READ THROUGH FINAL VOTING THREAD

>>8990025
I bought Gravity's Rainbow last week and i've already read DQ, C&P, Moby Dick and IJ.

So please anons, do me a favour, don't make me buy Blood Meridian.

Vote GR, you know it's the right thing to do.

Love, anon.

>>8990025
I think out of sheer practicality we're gonna have to push the start date to early February at the earliest. Even if we can decide today which edition to read, some people are gonna have to order their copy online (I just assume people are willing to shill out for a physical book while I know a good chunk of us read on their computers or tablets/e-readers).

As for a reading schedule, we'll have to see once the voting is over but generally 30-40 pages a day is a good pace where we can get it done by the month while also allowing us time and room to discuss the passages.

>>8990063
This guy here.
>>8990094
This sounds good to me, i've still got 300 pages of Ulysses to go so i should be ready come February.

Vote GR, folks.

>>8990149
Oxen of the Sun?

Vote Moby Dick or your mom will die tonight.

>>8990025
Nice spanish you got there dumbass

Estoy en mi propio?

I've read all this shit, it's all /lit/core. What the fuck is this garbage? Mutiny now.

>>8990355
I was trying to say that "you are on your own"? I don't see any problem with that. Then again, my Spanish is a bit rusty

>>8990371

Needlessly harsh from my part.
You are on your own would be "Estas solo"

>>8990025
>You are allowed to vote for as many of the books as you want.

why?

>>8990432
Becuase this is a democracy you commie fuck

>>8990432
My thinking was that if you could vote for multiple books, people would be more likely to actually read the book. Maybe if your first choice doesn't win, your second choice will?

>>8990149
Arriving there, i'm actually looking forward to it. My favourite chapter so far was Proteus, read it four times now. I like how demanding and rewarding it was, really makes a reader work for every bit of beauty.

>>8990313
Fuck, this >>8990458 was for you actually.

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>tfw inifinite meme and the holy meme are getting BTFO

>not pulling for DQ for wacky adventures or Moby Dick for the greatest nautical story to have ever been told

>>8990458
I don't know if there's some kind of imagined pressure about "getting" or understanding everything in a book on a first read-through, but my favourite parts of reading Joyce, Proust, Melville, Faulkner, Stendhal were rereading and arriving at an understanding on my own rather than reading an academic essay or summary guide that covers the basic points.

>>8990403
Eh, I think a better translation would be "estas por tu propia cuenta", rather than "estas solo", to fit the context.
Sorry for the nitpicking.
t. Native Spanish Speaker.

>>8990025
I was thinking we might tack on Paradise Lost to this list!! I have to read the whole thing for class and I think it would be fun to read with /lit/ all the while.

>>8990439
that's not how democracy works

>>8990526
Unfortunately the poll has already been published, so I can't add more books. Maybe if you could generate enough interest in it, you could start your own reading group?

>>8990494
Which is why is was reading Proteus 4 times.
I'll be reading a summary on each chapter and analysis after i'm done but i want to form my own thoughts first. I did read a summary and analysis on chapter 1 though, just to get me going, i felt like that was justified for Ulysses, since English is a second language. I'm definitly going to re-read it.

Don Quixote over Moby Dick? /lit/ pleb central confirmed.

>>8990784
maybe more people have just read Moby Dick already ;)

Very stoked about this! I hope
Mine wins ^_^

>>8990790
can't argue with that (: desu im reading moby dick rn and wanna read with /lit/ frends

>>8990518
Hermano. Estas por tu cuenta suena rarisimo. Apañetalas tu solo quiza sea lo mejor

I voted for everything except the bible.

>>8990784
both are masterpieces, how is /lit/ "pleb central"?
you're the one exposing yourself as a pleb

>>8990518
>>8990997
>Apañetalas tu solo
Sí, claro.

best donkey hotay translation?

looks like im going to my local bookseller for dis wan

>>8991295
Smollett

Reading American Psycho, thinking Moby Dick next.

Is that a good transition?

>>8991433
It's definitely an improvement

>183 votes

You faggots better all join the reading group.

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Whale penis almost in the lead.

Crime and Punishment was on the original list? It's a great book but it's barely 200 pages and rarely ever exceeds 3 syllables on a word.

>>8991743
183 cast votes, not IPs.

>>8991834
It has IP duplication checking.

>>8991844
I just tried to vote again and it worked

>>8991864
When I try to vote again it says "Your Vote has been Counted! You have already voted on this poll." and the count does not increase.

Don Quixote translations. Which are good, which are bad, and which is best?

