How's everyone doing in terms of their year goals? I'm going after my standard 52 as always, but I've been tackling some lengthier works and I'm not sure I'll make it this year.
1. Invention of Morel - Casares
2. The Short Stories of Gogol
3. Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
4. Phenomenology of Spirit - Hegel
5. Complete Short Stories of Kafka
6. The Trial - Kafka
7. Confessions - Augustine
8. City of God - Augustine
9. Proslogium - Anselm
10. The Knight with the Lion - Chretien
11. Don Quixote - Cervantes
12. Joseph Andrews - Fielding
inb4 masturbatory lists. This is just a way to gauge lit's general progress/give encouragement/talk about what we've read.
>>7836451
>spending less than a year on CoPR and PoS
Fuck off back to /r9k/, pleb
I was aiming for 40 but Quixote is really slowing me down. Love it though.
No idea how you are ripping through all this dense philosophy so quickly
>>7836479
He's a fucking idiot
>>7836479
>No idea how you are ripping through all this dense philosophy so quickly
I'm actually taking classes on the philosophy (Kant and Successors/Medieval) so it helps that I have lecture notes to prevent misreadings. I would be spending much, much more time on both Kant and Hegel if I didn't have the benefit of a professor.
pic related is about 3200 pages total, which I think is the better way to set a goal.
Regardless, I'm hoping to read 24 books minimum, but 48 is my ideal goal. I'm going to set my 2017 goal based on the number of pages I read. This is the first year I've used goodreads.
>>7836451
What translation of don quixote did you read?
>>7836491
Was TCoL49 your first Pynchon? Did you like it?
And I read Grossman. I've heard positives and negatives about the translation but, contrary to what seems to be the common opinion, I thought Grossman's translation was hilarious. Others might be funnier in comparison though; I wouldn't know.
>>7836488
And you're reading the entirety of the Critique of Pure Reason and Phenomenology of Spirit in that class?
lel
>>7836501
Yes.
>>7836498
I've read chapters out of all of them. Grossman preserves the hilarity of the work as well as any other translation, but she takes a bit too many liberties in modernizing in my opinion. I thought Rutherford was a perfect combination of faithfulness and modernization
>>7836507
How many classes did you have before you'd finished them?
>>7836498
Yeah TCoL49 was my first Pynchon. I did like it, but I also found it challenging and confusing. Someone here said to just read through it even if you are confused, and I can see now why that was good advice.
I was debating between Grossman and Samuel Putnam translations. Thanks
Aiming at 60, read 27, many shorter ones, best ones were:
The Servile State by Hillaire Belloc
A Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
Categories by Aristotle
Portrait of a Young Man as An Artist by Joyce
The Resurrection by Tolstoy
Dead Souls by Gogolj
Man Who was Thursday by Chesterton
The Prince by Machiavelli
Utopia by Thomas More
Also read 1-5 of Zelanzy's Amber Chronicle
1-3 of Elric of Melbourne by Moorcock
Beyond Good and Evil (reads like something written by a frustrated manchild)
Aeneid
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera
Snow Crash, the most reddit novel I've ever read
Galactic Pot Healer
3 philosophy courses by Peter Kreeft, useful for beginners or just to make sure you got it
Spiritual Doctrine by Louis Lallemant
That's it I think.
>>7836518
Month and a half for the Critique and a month for PoS.
>>7836523
Yeah reading Pynchon for a first time is daunting. You've got to roll with the punches and, in a sense, abandon the concept of a traditional narrative. Mason & Dixon is his best, IMO. If you liked TCoL49, try that one out. It's lengthy but worth it.
>>7836515
Well it's good to know my sense of humor isn't just shitty. I'm planning on coming back to DQ in a few years and I'll keep that in mind.
>>7836538
I asked how many classes, faggot
I'm trying to read Blood meridian but since I'm a pleb, some of the long running sentences and prose are fucking my shit up.
>>7836544
15 for Kant, 12 for Hegel
I will be fielding NO MORE QUESTIONS FROM YOU.
>>7836533
>Snow Crash, the most reddit novel I've ever read
Pls explain
>>7836451
I'd like to read most of Wolfe, Nabokov, Woolf and Proust and Moby Dick.
I doubt I'll manage it for a decade.
Other than that I'd like to read Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, perhaps some Mann.
>>7836653
And Gravity Rainbow and Ulysses, some outline of Greeks perhaps beforehand.
>>7836660
And rest of Black Company books, perhaps more of Cook.
>>7836575
A katana wielding hacker and his qt quirky teenager sidekick in a cyberpunk world run around and do stuff.
