2017 reading challenge

28/150
Going well. I'll read two more to have a few credits.

>You have read 5 of 35 books.

About 1 book behind on schedule.

26/200

On book 14.

>Read:
Notes From Underground
Gilgamesh
Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
Treasure Island

>Reading at the moment:
Sherlock Holmes Collected Novels

2/20 so i'm 1 book behind schedule. Read Lolita and The Picture of Dorian Gray so far.

Reading The Iliad now

I've also read Lolita and The Iliad this year. Which translation of The Iliad? What did you think of Lolita?

0 but im about 600 pages in to Don Quixote.

Fagles, you?

Yeah I loved it. It and Blood Meridian are the only two books I've ever given 5 stars on goodreads lel. Definitely an emotional roller coaster of a book

How about you?

Nice, it was the first book I read this year.

I'm 6 books in.

i only want to read 30+ pages per day. the number of books is inconsequential. so far i've done well.

Also read Fagles but I think I'll want to read Fitzgeralds whenever I decide to reread it.

Also loved Lolita, definitely one of the better literary experiences I've had. I got recommended Ada or Ardor (also by Nabokov) so I'm giving that a try soon.

I've heard Oscar Wilde is supposed to be quite similar to Nabokov (in prose I guess?). How did The Picture of Dorian Gray compare?

Official Goal: 29
Read: 0

Unofficial Goal: 100
Read: 0

>How do I actually sit down and read them? There's too much to do on the internet!

Use amazon web e-reader if you are that much of a faggot

Also read part 1. Great stuff.

10/60 so far. On schedule like fucking clockwork.

Goal: 52
Completed: 10, 2 ahead of schedule

Reading is for men.
The Internet is for women.

The way men use the internet is similar to the way they use women: as brief rest/pleasure devices for comfort. We, as men, do spend most of our days reading and hunting.

Women don't use the Internet, they are One with the Internet. It is a spiritual, metaphysical virtual space of sorts which resonates directly with their emotional life.
If you are One with the Internet, and a man, you are hostage to its effeminate effects.

Yeah I thought about buying the everyman library ones too(Fitzgerald) as the 3 of them cost basically as much as the Penguin boxset but ultimately I went with the boxset.
>I've heard Oscar Wilde is supposed to be quite similar to Nabokov (in prose I guess?)

Quite the new reader so that is above my paygrade to tell you. ;^)
It definitely started out great, thought it was gonna become my new favorite book but I think it slacked off a bit deeper into the book, especially since my favorite character, which I thought made the book great, became pretty much nonexistent during a decent portion later in the book.

Overall it was a good book though. Definitely would recommend. But I thought Lolita was better.

Good luck reading a book on the computer if you can't even leave the computer to read a book. I for one would never be able to do read a book on my computer.

The only way I read a book is if I force myself away from the screen.
Tell yourself you should atleast read one chapter a day, otherwise you're a failure.

Good to know. I'm planning on reading it but since my experience with Lolita was so great I got the feeling that any similar works would have a hard time matching it.

I don't know how similar they are though

I read 4 in January, but started Don Quixote for the reasing group so about 2/3 of the way done with that. Got some shorter books on deck after that.

Well I guess I'm going to find out when I read it. I think the comment on their similarity was on the flowery prose, which was one of the major parts about Lolita I liked. Aside from that (if even that) I'm sure they're quite different.

14, but I'll be doing pretty much nothing but Kant, Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, Schelling and Hegel for the rest of the year, so I'll probably max out at 20-22.

5/100
RIP

Ive read 7, out of my goal of 52. Im also reading the manga Oyasumi Pun Pun. Should i count the manga as a book entry?

>Should i count the manga as a book entry?
No

>2 fave books are lolita and Bowel Movement

quit posting

>Im also reading the manga Oyasumi Pun Pun
Aiko hangs herself after fucking Punpun

I saved you the angst, now drop that trash and read a real book

Doesn't get more patrician than that

My goal was 24, Im on the 6th.

the fuck is this - turning reading into a videogame? what are you fucks doing?

>read: 0
>goal: 1
I have plenty of time

This is bad advice and you should be sad.

Thank you /pol/ for your ever-more-irrelevant opinions.

>succeed or else you're a failure

Thanks, I never could have figured that out.

10/40 I was going to set it to 52 but decided to plan for a dozen rereading of my favorite books. Then goodreads added rereads so I might just set it to 52

55 is the goal, i wasbehind but read a heap of novellas and short non fiction to catch up

Star over with the Heian

I don't really like this challenge since it just makes me read short books instead of reading more.

