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This is the most amount of pages I have read in a year since I started reading, too! I am pleased.

Nice, ty. Apparently I've read a book that only one other user has read.

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How did you like Independent People? I've never seen it mentioned here. Come to think of it I've never seen an Icelandic book mentioned here bar some of the old sagas. It's a shame since Halldór Laxness is such a great writer.

>4.3 average rating
>4.4 average rating

Why do so many people literally rate nothing but 4s and 5s? IMO 4 is only for really good books and 5 for absolute masterpieces.

I used to not care that much, but lately I've been thinking more about ratings and started to rate things lower. However, as far as books go, I've read some good shit lately.

I thought it ranged from excellent in the beginning to a total let down at the end, with the actual last chapter being somewhat redeeming. The first half shined.

I only rate books 4 (flawed but stayed with me) or 5 stars (an amazing book that profoundly effected me) and less than that are usually ok, or it doesnt matter. I basically give 5 stars to sort out my favorite books. Sorry for blog post.

I only rated 6 books 5 stars out of 52 so far this year:
The Master of Hestviken
Bockelson
Arrian's Anabasis
Confessions of Justified Sinner
A Distant Mirror
The Red and the Black

My 4s and 5s serve a similar purpose.
I usually only rate lower if I've been especially disappointed or irritated by a book for some reason, and that doesn't happen all that often luckily.

Interesting. I felt like the latter half of the book was better. The book shows a reality that alot of Icelanders at the time had to deal with or were at least familiar with. That is one of the reasons I liked it so much I think.

I liked the idea of the cursed croft and Kolumkilli standing as a barrier to power and success, I felt like taking out a bad loan took away from the struggle that played out until the slaughter of the sheep and the death of the son and turned it into an obviously true but somewhat uninteresting social commentary. I did like the end when the consumptive daughter walks independently from her fathers horse.

It was a solid book that effected me, but I felt it was flawed insofar as my enjoyment of it and sense of what its purpose was.

Did you like Zama? How did you find out about DiBenedetto? I'm a spic and I heard him mentioned in an interview by Roberto Bolaño years ago. I was finally going to get around to reading him when I saw that they've just started to publish English translations of his work. I'm glad he's getting that kind of exposure.

cute birds, bill

How can you plan out the number of books you're going to read in a year when books vary widely in length?

you pick a number

You can also just choose a number of pages to read in a year instead of books if you want to. Personally I choose books instead and I always try to raise the bar a little each year. Last year I managed to read 30 books (not much, but hey) so for this year I decided to try to read 40 books and I've finished 35 as of now.

done

Sebastian i assume

It was bad, I read the review in the NYRB. It was disjointed, with useless and inappropriate magical realism. Standing alone the last chapter was somewhat amusing.

Sensini, one of Bolaño's best and most popular short stories, was built around Bolaño's friendship with DiBenedetto.

Lads, I did it!

I also read Arrian.

Maybe I should read that Münster book. I'm sure Dan Carlin did a podcast about that.

about 40 this year...mostly classical and Elizabethan English. Its been a year of attempted literary autodidacticism

I don't count how many books I read because it discourages me from rereading books. It becomes a competition where I constantly try to outdo myself and that's not good for learning. I rarely see people with thousands of books read on their Goodreads profile have anything useful to say. I don't like them for the same reason I don't like booktubers, which is that they read so many different books that they don't specialize in anything so they can never go in depth. Their reviews and analysis are always surface level generics.

Counting books is also not even a good way to track how much you're reading because I could spend a few months reading Plato: The Complete Works or I could read a few hundred short stories in less time.

teach me how senpai

wow he busted this case right open

You can just count a reread as having read 2 books. And noone says you have to pick a big goal.

i'm shooting for 50 and done 45 so far, but i just bought a ps4 so we'll see

Read Diary of a Man in Despair first, its why I read Bockelson. You feel so fuckin bad for the guy

I try to read a book a week just like I try to go to the gym 3 days a week just like I try to go to church on sundays just like I try to eat less than a tablespoon of sugar a day

reading challenges don't even really matter because I record comic books on goodreads, which means I can read 20+ "books" in December if I want to reach a particular goal

but I do try to read around 100 books a year, and try to keep the actual novel count as high as I can manage

Yeah I hit 50 books in a couple months at the rate I read comics. Substantially less novels but a fair amount this year at least.

I set my goal way too low. I only started my goodreads account in August, so I thought just to be sure I only set 10 books as my goal but I blew way past that.

You could also count each of Plato's dialogues as a separate "book" and add like two dozen entries to your Goodreads account.

That would be cheating though

80% of it was pointless garbage though.

Is this on Goodreads

see

>thank you depression and BPD cokeslut gf.

there are 0 excuses for any failures

does she read?

