/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15563030]

>IQ
>Number of books read last year
>Reading now

[Anonymous No.15563038]

>>15563030
OP here
>131
>5
>The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat

[Anonymous No.15563040]

88
2
don quixote but i havent read in a week, im at the part with the shepherds

[Anonymous No.15563042]

>>15563030
Never been tested, I did the free one on mensa and I think it was like 110 or 120, so I'm a midwit
More than 20 and less than 50
The Broom of the System

[Anonymous No.15563052]

>>15563030
>115
>6 or 7
>A Thousand Plateaus (postponed)

[Anonymous No.15563055]

>>15563030
>140
>0
Socrates was right

[Anonymous No.15563057]

>>15563040
nice, are you liking it? why did you drop it for a week?
>>15563042
that's a lot, how often do you read? any discipline behind it?

[Anonymous No.15563064]

>>15563055
desu I was skeptical of my old reading habits, since I forgot almost everything I read. Now I have kind of a journal.
>>15563052
postponed for what?

[Anonymous No.15563067]

>>15563030
>120 ish
I start a lot of books and end up giving half way. So maybe like a dozen that I haven't finished

[Anonymous No.15563070]

>>15563030
127
20
On The Origin Of Species & V.

[Anonymous No.15563074]

>>15563067
why though?

[Anonymous No.15563075]

youre so fucking gay if you count how many books you read

[Anonymous No.15563077]

>140
>52
>The Screwtape Letters

[Anonymous No.15563083]

>>15563070
>On The Origin Of Species
It's actualy a very interesting book.I found it amazing how he discovered evolution by comparing household animals to wild ones without any knowledge of DNA and mutations and such. Did you like it?

[Anonymous No.15563089]

>>15563064
>postponed for what?
it's too difficult at times desu

[Anonymous No.15563095]

>>15563030
Who is this woman

[Anonymous No.15563103]

>>15563089
I to get unmotivated. I think we should only read when we feel like it. But it's important to seek motivation with things that generally will have more impact in your life, like adquiring culture.

[Anonymous No.15563110]

139
Jeez I don’t know, not too many on my own list, I was in my last semester of school, but I read a lot of nonfiction on Greek pederasty and Aristophanes
Just one rn: gravity’s rainbow

[Anonymous No.15563115]

>>15563030
>113 or 117 (I did two different tests)
>maybe 20 or 30?
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (it's not very good)

[Anonymous No.15563118]

140 -/+ 5
0
war and peace

[Anonymous No.15563128]

>who cares
>who cares
Against Method - Paul Feyerabend

[Anonymous No.15563132]

Is there some serious free IQ test on the internet?

[Anonymous No.15563154]

>>15563030
220
didn't count
3
also, sophie rose

[Anonymous No.15563172]

>>15563030
146
2 (Phantastes and then some forgettable fantasy hack shit that involved time travelling and Byron)
not reading anything now

[Anonymous No.15563187]

>>15563083
Yes I do like it. Darwin’s writing is clear and often very beautiful as well. I was pleased to see that even he recognised the flaws of the concept of species a century and a half ago, though I suppose the fact we’ve failed to properly address those even now is shameful.

[Anonymous No.15563192]

>>15563132
I think the internet ones aren't as bad as everyone says. I took them a few different ones maxing out at 130, then I took a real life IQ test and got 15 points higher than that

[Anonymous No.15563201]

>135
>0
Had to take care of some things so I postponed reading and other interests to a later date.

[Anonymous No.15563202]

>>15563192
the only difference between my real one and the internet ones is in real life half of it was verbal while online they are always just the nonverbal shape shit

[Anonymous No.15563214]

>>15563192
Okok do you recommend one in particular?

[Anonymous No.15563222]

>>15563030
I don't know
30
"The White People and Other Weird Stories" and "The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith vol.4"

[Anonymous No.15563234]

130
Ion know
Eroticism by Bataille
Beyond goood and evil by nietzsche
songs of a dead dreamer and grimscribe by ligotti

[Anonymous No.15563239]

>I’d probably assume around 115
>26
>Bhagavad Gita and the Book of Genesis.

[Anonymous No.15563244]

>>15563214
I never did one online that was like a real one, like I said in real life half of it was verbal reasoning and i've never seen that online

[Anonymous No.15563262]

>>15563057
I try to read every day but I dont always. It averages out to like 30 pages a day. Not a lot of discipline to it since I only read books that I enjoy and I've gotten to the point where more often than not I prefer reading to vidya and tv.
The biggest thing is that you should always read for fun. That doesn't mean you don't read difficult or challenging works, because the difficulty can be part of the fun.

