It’s better than a tablet or computer because it can’t do anything but read books.
> fiction that works for audiobook
In audiobook form*
speedreading is a hell of a drug
I wake up before 7 every day, try to do some reading before work. Then I do some reading at lunch time. I'll do some more reading after work if time permits. I try to read more on the weekends but sometimes I just don't feel like it. You just have to be consistent. I seldom ever take a day off of reading even if I only read 5 pages. I have books on my nightstand that I plan to read after I'm finished with my current book. Sometimes this comes at the expense of other hobbies. Also I hate starting something and not finishing it so now I only pick up something I know that I will commit to.
turn off your internet for a month homosexual you will read
76. My target is 160 but I might blast past it.
>random prostitute's booktube channel
Reminds me of this event, i feel like it was yesterday.
absolutely ~seething~
lmao she actually got ass blasted over a generic shitpost
Based. All these homosexual youtubers should be called out.
she btfo'd you with her first comment but shot herself in the foot with the 2nd
>says the person with zero content
lol why would I make content for the internet
around 30.
Zero
2022 ? 17 so far.
Thirty something. I don't keep count.
she hab a bf :*( she said in recent vid 🙁
with or without fanfics?
About 20 so far (I think just under actually).
Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses took me quite a while to get through. Might try to have 35 or 40 by years end.
>Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses
i bet you're really smart
I dunno man, I fell for the maximalism meme.
maximalism isn't a meme, minimalism is a spook
Anon this is a very specific question that comes from the depths of my sperg heart, but what languages does Ulysses contain? Does it contain Ancient Greek? I'm seriously thinking about putting it off for a few years until my Greek is good enough since I heard that it has a lot of it, latin, Italian, french and spanish are not a problem btw, I hope It doesn't contain German though since i have no plans to learn it.
It does contain some latin, from what I remember about 20 unique sentences total, considering most of the time it just repeats the same sentence again or slightly different. I don't remember any german being in it. (Not that anon btw.)
Seven, but I haven't read a book since April.
14 new reads with 2 re-reads
I've only read Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations so far. I'm at the start of Notes from Underground by Dostoyevski but it's an incredibly painful read for me, it's like reading my own thoughts and I don't like it.
Jesus, she's so beautiful.
2.
Which ones?
King James Bible and the Summa Theologica.
I forgot to mention, as a scholar, one often annotates and takes notes during and after reading. This slows consumption
It's hard to break the habit. I find myself editing books as I read
I'll read her after we get married I love her who is she
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I haven't read shit in two years. last book was turgenev's father and sons. i just get bored by everything
anon, you are depressed
yes I am feeling like a piece of shit. recommend me some book, please
atomised by houellebecq
I've read it
how about the possessed by dostoevsky?
1. Dune
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. God Emperor of Dune
5. Heretics of Dune
6. Chapterhouse Dune
7. Hyperion
8. Starship Troopers
9. The Fall of Hyperion
10. A Boy and his Dog
11. I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream
12. Shadow of the Torturer
13. Stranger in a Strange Land (dropped)
14. Claw of the Conciliator
15. The Hobbit
16. A Brave New World (dropped)
17. The Sword of the Lictor
18. Citadel of the Autarch
19. Temple of the Golden Pavillion
20. The Urth of the New Sun
21. Endymion
22. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
23. Heart of Darkness
24. Roadside Picnic
25. Ubik
26. Deus Irae
27. All Tomorrows
28. Tarnsman of Gor
29. The Godfather
30. Nightside of the Long Sun
31. The Sicilian
32. Lake of the Long Sun
10/10 I'd let you touch my wife.
Touch her yourself. I don't want to touch other men's wives.
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I want to sniff her farts
only 13 smdh
Soumission - Houellebecq
Augustus - John Williams
Mysteries - Hamsun
Kill ’Em All - John Niven
The Class of '49: A Novel and Two Stories - Don Carpenter
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Monsieur - Toussaint
Dubliners - Joyce
The Elementary Particles - Houellebecq
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship - Bernhard
Television - Toussaint
Platform - Houellebecq
War and Peace - Tolstoy
based
how is dutton? i imagine most of it to be bullshit, but ive never read his stuff before.
13.
January
(1995) On Industrial Society and its Future by Theodore Kaczynski
(1958) The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
February
(1965) Dune by Frank Herbert
(1969) Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert
(~200) Roman Lives by Plutarch
March
(~65) Letters by Seneca
April
(1998) Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
May
(2021) Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and War Elephants by Garrett Ryan
(1888) Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche
(1999) Manifesto for a European Renaissance by Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier
(49 BC) Commentary on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar
June
(46BC) Commentary on the Civil War by Julius Caesar
(2018) How to Judge People by What They Look Like by Edward Dutton
>I fricking love skimming over 40 books a year without thinking so that I can get the heckin' high score and impress strangers on the internet!!!
