marilynne robinson's gilead books, solenoid, the enchanted april, tropisms, tolstaya, the piano teacher, celan
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You must have only been reading slop then. I've read for 4 hours a day everyday, and only have done 23. Post your read books.
sure
lots of poetry and very short books to be fair >why do you keep an excel spreadsheet when you're clearly using goodreads to track your books
good point
Does studying poems help?
Like an increased likelihood of appreciating them, or even going about writing one? Cause most poems I've read, fall flat — they're filled with references, but these references hide behind the curtains. What I would derive from such a reading is a short-sighted view on what the poet was trying to convey. When I take the effort to understand, however — I feel like it wasn't worth the effort.
I've read difficult prose, but I feel like they're less open to interpretation — they deliver the idea succinctly while still stimulating my mind.
The only thing I like about poems are alliteration and other rhyming devices. How do I go about exploring this medium?
i honestly don't know shit about poetry, i just like reading it. i like how the words feel and sound and when it has a nice rhythm or when it has cool images or beautiful turns of phrase. it's just an enjoyable thing for me
Try reading Proust, Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and Dante Alighieri, and try this meaningless challenge.
i've read a lot of tolstoy (i.e. the big novels and a large number of the novellas) and like him plenty and will read the others at some stage. i haven't decided on a translation for proust yet
Certified slop
oh no!
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>He reads books written by women and actually counts them
one of them was even by a troony
This kind of reading is odd. How much do you comprehend and what do you enjoy about these books? The premise of reading a certain number of books per year is peak pseud. It's much better to read 4 great books than 52 slop.
i enjoy different things about all the books but i do enjoy them for the most part. i'm not a scholar and not that concerned with retention; it's fun to see what sticks by the end of the year and that i keep coming back to.
the keeping a goal and then smashing it early in the year and pretending like i'm not going to read anything else for the next 8 months because i've met the goal is an obvious jest
This kind of reading is odd. How much do you comprehend and what do you enjoy about these books? The premise of reading a certain number of books per year is peak pseud. It's much better to read 4 great books than 52 slop.
Frick, I've been trying to read short ones to be done quickly and I just found out I have to do a 200 word analysis of each book, by the time I finish summer will be almost over, I hate this shit.
I just finished Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" while on a fishing trip and seeing the reviews by women on goodreads fill me with some mixture of hilarity and rage.
I've read like 2 till now. I'm reading 2 big ones(800 and 1200 pages) right now. it's taking a long time. I think another month will pass with these 2 and then I'll start some shorter ones. Long ones are good but they just take too long to complete, to the point where I get bored if the book is too long
What are you favorites of the fifty you've read so far?
marilynne robinson's gilead books, solenoid, the enchanted april, tropisms, tolstaya, the piano teacher, celan
sure
lots of poetry and very short books to be fair
>why do you keep an excel spreadsheet when you're clearly using goodreads to track your books
good point
Does studying poems help?
Like an increased likelihood of appreciating them, or even going about writing one? Cause most poems I've read, fall flat — they're filled with references, but these references hide behind the curtains. What I would derive from such a reading is a short-sighted view on what the poet was trying to convey. When I take the effort to understand, however — I feel like it wasn't worth the effort.
I've read difficult prose, but I feel like they're less open to interpretation — they deliver the idea succinctly while still stimulating my mind.
The only thing I like about poems are alliteration and other rhyming devices. How do I go about exploring this medium?
i honestly don't know shit about poetry, i just like reading it. i like how the words feel and sound and when it has a nice rhythm or when it has cool images or beautiful turns of phrase. it's just an enjoyable thing for me
i've read a lot of tolstoy (i.e. the big novels and a large number of the novellas) and like him plenty and will read the others at some stage. i haven't decided on a translation for proust yet
oh no!
one of them was even by a troony
i enjoy different things about all the books but i do enjoy them for the most part. i'm not a scholar and not that concerned with retention; it's fun to see what sticks by the end of the year and that i keep coming back to.
the keeping a goal and then smashing it early in the year and pretending like i'm not going to read anything else for the next 8 months because i've met the goal is an obvious jest
Try reading Proust, Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and Dante Alighieri, and try this meaningless challenge.
Certified slop
>He reads books written by women and actually counts them
This kind of reading is odd. How much do you comprehend and what do you enjoy about these books? The premise of reading a certain number of books per year is peak pseud. It's much better to read 4 great books than 52 slop.
Lucky bastard, I wish I was done with mine I fricking HATE reading
You must have only been reading slop then. I've read for 4 hours a day everyday, and only have done 23. Post your read books.
Why would you care about what he read? Read for yourself homosexual, reading 'hard' books doesn't make you better.
>reading 'hard' books doesn't make you better.
It literally does, tho.
Why would you care about what he read? Read for yourself homosexual, reading books doesn't make you better.
>he thinks books are either slop or ‘hard’
ngmi
>Vance
Muh homie
This is what I've read so far. I thought Bakkar and Elric were total garbo
Frick, I've been trying to read short ones to be done quickly and I just found out I have to do a 200 word analysis of each book, by the time I finish summer will be almost over, I hate this shit.
I just finished Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" while on a fishing trip and seeing the reviews by women on goodreads fill me with some mixture of hilarity and rage.
Is it just me or where the british low key kinda racist?
I've read like 2 till now. I'm reading 2 big ones(800 and 1200 pages) right now. it's taking a long time. I think another month will pass with these 2 and then I'll start some shorter ones. Long ones are good but they just take too long to complete, to the point where I get bored if the book is too long
Tf I read for 1-2 hours per day and I've only reached 6 (not counting rereads)
i've been slacking this year
Isao may like Pier Paolo Pasolini.
pretty good for me
How tf do you manage Gaddis, Pynchon, 3 volumes of Proust and 2 Bolanos in a space of 4 months? Do you do nothing but read?
i'm about 50 pages from finishing the recognitions as well! how did you like it?
>he reads not for the enjoyment of it but instead to watch a progress bar tick up
Sorry, anon. Maybe next year you’ll find some joy in it
I'm late
>dog homie