how many books have you read this year so far?
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how many books have you read this year so far?
how many books have you read this year so far?
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0. But now I've changed. For the remainder of the year I'm gonna read a bunch of murakami and dostoevsky + tolstoy. Next year I'm hopefully finishing the meme trilogy
>murakami
read ryu murakami instead
>tolstoy
don't
which book
>read ryu murakami instead
>don't
I'll read what I want and I don't care whatever you say
>I'll read what I want and I don't care whatever you say
don't do it
i don't read for weeks at a time because i'm too drunk/hungover idk how i read this much.
stop smoking weed
You need to start thinking in pages tbh. I probably have read something like 5,000 pages this year so far
it'll summarize that at the end of the year, which is but three months away. another piece of shit, miserable, meaningless fricking year...
are you german?
i wanted to stop at 25 but there's nothing else to fricking do. my life sucks
4 months, friend
Hope you do find meaning in something
>4 months, friend
right lol. i can't fricking count
>Hope you do find meaning in something
thanks. i should be working on my writing instead of reading so much. i lack motivation, and my hands hurt. everything always hurts.
Literally the gayest recommendations Ive seen this week
23 and I was aiming for 30 by the end of the year
Counting is midwit and extremely reddit
as someone you've (You)'d, I would agree. It's more like walking in nature, you just go as long as you want instead of looking at your moronic smartwatch every step, but I think it's nice to keep a record so you don't forget too
One or two I can't remember
the crossed ones i have finished, the other ones only started
>dark rome
Sounds edgy, is it about Rome?
>The Abominable by Dan Simmons
What did you think about?
>balzac
Which one would you recommend? I have many of his books but I've never read them.
I'd suggest starting with Pere Goriot, then continuing with Gobseck and Eugenie Grandet. Lost Illusions and Harlot High and Low are his greatest works, but I think it's best to start with those smaller works. Many of the books are interconnected, with same characters appearing in many works.
>The Abominable
>What did you think
I enjoyed all the parts about mountain climbing and the bits about Mallory and Irvine’s disappearance on Mount Everest.
The ending sucked though. No getting around the fact that it was some Scooby Doo tier shite.
26
Read a lot of things I wanted to read for a while. It's nice to not have that pressure. I want to hit 50 this year bit I'll settle for 35
nice lists, looking forward to comparing what we've done by year's end!
everyone else in this thread is a joke and needs to step away from the computer and read more. haha b***h!
12 or 13 maybe idk
my goal for the year is 25... probably won't make it...
i fricking hate reading, but i hate my life even more
7/8
Was aiming for 1 book per month
Took a break from Feb-Jun & read most these in Jul/Aug
>Norwegian Wood
>Sophie's World
>Stoner
>The Road
>Blood Meridian
>Steppenwolf
>Metamorphosis
Currently reading Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
you have to be 18 years or older to post here, anon
I am well over 18 (probably older than you, sport 😉 )
Just got into reading this year
>probably older than you, sport
idk dude i'm pretty old
>Just got into reading this year
welcome, books are a superior form of media
13 is still young, despite your stepdad saying you're big for your age
Around 20, I don't count really. I'd rather get numerical pleasure from other areas
My original goal was 26. I passed it yesterday. New goal is 35 for the year.
1. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
2. The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
3. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe
5. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Abominable by Dan Simmons
7. The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
8. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
9. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
10. The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs
11. Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
12. The Stonemason by Cormac McCarthy
13. Wildlife in America by Peter Matthiessen
14. Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
15. Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
16. The Traveler’s Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor
17. Night Train by Martin Amis
18. Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
19. The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
20. The Friends of Pancho Villa by James Carlos Blake
21. Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign by Phillipe-Paul de Segur
22. Papillon by Henri Charriere
23. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
24. The Burning of the World by Bela Zombory-Moldovan
25. Castle to Castle by Louis Ferdinand Feline
26. The Sea Wolf by Jack London
27. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
very adventurous reads, anon! the only one i've read is snow country, though. you strike me as a traveler and possibly a werner herzog fan
Not a single book over 300 pages. Impressive.