[Anonymous No.15563269]

>>15563115
Is it making you suicidal, anon?

[Anonymous No.15563273]

>>15563030
>84
>9
>Plato's Republic

[Anonymous No.15563278]

>>15563030
Who cares
Who cares
Who's the chick

[Anonymous No.15563290]

>>15563278
Only based post in this thread

[Anonymous No.15563297]

>>15563030
100
0
0

[Anonymous No.15563312]

>>15563278
There's a girl like this on every club-run sportsball program

[Anonymous No.15563326]

>>15563030
>IQ
A meme.
>Number of books read last year
Like 20-25, idk.
>Reading now
Wayfarers by Hamsun.

[Anonymous No.15563329]

>>15563030
130 something
40 something
The Sound and the Fury

[Anonymous No.15563334]

>>15563312
>sportsball

[Anonymous No.15563340]

>145
>0
>sas handbook

[Anonymous No.15563354]

>126
>I don't remember
>Whatever catches my eye that morning as I head out the door to work

[Anonymous No.15563367]

>>15563095
>>15563278
https://www.instagram.com/sophieroseinsta/

[Anonymous No.15563377]

>>15563030
>152
>2
>Not reading anything

[Anonymous No.15563410]

>>15563030
Whjo are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.15563420]

>>15563410
back to your containment board, retard

[Anonymous No.15563427]

>140
>around 50
>book of disquiet by pessoa

[Anonymous No.15563443]

>>15563420
>muh IQ is 24

[Anonymous No.15563454]

>>15563030
>no fucking clue, whatever amount that gives you mild autism and severe depression
>at least 7 novels, don't know how much non-fiction
>The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, and The Templars by Dan Jones

[Anonymous No.15563460]

>>15563030
>50
>0
>nothing

[Anonymous No.15563464]

>>15563443
Here's your (You)

[Anonymous No.15563475]

>>15563030
>probably around 12
>20ish, I only started reading in August tho
>Plato's Gorgias, only got 10pgs left

[Anonymous No.15563579]

>136
>30 or so
>Non fiction: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
>Fiction: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

IQ isn't all that relevant to most reading in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.15563587]

>>15563464
>fucking minimum wage worker! Why can’t they get my order of crap stuffed with preservatives right?

[Anonymous No.15563771]

>>15563030
>IQ
like 115
>Number of books read last year
3-6 depending on how you rank some collections
>Reading now
Hamilton's Mythology
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
The Misfortunes of Arthur by Sir Thomas Hughes

[Anonymous No.15563862]

>>15563410
Fuck off butterdyke.

[Anonymous No.15563938]

>>15563030
>Was 137 last time when I was assessed in psychiatric ward. Could be incorrect - I was under the influence of strong anti-psychotic drugs
>44
>Being and Nothingness (pic related) but it's tough and takes much more time to comprehend. Les grands inities by Eduard Schure in the meantime.

[Anonymous No.15563972]

>>15563030
>idk, like 8-something i hope
>45
>a few, sk, murakami, and some random novel

[Anonymous No.15563998]

>>15563030
132
15
Confessions of a mask

[Anonymous No.15564113]

140
2
the republic

[Anonymous No.15564350]

>>15563030
125
31
The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega y Gasset

[Anonymous No.15564453]

140is
no idea
Esthétiques sur Carpaccio by Michel Serres, it's mostly shit stay away from Michel Serres

[Anonymous No.15564676]

130-something according to IQ-count.biz/free-giveaway-monster-drink

Didn't count, but not enough, life was nutty, though I did manage to reread Gravity's Rainbow, confirmed kino

Reading Brothers Karamazov and the non-Theban plays of Aeschylus right now

[Anonymous No.15564682]

>>15564113
Haven't read Republic since undergrad, thinking of going back to it. How are you liking it?

[Anonymous No.15564703]

>117
>0
>5

[Anonymous No.15564716]

>>15564703
Oh im reading the day lasts more than 100 years, read 5 books this year though. Hopefully it’ll increase due to quarantine.

[Anonymous No.15564792]

>135 (apparently)
> 8
>Dune, Sun and Steel.

>>15563202
The shapes don't bother me, it's the number patterns that pickle my noggin.