>Who cares bro I "read" 40 books that means I'm a gigachad, this infographic from /misc/ says so!
>What do you mean "what have I learnt from the books I've read"? I... uhh... that like you should... uh be patient with people and uh... not do bad things because uh... philosopher guy #1829 said [quote with no substance] and I live by that.
>Of course I don't live by that in a strict sense, I just parrot it when I'm virtue signaling, I haven't changed whatsoever.
I had a colleague who "read" more than 100 books a year...
..most of them were audiobooks and they couldn't talk about any books that I had also read, bc they hadn't remembered any details.
audiobooks don't count, everybody knows that
lmao, I was on a books discord and someone got booted for saying this. Then the mods spent a few paragraphs commenting on how any form of reading is "valid" and that the discord is a safe space.
I fricking hate these people.
40 books is possible to read in a year and still understand what you read. Like it's going to take an hour and a bit a day and you'll be good. Although I'd probably stick to 30 or so.
25 of them but 5 were short story collections. I read novels, short stories, a little poetry and a little non-fiction. I think I may read a lot more history and foreign texts next year, I havent read the big 4 Chinese classics yet.
One and a half.
over 90. average page length is 190 pages. i read for many hours a day most days.
The amount of readlet seethe in this thread is astouding. Can people really not handle 80k words in a week? Granted plenty of novels are twice that length but most aren't. Why get mad because you don't have enough time?
18 Apparently. Mostly just history, haven't read any fiction this year.
I'd say 10, I was trying the 52 book challenge but I really can't see myself reading if it isn't for writing something or to lull me to sleep, so it is hard to find the mood to read the kind of book I want to read, pic related
26 so far but I’ve finished short stories and poems that don’t count towards books. I’ve also begun several books I haven’t finished yet. I set myself book “goals” so I stop browsing the internet and instead do something productive.
Same and I had to put down Melmoth the Wanderer after part 1 to come back later. It goes off on such a long tangent about the Spaniard monk that I grew frustrated. Maturin has some interesting insights into religion but some gothic novels really are slogs.
Bro I have no clue I dont keep track lol
Emmie's farts are lovely,
Delightful and sweet,
With just a hint of spice,
They make my day complete!
new emmie vid up bros
Does anyone ACTUALLY have books and research on internet celebrities and how they work? Like the woman in OP, what kind of audience does she have? Is it lonely men who jerk off to her while she's talking? Is it young women who see her as some sort of life coach? Do people actively listen to what these people say or do they keep them in the background so they have a human voice to fill their loneliness? Outside of the most obvious examples e.g. hot girl showing her breasts and lonely 30-40 year olds simping, there are many other types of e-celeb I just don't understand. Are they astroturfed? An example is videogame streamers, sometimes they receive like, 5000 dollar donations from randoms. I assume these guys do not shove things up their ass for that money, because they're usually ugly to average guys. Why do people throw money at them? Is it astroturf shit to get people to believe that they're wildly successful? Is it a sockpuppet to make people excited and fabricate a personality cult? How much money that circulates around these people is real? How much of their growth is organic and how much is astroturfed by some company they work with? Do they skirt the law? I have so many questions. I hate all this shit and I wish they all dropped dead and YouTube and social media went down forever, but at the same time I am morbidly curious to know all the ins and outs and how rotten and israelited up it all is.
>Does anyone ACTUALLY have books and research on internet celebrities and how they work?
they exist, im sure, but most of the information in them could be known to you if you simply spend some time in internet communities in which livestreaming is the common interest.
>Like the woman in OP, what kind of audience does she have? Is it lonely men who jerk off to her while she's talking? Is it young women who see her as some sort of life coach? Do people actively listen to what these people say or do they keep them in the background so they have a human voice to fill their loneliness?
its mostly young women who are interested in reading. look to the comments of these videos to find who the audience is.
>I assume these guys do not shove things up their ass for that money, because they're usually ugly to average guys. Why do people throw money at them?
reasons for throwing money at livestreamers differ depending on the situation. if the streamer is very small--such as a regular working man doing it in his free time--you may donate money out of a genuine desire to help him out financially. when it gets to the point where a person is a professional streamer making thousands or millions off their streaming, then the reasons for doing so become odd. people who donate are usually a certain breed of terminally online who often just want to be acknowledged by the streamer, who they see as somewhat of a friend.
