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>Graphic novels are not books by the way.

Post 'em now sweet /lit/!
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16 books behind schedule, wow you're a lazy faggot
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>>7900506
The Great Gatsby

1984

The Hobbit

The Giver

Anna Karenina

Inherent Vice
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>>7900506
im not gonna make it.
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I've read 13/1 book.

I think having a "target" makes reading more of a competition/game than one would wish it to be granted good mind.
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I've read so far this year:

Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby
Watchmen
The Martian (hated it but somebody lent me it and I was curious)
Child Of God
The Crying of Lot 49
The Divine Comedy
Lolita
Of Mice and Men
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

Currently reading The Road.
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This year I've read...

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*
The Epic of Gilgamesh*
The Trial and Death of Socrates*
The Shining by Stephen King
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (The Collection) by Raymond Carver
Ancient Futures by Helena Norberg-Hodge*
The Dao De Jing by Laozi*
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini*
It by Stephen King
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Stone by John Williams
The Time Machine by HG Wells

* = Read for a university class

Yes, I understand that Stephen King is a meme on here.
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>reading challenge

I read:

The Stranger
The Crying of Lot 49
V
Stoner
Scottish Ghost stories
The Cartesian Meditations
Night Flight
Southern Mail
Picture of Dorian Gray
The Beautiful and the Damned

A bunch more and assorted detective and popular trash
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>>7900506

34, rookies. Average page count ~440. Mostly Shakespeare and Knausgård.

I nearly quit /lit/ after the imgur/reddit chart fiasco influx, which happened around the same time my computer broke.

Amazing how much reading you can get done when you're not doing eternal recurrence with a bunch of posturing blowhards.
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who fucking cares
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>>7900578
Is this post ironic or are you actually an idiot
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honestly it could be going better
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barely read anything this year

neil gaiman - american gods
bradbury - the martian chronicles
chekhov - short stories

shame on me
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Who /ontrack/ here?
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>>7900581

Both.

Stay jelly at my sick statz bro
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>"reading" goals based on quantity

Are you faggots serious?
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>>7900597
yes, i seriously intend to read 3000 books this year, despite only having read 14 so far
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>>7900597

>he reads less than 12 books a year

Stop shitposting so much and read more.
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>>7900597
When taken over the course of an entire year, it balances out pretty well.
I might read a short and quick novella, but I'll probably read a longer and harder novel for each one like that as well.

In fact I typically do so consciously. After reading a difficult book I like to relax by reading an easy one.
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>>7900506
Come at me Faggets
sffg reporting in
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138
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16 books so far plus several short stories and some books i've started but not finished yet

the 16 books books equal 3688 pages

>tfw when you could have read the entire meme trilogy instead

>>7900515
arguably the worst post i've read today
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8200 pages, but I'm behind.
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>>7900696
I read 1000 pages per hour.
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Might go for 52 instead
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>>7900524
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12 books, or about 4000 pages

My Initial goal was to read 24 books, which was based off last years estimates. But I think I'll be going by page count from now on. I'll reach 24 books easily because I've been reading a fair amount of novellas.

How many pages should one read in a year? I'd say 15,000?
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>>7900817
b-b-but im an unicellular entity.
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>>7900506

17
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>>7900826
Wow how did you managed to do that?
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I read a lot of essays, novellas, short stories, poems, and plays and it would feel stupid if I added them all to Goodreads.
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I am on track. I've read 23 and I'm going for 100, with excess over the summer holiday.
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not doin great tbqh
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I pretty much relaxed and gave up once I downloaded all of the Animorphs books and realised I could read a few of those a day. Now it doesn't matter how far behind I am because later in the year I can just devour those and still win.
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>>7900689
>the crippled god
>>>/r/eddit
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Sixty thousand pages, niggas - it's lit.
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>>7900513
High School Lit Class - Check
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Many books I've read aren't on goodreads and I don't know how to add them.
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11 books, 1568 pages
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not as much as I could desu, one or two books stopped me dead in my tracks for a while and I've been generally busy
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>>7901732
fanfic doesn't count anon
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>>7901732
name five

