How much did you read this year?

How much did you read this year?

What were the best and worst books you read?

Did you have a goal, and did you reach it?

What are you planning to read next year?

20 books.

Top three:
>The Brothers Karamazov.
>Infinite Jest.
>War and Peace.

Worst book (by far):
>Farenheit 451.

Absolute motherfucking TRASH.

Yes, reached goal.

Next year I want to read about 35.

Next year TBR off top of head:
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Lolita
>Madame Bovary
>Blood Meridian
>Anna Karenina
>Resurrection (by Tolstoy)
>Mrs Dalloway
>Swann's Way
>Finish reading J R after I dropped it a couple months ago

Meme-level:
>Gravity's Rainbow.

>How much did you read this year?
Currently on my tenth book. I know that's shit progress, but in my defense I didn't start until march.

>What were the best and worst books you read?
Best was probably Anna Karenina. I think about infinite jest a lot more though.

I haven't finished it yet, so I don't want to prejudge, but Kafka on the Shore is looking to be my weakest read this year. It's enjoyable to read, but the story at times seems a bit clunky and a little to convenient. Also the prose isn't to great at times, even when considering that it's a translation.

>Did you have a goal, and did you reach it?

Just got back into reading so I started small at 10 books. Still have about 100 pages to go on Kafka, but plenty of time. Tfw I know I'm not gonna make it.

>What are you planning to read next year?

Also working on the Pale King and The Penguin History of the World

Some russian literature like brothers k and W&P. More contemporary american stuff like blood meridian and underworld. I've been eyeing that anthology of english poetry that harold bloom put out.

>I didn't like F451

kek

I think I read 18, but one was War and Peace and another was IJ. If I can keep this up for next year I will be happy.

GR was actually good though

My goal was 100 pages per day, I managed ~85. I'll try for 100 again in 2017.

Started with the Greeks but got side-tracked a bit. Read all of Shakespeare which was great. Boswell, The Waves, Hadji Murat, Lolita, Book of Disquiet were the biggest highlights.

Next year I'm gonna continue with the Greeks, hopefully manage to reach the Romans. I also want to read some epic poetry...

Also, despite reading quite a lot, the net change in my wishlist was about +300 books.

I'll post my ratings (note they're not comparable across genres/authors):

>POETRY

Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 4/5
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses 5/5
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season In Hell 1.5/5
Arthur Rimbaud, The Drunken Boat 2/5
Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe 4/5
Hesiod, Theogony 2/5
Hesiod, Works and Days 2/5
Homer, Iliad 5/5
Homer, Odyssey 3.5/5
John Keats, The Complete Poems 3.5/5
Omar Khayyam & Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of Omay Kayyam 4.5/5
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol 4/5
William Blake, America a Prophecy 3/5
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence 5/5
William Blake, Europe a Prophecy 2.5/5
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience 4.5/5
William Blake, The Book of Thel 3/5
William Blake, The Book of Urizen 3.5/5
William Blake, The Gates of Paradise 2/5
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 5/5
William Blake, The Song of Los 2/5
William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion 2.5/5
William Shakespeare, Sonnets (Shakespeare) 5/5
William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle 3.5/5
William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece 3/5
William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (Poem) 3.5/5
Batrachomyomachia 2/5
Greek Lyric 3/5
Homeric Hymns 2.5/5

>FICTION

Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket 4/5
Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon 1.5/5
Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story: A Memoir 3/5
Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat 5/5
Leo Tolstoy, Sevastopol Stories 3.5/5
Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks 4/5
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita 5/5
William S. Burroughs, Junky 3.5/5
Don DeLillo, Zero K 3/5
J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition 3.5/5
Japser Fforde, The Eyre Affair 2.5/5
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age 2/5
Paul Auster, Oracle Night 2/5
Michel Houellebecq, Submission 3.5/5
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 5/5
Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours 4/5
Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day 4.5/5
Don DeLillo, Point Omega 3.5/5
Italo Calvino, The Non-Existent Knight 3/5
Italo Calvino, Baron in the Trees 3.5/5
Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount 3/5
Virginia Woolf, The Waves 5/5
William Gaddis, The Recognitions 4/5
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet 5/5