[Anonymous No.15564808]

>132
>5
>Experiment in Autobiography- HG Wells
>tfw 60 point difference in low and high individual scores
The individual verbal score is probably most important when it comes to reading.

[Anonymous No.15564818]

Why is everyone around 130 IQ? Are those internet test giving good results so people can brag about being intelligent?

[Anonymous No.15564823]

>>15563030
>120 IQ (average college graduate)
>Idk for sure but likely 25 desu (but I've surpassed 40 this year because I've tried a lot harder)
>Fox 8

[Anonymous No.15564824]

>>15563030
>139
>1 big book, memorized
> William Carlos Williams and the American Poem

[Anonymous No.15564844]

>>15564818
The internet tests are made to reward speed, so even if you answer a lot of them wrong (yet fast), you're gonna get a higher score than if you did it carefully and slowly.

[Anonymous No.15564875]

How accurate do you guys think 123test is?
The classical I scored 125+ and culturally-balanced one I scored 133-145+
I personally think they were kinda bullshit, the hardest part of the classical was the damn cube with number faces orientation; if I hadn't taken a Physics class I might have missed the water::pipe as ?::wire question too. Vocabulary was piss easy as was the math.
The cultural test is literally all pattern matching
I swear I took a longer internet IQ test near the end of my college years and scored sub-120; that was before I got heavily into /lit/ though

[Anonymous No.15564887]

>>15563030
>IQ
never tested
>Number of books read last year
20-something
>Reading now
some book on the fall of Europe

[Anonymous No.15564931]

>130
>20
>A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Freud

[Anonymous No.15565103]

>>15564682
It's alright. In some sections (such as the now-famous allegory of the cave) it is a masterpiece. in many others, it is less impressive. I think the ideas themselves are less worthwhile than the foundations they lay for future thinkers. Plato was a brilliant man, but his republic will never come to be and he has a tendency to oversimplify things a little. I enjoy it more as an insight into a vastly different time and place from my own more than I do as a work of pure philosophy. worth a read if you're interested but not particularly relevant to the modern day on its own.

[Anonymous No.15565128]

>>15563030
>152
>40
>Decameron

[Anonymous No.15565138]

>>15563030
>178
>2
cat in the hat

[Anonymous No.15565481]

>>15564875
I got 133 on the last IQ test I took, about a decade ago. Got 105-120 on the classical one here, so clearly it is broken, my brain cannot possibly be getting dubmer.

[Anonymous No.15565541]

>>15565103
All I remember from my polisci class where we studied it was my prof really leaned on how much of an ironist troll Socrates/Plato were, but I forget which parts this applied to, the allegory of the cave seemed pretty straightforward, hence it being the most famous part. I'm guessing the mandatory naked co-ed wrestling iirc might not be so sincere.

[Anonymous No.15565560]

>IQ
140
>Number of books read last year
0. I don't read books, I derive my knowledge on my own from real world by walking and looking around.
>Reading now
Your faggot post

[Anonymous No.15565633]

130-140
probably 2
currently reading A Rebours and The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World.

[Anonymous No.15565674]

>>15563340
>GOOHOO

[Anonymous No.15565725]

>>15563367
>https://www.instagram.com/sophieroseinsta/
yikes tanning should be banned

[Anonymous No.15565733]

142 (and IQ is a meme)
36
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.15565774]

>>15563030
>100
>0
>Man’s Search for Meaning and A Mind for Numbers

[Anonymous No.15565799]

I don't know
I don't know although I can safely say I read more than a thousand of real literature pages a month and have done so for 5 years now.
On writing, by Stephen King.

[Anonymous No.15565810]

>>15563030
>145
>3
>Groundwork on the metaphysics of morals

[Anonymous No.15565867]

>>15563030

Dunno
129
Zealot

[Anonymous No.15565880]

>>15563030
>135-141
>15-20
>Pic related

[Anonymous No.15565912]

>>15563030
>No idea
>6
>Beowulf, but I forgot to bring it with me on this work trip, so I'm reading the Gideon bible in my hotel room.