>Is it astroturf shit to get people to believe that they're wildly successful?
maybe, it doesnt seem necessary to do so when people are constantly growing without it. streamers usually grow from notoriety gained by outside activities: porn, twitter, esports teams, etc. It's uncommon for someone to gain more viewership exclusively from livestreaming. they need to do other things or they need to social climb AKA dickride someone more popular to leech off of their notoriety.
none of what ive said is absolute and i encourahe you to throw yourself into the livestreaming world and come to your own conclusion.
>if you simply spend some time in internet communities in which livestreaming is the common interest
this is not true because the people in these environments treat each other as their audience, so all you see is the end product of all the grifting. they will obviously not say that they've made an illegal agreement with a company or they're recycling money. I want clear, truthful data. another aspect that makes direct observation difficult is that communities where streamers are reachable are completely divorced from these guys who come out of the blue and get tons of followers. The reasons why a seemingly random person would climb to notoriety so quickly are opaque. They're not special people, they're not attractive, they're not necessarily good at the games if they play games, they just come out of nowhere and blow up, like one day some new face appears on TV. Did that new TV girl suck tons of wiener to get there? Maybe, but I would like hard data on how it actually works and what actually happens. Considering that the Internet has replaced TV almost entirely I can guess that things have become really convoluted and there are a lot of hidden mechanics behind what people ascend and what people do not. There is also a very valuable element of looking "average", I think marketers discovered that if a person is not remarkable, e.g. a girl not too attractive or the production value of a show looks "homemade" people feel more warm toward this shit and develop a parasocial relationship faster. So the bullshit keeps piling up and up. It's not like on TV where you know that there's tons of money behind it. With streamers there's a vested interest in making them look like normal people, like you and me, who bought a camera and started making videos in their living room.
>look to the comments of these videos to find who the audience is.
people who comment are a tiny percentage and they are not necessarily the people who make up for most of the audience, nor they necessarily constitute the paying audience. again, no clear organized and truthful data
>you may donate
>people who donate are usually
again, no data, only conjectures. I can make all sorts of conjectures too about people who donate 5 grand to a guy playing minecraft but I'd like to have actual data and truth. it could be a marketing maneuver, money laundering, anything.
>none of what ive said is absolute
no offense but you have said nothing at all, I can make assumptions just fine on my own.
what I was curious for was hard data exactly because I didn't want to run on conjectures.
>people who comment are a tiny percentage and they are not necessarily the people who make up for most of the audience, nor they necessarily constitute the paying audience. again, no clear organized and truthful data
its impossible to know the motivations of silent viewers. the best window into the general fanbase of a content creator is to look at the fans who are participating in the discussion of them.
>again, no data, only conjectures. I can make all sorts of conjectures too about people who donate 5 grand to a guy playing minecraft but I'd like to have actual data and truth. it could be a marketing maneuver, money laundering, anything.
its hard to measure it because of how vast and balkanized the streaming world is. many things such as money laundering, dick sucking, wouldn't be public knowledge due to them needing being kept secret. the psychology of the viewers and streamers is also not measurable in an absolute manner.
>no offense but you have said nothing at all, I can make assumptions just fine on my own. what I was curious for was hard data exactly because I didn't want to run on conjectures.
unfortunately, most of what you will find is conjectures. its why i recommended you involve yourself in the streaming world so you can perceive it for yourself.
Damn seeing all the books you've guys have read I'm feeling like a brainlet cause it feels like I've read a lot (time wise) this year:
Revolt against the modern world
Schopenhauers essays
Nietzsche - the gay science
Animal Farm (reread)
Brothers Karamazov (this one took me a while to get through)
Hamlet
Blood meridian
The overcoat (short story)
Gösta Berlings saga (Swedish classic)
Currently reading Ulysses and taking my time with it, doing a lot of secondary reading.
I also read the Bible daily
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3, I stoped reading when i stop watching movies, i don´t know what happend but i just can´t keep my mind in one place, too much anxiety and problems in my life.
11, shame on me but I'm a lazy reader.
I haven't finished anything but most of the stuff I read is long. Started the LotR trilogy in February and I'm only halfway through. Planned on reading City of God too, finally, but I don't think I'll get to start it until Octobre at this rate. Now that I think about it, I could be reading the Japan and China history books I put on my 2022 to do list at the same time as LotR tho.
(I'm also a very slow reader...)
Only 7 so far. My goal is 14 (my lucky number)
1. Dune - Frank Herbert
2. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
3. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
4. Pines - Blake Crouch
5. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
6. Mode One - Alan Roger Currie
7. The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
Same as last year, and the year before that. Zero.