I shot for 52 but I'm going to blow that out of the water. I have two long ones coming up (Voss and Wizard of the Crow) and then a bunch of 2-300pg NYRB classics, so I might hit 35 before summer. Reading at a good pace too, digesting my books and waiting a day or two in between.
Its probably because there are no new Paradox games out.
>>7837111
CAN YOU FIND AN EPUB OR MOBI OF GREAT HERESIES PLEASE I'VE BEEN WANTING TO READ IT SINCE THAT EDWARD FESER BLOG POST
Also the Servile State was absolutely fantastic, best book this year so far. It's like Marx, but conservative and good.
>>7837105
Bill I'm disappointed in you not liking Shadow of the Torturer.
>>7836533
Thoughts on Amber and Elric? Thinking about reading those.
>>7837105
pretty patrician list desu
>>7837210
Amber is consistent and entertaining. It's sort of like a finished game of thrones because it's political play, but more subtle. Plot is great and characters are solid enough to carry the story.
Elric is after the first one kind of hit or miss, I'd recommend Lankhmar over both and Amber over Elric.
>>7837105
You seem pretty well read. What is your goodreads?
Finished 5 books so far this year. This is good considering i read 1 last year.
A few books were short but now im working through IJ and right now my goal is to finish that in the next couple months then knock out 6 more to make it 12. Ill go for 20 if im really up to it and stop going on 4chan.
>>7837357
Take a coffee break alone every day and read + audiobooks will easily amount to 30+
Pretty slow.
>>7837366
I still dont know how i feel about audiobooks. I havent tried it so maybe ill give it a shot. Its one of those things im sort of against even though i have no good reason to be against it, like tablet reading.
So what? Do you want a little star, sweet heart?
>>7837532
Good. Interesting concrete/typographical realizations of stream of consciousness telekinesis. Though it goes into full Freudian psychoses to stop it from becoming just another pulp crime novel, which jumped the gun just a bit too much for me.
>>7837318
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7656933-bill
>>7837125
>Shadow of the Torturer
I tried to like it but I think my fantasy days are done. I really liked the world building insofar as the guild system but as soon as hegets ejected the gardens and the women he meets really threw me off
>>7837125
https://u.pomf.is/lpfkmx.epub
Epub of great heresies (dunno if you want to convert to azw3)
I try to read 25 pages/day.
It is really great. and I often read 50-100. But I've only read a few books. East of Eden was a little long and I got stuck part ways.
Plus, I'm literally drunk 90% of the waking day so have only a small amount of time each day to actually read.
>>7837724
>East of Eden
You missed out Anon
Although, the best part is thecucking
>>7837651
You should stick with it, it's playing with hot women around the protagonist trope. It's extremely interwoven. And just try to focus on Severian and the small stories in it later on.
>>7837657
Thank you very much friend
>>7836451
How did you like the invention of morel?
Was going for 40 this year, already 4 ahead of schedule apparently. Pic related.
>>7839050
It's kinda a strange feeling now considering reading 30 minutes a day makes you the most well read person in your generation. It's like well yeah I've read 40 books this year, that's a lot until you realize how little effort it actually takes.
>>7839059
If you live in NYC or Boston at least, and go on the train, you can see that a way higher percentage of urban professionals read than you would expect, and its not all garbage either.
>>7839069
I'm a Slav and the only people that I know of who read are some of mine friends.
Seeing a person in public transport reading always mean John Green or Paolo mother fucking Coelho. Or of course whichever trash fantasy is popular.
>>7838749
I expected it to be great and it was. I wasn't let down at all. I read beforehand that Borges thought it to be a perfect novella. I really recommend this one. It's also a breeze to read
>>7839050
Epic
>>7836533
>A Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
My man
>>7841704
Aside him, Belloc and Ratzinger, which conservative thinkers should I read?Adorno?
>>7842180
Samuel P. Huntington
Everyone says he is "discredited" but that is only coming from liberals who discount his "bloody borders of Islam" theory (which seems to work itself out in practice)
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Paradise Lost
3. Fathers and Sons
4. Anna Karenina
5. Oedipus Trilogy
6. Huck Finn
7. Iliad
8. Odyssey
9. The Torrents of Spring (Turgenev)
10. The Singers
11. Bezhin Meadow
12. Mumu
13. The Sun Also Rises
14. Re-read Crime and Punishment
15. Pere Goriot
16. Of Mice and Men
17. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
18. The Sorrows of Young Werther
Pretty good, slower than I'd have liked because I fucked my back up a little while ago but that's fixed now. Finishing up Sappho's poems today then I'm going to start Metamorphoses this afternoon.