A little behind but both books I'm currently reading are 600+ pages so I don't mind

Judge my taste

faggot/faggot

>3 Vonneguts
Not gonna hate but you should branch out some

he makes me laugh :o
I am branching out tho. I have a bunch of diverse books coming in the mail.
Any rec?

Beginner af. Not a bad way to start though bruh

what does Veeky Forums recommend I read next?

Something good for a change

The Exorcist

Solid, but where's the non-fiction and philosophy? Where's the MATH!?

There needs always be math.

Terribly. Im having a hard time enjoying literature with a 8 hours to 10 hours a day physical labor job.

I go through math and history books for school but have absolutely no reason to put them on Goodreads

6 books so far this year, which is abnormally much for me

5/20

2 books ahead of schedule master race, OP.

I guarantee I will be behind schedule in a couple months. I'm about to start working more.

The only thing I've accomplished thus far this year is jerking off a bunch to terabytes of torrented My Little Pony & The Incredibles porn as well as smoking meth for the first time. Fuck a book what has that shit ever done for anyone? A book can't make you money, can't put a roof over your head, or give you a dopamine rush like meth, it's just fucking paper and ink. Fancy words and intellectual liberals can suck s fat wad of cum. That's why I voted for Trump. He's gonna get all the fags and niggers out of America.

>Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
>East of Eden
>On Revolution
>Evil In Modern Thought
>Light in August

Gotta speed things up. Been going out drinking too much.

>21/30
feelin' pretty good.

8 of 19. I have little time to read so I've been reading shorter books (some Plato, Aristotle and Ancient Greek drama mainly. Reading C.S. Lewis' 'Mere Christianity' at the moment and it's probably my longest so far this year lol)

...

shit
I think I'm at 8 or so
the best of which was probably Frankenstein

I've been using youtube audiobooks playing at double speed and reading along with pdfs/epubs

I can reliably finish nearly every book in under 10 hours using this method, and that way I don't get bored as shit. It's also comfy, especially if the person doing the recording is a woman.

If I don't do this my mind wanders and I quit after 10 or 20 pages.

hello boyos

>needs someone else to read his books for him
do you have your mom tie your shoes for you as well?

yes

I am at 11 books with no particular goal.
Why should I set a goal?
And if I decide to set it,why use a website for it?
Just write your own list

Man guys.

I made some rough count and I'll be 55-80 years old when I've read 10k books

This depresses

3/50 I think. Way behind, and probably won't ever catch up lol.

What's so great about 10,000 books in particular? Are you autistic?

2015 I set the goal at 50, but I kept reading other things besides fiction.
Last year I set it at 25. Did like 5 or 10 fiction at most.
This year I set it at 25 but I'm at like 2.

I don't really care about the goal, but I put it so that it gives me those reminders and I think to myself "oh right, gotta read more fiction".

I feel guilty every single day, because life gets in the way.

10k is a big number bratan

How is Ancient History? I want to break into McElroy and this is the only one of his they have at my library.

3/24
I'm not too concerned about reaching my target however, I would much rather diligently read fewer books than my goal than exceed it at the cost of a weaker understanding of what I've read.

>1100%

>having goal

Is Fear and Loathing good?

Also how do you structure that spreadsheet?

I thought so. But it was my first Thompson novel and first Journalistic kind of book.

I just organize by order read

meme/100

goodreads does this for you
www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017

>this post

10/50

I don't do these challenges, but I have read two books so far Welcome to the NHK and Notes from the Underground.

How the hell do you guys read so much? I read like 15 pages an hour if I try to understand and the book is difficult

It depends man. 15 pages every two hours was a good hour for me if I was reading Keynes, but that is about the rate I read this book, Henry George's Progress and Poverty.

I blow through most fiction except Pynchon man.

Please be bait. I started at 50 pages per day and now am easily able to do 200. Not all at once mind you, about 50 between classes and 150 after, then a few more before bed if I'm feeling up to it.

Just set aside or turn off your comp and phone

>Just set aside or turn off your comp and phone
this desu

your a pleb if your not reading long books just to keep up with the reading challenge

I read Notes from the Underground in like 2 weeks, which is like 8 pages a day. I am a wagey, sometimes I read like 40 pages a day and feel really good. When I try to read I simply don't understand the book except the most basic consepta

When i try to read fast*

I enjoyed it. Some people seem to love it but he's written better stuff. As good a place as any to start.

Just read 10 pages of Norweigan Wood.
First book I've started reading in the last year.