Even if you’re serious, why come to a book board?
Aesthetics.
How else am I gonna find new books to collect dust on my shelf?
I don't read.
I've really just been reading two java programming books, two books on networks and security, and parts of the bible. I think earlier in the year I read a book from joseph ratzinger. I haven't had the luxury to just read books because im studying for other things
Great
>fear and loathing (reread)
>trainspotting
>pimp
>millenium series (reread)
Good
>kitchen confidential
>angelas ashes
I am neutral on the rest, didn't like Tina Fey's book at all
Emmie redeems booktube
Zero. Zero books.
1
7 /sig/ books, 3 fiction books, 1 play
Right now :
The bible - page 353 which would be 1/5
How to make friends and influence people : almost finishing it 30 pages left
so that would make 11 books read.
Have any anons read pic related books and could tell me which would be better to read and if i should add others
48 laws of power is actually really cool but why do you have that written in vscode
can someone recommed a book similar to "no longer human"
I have completed zero amount of books, but I have learned a lot this year. I am not ashamed.
what have you learned?
why are emmies so hard to find in the real world
my gf is one 🙂
I haven't read in years, but finished two in three weeks.
Almost finished with another one.
Either 7 or 72 depending on whether I consider the bible one book or count each individual book in it as having personally read a book.
Not even close to enough and I fricking hate myself for it. I don't know what's happened to me this year. Currently reading Shogun which is pretty good.
16 but some where pretty short
Goodreads says 23, not including ammy writer beta reading
I stopped counting or making an end of year goal because sometimes it'll make me rush through books towards that goal, which is unfathomably stupid.
I read so slow yet regularly that at this point I can predict how many books I can finish. Approximately one a week, but usually I am chipping away at a few books at a time, usually one novel and then collections of shorter work. It sometimes takes a couple weeks to read the big ass novels.
new video up bros
I want to read the flaps on the inside of her thighs
A friend recently suggested I start a channel on books. He said that there would be an audience for my discussion and description of bindings, binding, printing, and acquisition of rare and fine books.
He suggested using the monetization for the acquisition of further volumes.
I'm sorry but you do not have the thumbs for a public facing role like that and I worry that if you were to employ a hired hand the expenses would bury you. It's okay for hobbies to remain hobbies!
Few would see me or my hands. The books would be the focus of the endeavor. I'd have tasteful panning like in a shitty history channel documentary.
Hands, seen or unseen, are very much like the roots of a plant: their influence will be felt in anything you do. You can hide your hideous thumbs completely, but the viewer will still feel the aftershocks of disgust that runs in the undercurrents of your content. I'm sorry but there is no way around it.
Most autistic comment of the night, cheers. Off to a good start
I like hand-water colored plates.
I have read many books, few all the way through, at least a hundred this year. I don't read poetry collections page to page. I skip around.
would watch
Thanks, I've been getting lots of these smaller private books, like Collins, kelmscott, kynoch, eragny and the like. I got an 1813 anatomy of melancholy
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For me it's the 2 volumes of Aristotle's Complete Works published by Princeton University Press. These are the only two books I will ever need to read again. I love studying Aristotle after a hard day of sucking off construction workers.
69 could do a lot more if i gave up the internet
Few dozen, idk I don't keep count.
30
Three. I only read when I commute, or when I'm about to sleep.
Piers Steel - Procrastination Equation (skimmed a lot because it's littered with useless anecdotes that nobody cares about)
Mircea Eliade - The Forge and the Crucible
Julius Evola - The Mystery of the Grail
Julius Evola - The Hermetic Tradition
Ernst Jünger - Battle as an Inner Experience
Oswald Spengler - Man and Technics
So 6 in total so far. Currently reading:
Chris Voss - Never split the Difference
Ernst Jünger - Fire and Movement
29 books, but am currently reading The Complete Works of Plato, which is about 1900 pages, so that will take a few weeks.
If you read the entire thing in a few weeks, you're not reading it properly.
I've read almost every Platonic text before and only have an interest for it out of a historical perspective. The actual philosophy is useless when already knowing its significance when referred to in modern philosophy. I'm reading it perfetly well.
30 shitty novels and I enjoyed getting hype and disappointed by each and every one
except for those that we are being forced to read in the University that I finished like a week ago?
None..
NONE!
Why would I keep count? Who cares?
Im just doing audiobooks these days. D-does it count?
>How many books have (you) read so far this year?
Audiobooks while playing video games.
18
can you remember anything that way?
I only read when taking a shit, so 4