I read a lot of short books, fucking sue me
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>>7900554
I didn't know it was possible to read so much /lit/ meme in 4 months. Your post is evidence of this shithole's incredibly high turnover rate. And you're not even the biggest faggot ITT.
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>>7900506
This and I'm done most of Gravity's Rainbow.
I get most of of my reading done in the summer, engineering physics is a pretty demanding program but I try to read when I can.
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I'm doing real bad honestly,
so far I've read:
Ulysses
Naked Lunch
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
V
House of Leaves
I think it's because of studying and writing, when I write I don't have time for as much reading.
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>>7901598
>counting Call of Cthulhu
Good job finishing that one anon! I'm sure it took long time.
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Read 80 pages then quit Infinite Jest

Almost halfway through Anna Karenina now and like it, and also reading The Rational Man

Earlier this year I also read the epic of gilgamesh and finished Man and His Symbols

Guess im not making it? You guys read a lot
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>>7900506
Who the fuck cares?
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47 books, but there's a bunch of poetry there.
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>>7903158

>Read 80 pages then quit Infinite Jest

It gets coherent around 200 pages in, but it really is polarizing. You either hate it for being pretentious, try-hard intellectual onanism, or you love it for being profound, masterful intellectual onanism.
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17 so far, I don't have an account on that website.
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>>7900540
>>7900597
>>7900580

Yeah, I agree.

I never got why people do this. It seems like they're turning reading into a pointless activity where some arbitrary quota of books read has to be met in order to gain bragging rights.

That just feels like it defeats the whole purpose of reading by reducing it into some kind of autistic numbers game.
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Mythologies - Barthes

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu vol. 2/ vol. 3 - Proust

Narciss and Goldmund - Hesse

Leçons Americaines - Calvino

Selected Poems - Blake

Poèmes Saturnienes/ Fêtes galante - Verlaine

La Coscienza di Zeno - Italo Svevo
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Soldier's Pay - Faulkner
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Sanctuary - Faulkner
Light in August - Faulkner
Old Man - Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
Endymion - Keats

All for university. Don't really have time to read anything else, but I hope to read most of Nabokov's English oeuvre in the summer (already read Lolita and Pale Fire).
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>>7903387
>nonstop back to back Faulkner
Are you taking a course in corncobby provincialism or something?
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>>7903387
For me this would be a very special kind of hell.
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Siddharta - Herman Hess
Utilitarianism - JS Mill
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Science and creation -John Polkinghorne
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Zealot- Reza Aslan
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
India Discovered - John Keay
Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Darsan - Diana Eck
The End of Suffering - Pankaj Mishra
Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
The Beginning of All Things - Hans Küng
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
City of Djinns - William Dalrymple
Pakistan on the Brink - Ahmed Rashid
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
The Republic - Plato
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
The Hindus - Wendy Doniger
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
The Fall - Albert Camus

Currently reading: The Koran
The Tibetan book of the dead
A clockwork orange
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>>7903387
I would have taken Faulkner in college, but my schedule didn't allow me. Still, I love that list. I only have about eight books of his I haven't read because I couldn't find copies.
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>>7900506
My reading this year, trying to get more into Catholic thought and philosophy in general

Cratylus by Plato
Philosophy of Mind by Edward Feser
On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Jews by Hilaire Belloc
Crito by Plato
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor Silence by Shūsaku Endō
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant
The Categories by Aristotle
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Ethics by Peter Kreeft
The Aeneid by Virgil
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon by Roger
Zelazny Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Utopia by Thomas More
The Short Stories of G.K. Chesterton by G.K. Chesterton The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas by Peter Kreeft The Platonic Tradition by Peter Kreeft Beyond
Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock


Pretty good, looking forward to the rest of the year
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Books I've read:
The Recognitions- Gaddis
Art- Clive Bell
The Savage Detectives- Bolaño
Ficciones-Borges
Hamlet- Shakespeare
Infinite Jest (second time)- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster- David Foster Wallace
Candide- Voltaire
The Republic- Plato
Agapé Agape- Gaddis
The Hero With a Thousand Faces- Campbell
A Hunger Artist- Kafka
Laocoön- Lessing
The Stranger- Camus
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men- DFW
In The Time of the Butterflies (read for a class) -Alvarez
Apology- Plato
Crito- Plato
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- Joyce
Outlines of Pyrrhonism- Sextus Empiricus
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about to be 8 books after I finish this book today.
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>>7900506
1. Too many deadlines. Kill me.
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>>7903452
Yes Vlad, indeed I am.

>>7903520
What books? Also, which is your favorite of his/
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>>7903552

What did you think of the Aeneid, Dead Souls, and Good and Evil, pal?
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what is this app?
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Pride and Prejudice
Paradise Lost
Fathers and Sons
Anna Karenina
Oedipus trilogy
Huck Finn
Iliad
Odyssey
The Torrents of Spring (Turgenev)
The Singers
Bezhin Meadow
Mumu
The Sun Also Rises
Pere Goriot
Of Mice and Men
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Complete Poems of Sappho
Uncle's Dream
The Permanent Husband
Daodejing
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The PEasant Marey
Dark Adeptus
Quixote: The Novel and the World
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>>7903666
I think it's a feature on goodreads, satan.
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>>7901701
I was here since 08 talking about fantasy, when everyone else was tipping their wide brim hats, and sipping wine.

I never went to redshit, and I never will. You newfags come up in here and think you know shit.
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>>7903187
Poetry, graphic novels and novellas not applicable.

Post pages read.
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>>7903702
Why would poetry not be applicable? Are you saying Homer, Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare aren't /lit/?
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>>7903696
since 08? you mean two years before /lit/ was born? where were you talking about it? /his/? /b/? please.
i've been on this board since '11 and 4chan since '07, don't front me
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>>7903696
So essentially pic related with the word "pretended" taken out. Good to know. Now fuck off to your containment thread, genrefag.
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>>7903707
I'm saying your 10 page book is a fucking cheat and you should kill yourself by internal concussions caused by a horse dildo.
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>>7903770
no need to exaggerate. most books of poetry are between 80 and 100 pages.
but more importantly, you should probably be spending no more than four minutes per page of prose fiction at the absolute longest, whereas you ought to spend around 20 minutes or so on a poem. Or else you're most likely reading poetry improperly
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>>7903702
Its almost certainly Sebastian, who is NEET and reads more than anyone else here, although his taste could use some work.
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>>7903702
>novellas not applicable

If you are actually reading more than 20 books a year for a few years you run out of the well known tomes or else feel very little interest in them. Also, I can read Lord of the Rings or momcore like A Little Life faster than shorter more complex books with difficult prose.
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>>7903233

You don't read for bragging rights?

I'm sorry, but you seem to have completely misunderstood what this board is all about.
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>>7903233
I track my workouts, my diet, and my daily activities too. But im not tracking for quantity, i track to keep an ordered life, to share my list, and to read other peoples lists and get recommendations. Also the end of the year reading threads are fun.
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>>7903770
RIP Mr Hands
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>>7903663
Aeneid was fun roman propaganda. Less interesting than Comedy, Illiad or Odissey.
Dead Souls were good. Not his best, shorts were better.
Nee Chan was shit. It's like a more obnoxious chesterton.
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>>7903770
>10 page book
I have a 400 page bilingual edition of Les Fleurs du Mal that says you're a fucking retard.
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Not counting graphic shit, I've read 8 books so far this year:

Dormir al Sol - Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
La Novelo Zombi - Ériq Sáñez
Into the Wild - John Krakauer
Catch of the Day: Rhys Davies Short Story Collection 2014 - VA
Goudy, Master of Letters - Vrest Orton
La Feria - Juan José Arreola
Sueño Profundo - Banana Yoshimoto

Currently reading Jennie, by Paul Gallico.
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>>7903233
This.