[Anonymous No.15565946]

>IQ
148
>Number of books read last year
40
>Reading now
Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.15565952]

>>15563030
134
20 books
Thinking slow and fast

[Anonymous No.15565967]

>>15563030
>177
>38
>POP 1280/SOLENOID

[Anonymous No.15565976]

>IQ
184
>Number of books read last year
0
>Reading now
I don't read

[Anonymous No.15566055]

>>15563030
>110
>73
>As I Lay Dying

[Anonymous No.15566069]

ITT: people who have never taken an IQ test lie about their IQs

[Anonymous No.15566072]

>>15563030
120-something
Didn't keep count, I'd say about 15
Introduction to Iconography

[Anonymous No.15566073]

>>15563030
Never taken a real test, I think I’ve gotten like 120 on a fake one.
Probably 25 or so.
Lolita and Molloy.

[Anonymous No.15566120]

>>15563030
>100
>Around 80-90 if I count what I read for my philosophy studies.
>Ulrich Beck's Risk Society, and Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.

[Anonymous No.15566230]

>>15563030
>125ish
>Idk about a dozen
>Here I Stand, Martin Luther biography

[Anonymous No.15566277]

>123
>0
>Carmilla, the Illiad

[Anonymous No.15566290]

>>15563030
>130
>38
>Georges Bataille, A Critical Introduction

[Anonymous No.15566318]

>>15563030
167
13
None, I don’t have any books in my cabin.

[Anonymous No.15566333]

>>15563030
398 IQ
423
I'm currently reading 87 books at the same time

[Anonymous No.15566339]

>>15563030
127
bout 8
dune

[Anonymous No.15566341]

>>15563030
84
45
the ego and it’s own

[Anonymous No.15566383]

>200 according to online IQ test that I cheated on
>technically hundreds, downloaded off libgen and gone through fast or dropped
>book on modal logic

[Anonymous No.15566384]

>>15563030
144
3 or maybe 4
A Thousand Plateaus in french

[Anonymous No.15566389]

>/lit/ IQ thread
>Filled with insanely high numbers

You are all liars and complete faggots.

[Anonymous No.15566483]

>>15563030
>-4
>zero or one, can't remember (negative iq)
>gilgamesh

[Anonymous No.15566502]

>>15566389
probably they did a test online that gives everyone at least 100
also, people who tested in those and got more than 120 are more prone to posting it here since they think they can make literal anons jelly
4chan is internet's underworld of sad coping

[Anonymous No.15566504]

>>15566389
>the literature board on the most autistic forum on the web wouldn't filled with significantly above average minds

shiggy

[Anonymous No.15566514]

>135
>2
I've given up on reading and now I'm just a degenerate gambler

[Anonymous No.15566537]

>Higher than yours
>More than you did
>More than you are

[Anonymous No.15566560]

>>15565560
>I derive my knowledge on my own from real world by walking and looking around.
brainlet. I'm so hungry I want to eat those cats.

[Anonymous No.15566565]

>from 115 to 130
>like 14
>The Savage Detectives, On The Heights of Despair, Aristotle's Metaphysics

[Anonymous No.15566585]

140 Verbal IQ here....
Everyone should go read Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo

[Anonymous No.15566592]

>>15563030
i don't read
will edge to this later

[Anonymous No.15567226]

>>15563030
>participating in spook threads
~120
16
Against the Galilaeans - Julian the Apostate

[Anonymous No.15567236]

>>15563030
65
30
Moby dick

[Anonymous No.15567258]

>>15563030
f(0)=1/x
5
The little prince.

[Anonymous No.15567260]

>>15563030
>138
>didn't count
>dfw's oblivion

[Anonymous No.15567267]

>>15563030
135
16
System of Objects, Jean Baudrillard
The Doctrine of Awakening, Julius Evola
Abridged Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas

[Anonymous No.15567339]

>>15563030
> 149 (tested)
> 8
> Foundation - Isaac Asimov

[Anonymous No.15567363]

>>15563030
>128
>45
>The Atlas by William T Vollmann and Libra by Don DeLillo

[Anonymous No.15567367]

Idk
55
The Quran since I already read The Bible

[Anonymous No.15567373]

>>15567258
I think you were trying to say your iq was infinite but you've literally said your iq is the proposition "f(0)=1/x" which is meaningless in the absence of definitions and cannot possibly be equivalent to a number.