>PLAYS

John Fletcher & William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (Play) 2/5
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot 4.5/5
Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore 3.5/5
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia (Play) 3.5/5
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2.5/5
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra 4/5
William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3/5
William Shakespeare, Coriolanus 4.5/5
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline 2.5/5
William Shakespeare, Hamlet 5/5
William Shakespeare, Henry IV (Play) 5/5
William Shakespeare, Henry V (Play) 4/5
William Shakespeare, Henry VI (Play) 3/5
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Play) 4.5/5
William Shakespeare, King John 2/5
William Shakespeare, King Lear 5/5
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 2.5/5
William Shakespeare, Macbeth 5/5
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure 3/5
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing 4.5/5
William Shakespeare, Othello 3.5/5
William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre 3/5
William Shakespeare, Richard III (Play) 4.5/5
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 3.5/5
William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors 2.5/5
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice 3.5/5
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 2.5/5
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew 2/5
William Shakespeare, The Tempest 4/5
William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.5/5
William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen 3/5
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale 3/5
William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens 2/5
William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus 3.5/5
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 1.5/5
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night 3.5/5

>SHORT STORIES

Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God 4/5
Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice 4.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora 3.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle 3.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado 4.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher 4.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug 3.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Island of the Fay 3.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue 4/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter 4/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Spectacles 3.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart 4/5
Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson 4/5
H. P. Lovecraft, A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson 4/5
Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales 3.5/5
Robert A. Heinlein, All You Zombies 3.5/5
William Gibson, Hinterlands 4/5

>NON-FICTION

Harold Clarke Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare 5/5
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: Invention of the Human 3/5
Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All 4.5/5
Mark van Doren, Shakespeare 3/5
Richard McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates 4.5/5
Jean-Pierre Vernant, Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays 2/5
Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence 4.5/5
Jonathan S. Burgess, The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle 3.5/5
Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn 4/5
Cedric H. Whitman, Homer and the Heroic Tradition 2/5
Sarah B. Pomeroy, A Brief History of Ancient Greece 3.5/5
Gregory Nagy, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours 0.5/5
Howard W. Clarke, Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Odyssey 3/5
Jasper Griffin, Homer, The Odyssey (Landmarks of World Literature) 3.5/5
Peter Jones, Homer's Odyssey: A Commentary based on the English Translation of Richmond Lattimore 4/5
Rachel Bespaloff, War and the Iliad 4/5
Robert Fowler, The Cambridge Companion to Homer 2.5/5
E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational 5/5
John Wright, Essays on the "Iliad": Selected Modern Criticism 4/5
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Other Reflections 5/5
George Steiner & Robert Fagles, Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays 4.5/5
Seth L. Schein, The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's "Iliad" 3/5
Ian Morros & Barry Powell, A New Companion to Homer 3.5/5
Malcolm M. Willcock, A Companion to the Iliad: Based on the Translation by Richmond Lattimore 4/5
Moses Finley, The World of Odysseus 3.5/5
G. S. Kirk, The Songs of Homer 4.5/5
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy 4/5
Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 2.5/5
Max Stirner, The Ego and its Own 4/5
James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson 5/5
Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology 2.5/5
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean in the Ancient World 4/5

>ESSAYS/ARTICLES/ETC (only those rated >= 3.5)

E. J. Chaisson, Energy Rate Density as a Complexity Metric and Evolutionary Driver 5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem 3.5/5
Edgar Allan Poe, Instinct vs Reason -- A Black Cat 3.5/5
Friedrich Nietzsche, Homer's Contest 4.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Essay) 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, A Plea for Prohibition 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, Babies and Distributism 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, May Queen of Scots (Essay) 3.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, On a Humiliating Heresy 5/5
G. K. Chesterton, On Being Moved 3.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, On Jane Austen in the General Election 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, On Original Sin 3.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, On the Return of the Barbarian 5/5
G. K. Chesterton, On Turnpikes and Medievalism 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Book of Job (Essay) 5/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Common Man 3.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Drift From Domesticity 5/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Mad Official 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Mystery of the Mystics 5/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Orthodoxy of Hamlet 3.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Pickwick Papers (Essay) 4/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Spice of Life 3.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, The Surrender upon Sex 3.5/5
G. K. Chesterton, Tolerating Other Religions 4/5
George Santayana, A General Confession 4/5
George Santayana, Philosophical Heresy 4/5
Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus ???/5
Manuel De Landa, Meshworks, Hierarchies and Interfaces 3.5/5
Nick Land, Art as insurrection: the question of aesthetics in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche 3.5/5
Nick Land, Critique of Transcendental Miserablism 4/5
Nick Land, Meltdown (Essay) 5/5
Nick Land, Qabbala 101 ?/5
Nick Land, Reality Rules 4.5/5
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist 5/5
Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying 4/5
Paul Graham, What You Can't Say 4.5/5
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men 5/5
Sascha O. Becker et al., Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation 5/5
Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson (Essay) /5
Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism 4.5/5
George Santayana, The Poetry of Barbarism 4/5