Good Reads thread

>grrre martin
Bruh

>>9913820
I try to read a book a week to keep myself honest.

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Tfw 20 books behind

>>9913859
On Holiday senpai may as well kick back

>>9913891
post account

>>9913891
wow...all of those are shit

feels good only rereading a dozen books

>>9913820
Dependent Rational Animals by Alasdair MacIntyre
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The philosophical works of Leibnitz by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Holy Women by Pope Benedict XVI
The Devil in a Forest by Gene Wolfe
Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber
Castle of Days by Gene Wolfe
De Rationibus Fidei by Thomas Aquinas
Against the Errors of the Greeks by Thomas Aquinas
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Blue and Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Writings of st. Athanasius by Athanasius of Alexandria
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Writings of by Athenagoras of Athens
Man and the State by Jacques Maritain
Summa Contra Gentiles, 4 by St. Thomas Aquinas
The First and Second Apologies by Justin Martyr
Dialogue with Trypho by Justin Martyr
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 4 by Frederick Charles Copleston
The Plague by Albert Camus
Meditations and Devotions by John Henry Newman
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
Ethics and Politics by Alasdair MacIntyre
Saved in Hope by Pope Benedict XVI
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend by Hermann Hesse
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
God Is Love by Pope Benedict XVI Apostolic Fathersi III. by Anonymous
Where is the new theology leading us by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Last Testament by Pope Benedict XVI
The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Apostolic Fathers II. by Anonymous
Apostolic Fathers I. by Ignatius of Antioch
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3 by Frederick Charles Copleston
The Essential Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Culture Industry by Theodor W. Adorno
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Maria Faustina Kowalska
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Edith Stein by Edith Stein
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

>>9913900
that's obviously connor you doof

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>>9913820
Hey fellas
I lowball the actual number because the number doesn't mean anything to me, I just get a rough idea of what I want to read each month and leave room for other stuff if something comes up that I really want to read, so it's not a strict schedule or anything. It's been a mostly good year, most of what I've read has been great.
oh and
>26
>CT

>>9914225
Connecticut?

56 out of 250

feelsbadman

>>9914227
yes

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Doing pretty good so far, I'm probably going to bump it up to 25 to make up for counting Watchmen and reading a couple really short books.

>>9914237
What town? I grew up partially in West Hartford

>>9914247
20, Ontario by the way. I forgot.

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50 out of 52, currently reading Dune then The Iliad or Mein Kampf. My job gives me lots of time to read.
Age 19, location. Cape Cod ATM

110/150 or something

Do you guys rate your books? Or actually write reviews?

>>9914377
Just rate and talk about them in discords.

>>9914268
It's in the surrounding Hartford area

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Read: 39
Goal: 55
i just hope that i will not get lazy at the end

i aim to read 50 books a year and i think i'm ahead
but i've been reading a lot of short books this year. i don't think i've read as many pages

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>>9915257
forgot picture

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>>9913820
Going for 50, first time.

24, Estonia

>>9913820

Goal: 12
Current: 19
Most so far
22, Sweden

>>9914144
Tell us what's wrong Ibsen and Buzatti then you fucking cunt.

>>9914173
Do you only read in English?

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itt: plebians

>>9916727
Mostly. Maritain, some Aquinas and the Church Fathers weren't in English. I've got a kobo so it's much simpler to just get a pdf from libgen.

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I'm a newbie

Goal: 200 books
Current: 106

i dont think i am going to achieve it because i read less and have trouble finding new books that attract me

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Goal: 60
Current: 26
First time, currently with pic related.

I can still make it if I read a bunch of novellas, r-right guys?

Haven't been reading at all this year tbqh

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>>9917835
wrong pic.

>>9913820
Only just started reading this year

Goal: 26
Current: 32

26/australia

>>9917191
>he fell for the /lit/ top 100 books meme

>>9915260
you really like dick don't you

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I'm ahead of schedule.

Quite pleased by how many authors from different countries I've read. Didn't set out to do so, but so far have read novels by authors from:
England
America
Russia
Japan
Turkey
Germany
France
Portugal
Iran
Nigeria
Italy
Slovakia

Anyone care to suggest any other international authors?

>>9918037
Read them all in English though. Disgusting monoglot, although I am taking evening classes in Spanish.