I mean just look at this thread, all these people posting books for validation and compliments.
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>>7903702
Jesus christ people like you are what's wrong with /lit/.

This isn't a fucking competition of who can read the most books you fucking pseud.
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>>7903962
I posted seeking punishment
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>>7903962
that's a good point, well done friend
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>>7903962
Ive written down 10 books from this thread.

Maybe if, instead of seeking fault, you sought to make use of this thread you would be better for it. I bet you sometimes say "/lit/ is shit now"
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>>7901732
What do you mean senpai?
You're not that special.
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>>7903387
Is Faulkner good? What's the right reading order?
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18/52
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/5245824
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>>7904112
I'm not him and I only think faulkner is ok. But I'd say there's no real order. From posts I've seen about him here, his best/most complex books are "Absalom, Absalom! and "The Sound and The Fury". I only read As I lay Dying which was ok but nothing mindblowing. You could probably read any of them in any order because they're all self-contained anyway.
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23, lots of Shakespeare plays, so I'm cheating a bit. Working my way through /lit/ top 100, it's gonna take me at least a year more, I think
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>>7903962
Fucktard detected.
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>>7903913
>400 page bilingual edition

So it's only 200 pages.
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>>7900582

>3000 books

Nigga that's almost ten books a day
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>>7903975
Yeah and I bet you're gay xD

and /lit/ has always been shit, this culture of who can read the fastest/who can read the most books in a year is just harmful to the reader. I bet half these people don't re-read.

>>7904185
Got em

>>7904132
>so I'm cheating a bit

LITERATURE ISN'T A GAME SON
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>>7903975
I'm sure you'll actually read them friendo :^)
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>>7904748
yeah in retrospect it feels overly ambitious
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Going for 200 books this year. Going at a good pace, sometimes I skim through pages to stick to schedule though, but ahwell the actual book isn't important.

Anyway tips on speed reading? I want to be able to read 1 books a day ideally, that way I could really get my numbers up.
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>>7904787
It's about compression, not speed. Read carefully.
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>>7900582
You got this, anon. I believe in you.
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>>7904789
Then how the fuck am I supposed to complete my reading challenge?

Kek. I bet you've only read like 5 books this year.
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How fast do you guys read? How can you have read all these books already? Do you not have jobs / school? I barely have time to read and spend way too long finishing a book
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>>7904787
Information is absorbed when you pause over a word, or a line.

So if you read by pausing over 3-4 words at once, you can usually divide a line into 2 eye movement which improves your speed quite a bit.
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>>7904812
Around 35-40 but it isn't about completing an arbitrary challenge.
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>>7904815
NO ANON. DON'T BECOME ONE OF THEM.
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Man in the High Castle- PKD
Do androids dream of electric sheep- PKD
7 stories from the rest of the robots- Asimov
1984 - Orwell
Animal farm- Orwell
Fatherland - Harris
Cannery Row- Steinbeck
The Hobbit- Tolkien
working on LOTR
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New on /lit/ whats this and how do i get on it
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this is pretty inaccurate though
i log books to keep track of what i've been reading, so a lot of what's set to 'read' was half read for school or out of vague interest

real number is probably closer to 25
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>>7904842
lemonparty.fr it's a book logging website
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>>7904842
goodreads
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Turlupin - Leo Perutz
By Night under the Stone Bridge - Leo Perutz
Leonardo's Judas - Leo Perutz
Youth without God - Ödon von Horvath
The Last World - Michael Ransmayr
The Dog King - Michael Ransmayr
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
The Loser - Thomas Bernhard
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
A Devil in Paradise - Henry Miller
Black Spring - Henry Miller
Everyman - Philip Roth
Indignation - Philip Roth
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Death with Interruptions - José Saramago

The Bald Soprano & Other Plays - Eugene Ionesco
Oleanna - David Mamet
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh
The Ice Storm - James Schamus

Thought about giving Infinite Jest another shot, but fuck that.
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>>7905015
What was your thoughts on Miller?
Currently reading Plexus but can't really finish it, it doesn't really hang me on.
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>>7905015
Lol you are such a fucking idiot
Even if you 'read' all of those you didn't you didn't absorb all of what they have to offer
You are a dilettante of the highest degree my friend
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Does anybody else not really care about the number and length of what they read in a year, but rather WHAT they read in a year?

