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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 (slightly dated)

Previous reads:
Snow Country 27-31 Dec
To The Lighthouse 1-5 Jan
Siddhartha 6-12 Jan
Holes 13-20 Jan
Walden 21-27

Book selection reworked:
In the poll below you pick 3 books, after the poll is over the 5 most voted books will be used for a random selection like in last thread.
This way we avoid books least wanted but also keep the randomness, just in case of a poll abuse.

http://strawpoll.me/1090440

Most of these are from previous polls.
Need more, suggest books under 250 pages that aren't written by Tyrone or Tyra.

>> No.4516096

Shit forgot to add multiple choice.
Welp, we haven't tried with one vote, let it be.
One vote for each book.

>> No.4516176

>>4516073
anyone who is a part of this is a fucking faggot haha i cant even believe theres this much cancer on this board.

can people not sense their own autism?

>> No.4516189

>>4516176
That's a really long title for a book.

>> No.4516512

i kill these threads every time they appear

>> No.4516548

Švejk is such a cool name. He should win. I don't know how to pronounce it but in my mind it is like the nike logo enunciated.

>> No.4516553

>>4516512
My daily dose of murder-thread guy uguu~~

>>4516548
Especially some of the nordic names are cool like Sven or Rune.

>> No.4516575

>>4516512
how so? even if you are sageing it people are posting in response to you bumping the thread more than it would have if you never posted at all.

You are the helping the thread

>> No.4516952

>>4516073
Just to say that the full name of the book is The good soldier Švejk and it's written by Jaroslav Hašek.

>> No.4517122

>>4516952
Sloppy poll it is.

>> No.4517946

>>4516548
Shveyk

>> No.4518986

>>4517946
Shekel

>> No.4519107

>>4516575
>doesn't understand sages
shouldn't you go back to /mu/

>> No.4519240

Hmm. All this time, I had no idea /lit/ organized something like this. Neat. I just joined goodreads for this, hope it works out.

>> No.4519252

>>4519240
Don't expect much though, it's really slow, someone must step up the game so this becomes more interactive.

>> No.4519794

anyone have an epub of Švejk

>> No.4520239

>>4519794
http://bookfi.org/s/?q=Jaroslav+Hasek&t=0

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4520939

>>4519794
>>4520239
The poll and random tho.
Whatever then.

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Let the Official book be:

The Good Soldier Svejk

All hail etc

>> No.4522373

>>4520939
another yooropoor book

>> No.4523807

I thought there was a 250 page limit?

>> No.4525405

>>4523807
ikr

>> No.4527344

>>4525405

w-why?