Forgot to add
>26
>England

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>>9913820
I've only started reading prominently over the course of this year, started with 40 books and I'm right on track (25 at the moment). Feel like I'm missing out on tons of books and have an enormous backlog. Just finished the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, read Huckleberry Finn beforehand and are debating reading Tom Sawyer Abroad & Detective, are they worth reading? Also is there anything like a top 100 or comprehensive essentials chart for me to go on? Don't want to miss on the surface material or classics. Might also obtain a library card soon so I'll get access to most of anything, give recommendations and I'll get to them as soon as possible. On my physical backlog got the following;
>The Adventures of Marco Polo.
>The Age of Reason.
>Anna Karenina.
>Bleak House.
>Chekhov's Plays.
>Doctor Zhivago.
>Faust (but I accidentally purchased the German version).
>Gravity's Rainbow.
>Hyperion.
>Infinite Jest.
>Jane Eyre.
>Metro 2033.
>Ulysses.
>Utilitarianism.

Also got the Brother's Karamazov and Crime & Punishment though I get the feeling that they will have some sort of divine life-changing experience from reading them much like Atonement did. So I'll refrain for around a year.

>>9916757
Congratulations anon, that is relatively impressive.

>>9917191
How was 1984? Didn't really enjoy the film at all though I'm aware that the novel is supposed to be great. Is Lolita any good, is there anything comedic about it given the tone? I know a lot of these "comedies" are seldom such.

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24/52, behind on my goal but oh well. i have a few short works i can read quickly to catch up, but the past twelve months my reading has slowed down considerably. such is the rhythm of life

I started to read doorstoppers and it completely, and utterly killed my number collecting.

>>9913898
The Dunk and Egg series is the best thing GRRM has ever made. I like asoiaf as well, but the Hedge Knight has more charm than the rest of the books combined.

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really makes you think....

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100 was probably too many, but I'm pleased with my total thus far.

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Age: 26
Location: Germanistan

>>9918225
normalfags don't like to read.

Should I open a goodreads account? It seems kind of like gamefying reading, but could be a motivator.

>>9913820
Goal:300
current:20
Actually I try to read 50 pages in every 3 books every day, I have improved, every time I take less than 2 hours for 50 pages (when I started) to 1 20 by 50 pages currently.
age 16,New Zeeland

>>9914144

Joyce liked that ibsen. So did Edward Said. So did Adorno. Says a lot about your taste.

>>9918503
librarything is better imho

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>>9913820
>Three George fatfat Martin books

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72/100
I'm just waiting for autumn so I can read on the bus on my way to work.

>>9918225

How does this work? Do participants choose any number they wish for their personal challenge? If so, I would think that many people wildly overestimate how much they can read. I'm a slow reader and set aside a good chunk of time reading each day but it still took me 3-4 weeks to finish Brothers Karamazov.

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I've fallen a little behind on my goal because I keep picking tomes. Worth it.

>>9918824
Goal is 70 by the way. Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow were rereads.

>>9915281
Don't forget to move on from Gardens of the Moon. It's trash compared to the rest of the series. It should be rewritten.

>>9918824
how was Europe Central? I've never read any Vollmann but I've been eyeing it for a while. how does it compare to Gravity's Rainbow, Underworld, Sot Weed Factor, or Infinite Jest for example, which is it most like?

>>9918852
It's similar to all of them only in that it's not similar to any of them, or anything else really. I enjoyed it a lot. Vollmann's prose isn't as tight as those others and he has some awkward sentences, but I loved it for its honesty and how obsessive his research obviously was. There are sections that are legitimately beautiful and some that dragged. It's not an easy read, but I'd say it's worth it. The Dying Grass is better, though, at least in my opinion. Vollmann gets trashed on here a lot, and I understand why in a sense, but when he's on he's among the best.

>>9918869
I'm a WW2aboo so I'll probably pick up Europe Central before Dying Grass. Would you consider it a "realist" novel or does it get pretty surreal?

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>15
>it's all entry level shit

>>9918987
Don't be an asshole dude.

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swinging through

>>9919035
>Traci Lords
what

>>9919114
I just wanted another gritty autobiography after the mm book. Wouldn't recommend it tho.

>>9913898
what the fuck are you doing if you're reading something that feels like work (and isn't literally your work)?

>>9919333
Learning my young triplet

>>9916757
post books
>62 novellas and plays

>>9919521
2017 reading challenge

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>>9914173
Nice list brother

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>>9914173
Where's a good place to start with Papa Benedict? Something fairly accessible.

