/lit/ - Literature

>>11427839
lol none i have never finished a book completely except lolita

less than 20, I like long books though

>>11427839
Lolita
The Trial
Stoner
Blood Meridian
The Stranger
Kafka on the Shore
And I'm almost done with Infinite Jest and Don Quixote

>>11427884
>>11427985
A book about lolis?

50 as of today after I finished the Iliad. God damn I love being single again.

didn't read anything from April - June due to some bullshit, then picked up Infinite Jest so I have around 100 pages left of IJ before I go back to some shorter books

>>11427990
Yeah exactly

35 at the moment

I started reading again in March. Also Almost done with Ulysses and Lolita

>>11427839
All Over and Over (tour diary by tim kinsella, highly recced)
Lolita
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
now reading Gravity's Rainbow:)

>>11428002
i like your taste

>>11427884
>>11427985
>>11428036
>>11428041
why is everyone reading lolita?

>>11428053
It’s on virtually every list of GOAT novels so I figured I better check it out

>>11428081
it is goat tier and probably nabokov's best, just weird to see over half replies mention it

bump

>>11427839
idk, like 20 or something

> 12 rules for life
Actually stop

>>11427839
60

>>11428691
i read it tho

13
500 pages into #14 but I still have about 150 pages to go.

>>11428691
How can one fully refute somebody like Peterson if they refuse to read him?

9 so far

>>11427839
Suppose we are not including pulp mags?

About 5 I guess. History and Anthropology books. There was another book I dropped half-way because it was so dry and the schematics made my head spin. It was mostly about bureaucracy.

Pale Fire
The Savage Detectives
Ordinary Men
The Rape of Nanking
The Verificationist
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
My French Whore
Cancer Ward

slow year so far

from 2013-2017 I read 30+ books a year.

The Iliad
The Odyssey
Medea and other plays
The Theban Plays
The Republic
The Nichomachean Ethics
The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles
Great Expectations
Huckleberry Finn
Wuthering Heights
Catcher in the Rye
Dubliners
The Outsider
The Old Man and the Sea
Meditations (Descartes)
Oathbringer
The Martian Chronicles
Of Mice and Men
The Government Inspector

19, but a good few are novellas.

not enough

>>11427990
THE book about lolis

>>11427990
Literally the book where the term came from anon.

Lolita
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Slaughterhouse five
Utopia
American Psycho
Lord of the flies
Handmaids take
The trial
Othello
One hundred years of solitude
Life in the time of cholera
Dubliners
Collected stories Franz Kafka

There is more
I think but my memory is dreadful

>>11429060
Oh now I remember some others
Steppenwolf
Of mice and men (high school)
Catcher in the rye (high school)

I haven’t read anything this year, or last year, or the year before. I’m a brainlet, I feel like I’ve gone down multiple deviations in IQ in the last few years. I don’t know where to start again.

45

61, but I only write down non-fiction books, so:

-Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life
- Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece
- Scullard, History of the Roman World 753-146 BC
- Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
- Eric Kandel, Age of Insight
- Paul Hazard, Crysis of European Mind
- JMC, Inner Workings
- JMC, Late Essays
- Hibbard, Conversations with William S. Burroughs
- Mann, Thomas, Essays of Three Decades (izabrani)
- Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
- Nick Land, Fanged Noumena
- Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasion
- Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie
- Michel Leiris, Manhood
- Bloom, Harold, Ruin the Sacred Truth
- Peter Hook, Substance
- Peter Gay, Modernism
- Joseph Frank, Idea of Spatial Form
- Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction
- Brian McHale, The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
- Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde
- William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor
- Franco Bifo Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
- Peter Brunette, Wong Kar Wai
- Johannes Fried, The Middle Ages
- Thomas Harrison, 1910, The Emancipation of Dissonance
- Michael Benson, Space Odyssey

>>11427839
How did you like Jakob von Gunten OP?

46 but I'm too lazy to list them all.

>>11427839
>Peterson-core
in all honesty though, how's 12 rules?

Got back to reading last year so it's been a slow progress.