[Anonymous No.15567394]

>>15567373
>which is meaningless in the absence of definition cannot possibly be equivalent to a number.
That was the intention. My iq cannot be quantified. Is something abstract, beyond human comprehension, wait... AAAAAAAA I AM GOING INSANEEEEE

[Anonymous No.15567425]

>>15563030
High 120s
20ish
Culture of Critique

[Anonymous No.15567453]

Don't care
Don't know
Pale fire and Anna Karenina, about to start war and peace, then Demons when I finish PF

[Anonymous No.15567548]

Somewhere between 105 and 135
Five or so
Severin's journey into the dark

[Anonymous No.15567575]

>>15563030
>123 (at least it was according to some website one time)
>7

[Anonymous No.15567590]

>>15563030

75
1
Clifford the Big Red Dog

[Anonymous No.15567592]

>>15567367
the difficult third testament

[Anonymous No.15567657]

There is no way in hell you have so many people with 2sd+ in here

How many of you just took a shitty free internet test?

[Anonymous No.15567742]

>139
>77
>The woman in the dunes

[Anonymous No.15567819]

>>15563030
> 142
> 7
> The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

[Anonymous No.15568899]

>higher than yours
>none
>pick up a football faggot

[Anonymous No.15568929]

210
1,042
Christopher Langen - CTMU theory

[Anonymous No.15569048]

>>15563030
>141
>various snippets before I get bored
>a page from Confessions

[Anonymous No.15569147]

>>15563074
Not him but why finish if you dont enjoy it? Seems like a waste of time.

[Anonymous No.15569174]

>>15563030

>Never been tested
>112
>The Tunnel by Gass

[Anonymous No.15569230]

>>15563030
midwit
35- primarily genre fiction
The Worm Ouroboros

[Anonymous No.15569241]

>125
>52
>And the Ass Saw the Angel, by Nick Cave

[Anonymous No.15569435]

>>15563030
>IQ is bullshit
>Don't remember
>Understanding Philosophy of Science

[Anonymous No.15569908]

>119
>16
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

[Anonymous No.15570095]

>152
> 55 books
> Reading Stoner by Williams and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce

[Anonymous No.15570168]

148
0
N/A

[Anonymous No.15570215]

>>15563030
>No idea. The only IQ test I took was in HS for a psychology class, I went out of my way to get so low that it couldn't adequately be scored.
>Roughly 12, but I don't keep a list
>Euthyphro, the Hobbit, and some weebshit

[Anonymous No.15570218]

kekita

[Anonymous No.15570255]

>>15563030
>IQ
128, but I have ADHD and wasn't medicated when taking the test.
If one legitimately has ADHD amphetamines genuinely raise IQ by a few points. So maybe I'm really 132. Wow!

>Number of books read last year
3, but I listen to on average more than one audiobook per week.

>Reading now
History of the Peloponnesian War

[Anonymous No.15570281]

>>15563030

vaya tetorras

[Anonymous No.15570307]

>>15563326
>IQ
>A meme
Sure, if you see general intelligence, adaptability, performance on cognitive tasks, job performance, memory, deduction, and average wage and whatever are memes then yes, it's a meme.

Fun fact, if you are a boss or work in HR the single best thing you can do is give an IQ test for your applicants and hire the most intelligent one. Your hires will have way better aptitude and be more productive, on average than any other single method you used to single out applicants.

[Anonymous No.15570444]

The only actual IQ test containing a spoken part with a psychologist said "140 or more".
Quite a bit. Lost count.
Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy #1. Read vol. 4 previously without reading the others and decided to read the whole series.

[Anonymous No.15570592]

>>15563030
>don't care enough about being intelligent to take a test
>12
>The World As Will And Representation, Schopenhauer.

[Anonymous No.15570686]

>>15563030
200
15
just read math and phil papters desu,

[Anonymous No.15571294]

>>15570686
which phil?

[Anonymous No.15571313]

>>15566333
that's beyond based anon

[Anonymous No.15571324]

>>15563030
>128
>dunno probably half a dozen
>society of the spectacle

[Anonymous No.15571428]

post em
queendom com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=3108
feeling like this is bullshit, i got filtered by The Republic

[Anonymous No.15571442]

>>15564875
same anon as
>>15571428
I got >125 from the 123 classical test and on the culture fair one, >145
seems like horseshit, i am literal midwit moron

[Anonymous No.15571650]

>>15563030
>127
> 15 books
> currently reading l'etranger to practice french, siddharta by hesse to practice german, La Idea construida by alberto campo (architecture book), discipline and punish by foucault, The sopha: a moral tale by crebillon, twilight of the idols nietzsche, essay on man by alexander pope. usually just keep going with whatever I feel like reading that day, i'm like halfway through all of these