>feelsOKman
I have become a father so I've had much less time for reading. Only during my commute, the evenings are for my son

congrats, you will get a lot more reading done when you are sitting at practices and classes waiting for them to be done in 4-8 years

She used to

Thank you :3

>people claiming to have read hundreds of books in a year

What's the deal with this? Are they sad adults pumping up their stats on YA? Are they "speed reading" and telling themselves that they read a book because they looked at every word on every page? Or are they just actually way smarter than me and can easily read five to ten times my ceiling?

thats sebastian, he is a mentally ill shutin with a heart of gold.

If he was korean he would have died at a video game cafe, but he is german, so he just reads at his house, and presumably pees in jugs

Is he actually real? I thought he was just a meme.
I want to visit him.

>friend reading the bible
>NIV

Novels read extremely fast. 50 pages/hour is 2-3 novels every week.

past 2 weeks
considering continuing The Black Company, will probably do tonight
not really considering tome 2 of Bas-Lag but maybe

I read 104 books last year. Calming down this year because i'm tired of being a condescending fuck.

9/24 desu

damn u took the words from my mouth user

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I gotta go by my ISBN's brah. The collected Lovecraft will sit on my Currently Reading shelf for as long as there is even one story I don't care to read.

every time you say that sebastian is a meme a fairy dies

Neato

this is some boring looking shit

>it's december
FUCK

ye boi, i don't remember 3/4 of what I read but I did it

>Ryszard Kapuscinski

mah nigga

shes not worth it m8

why do you guys measure yourself by the amount of books you've read

doesn't seem right

>ourselves
it's just a number of pages and books, man.

I used to think of reading as a competition, which is why I was always so eager to build up my goodreads count. But now when I look back on what I've read I don't feel any satisfaction at all, my reading is just so awkward and nonsensical. I still like to use goodreads though to keep track of this stuff and know that I'm reading something, instead of just wasting away playing vidya

this is some teenager social media bullshit.

Free yourselves from the narcissistic lifestyle.

I was also reading Journey to the west but i don't think that i would be able to finish it this year

Who here /deletinggoodreadsaccountin2018/ here?

It's a useful organizing tool and people don't care how much you read. It's mostly silent communal encouragement while everyone pursues their own ends, and it's pretty nice.

Well when my depression comes around and tells me I haven't done shit with myself all year I can pull up the empirical evidence to disprove it

She's the only one supporting me in my depression.

She's the cause of your depression.

>only read 20 (new) books this year because I have been busy getting pussy, working and studying
Fuck Veeky Forums I am going backwards, help me!

You're not going out of your way for sex are you? Satisfying your sexual needs is healthy, but if you're actively just trolling for pussy out of sport or incontinence you'd probably get more out of reading instead.

If I include my required reading in college then yes. But I don't put that stuff on my goodreads

When I said "getting pussy" I really meant developing a stable relationship with my girlfriend. Its just that after getting a gf I went from having the free time to read for 4-5 hours a day to having maybe 1 or 2 hours a day that I can actually focus on reading.

Bump

Wont make 100 because im reading 500+ page books right now. Will get around 90.

Forgot to add.

> Books i read in this year
The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Man and Technics - Spengler
Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche
Blood Meridian - Mccarthy
Grow Youthful - David Miller
The Way of the Superior Man - Deida
Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
Patriotism - Mishima
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
A Son of God: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt - Savitri Devi
The Mystery of the Grail - Evola
Industrial Society and Its Future - Kaczynski
Dandelion Wine - Bradbury
Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard

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Need more mishima

Part 1 of my reading
Education of the Christian Prince by Erasmus
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas by Umberto Eco
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
Intention by G.E.M. Anscombe
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Problems of Moral Philosophy by Theodor W. Adorno
First and Last by Hilaire Belloc
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions by Wolfgang Smith
Malleus by Dan Abnett
Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Xenos by Dan Abnett
Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism; Considered i... by Juan Donoso Cortés
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
God by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Letters on the Spanish Inquisition by Joseph de Maistre By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed by Edward Feser
Dependent Rational Animals by Alasdair MacIntyre

Part 2
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 Four Discourses Against the Arians by Athanasius of Alexandria
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Atenagora by Athenagoras of Athens
Man and the State by Jacques Maritain
The First and Second Apologies by Justin Martyr
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
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
Demian by Hermann Hesse Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God Is Love by Pope Benedict XVI Apostoli Fathers III. by Apostolic Fathers
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 Apostolic Fathers
Apostolic Fathers I. by Apostolic Fathers
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
Selected Aphorisms by Edith Stein
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

I didn't stand a fucking chance. I'm not complaining though, I enjoyed everything I read and I hope I can get to 30 by the end of the year

judge me harshly Veeky Forums

*ALMOST everything, a couple were absolute trash
and here are the books

This happens to me all the time since I'm from a tiny euro country. I have to add those books myself quite often as well.

Kaj ima?

Postin.

Nice non-meme taste.

>Why do so many people literally rate nothing but 4s and 5s? IMO 4 is only for really good books and 5 for absolute masterpieces.
Most people tend to read books they think they are likely to enjoy idk man.

>falling for jordan b petermeme this hard

Tbh I am super down with your taste you need to read more though wtf user 24 books? That's only two a month...