Current Year

How many books read thus far?

15 for me

Fucking 10, kill me senpai. I've been on a stall for past 1.5 months because of my thesis, gladly it will be over in a week.

43

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I read 1-2 book a month but Infinite Jest has been slowing me down.

Not bad, at least you're doing something productive and not wasting the precious days of life like I am

I was aiming for 60, but with work, school, and laziness I'll be lucky finishing 30 desu
Noice

almost 3

nnnghhaaa the french champagne

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Was aiming for 25 this year, but so far I’ve read 45.

MWAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAA YES
the frensh shambain has always been cerbrted for ids EGGSelence

11. Happy with it. I aim for 2/mo. average, so I am ahead of schedule.

1, gonna be 2 here pretty soon. I'm gettin back on track babby

Goal is 50 but I'm already at 38. Trucking along.

Steppenwolf
Invisible Cities
The Baron in the Trees
The Old Man and the Sea
Don Quixote
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
White Noise
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
Catch 22
The Master and Margarita
Carry On, Jeeves
Everything is Illuminated
Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half Blood Prince
Deathly Hallows
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Neon Bible
The Book of Lost Things
Cat's Cradle
Warbreaker
Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Lolita
Me Talk Pretty One Day
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Let's Learn About Diabetes With Owls
A Study in Scarlet
Moby Dick
Infinite Jest
The Stranger
Wolf in White Van

Currently reading Stoner and listening to the first Mistborn.

This is probably bait, but

How was Don Quixote? Planning to read it later this summer.

>Spending more time reading than thinking

Modernity was a mistake.

Not him, but that was a great adventure for sure, truly imaginative.

Don Quixote is an incredible book

45, with a goal of 52. Feels pretty good to be close to completing the goal this early because I know I'll be busier later in the year, and many of the books I want to read next are very long.

49, most were relatively short, will be at 51 by the end of the weekend
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Fathers by Pope Benedict XVI
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe
Many Religions One Covenant by Pope Benedict XVI
The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc
The Phoenix Exultant by John C. Wright
Locke by Edward Feser
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Kiku's Prayer by Shūsaku Endō
The Golden Age by John C. Wright
An Essay On the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Newman
Cratylus by Plato
Philosophy of Mind by Edward Feser
On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Jews by Hilaire Belloc
Crito by Plato
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant
The Categories by Aristotle
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Ethics by Peter Kreeft
The Aeneid by Virgil
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Utopia by Thomas More
The Short Stories of G.K. Chesterton by G.K. Chesterton
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas by Peter Kreeft
The Platonic Tradition by Peter Kreeft Beyond
Good and Evil by Friedrich
Nietzsche Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock

19 for me lads. Currently reading the torrents of spring by hemm, it's aight.

It can get a bit exhausting, particularly the first part, but overall it's enjoyable. I thought the second part had some interesting ideas and surprisingly meta moments.

Not one of my favorites this year but no where near the bottom either.

one of the pinnacles of literature

Around 60, though most are very short or picture-heavy.

any suggestion?

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15, currently 4 behind on my goal for 52 for the year.

23 out of 52 planned
since I don't have a job or internship this summer I'm hoping to get ahead and beat 52

Knowing nothing about you I would suggest Lolita. It's probably the closest I've ever read to a "perfect" book.

I also really enjoyed: A Confederacy of Dunces, White Noise, Catch 22, and The Book of the New Sun.

Not as "lit-approved" but David Sedaris's short story collections are a fun break from the usual suspects.

Why the fuck does it matter?

I'm reading the Mahabharata at the moment. If I wanted to reach an arbitrary goal of "1 book read per week" I could read 6-7 short novels in the same time period.

The Bible
The Oxford history of greece and the hellenistic world
The Oxford history of Rome
The Oxford history of medieval europe
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Illiad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Theogony and Works and days by Hesiod

Cool, looking forward to it.

haha ya why the fuck would you challenge yourself lmao

What is the best translation/edition for Don Quixote?

Were you able to retain all that historical and biblical info?

I believe you

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