The Abominable
The Blacktongue Thief
Papillon
The Passenger
The Travelers Tree
25. Castle to Castle by Louis Ferdinand Feline
Clear proof that autocorrect is by Mossad
Louis Ferdinand Celine
Destouches did nothing wrong
70 but 35 of them were audiobooks and there were also lots of picture books in my physical stack
pic related
I can't stop to listen to genre trash.
finishing my 19th.
goal is 20.
still have some novellas I want to read so I'll probably bump it up to 30 by the end of the year
>still have some novellas I want to read so I'll probably bump it up to 30 by the end of the year
i've been reading more fiction and less non-fiction this year, which is why i've read more as fiction is easier. might read more difficult philosophy which always takes me a while though
impressive goals, congrats on being multilingual you polyglot you
Thanks. Given that I'm Japanese-American I don't really count Japanese for much. I actually spent a lot of time resisting that language and culture, which is why I'm only getting to those books now.
Greek is really not that bad in comparison. The memorization can be front-loaded by any disciplined person; three months should be more than enough to get anyone started. I know one person who spoke nothing but English, attended a local Greek intensive, and now reads it faster than I.
>Now I'm either working or just want to shut my brain down into some series or game
The crux is that "shutting down" your brain is a nefarious myth and a convenient excuse for yourself. The brain needs some variety, and indeed some rest from something like heavy calculation, but not total dredge. Nobody would suggest lying prone after heavy lifting at the gym.
The harsh truth is that you don't need those anime or games or such at all beyond what you tell yourself. You will of course need to train yourself off of them somehow.
>t I'm Japanese-American
word, i told a japanese girl on the bus today that canadians are baka hentai akuma or whatever, she translated it well, that canadians are stupid, perverted, and evil, then the chinese girl wasn't sure if it was affectionate or mean, i asked her about how to call someone in chinese in a mean way and she told me but i have no place to practice a new language, anyway i got off the bus to go to the book store as all the stupid, perverted and evil canadians were getting too close to each other, disgusting
> I actually spent a lot of time resisting that language and culture, which is why I'm only getting to those books now.
it's insane that people fetishize the hypercapitalist right-wing racist nation of japan as some sort of fantasy, and only import the feminism that pertains to the american view of japan as weird, effeminate, etc. but, as a canadian, i wish i lived in a patriarchal society of NORMAL PEOPLE. WHY DOES BEING NORMAL HAVE TO BE PREDICATED UPON THE ARYAN IDEAL, THIS IS NAZI GERMANY WITH SOFT VIOLENCE
>Greek is really not that bad in comparison.
i never fricked with the greeks outside of school, i'm a israelite and i actually hate the greeks but not full out
> I know one person who spoke nothing but English, attended a local Greek intensive, and now reads it faster than I.
yeah but he's gay, greek is easy, i only need it when reading heidegger or levinas so why should i learn it? fricking homos
Hellenization was by and large a voluntary process, and not at all limited to apostates. Hebrew is filled with Greek loans and calques as a result. It was the Romans who killed Bar Kokhba. Your Rambam and by extension modern religious practice writ large would have been nothing without Aristotle. As a israelite you are even more Greek than the average Westerner today.
My only goals have been to go through the plays of Euripides and The Iliad in Greek. I'm at book 9 of The Iliad and will need to accelerate a bit to make it. I also got through Snow Country in Japanese and some Oe, but those were much easier. Maybe next year will be Heike Monogatari and Kojiki.
Started 4 books, concluded none.
Fellas, how do I read more?
Do you have a separate time of your day reserved for reading? I used to read a lot when I was a teenager, but there were no smartphones then, I used to read on the bus or any other moment I had nothing to do. Now I'm either working or just want to shut my brain down into some series or game. I understand this is a common problem. I never stopped reading, but now it's always articles online, news, commentary, I'm also always watching university lectures on youtube, but I know reading a book is something else entirely and I'm missing out on a lot of thought and fiction because I'm a bad reader. When I read fiction I have a hard time concentrating and miss important points of the story, the whole thing becomes blurry it gets worse as I go until I drop the book midway through. Non-fiction is a little easier for me, specially because I don't feel bad if I skip a chapter or read it out of order.
>Now I'm either working or just want to shut my brain down into some series or game. I understand this is a common problem. I never stopped reading, but now it's always articles online, news, commentary, I'm also always watching university lectures on youtube, but I know reading a book is something else entirely and I'm missing out on a lot of thought and fiction because I'm a bad reader.
i feel like what you're doing is ok, you haven't let capitalism completely rot your blame, when it comes to politics i'd literally rather listen to people say it out loud on the news or in a lecture rather than read it, but, i will say that reading decreases stress levels by like 60%, even reading for 5mins, so i'd recommend just reading some poetry or something just to de-stress.