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>>8991778
>C&P barely 200 pages
>can't tell if stupid or making a joke

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>>8992060
After doing some brief research, I found that Grossman is considered to be pretty good. Harold Bloom said that it was the best translation, so take that for what it's worth

>I recommend to anyone who desires a true appreciation of the novel the translations by ODJ and Lathrop.

http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/csa/artics-f06/mcgrathsf06.pdf

>Don Quixote. The Ormsby Translation, Revised. Backgrounds and Sources. Criticism. Edited by Joseph R. Jones and Kenneth Douglas. (Henceforth referred to as ODJ, in the order of the participation of each.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

>Don Quixote. Fourth-Centenary Translation. Trans. and with notes by Tom Lathrop. Illustrated by Jack Davis. Newark, DE: European Masterpieces, 2007.

What happens in the case of a tie? Moby Penis and Don Quixote are really close

I could turn the tide of this vote right now but I won't.

>>8990439
But it really defeats the point.

>>8992874
How so?

>>8992874
It's called Approval voting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting

>>8992776
If the votes are very close we should have one more round of just the two or three options and give people one vote.

C&P > Don Quixote > Moby-Dick.

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What's up boys, OP here.

>>8992928
This began to worry me after seeing Moby-Dick and Don Quixote go back and forth a few times.

If the vote is close, but there is still a winner, I think that we should just stick with it. It seems to me that most people who are voting for Moby Dick are also voting for Don Quixote, which should hopefully mean that they would be satisfied with either outcome.

If a tie occurs, I would most likely open another poll (for 24 hours, as usual) with Moby-Dick and Don Quixote and only allow one vote per person

I'm open to suggestions if anyone thinks I should go about this differently.

>>8993070
My suggestion is that we read Moby Dick because it's my birthday.

>>8993081
Happy birthday anon!

I will not discard the voting process, however, if the poll results in a tie, we will read Moby-Dick.

>>8992067
Yeah, ok, it's longer than I remember, and I suppose it's equally as difficult as other books /lit/ has done (except GR). It's not a bad choice then, at all.

>>8992348
Can Harold Bloom properly read and assess Spanish, or is he just listing random shit again?

>>8993119
<3

>>8993119
And so democracy fails once again

Happy birthday to the anon. <;^). However, I still want Don Cuck to win.

>>8993119
It is my birthday tomorrow. I prefer Don Quixote. Thanks in advance!

>>8993147
>#notmyreadinggroup

>>8993147
I don't exactly understand why you are upset. No one is forcing you to read one book or another. If I had to make a guess, you probably voted for both books anyways.

>>8993214
It was just a shitty joke, I'm fine with either choice

Moby Dick sucks, just read this instead to get the basic feeling.

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/time-i-spent-commercial-whaling-ship-totally-chang-768

C'mon Moby Dickers!

>>8990526
I would really want to do Paradise Lost but please don't take the suggestion to do it congruously with this; I've read Moby-Dick but I will join in if The Dairy Queene wins, because I haven't read it, therefore cutting my reading time. If a Paradife Loft group springs up after, I'll join in.

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Call me Winning.

The bible is really getting BTFO

>>8992348
>>8992480
So which translation?

>>8994451
I'm going to read the Grossman one because it's well received as a first read and widely available. If I do a second read I'd go for Lathrop.

The Bible had no chance in the first place. Most people don't want to read the Bible cover to cover.

>>8990349
Moby duck or I walk

>>8994468
I imagine reading the bible alone to be quite boring, it's mainly just letters but reading it with 4chan... i don't know, it would probably turn to nto one big meme

I'll join in if Moby Dick or Don Q, but not if the others. I've read some, doing Bible at own pace and not in for C+P yet.

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>people actually voted for Whale Penis: A Story of Nothing.

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>Bible getting wrecked
We're doing it lads!

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>>8990025

I voted for Don Quixote.

I made it exactly 33% of the way through Moby Dick before getting bored unto death of all the whaling trivia.

Pic related is mfw I got to that part.

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>>8994749
I sure hope you like mules.

>OP didn't tick IP duplication checking

Some biblefag is going to proxy spam the bible in 15 minutes, calling it now

since theres a lot of us who wants to read moby dick, is anyone up for another reading group

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Alright lads, voting is over. DON QUIXOTE HAS WON BY 3 VOTES!!! I will start a planning thread in a little while. OP btw

I used proxies to bump donny q to the top

>>8994763
I just wanted you to be saved, anon.

>>8994962
>wanting to cannibalize a group before it even starts

stop. this is how these things fall apart.

>>8994982
How do we know you're OP and not just Don Quixote supporter. I demand the poll be open for another 2 hours.

>>8994962
I'd be interested if someone else organized it, yeah.

>>8994962
Just wait for the next one, it'll be a month max.

>8995289
Absolutely fucking this

Behead all those who want to create a hundred different reading groups at the same time. You're gonna fuck the whole gig up for everyone.

First thread is up >>8995290

>>8995968
meant in reply to (>>8995289)