The Martian
The Dispossessed
Dragon Reborn
2001
The Last Opium Den
The Great Hunt
Stories of Your Life and Others

War and Peace
Fathers and Sons
First Love (also Turgenev)
Madam Bovary
Parerga und Paralipomena
Hamlet & King Lear
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
All Quiet on the Western Front (meh)
Ficciones
Dubliners
Pan
On Writing and Style & other essays by Schopenhauer

Right now reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles. It's a pretty bad fucking book, but I keep reading it for some reason

>>11427839
Crime and Punishment
Portrait of Dorian Gray
American Psycho
On the road to Babadag by Stasiuk
The walls of Hebron by Stasiuk
Memoirs from the house of the dead by Dostoevsky
Chronicle of a death foretold by Marquez
Playing with many drums by Tokarczuk
Fahrenheit 451
Catch 22
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Of Mice and Men

Around 40

>>11429382
>Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Would you recommend it ? I started reading it very long ago but didn't go far. Can't remember much.

>>11429523
It's unpretentious, insightful, entertaining, brief & light, love-meta-letter to literature.

>>11427839
I started on the Gulag Archipelago but that things is massive. I need to start consistently reading again. Where tf should I start?

>>11429694
have you considered getting the abridged version?

>>11429517
>12
ftfy.
He didn't ask for your memelist, he asked for a number.

>>11429888
I always thought reading abridged books would be considered a cardinal sin for lit.

>>11427839
49, half way through number 50.

>>11429422
if you don't need beginner life advice then it's not worth it, and even if you did it's probably stuff you already know.

5 or 6 plus a dozen short stories.
I've just started reading this year.

>>11428036
What translations did you use for Dostoevsky's works, and would you recommend them?

Not the full year but this is the drawer of finished books since I moved in May

>>11427839
I hadn't checked how many I had read this year so this post made me finally check, i've read:
rayuela
pedro páramo (reread)
el túnel (reread)
Molloy
Malone Dies
The third and fourth part of In Search of Lost Time
Lolita
Los Relampagos de Agosto
los pasos de López
Romancero Gitano
Poeta en Nueva York
Meditations
The first part of Don Quijote
Andamos Huyendo Lola
La Fiesta del Chivo
100 Años de Soledad
La Vida es Sueño
Lazarillo de Tormes (reread)
Songs of Innocence and Experience (and other of Blake's collections)
Too Loud a Solitude
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Memorias de mis Putas Tristes

>>11427839
21 @ 12k pages because page count is less ambiguous

This many

Damn, lads, I've read only 11, some of you really inspired me now.

18, soon to be 19.

Im reading reflections on the Revolution in France which is a quick read. I’ll follow it with Democracy in America

>>11430802
hahhhahah is that cum sock peekin oout from under your mattress?

Stoner
The stranger
Martial chronicles
The pigeon
Flowers for algernon
Parfum
Animal farm
Brave new world
The dark side of the moon
Der traffikant
Watwr music

Gira - The Consumer
Kafka - In The Penal Colony
Tolle - The Power Of Now
Harris - Waking Up
Peterson - 12 Rules For Life
Dostoevsky - Notes From The Underground
Allen - Getting Things Done
Murakami - Kafka On The Shore
Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
Hesse - Demian
Heller - Catch-22
Dazai - No Longer Human
Ende - Momo
Nietzsche - Beyond Good And Evil

gonna read Tonio Kröger and Norwegian Wood next.

Did not enjoy the last two

>>11431544
Oh shit, that's my roommate's mattress. Well, guess I can never make eye contact with him again

>>11432028
its kind of messy in there, could just be a regular sock

>>11427839
22. Currently reading Madame Bovary and some plays by Sophocles.
Honestly I'm kinda running out of books to read.

>>11430605
P+V
Yes, Demons, Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground were great. The Idiot was an absolute slog to get through for me but I’m not sure if it was the translation or the book itself

>>11427839
January: Chronicles of a Liquid Society - Umberto Eco
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography - Joakim Garff

February: Practice in Christianity - Soren Kierkegaard
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
The Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Concillator - Gene Wolfe

March: The Sword of the Lictor - Gene Wolfe
The Citadel of the Autarch - Gene Wolfe
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis

April: The Civil War (vol. 1) - Shelby Foote
Philosophical Fragments - Soren Kierkegaard
Johannes Climacus - Soren Kierkegaard
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis

The Sickness Unto Death - Soren Kierkegaard
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis

June: The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler

July: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

Plus a few personal books I'd rather not include on this list. So I'm right around 25.