19, but I just started reading again in July.
when will you homosexuals realize that number of books read is irrelevant, it is number of ideas retained that matters
69 books 1 novella
Are you a woman?
Terrible taste.
they're an anglo
I haven't read a single book since middle school (when I had to finish that book report). Personally I can't focus at all and even if I could I would get bored after 5-10mins at the most. Audiobooks are fine though.
This is the first year I've recorded my reading, and also very eclectic because I'm reading a lot of the classics for the first time
Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian
Inferno - Dante Allegheri
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Euthyphro - Plato
Sun and Steel - Yukio Mishima
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde
The English Gentleman - Douglas Sutherland
Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
you would win if you weren't gay
rot in hell christgay.
winner winner winner
Not that many, I've been doing other things.
last year i read like 3 but now i cant find the motivation to, its like something died in me
7 out of 15
in the middle of two or three books
I wish I would read more but I have issues, plus my interests fluctuate on a weekly basis. sometimes it's film, sometimes vidya, sometimes music, sometimes books, and sometimes something totally different
I'll try to do better. I'll try to read at least one chapter after I'm done with runescape for the night
Only four.
>Two arms and a head
>Elric of Melnibone book one
>The Way of Men
>Playground
I'm still reading other 15 books I pick up and leave, pick up and leave. I hope I can read at least 10 before the year ends.
yeah idk i've only had sex with like.... literally 4 women this year, wow. i'm really losing it
Damn, I've only been having sex with one for seven years...
19 so far
50 most of substance, my goal was a hundred though so I'm falling behind massively.
28 books.
By Cormac Mccarthy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities Of The Plain, No Country For Old Men, Blood Meridian, The Road
By Michel Houellebecq: The Possibility of an Island, Platform, Serotonin, The Map and the Territory, Soumission, Elementary Particles
By Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Morning Star, Ulvene fra evighetens skog
By Honore De Balzac: Eugenie Grandet, Pere Goriot, Cousin Pons, Lost Illusions, A Harlot High and Low, Gobseck, Vendetta
By Philip Roth: Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, Portnoy's Complaint, The Counter-life, American Pastoral
By Carlos Fuentes: The Death of Artemio Cruz
I also re-read all of Sebald's work as well as a few novels by Kundera. Right now I am reading I Married A Communist by Roth. Although still okay, I find it to be maybe the least compelling of all Roth books I've read so far.
I’m busy so just a book a month.
16
when i started reading as a hobby i set out to read like 26 books a year, and slowly i dropped that down to 6-12. less pressure.
Reading so much and your grammar is still ass.
27
Bloch, Robert. Psycho
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim
Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage
Grisham, John. The Firm
Blatty, William Peter. The Exorcist
Ellroy, James. The Big Nowhere
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House
Ketchum, Jack. The Girl Next Door
King, Stephen. The Tommyknockers
Koja, Kathe. The Cipher
Koontz, Dean R. Night Chills
Lumley, Brian. Necroscope
Marasco, Robert. Burnt Offerings
Masur, Louis P. The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
Matheson, Richard. Hell House
Adam, Robert. The Ritual
Pratchett, Terry. Discworld. Vol. 1. The Colour of Magic
Smith, Guy N. Night of the Crabs
Tryon, Thomas. The Other
White, T. H. The Once and Future King
Wheatley, Dennis. The Devil Rides Out
Watson, Burton. The Complete Works of Zhuangzi
Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game
Raised the bar from 32 to 46, now aiming for 52 books this year.
9 books so far, and my ratings. Please rec books.
Am reading V. right now and enjoying it.
Pnin - Nabokov 4/5
e-girlta - Nabokov 5/5
Aneantir - Houellebecq 4/5
The Savage Detectives - Bolano 4/5
A young doctors notebook - Bulgakov 3/5
No longer human - Dazai 4/5
The people of Hemsö - Strindberg 3/5
My struggle #1 - Knausgård 5/5
My struggle #2 - Knausgård 3/5
At least 12, I don't remember.
probably like 10 actual books, the rest is manga/graphic novels
homie