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Add me boys I need friends

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/31544336-a

Aiming for 40, got 31 so far

To the Islands by Randolph Stow
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser (reread)
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
A Common Humanity by Raimond Gaita
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
Inland by Gerald Murnane
Bhagavad Gita
Walden and Other Writings by Henry Thoreau
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm
A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation by John Corbett
How Much Land Does a Man Need and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The New Guard Movement by Keith Amos
The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
Candide by Voltraire
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Stoner by John Williams
The Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
Dubliners by James Joyce
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
Unscientific Essays by F.J. Wood
The Plague by Albert Camus

>>9920003
>private

>>9920043
Oh I had no idea, I'll change that. :^)

>>9914173
How was St Faustina's diary?

17/52

I'm close to finishing two more, but I've only finished 10 books since February so I have little hope of making it

This is my first full year of giving up the habit of physically writing down the books I read and giving in to technology

>>9921003
Hit and miss. It's the whole thing and it severely needed editing. It's amazing she wrote what she did being borderline illiterate, but it's clear she wasn't a professional writer or someone who devoted his life to writing. It's crude, but beautiful. Find an abridged version if possible.

>>9919633
Personally I find all of his stuff accessible, he doesn't carry a baggage of language like a neo-scholastic would and is a talented writer. It has a nice flow to it and is for the most part very good, even if his V2 era writings have some very questionable parts.
I'd go with the encyclicals (Spe Salvi and Deus Caritas Est) and Jesus of Nazareth trilogy.

>>9921139
Interesting, I'll see if I can find one, my uni library might. Have you got a goodreads?

>>9913820
>the hedge knight
Up! Up!

>>9921149
Yeh, the list was just copy pasted from there
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29831737-pinkyivan

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I'm pretty behind because I took a month-long trip to Africa and I thought I'd have tons of time to read there, but I only got through a book and a half.

22
Seattle, Washington

Wy do you guys read so little?
20 books a year seem too few imo.

Anyways, here's my list. I'd probably have read more but i can't read when i'm having a depressive episode.
All the Names - Saramago
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Niebla - Unamuno
On the heights of despair - Cioran
The fall - Camus
Bodas de Sangre – Garcia Lorca
Look homeward, Angel - Wolfe
Memorias Póstumas de Blas Cubas – do Assis
A doll’s House - Ibsen
Kingdom of this world - Carpentier
El gaucho insufrible - Bolaño
La gaviota - Chekhov
The Obscene Bird of the Night - Donoso
Ficciones de Brasil – VV.AA
Cuentos de mi mismo(cuentos) - Unamuno
Letters to a young poet – Rilke
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Las armas secretas(cuentos) - Cortázar
Todos los fuegos el fuego(cuentos) - Cortázar
If on a winter’s night a traveler - Calvino
El lugar sin límites - Donoso
La invención de Morel – Bioy Casares
Disgrace - Coatzee
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Magic Mountain - Mann
The Sheltering Sky - Bowles
El sentimiento trágico de la vida - Unamuno
The myth of sysiphus – Camus
Death of a Salesman - Miller
La consciencia de Zeno – Svevo
Sobre Héroes y Tumbas - Sabato
Moby Dick - Melville
Don Quijote - Cervantes
Demons - Dostoievsky
Society of Spectacle - Debord
The plague – Camus
Amsterdam Stories – Nescio
Kosmos – Gombrowicz
The Hour of the Star – Lispector
Ubik – Phillip K. Dick
The loser-Bernhard
American Pyscho-Ellis
Complete Works of Pablo Palacio
Coplete Poems by César Vallejo
La vida breve Onetti
Suicidios ejemplares, Vilas-Mata
La colmena, Cela
The third policeman, O’Brien
Altazor, or the voyage in a parchute, Huidobro
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Inherent Vice, Pynchon
Murphy, Beckett
Users and abusers of psychiatry, Johnstone
Enquiry on human understanding, Hume
The Borthers Karamazov, Dostoievsky
Selected short stories by Robert Walser
War and peace and war, turchin
A personal matter, Oe
L’exil et le royaume, Camus
Trois contes, Flaubert
Contes du lundi, Duadet
Skylark
Letters to a stoic, Seneca
Berlin stories, Walser
Zama, Di Benedetto
Mortal y Rosa, Umbral

>>9921724
A pretty spanish list

>>9921724
I should read short books like you, boost my numbers.

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>>9917191
Hey brother

I've been in a bit of slump and haven't read much of anything for the past few years, but things are starting to pick up, sort of. I don't set goals, and I'm not particularly well-read. This is just what I've read this year and some stuff I plan to read for the remainder of the year and going into the next.