1. Richard Yates - Cold Spring Harbour
2. Elmore Leonard - Fire in the Hole
3. Roberto Bolaño - 2666
4. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
5. Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
6. Frans G. Bengtsson - The Long Ships
7. Jim Crace - Harvest
8. Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye
9. Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings
10. Don Delillo - Mao II
11. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
12. Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
i try to go for 50 a year so i guess i'm about on par? i feel more big long books coming though
>>7842734
How was Cold Spring Harbour? Revolutionary Road is on my long (long) list
>>7842736
i loved it, one of my favourite yates so far. you should still start with revolutionary road though if you haven't read anything else yet
>started reading IJ on its anniversary date
>only about 200 pages in
I'm not going to give up but it's going to take me months to finish
>>7842715
Wiki says he is a lifelong democrat and progressive in social issues.
That does not sound linke something in line with what I'm looking for, but I may check him out.
>>7842841
>Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an influential American conservative political scientist, adviser and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. During the Carter administration, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. He is most well known by his 1993 theory, "The Clash of Civilizations", of a post-Cold War new world order. He argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic extremism would become the biggest threat to Western world domination. Huntington is credited with helping to shape U.S. views on civilian-military relations, political development, and comparative government.[1]
Also, a Democrat hawk that wrote the book on propping up anti-communist dictators seems pretty conservative to me.
>>7842852
So it is the democrat before abortion, socialism, white guilt and blacks getting a free pass at everything kind of 50s democrat?
>>7842841
>>7842856
>>7842852
>During the 1980s, he became a valued adviser to the South African regime, which used his ideas on political order to craft its "total strategy" to reform apartheid and suppress growing resistance. He assured South Africa's rulers that increasing the repressive power of the state (which at that time included police violence, detention without trial, and torture) can be necessary to effect reform. The reform process, he told his South African audience, often requires "duplicity, deceit, faulty assumptions and purposeful blindness." He thus gave his imprimatur to his hosts' project of "reforming" apartheid rather than eliminating it.[11]
Guy might not have problems with gay marriage but this is not a liberal view on world order.
I'm going for 50, but didn't start until the mid-February so I'm a little behind. Read 7 books, 4 behind schedule.
I've written a 89k word That 70s Show fanfiction so far.
I'm working on a sequel but it's slow-going.
I am a just starting to read this year aka started in Feb so my goal is for 16 this year.
So far I've read:
1. American Psycho
2. Animal Farm
Currently on The Rebel by Camus
Wish me luck lads
>>7842877
Good luck m8. Need a starter kit?
>>7842896
I got it covered
https://u.pomf.is/ebojub.rar
Now you can meme with the best of us
This is mine. It's a mix between technical books, comic books, and classics.
>>7842939
BTW, Cancer Ward is the best book I've read among them.
My goal is 52/year, going slower than I´ld like
What I´ve read so far:
Rainer Maria Rilke - Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
BEE - Less than zero
Houllebecq - Whatever
Cioran - The trouble with being born
Ragnar Redbeard - Might is right
Joris-Karl Huysmans - À rebour
Plato - Apology/Kriton
Amnesty International - Reports on torture
Joseph von Eichendorff - Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Currently reading:
Solschenizyn - Archipel Gulag,
Christiane F - We children from Bahnhofs Zoo,
Sloterdijk - Critique of cynical reason
Clausewitz - On war
Hume - An Enquiry concerning human understanding
Hunter S. Thompson - Hells Angels
Nietzsche - Birth of Tragedy
and some poetry by Rilke and Baudelaire
>>7843037
>Sloterdijk
I've got God's Zeal coming up. How's his writing style? Concise?
you guys all seem to be ahead.
my goal is 50 but i believe i've read 6 so far :(
>>7843052
Personally I think he´s a titan of language. He sometimes has this gift of compiling academical terms into a nearly poetic form. The way he formulates thoughts also amazed me. He just has a way with words. At least in german. But thats just my opinion.
Are you reading a translation?
I read this so long:
Death of a Salesman - Miller
Cathedral - Carver
Collected Stories - Faulkner
Hunger - Hamsun
Oblomov - Goncharov
Dubliners - Joyce
Some short stories by Chekhov and Conrad
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
Mad Toy - Arlt
The Kiss of the Spider Woman - Puig
Wise Blood - O'Connor
The Book of Sand - Borges
Odyssey - Homer
Taras Bulba - Gogol
The artificial paradises - Baudelaire
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard
Apology, Menon and Cratylus - Plato
Tristram Shandy - Sterne
Anabasis - Xenophon
The Violent Bear It Away - O'Connor
Just finished that last one. I'm currently reading Tractatus by Witt. I'll maybe start V. by The Pinecone later.
