Post your goodreads and discuss

I'm a skeptic and require evidence in order to believe in something.

Ok.

Laddy its not that hard just read more... 120 books a year is possible and i wouldnt be surprised if guys that went after plays or novellas mainly could do 200.

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Yo Bill do you have The Samurai on epub by any chance and would you bless us with a Mega maybe?

Also, I think Greene becomes more interesting as you read him because you get to see the reocurring themes and it quickly becomes clear that every failure of his characters is in a way a failure of his own. He was an interesting person, shame he doesn't get more love here.

No i would never buy digital books unless I was absolutely unable to find it at the library.

It's not that 120 books in a year is unbelievable. I just require evidence to believe the actor completed claimed task in the claimed period. The same reason I don't believe in dinosaurs. Sure, scientists claim to have unsurmountable evidence but I haven't seen that evidence myself or even if I did see the evidence I couldn't know whether it's fake evidence or I'm hallucinating or I'm in a matrix.

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Fuck.
I don't want to pay 10$ shipping.

I like him a great deal. He doesnt require the extreme level of suffering to push a moment of anagnorisis like Endo does at the end of Silence. The suffering of his characters are more mundane and relate-able.

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are you joking? 2 a week is pretty average for most readers

fucking plebs man, cringe

I deeply admire your dedication to starting with the Greeks. I read the extant histories and called it a day.

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Heart of the Matter is more or less dull brittish people annoyed by shitskins killing themselves because they don't know what to do with themselves and guilt and Catholicism. If the feeling of boredom didn't make it actually dull for the first half of the book it would have been much better. Still, one of the best endings to a book I can think of.

Hey, gimme back my DeLillo

>Plato's Theaetetus
>Plato's Sophist
>Being Homosexual
>Plato's Parmenides

>Mere Christianity
>The Bible
>The Brothers Karamazov
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Hello plebo.

Try reading something that isn't a novella.

last 6 books i read:

330 pgs
497 pgs
196 pgs
592 pgs
344 pgs
304 pgs
415 pgs
200 pgs
272 pgs
406 pgs

yeah im cherry picking x>200 books chum

Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Canto
The Trouble with Being Born
English Masterpieces Milton Volume IV
Meditations
Siddhartha
The Kojiki
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Liber Kaos
Liber Samekh And Liber DCCC
Ulysses
High Magick II: Expanded Theory and Practice
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
The Art of Always Being Right
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Suicide: The Forever Decision
Japanese Tales from Times Past: Stories of Fantasy and Folklore from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu
Buddhist Scriptures (Penguin Classics)
The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
High Magic: Theory & Practice
Oven-Ready Chaos
Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
A Room of One's Own
Sixth World Almanac
rashomon and other stories
Applications of No-Limit Hold 'em: A Guide to Understanding Theoretically Sound Poker
The Seven Sermons to the Dead
The Analects
Myths to Live By
CORPUS HERMETICUM
Tao Te Ching
The Portable Jung

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No Adam, but nice to see you here, maybe we'll get some nice posts from you.
Did you check out Greene? I really do think you'll find Heart of the Matter very relatable, with all the "it doesn't matter, I'm going to Hell anyway" themes.

M8, that's nothing. Look at the amount Sebastian reads.

Two books a week is average for an above-average reader. It's not that much of an investment. I'm at 80 books myself with 4 months to go.

Is the Achebe criticism of Heart of Darkness valid?

No, but it shows a lack of comprehension by Achebe. He thinks anything said or done by a character in a book reflects the opinions of the author. It's a popular opinion held by SJW-types and is flawed because most people can easily write a character that has the opposite opinion of themselves.

I thought the premise of Achebe's criticism is the general portrayal of Africa and the savages as 'alien' or 'other' and the fact that it acts as merely a backdrop in Heart of Darkness. Moreso than explicit racism through the characters. I wouldn't know though, have only heard it discussed recently.

He's criticizing the thoughts of Marlow, who is the narrator, on the strangeness of the African cultures, but I guess Achebe has never heard the term "culture shock" or that a character can be ignorant of something. Achebe also says that because it's racist then it can't be considered good art.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up.

My 2016. Some of these were pretty slow going

I'll read it, sure. I have a few other books j wanna read when I get back to uni anyways

Everyone has dozens of books one wants to read, that's a constant for anyone who reads kinda.

How long should it take for me to go through a book like Karamazov if I'm trying to manage 2 books a week

5-6 hours of straight reading

About 30 hours if you read at the average speed of 200wpm

Karamazov took me 3 weeks