>>11427839
The plauge
The fall
The myth of Sisyphus
The rebel
A contribution the critique of political economy
The 18th brumaire of louis bonaparte
Ethics an understanding of evil
The king in yellow
Society of the spectacle
Songs of a Dead Dreamer

not that much but iv been stuck reading Peter Gay's The Freud Reader

>>11428967
Great

>>11427839
Your thoughts on Nix?

I'm thinking about reading it.

>>11430222
>>11429422
pretty much this actually

>>11429406
It was excellent, I ended up reading it in a single sitting.

>>11429694
there are some excellent free audio versions of it, if that helps.

>>11429947
abridged gulag is pretty justifiable tho

>>11434159
there are some TERRIBLE World of Warcraft sequences and he tries to be DFW a lot. Besides that it's pretty good, especially for contemporary lit. Also it looks big but it isn't very dense or long, so if you're intimidated by the length don't be.

>Into Thin Air
>Lives of Girls and Women
>The House of the Dead
>The Subterraneans
>Big Sur
>Tristessa
>Brave New World
>The Call of the Wild

Started the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant yesterday and am loving it.

I have read 1 book, Brave New World.
Trying to get through 12 rules for life but keep stopping for weeks at a time because brain can't focus on book.

>>11435063
How was Everything Flows?

>>11435176
figuratively Jewish POV flavoured Gulag Archipelago Vol III clone.
Rather spend the time re-reading solzhenitsyn

>>11435197
Have you read Life and Fate?

Also, I can see you read both Blood Meridian and Moby Dick. How did you like them as sort of companion pieces?

>>11427839
How do you manage to read so many books? How much time do you invest in reading? Do you play any games? Do you even have a job? Any other hobby? About about ambitions beyond the job? Or education (i.e. some courses and stuff, even school perhaps)? How long does it take for you to, say, read a 100 pages?

I read like 20 pages max in an hour... The only time I managed to read an entire book in an hour (that was long 100 pages and more) was The Little Prince, because it was so simple.

>>11435205
>Have you read Life and Fate?
I have but I skipped over a lot of parts too so I am not exactly done with it.
>
Also, I can see you read both Blood Meridian and Moby Dick. How did you like them as sort of companion pieces?

They are not in any sense of the word companion pieces to each other or would make sense to read in parallel.
Blood Meridian was a very loose narrative with large themes to me.

Moby Dick was an indulgence I couldn't tear myself from, read it in a constant 18hr marathon sitting.

>>11435210
most of the people on this board are faggy, basedboys who read because it's the book their professor assigned to them. They're too scared to actually work and get a degree worth any credit, and they're too scared to do anything in the real world other than critique the political philosophies that built the world that they are so horrified of.

>>11435230
Both feature large white hairless ethereal figures and a journey towards certain doom.

And both feature a lot of homosexual activity.

And harvesting living creatures en masse for profit.

And ponderings on the nature of being.

>>11435258
now this is just absurd man.
Good parallels if you try to conjure them i guess.

11 books, but one those books was the Bible so really it was 76 books.

i'm going to stop reading esoteric stuff and focus less on gnostic literature

>>11427904
Same. I think I'm up to about 12. A hand full of them are long.

>>11427839
that david pears book about wittgenstein is terrible

Like 8, four of which were warhammer novels. Just fucking kill me

17

Child of God
Moby-Dick
Glock
All the Pretty Horses
The Old Man and the Sea
Epictetus, Discourses and Enchiridion
SOG
Extreme Ownership
Skin in the Game
Principles of Personal Defense
Discrimination and Disparities
When Violence is the Answer
The Craftsman
The Antichrist
Genealogy of Morals
Crime and Punishment
How Dawkins Got Pwned

>>11435210
OP here. I read 1-3 hours a day, usually during commutes and in the evenings. I play a couple games of overwatch each week to unwind. I have a job as a corporate copywriter (scripts). My main hobby is reading and writing, tho I also play DND every week. I hope to be a novelist in ~3-5 years. I also go to Uni atm, so some of these books were read for courses. 100 pages is about 2 hours for me - I'm not very fast. Depends on the text tho, I definitely was not that fast reading Gaddis.

Just compound reading every day my d00d and you'll smash em out before you know it :)

>>11437251
yeah it wasn't great.

two, i guess :(

why do i even hang out at /lit/?

>>11429031
i feel you

>>11435210
>>11437989
OH! I also discriminate between uni books and personal reads. So eg I might read 5+ hours if I was doing some phil work, reading a novel for lit class, and reading my own thing for strict leisure.