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Invoking Book Pact Initiative YV122613: Thread 5 Mount !!Uu3Kr60QQh7 Sat Jan 18 04:07:11 2014 No.4480703 [DELETED]

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Official Book Pact Thread.
We agree on reading a specific book with a fixed time limit.

Book Pact exists to:
Help motivate you to read more books
Create larger synched groups and individuals, reading the same material so we can share opinions, experiences, epiphanies etc.
That way you absorb the most out of a book and it is retained firmer in memory.
Maximum Novelty: You might get into a book/genre/author/etc that you would never do it by yourself, thus breaking your comfort zone, opening your mind and mental horizon.

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If you can't get a physical copy you can get a digital here: http://en.bookfi.org/
Open Goodreads Group: "Book Pact YV"

More info: http://pastebin.com/5kHSEttE

Previous reads:
Snow Country 27-31 Dec
To The Lighthouse 1-5 Jan
Siddhartha 6-12 Jan
Holes 13-20 Jan

Given the last thread, there is an apparent abuse of Strawpoll voting (applicable to virtually any online voting system), to combat that we'll change the book selection method from democratic to chaotic.

Which means, starting from today you suggest books under 250 pages and once we have about 10 solid suggestions, in 20th Jan i'll make a post.
In that post each book will be represented by a number, the last digit of the post will have the honor to select the book for us.
The good ol' traditional way.

Also your impressions from Holes.
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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 06:14:16 2014 No.4480895 Would anyone like to read the children's fantasy novel Redwall? This Monday (January 20th) is my birthday and Redwall is my favourite kids' book, so if we could do that it'd be perfect.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 07:06:19 2014 No.4480951 >>4480895 >all those lies

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 09:24:10 2014 No.4481096 I vote for Vera Historia by Luciano of Samosata

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 09:34:11 2014 No.4481109 File: 69 KB, 668x277, How+many_e19636_4226341.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where's the goodreads group?

>>	Mount !!Uu3Kr60QQh7 Sat Jan 18 11:57:29 2014 No.4481316 >>4481109 Same place.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 13:17:30 2014 No.4481458 Wrote about Holes in last thread, will write it here again, the book was ok, don't really see what we can discuss about it, probably would've loved it if I read it like 10 years ago.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 13:31:54 2014 No.4481514 >tfw I dismantled the book pact singlehandedly

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 14:47:12 2014 No.4481722 >majority of the people in the group has like 50 books read I thought you were literary experts /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 17:09:04 2014 No.4482123 >>4481514 How so?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 17:42:04 2014 No.4482225 >>4481722 Why would I bother adding books that aren't related to the thread? Stupid normalfags.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 18 17:53:04 2014 No.4482256 File: 15 KB, 200x306, 200px-Modellandcover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nominating Modelland again

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 02:41:13 2014 No.4483599 >>4482123 I saged this shit until it died

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 08:24:22 2014 No.4484085 >>4483599 No matter how many years pass on 4chan i'm still surprised when i see people that don't know what saging actually does.

>>	Mount !!Uu3Kr60QQh7 Sun Jan 19 10:48:10 2014 No.4484437 >>4483599 That's now how sage works, regardless, why did you tried to 'defeat' an internet book club?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 13:40:35 2014 No.4484797 File: 11 KB, 181x279, download.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nominating "The good soldier Svejk" for the next poll.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 18:39:35 2014 No.4485679 well shit i thought dubliners had won and read that well, dubliners was really fucking good

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 19:29:22 2014 No.4485843 >>4485679 You're out of the club.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 23:59:23 2014 No.4486407 File: 466 KB, 796x1167, Soseki.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Kokoro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:05:05 2014 No.4486812 >>4485679 >>4485843 you're both out of the club

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:06:05 2014 No.4486815 >>4486407 Totoro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:07:05 2014 No.4486819 >>4486815 uguru~~~

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:36:05 2014 No.4486891 Lazarillo De Tormes ~ Anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:39:05 2014 No.4486898 File: 30 KB, 499x361, 1389525910657.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Breakfast at Tiffany's It would very much please David Mitchell.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:43:05 2014 No.4486904 >>4484085 >>4484437 Cool disinfo. Saging this shit atm

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:43:05 2014 No.4486907 >>4486815 You know how people think that Totoro is a movie about death? Totoro sounds kind of like Tartarus

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Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:46:05 2014 No.4486911

>>4486904
https://www.4chan.org/faq

"What is "sage"?
Entering "sage" (by itself) into the [E-mail] field while replying will cause the thread not to bump to the top of the page. Contrary to popular belief, a sage is not a downvote, and should not be used as one. "sage-bombing" or announcing that you've saged a thread may result in a ban."

Incoming

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:53:05 2014 No.4486916 >>4486911 so if a lot of people sage your thread, it reaches the bump limit faster and it stop bumping can your mind grasp this? also, when it ws visible it was also a cultural downvote, but retards like moot don't understand also sage

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Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:58:05 2014 No.4486923

>>4486916
>he thinks thread like these ever go past even 200 posts.

Also you're a lying and a dumb shit, why? Because of this:
>>4483599
>"I saged this until it died"

There were like 50 posts in the last thread, saging or not it would die at the same time nonetheless

>literally digging your own coffin
Can your mind grasp this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 05:00:05 2014 No.4486928 >>4486923 Stop replying to him, he's just trying to kill the thread by fucking with you, just like he said he killed the thread.

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Anonymous Mon Jan 20 05:04:05 2014 No.4486934

>>4486928
>getting told
>samefag

>just like he said killed the thread
>he's just trying to kill the thread by fucking with you
You are autistic and you can't grasp how people think about other people.
Do you have any idea how obvious of a samefag you are?
Cringing all over the place.
Welcome to 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 05:08:06 2014 No.4486939 >>4486934 okay dude. Congrats, the thread devolved into an argument about saging because of you needing to be right. Have a good day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 05:16:05 2014 No.4486950 Getting Even by Woody Allen

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 05:40:26 2014 No.4486966 Ask the Dust by Fante... pretty please

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 06:00:28 2014 No.4486988 File: 101 KB, 402x402, me.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4480703 Do they have to be novels? Can we also suggest plays?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 07:01:30 2014 No.4487029 Has anyone here actually followed this through?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 08:45:38 2014 No.4487136 >>4487029 ur mym