>>7843076
>Are you reading a translation?
Unfortunately, yes. I hope it's as half as good in translation.
>>7843132
No worries, I´m sure you´ll be able to enjoy it.
Weltfremdheit is also worth a read if you´re interested in his works.
>>7843072
Keep at it, even if it´s straining sometimes. Try to switch between books if you feel overwhelmed by the one you´re reading right now. (you can also read shorter books to push your quota if that´s the only thing you´re after)
I didn't know these threads existed. Maybe it will help me push myself past my current state of idleness.
My goal is 52, progress turns out to be much slower than expected and the fact that I'm not a native speaker and I try to search out and memorize new words as I encounter them does not help. I also cheated considering how paper thin some of those are.
Books read so far:
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Letters to a Young Poet - R.M.Rilke
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Liberators, my life as a soldier inside the red army - Victor Suvorow
The Epic of Gilgamesz
The Doll, Part 1 - Boleslaw Prus
The Plague - Albert Camus
Currently reading:
The Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsung
The Dool, Part 2 - Boleslaw Prus
The Storm of Steel - Junger
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset
I feel like I'm failing myself everyday I don't read
Pleb reporting in
Devotion of Suspect X
The Trial
Kafka on the Shore
Never Let Me Go
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Kizumonogatari
Kokoro
The Final Empire (meh, not gonna read the others in the series)
Almost done with Assassin's Apprentice.
47/144
>>7843202
>I feel like I'm failing myself everyday I don't read
I used to do this ALL THE TIME. While I still try and read everyday, I've relinquished the notion that I MUST do it. It's too stressful and I nearly burned myself out. You've got to try and maintain determination along with a healthy and relaxed mindset. You're doing wonderfully. Just take a breath and enjoy what you're reading.
>>7843094
how was oblomov?
>>7843509
Real fine. Depressing/funny. Just read it, it won't take you more than three days.
>>7843509
Not that guy, but I also read Oblomov this year. It starts very slow, picks up when Olga arrives, becomes quite funny for about 100 pages, and then becomes depressing once you realize Oblomov is a useless piece of shit. I enjoyed it mostly because of Olga and Stolz, however.
>>7836451
I've read one book already, finished it today (took me ~10 days). I read during 8 out of the 10 days and forced myself to read at least 5 pages during the days I was too tired.
>>7836451
How old are you? You a philosophy undergrad? I read those book when I was 20 or 21. Nice list.
Aiming at 60. This are mine.
I'm aiming for around 25 books this year.
So far, I've only read three; But I'm off from work for the next month so I'm hoping to be able to read more in that time. I have around 10 unread books here, so I should be able to occupy myself some time without needing to purchase new ones.
six so far for me, not aiming for anything. just tryna be active
>lord jim by joseph conrad
>great expectations by dickens
>the glass castle by jeannette walls
>on writing by stephen king
>david copperfield by dickens
>a tale of two cities by dickens
>>7844958
Did you like Oscar Wao?
It's my gf's favourite book so I read it after she asked me to but FUCK ME did I not care for it.
>>7846516
Thank fuck, Anon. Glad it's not just me.
>>7846558
I don't know what it is. I fucking hate so much of the magical realism shit my gf recommends to me.
> her reccs
Oscar Woa
Folk tales
>my reccs
Flashman
Jasper Fforde
The Cyberiad
Does anyone on this board actually care for magical realism? Like I understand the historical context that apparently it has a basis in latin cultures and parts of the world where you cant outright speak about things (Im really no expert) but it seems to me a lot of the modern stuff of it is
>Hrrr coming up with plot and developing characters is hard
>characters puts tears into cake mix and her bakery succeeds cause everyone can taste her emotions
>finds lost book of angel poetry
>story of my ancestor from a REAL country #checkyoprivelage
>I toss book into fire
>>7846626
Borges is the pinnacle of magical realism. If you don't like him, you probably hate the genre
>>7846626
Marlon James, Juan Rulfo, Marquez, Alejo Carpentier do magical realism just fine.
>>7846631
Ok. I do like Borges. He's fucking incredible. I'm not a complete tool.
>>7846633
Thanks, anon I'll give them a shot (after I finish Solaris)
>>7846848
Iso Velikanović
>>7846848
Guerney
I've beaten my goal of 25 by now, so I'll probably ignore it for the rest of the year and read like I otherwise do.