I set a number goal of 52 like just about everybody else, but really, by the end of the year I want to have read works by my favourite authors like Wharton and Pynchon, and some by great authors I hadn't read before like Joyce and Woolf. The number of books doesn't matter so much to me because books have all different lengths and the number of pages doesn't matter to me either because prose varies so much.
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>>7903552
you cheeky croat
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>>7900506
10 in 4 months, are you fucking retarded?
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A lot, actually.

Audiobooks:

All 4 Abhorsen books
All 9 Saxon Stories books
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
Hitler, Churchill and the Unnecessary War
Humans Need Not Apply
Crippled America
How Google Works

Non-audio:

Getting Things Done
Robert Martin's two main books (Agile Principles, Professional Software)

Currently in the middle of reading Rupert Sheldrake's "The Science Delusion."

It's weird because I honestly have never read that much. Between listening during my commute, at the gym, and doing other mindless tasks, I can easily get through 2 mid-sized books in a week.
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Ive read 9 so far, but most of them are short
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>>7905816
>a lot
>he's only actually read 3

Tell me this is bait
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>>7905816
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>>7905960
>The "Tell me this is bait" bait

Someone might bite 7/10
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>>7903210
I'm hating it.
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>>7900582
jej
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Is reading 153 books by from January to March 2016 a milestone?

>Should I be proud /lit/?

>My dad don't love me.

>My mom is faking the fact that she can't stand me.
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>>7905513
Not the guy you're replying to, but Tropic of Cancer is the best book I've read so far this year.
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>>7905969
Listening is literally not reading though. He's only read three books.
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>tfw havent read a single book since I started working
kill me
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11/35, 1 book ahead

Might change goals if I end up being way ahead, but who knows. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood to read at all, and sometimes I manage to finish two or three books a day.
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"pages read" is a more interesting statistic desu. also fuck reading goals lol its a hobby not a job. do it for fun or not at all
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Where do I sign up for this? I wanna start now? I've already read around 10 books
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>>7906853
Goodreads

>>7906843
Where do you check pages read?
>tfw most translations in my language are 100-200 pages more than the English editions
>too lazy change whatever I've read to the correct edition
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>>7906872
My Books, "Stats" in the left frame (bottom left of page)
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>>7906872
Nevermind, found it
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Otillia's Enigma
Legion of the damned
Legend (sorry)
Brave new world
Kramer vs Kramer
Three front teeth ( (marin sorescu)
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>>7905539
What's going on in your awful life? Where's all this anger coming from, friendo?

About "absorbing all of what they have to offer": I never claimed to have absorbed, internalized, or analyzed anything. You're another dilettante trying to shit on a dilettante.

Now hurry back to your writing group and keep on pretending that you're not a bitter, failed hack with a micropenis. You're not worth the crust on Tao Lin's boxers, you semi-literate cunt-knuckle.
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>>7906843
This.
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>>7906500
>being this much of an autistic pedant

Consider suicide.
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are you for fucking real? What a joke this chan is.
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Slow year
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>>7907147
>being a soccer mom tier pleb who passively listens to audiobooks and pretends it's the same as actively engaging with a book

shiggy diggy my niggy.
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>>7900506
I got a little cocky and started Infinite Jest. I'm about halfway through but I think I'll be done with it until May
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>>7906843
>still not using the most interesting statistic
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So far i've read