Read:

Crime and Punishment (re-read)
Heart of Darkness
Martin Eden
Adolf Hitler (John Toland)
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
The Shadow of the Torturer
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Blood Meridian (re-read)
Roman Lives (truncated version)

To-read:

The Bible (KJV)
War and Peace
Lord Jim
Under Western Eyes
The Brothers Karamazov (re-read)
Notes from Underground (re-read)
A Writer's Diary
A Storm of Swords
A Feast of Crows
A Dance with Dragons
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
The Woman in White
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Mythology
Journey to the End of the Night
A Hero in Our Time
The Communist Manifesto
Dune
The ABC Murders
The Sea Wolf
The Call of the Wild
Essays and Aphorisms by Schopenhauer (re-read)

>>9922411
You should read what you want. I don't read short books to brag about how many books i've read
>>9922361
Claro que sí. La gran mayoría de lo que leo es en español.

>>9922586
>Adolf Hitler (John Toland)
How did you like this one? I've been trying to figure out which Hitler biography I want to read.

>>9913820
>20 book goal
>only completed 6
>2 were novellas

Lol well doesn't look like i'll make it.

This is a poisonous ideology. Read books to understand

>>9923492
>implying you can't do that while keeping track of things as well

>>9922586
>The Sea Wolf
How is it? Been planing to check it out for a while, I loved White Fang, and Call of the Wild too (but not as much as former)

>>9923492
I read books to understand how it feels to be happy.
desu

>>9925297
The worst history of Christianity

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I feel like a pleb looking through this thread

>>9925331
This is unironically the worst selection of novels I've ever seen posted here. Shit even by 40 fucking k standards.

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>>9925334
there are only two novels on there
but are you serious? Prospero Burns was pretty good. As justification for the novellas/short stories, i am reading through the complete Horus Heresy.

>>9925352
What the fuck are you doing on this board

>>9925355
getting book recomendations, where do you think i found out about resident evil?
Why would i not be here though?

>>9925371
Because you read only /a/core or /tg/core, without a single decent novel on the list.

>>9925388
>Sherlock Holmes is not decent
damn are you serious?
also last year i've read Also Sprach Zarathustra it for a fact was the reason i started to actively read at all :^)

>>9913820
goal was 60, have read ~20. first year actually tracking the books I read so can't compare. its been a good year desu, literally started it reading ulysses (was middleway through in january 1st), read the old testament, moby dick, some national lit (namely Machado de Assis, intend to read Euclides da Cunha and Guimarães Rosa this year), re-reading the divine comedy, have read all of aeschylus' plays, almost finishing the whole works of sophocles (intend to read all of euripides and aristophanes this year) and currently reading IJ.

main goals for this year, given my current situation
>finish all greek plays
>read euclides da cunha's O Sertão and guimarães rosa's the devil to pay in the backlands (ashamed of not having read these wonderful gentlemen yet, I feel bad because I have that feeling >you'll never grow up in dublin and read ulysses, but I have these guys that share my language, my country, my culture, my traditions, etc, and at the same time I adore joyce I haven't read them...)
>read Le cosmicomiche by calvino in the original italian (been studying it)
>read chamber music, re-read dubliners, portrait and finally, end/start the old/new year re-reading ulysses, so I can read finnegans wake for the first time in vacation

>21
>brazilian

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/62360068-euclides

>>9925491
>Machado de Assis
I've seen him mentioned on /lit/ so much that I think he's a meme. Is he actually worth reading? If so, where should I start?

>>9925505
are you brazilian? he's not a meme, he is pretty much the most well known brazilian writer. if you ask people in the streets to name a great brazilian writer, although 99% haven't read him, they are aware he existed and will name him. that doesn't happen with euclides da cunha or guimarães rosa, for instance, that the vast majority of people won't know.

assis has a vast corpus of works, including plays, short stories, etc, and found and was president of the brazilian academy of portuguese language (actually academy of "letters" translating literally from Letras, don't know how to translate that).

his 3 most famous works are those that makes the "realist trilogy", which are
>the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas
>quincas borba
>dom casmurro
I am currently on the third, and my favorite of those is posthumous memoirs, and I suggest you start with this one. the last two are a bit too romace and bit too realist, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, they are all very short.

his prose is simple but very smart, always with a bit of funny irony and often with a narrator of questionable trustworth, and his books always have quite a lot of great references.

>>9925352
Jesus Christ anon

>>9925395
>Mom said I can have cookies if I eat my vegetables, and look! I totally took a bite of this carrot!

>>9925352
Tbh, I was really interested in buying the Horus Heresy. What's it like? I've never read a Warhammer book before though. What are they like?