1. The Death of Ivan Ilych- Tolstoy
2. The Atom Station- Laxness
3. War of the Worlds- Wells
4. The Sound and the Fury- Faulkner
5. The Art of Conversation- Blyth
6. The Heart of a Dog- Bulgakov
7. Blood Meridian- McCarthy
8. Deep Survival- Gonzales
9. Selected Stories- Mansfield
10. Richard II- Shakespeare
11. Henry IV pt 1- Shakespeare
12. Henry IV pt 2- Shakespeare
13. Henry V- Shakespeare
Aiming for 56. Have currently read:
Notes from Underground
The Portable Jung
Portable Darkness
Tao Te Ching
Being and Time
Corpus Hermeticum
Myths to Live By
The Analects
Seven Sermons to the Dead
Rashomon and Other Stories
Shadowrun Sixth World Alamanac
Applications of No Limit Hold 'em
A Room of One's Own
Liber Null and Psychonaut
Oven Ready Chaos
High Magick: Theory and Practice
The Dhammapada
1. Plato's Seven Epistles
2. Slaughterhouse Five
3. Last Exit To Brooklyn
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I think that's all I've read thus far. don't laugh at me
>>7836533
Zelazny is that dude.
I'm shooting for 60 this year. Running a little behind because I've had some hectic classes. Here's what I've got so far:
1. Homage to Catalonia by Orwell
2. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
3. The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
4. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
5. The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
6. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
7. Congressional Politics by Leroy N. Rieselbach
8. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
9. Bad News by Anjat Sundaram
Currently reading Blood and Grits by Harry Crews.
>>7848004
Gotta start somewhere m8
>>7848004
Plato's seven in what translation/edition? Thats my favorite letter, although i have the feeling that its fake.
>>7846286
Gotta be honest: fucking loved it. The latino uber nerd thing/LA political satire worked for me.
29 for 100
>>7849866
Nigga, Do you work/study? Where do you find the time to read so much. Nice list. I love Zadie
I was doing well the first few weeks, then I had a flare of an autoimmune disease that metaphorically punched me in the dick and gave me really bad brain fog for awhile. Just starting to get back on track, but I am 6 books behind where I should be.
1. The Road - McCarthy
2. A Gentle Creature - Dostoyevsky
3. Journey to the End of the Night - Céline
4. Blood Meridian - McCarthy
5. Heart of Darkness - Conrad
6. The Castle - Kafka
7. 2666 - Bolaño
8. The Man Who Sleeps - Perec
9. East of Eden - Steinbeck
10. My Twisted World - Rodger
11. Notes from Underground - Dostoyevsky
12. Apology - Plato
13. Moby Dick - Melville
14. Symposium - Plato
15. The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
16. The Metaphysics of Sexual Love - Schopenhauer
17. The Tunnel - Sabato
18. The Judgment - Kafka
19. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
20. War and Peace - Tolstoy
21. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
22. A Hunger Artist - Kafka
23. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
24. The Trial - Kafka
25. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
26. Demons - Dostoyevsky
27. Euthyphro - Plato
28. The Fall - Camus
29. The Plague - Camus
30. The Stranger - Camus
31. To Kill a Mockingbird
32. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
33. Stoner - Williams
34. Hunger - Hamsun
35. Crito - Plato
Currently reading The Book of Disquiet.
No goals. New to reading.
Started year with Crito. Finished The Road an hour ago.
Studying and working most of the time, but I've found a few hours a week to read stuff for fun.
>The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
>Hopscotch by Cortazar
>The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
>The Invention of Morel by Casares
>A World Made New by Mary Ann Glendon
>The Tunnel by Sabato
>In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki
>Norwegian Wood by Murakami
Not the most impressive list but considering my schedule I'm fine with it.
>>7849918
Thanks, I work and study, but I manage to read for about an hour each day or so. Zadie is quite good, White Teeth is great, but maybe it has too much in it. NW I found very inventive.
Aimed at maybe 7 or so.
But I have decided to get boggled down with short stories.
I still have Pynchon's gravity's rainbow to read.
What good does it bring me if I have an arbitrary goal anyways?
But reading definitely made my mind fresher and healthier.
That said I have read this year:
Chess Story by stefan Zweig
Shadow Over Innsmouth by Lovecraft
The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách
>>7849982
Congrats on being the first person to finish 2666
>>7836451
Very slowly because I have to read a lot of articles for courses.
Petersburg - Bely
The Beauty of the Husband - Carson
Men in the Off Hours - Carson
Ecstatic Religion - Lewis
French DNA - Rabinow
Selected Poems - Borges
Decreation - Carson