The Tempest
The Antichrist - Nieztsche
Absalom, Absalom
The Tin Drum
Essays & Aphorisms - Schopenhauer
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Infinite Jest (waste of time)
The Bell Jar (also a waste of time)
Genealogy of Morals
Wuthering Heights
Illuminations - Rimbaud
Letters to a Young Poet - Rilke
Selected poetry - Rilke
The Waves - Woolf
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
A Confession - Tolstoy
Ulysses - Joyce
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov (currently reading)
The Cantos of Ezra Pround (currently reading)
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>>7908073
Why didn't you like The Bell Jar?
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>>7900508
Some people actually have lives and hobbies other than reading.

It must be easy to have one goal of reading 20 shit books in a year when all you do is shitpost on /lit/ and jerk off while your mom cooks tendies.
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>>7908747
why are you posting?
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>>7907940
>still not using the most interesting statistic

Pretty much everyone's pub-year-stats would look like that
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get on my level, plebs
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>>7904191
Pretty sure that the book still has 400 pages.
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>>7908782
Pages read and a screen shop of all the books.
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>>7908725
idk people kept telling me that it's really good but i thought it was underwhelming. It would have been better if she included the suicide at the end.
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>>7908747
20 books in a year is like a chapter a fucking day you autistic faget, that dude might be a dick, but an average book like the road takes a day or two if you read slowly. I do 5 or 6 a month and I hardly fucking read.
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>>7900506

The only book I've finished in 2016 is Shantaram. I actually started reading it back in either November or December but didn't get to the end until two nights ago.

I work 40 hours per week in an office and also do freelance writing, so I don't have a whole lot of time to spend in books. I was also in India for the last third of the past year, so reading hasn't been much of a priority for me. I'll probably read another few books over the course of the next few months, now that I've started going to the gym and am making a concentrated effort to spend less time in front of computer screens when I'm in the country (I'm a /trv/fag).
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constant reminder that it will never be enough and is ultimately futile!
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>>7900506
H.G. Wells - The Happy Turning

That's it. And it is a short story no less.

I've been focusing more on music this year. But I am started on 2666, Infinite Jest, and Lolita. I'd like to finish them by the end of the summer.
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>>7909730

Don't worry anon, you have the rest of your life. You know? From now until you kill yourself.
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>>7903552
hi kenzo

Tell me about The Jews, I need it for a seminar.
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>>7910084
Fuck off don't give away my secrets pm in shitpost chat
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I've been reading Infinite Jest for three months now. Fuck me guys.
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>>7908811
But since you'll only actually read half of it, it's kinda cheating.
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>>7910139
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>>7910139
How many pages do you read per day?
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Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside
Rob Sheffield - Love is a Mix tape
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Joseph Heller - Something Happened
Joseph Heller - Closing Time
Joseph Heller - Good as Gold
Joseph Heller - God Knows
Algernon Blackwood - The Camp of the Dog
John Fowles - The Magus
John Fowles - The Collector

That's all for this year, at least for fiction. Currently working on Daniel Martin by John Fowles but my alcoholism is slowing me down.
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>>7901726
Why are you guys so mean?
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The Revenant - Michael Punke
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
The Collector - John Fowles
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski
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>>7912224
You must be really smart. I bet you're a chick.
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>>7908782
TOP KEK. Go read an actual book you cuck.
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>>7900506

>Read this year

Twilight of the Idols
Beyond Good & Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals
The Maltese Falcon
Ulysses
The Sound & The Fury
Crying of Lot 49
Bleeding Edge
Ham On Rye
Wise Blood
Mythology
The Iliad
The Odyssey
To The Lighthouse
A Room of One's Own
The Republic
The Remains of the Day

>Want to read in the near future

The Aeneid
The Metamorphoses
The Waves
The Unconsoled
Against Nature
The Histories
Marx-Engels Reader
The Second Sex
The Trial
Gulag Archipelago
idk lots of other stuff

I think that's it. How am I doing so far?
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