>>9925388
Dan Abnett is unironically good

>>9925538
Thanks for the recommendations, I hate romance so I'll probably skip the other two, but you never know.
I'll start reading Memoirs after I finish reading "Lucky Jim". Have you read that? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

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>>9925582
as >>9925618 said Dan Abnett is great, though there are quite a few books that feel quite eh because you know how it will end and thus there is no real tension (for example the Novel Nemesis is about a group of assassins trying to kill Horus) which goes as well as you can imagine.
From those that i have read so far i'd say the ones inside of the green box are very good, the rest is ok but nothing i would recommend if you are not invested in the lore
additionally i would recommend the book Garro the 42nd book in the series and the storyline of garro is one of my favorites tbqh

>>9925574
>you read only
>without a single decent
>>9925574
you are actually quite the pathetic person

>>9925668
not familiar with it, sorry. is it good?

>>9925863
It's pretty damn good for now, check it out when you can.

>>9913820
>20 books a year is a challange
Yeah, next I'm trying the "balanced diet" challenge.

>>9913820
Read so far:
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Mr. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick - Herman Melvile
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
Also Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts and Romans

I would have finished more but I barely have time due to work.

Still stuck on:
Kabbalah and its Symbolism - Gershom Scholem
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures

>>9913820
>Goal for 2017
Write a sequel so that I will have written a series
>Current
Just finished the 5th book in the series today, and have written a novella and novelette besides
>How does it compare to other years
2016 I only wrote two novels, but read several books. Don't know exactly how many

>Age
27
>Location
Canada

I think the best thing to do for those stupid New Years Resolutions is to aim moderately low. If you aim high, you'll eventually realize you cannot succeed (much like how Nazi Germany aimed to take all of the Soviet Union before 1942 came about before the snow of winter and mud of spring would impede them), and ultimately it'll result in surrender (like the legendary 6th Army in Stalingrad before the might of the Soviet 62nd Army and the inability for the Luftwaffe to keep them supplied).

/lit/ is probably quite displeased with me however, because in 2017 I've come close to finishing one book, read perhaps a tenth of another, and now I'm around halfway through yet another. Most of my time is spent writing, not reading. Besides, might as well let a few years pass by before I tackle true literature. That way I'll be wise and more knowing so as to better understand, rather than my present state in life. Every year passed, I'm a year smarter, and a year less naive/ignorant.

>>9926213
Post excerpts Sanderson

>>9917794
>go to goodreads to-read shelf
>sort by page count, ascending
>read two/three novellas a week

>>9917877
just downloaded mark greif's against everything the other day. is it any good?

>>9925870
also if you have a goodreads account and would like to share, or feel free to add me if you want. link >>9925491

>>9926322
Thanks for the offer, but I don't use Goodreads.
Might as well participate in the thread, though.
>What was your goal for your year?
I don't have a specific goal.
>What is your current tally?
22
>How does it compare to other years?
Better than the last year which was 20, and much better than the year before that one which was 15, but still inferior to 2014. as my count for that year is 35

>>9926224
Brandon Sanderson is Canadian? Thought he was a Yank.

>>9925352
Ah fuck, I'm getting trolled so good goddamn

>>9926387
ah, I see. thats fine. I literally just use it to keep an organized list of books I've read and books I want to read, and I log in only to switch the "currently reading" when I finish the book I am reading (and give a superficial 1to5 starts review). although I have few friends from these kinds of threads, I don't know anyone and interact with anyone.

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started wpomen and meme gonna take forever

>>9927312
It's worth it.

>>9925317
What's wrong with it?

>>9914389
>discords

Is there a /lit/ discord around?

>>9913891
>on late style
Hey me too what did you think

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>>9914268
>hartford area
Cool ctbros. I grew up in simsbury

>tfw you read more on /lit/ than actual books

I think I've read like three books so far this year.

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I would love to be rated, recommendations welcome too.

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Currently Reading Stack

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>>9929115
I would recommend From Under the Rubble

>>9929121
>From Under the Rubble
Thank you so much for the recommendation

>>9929039
https://discord.gg/w5mFhU

>>9929081
Prerty great book. Liked the parts about. adorno specifically. Im excited for Oe's book about it

>>9929039
There are two.

My goal was to read as much as possible and just the stuff I like. No set number of books bullshit to show off how much of a fucking hipster I am. No one cares how many books you read. Fuck off.

Compared to other years I've been reading a tiny bit less maybe, but it's still more than 4 years ago, when I couldn't even read one single book per year.