How's your reading challenge going?

This is my list and I live alone and have a full time job where I can't read, you are just making excuses.

Nice, user. How'd you like Answer to Job? I read it this year too and loved it. Are you religious?

For me I've read 26/100, so I'm a little behind. Learning Latin 3+ hours a day has put a healthy dent into things. Also half a dozen of mine are really short.

>The Crying of Lot 49
>Walden & Civil Disobedience
>Butcher's Crossing
>Answer to Job
>The Republic*************
>On Interpretation
>The Categories
>The Sound and the Fury**********
>Nicomachean Ethics************
>Poetics
>Philoctetes (re-read)********
>The Girl from Samos
>De Anima
>Oedipus Rex (re-read)
>The Rape of Lucrece
>Antony and Cleopatra
>On the Sublime - Longinus
>The Sorrows of Young Werther*********
>Shakespearean Tragedy - A.C. Bradley******
>Faust: Part 1
>Ulysses (re-read)*****
>The New Bloomsday Book
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Wheelock's Latin
>The Art of Love*****
>Twilight of the Idols

****** favorites

I'm guessing you don't work in a third world country having to plunge for 10/11 hours a day and having to juggle a relationship as well. But I guess you were just trying to motivate me.

Also, We is a fucking great book, one of the 10 I read

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22 of my 35 I pledged for the year. Also getting an MBA while working full-time so that hurts my progress a little. Audiobooks help too (inb4 "those don't count")

8 books ahead of schedule so far. Going for 30, but I'll probably go above that

2/15, 3 if you count The Minority Report. Aside from that, I've read A Farewell to Arms and Dr. Bloodmoney.

40 / 200

Feelsbadman

Almost on track, but I've cheated a lot, I've read many short books

0.6

>having to juggle a relationship
You don't have to do that at all

3 out of 10 and they aren’t even particularly long or difficult.

The Sound of Waves
In the Miso Soup
Lolita

10/52 although i will finish another within two days

I read 8 books in January then went and got a full time job like a fucking retard.

12/?

Reading the 13th atm (pic related). Last year I think I read 42 or something. Perhaps this year I'll read 50. I'm learning Ancient Greek and writing my undergrad thesis, so that might prevent me a little from achieving my goal, but as long as I can read what I want to read I don't care.

Doing fairly well.

What challenge? Are you gay? Play vidya if you want a real challenge and high quality entertainment, fucking plebs.

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54/150
Pretty good.

A-am I doing good Veeky Forums?

22/50
reading fat ones each month, so this is good progress.

please go back to your containment board

Pale Fire is a masterpiece.

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U a good boy sean

I'm meeting my "goal" but not nearly enough of these are actual books, but it's been a busy year for me. I am reading "From Hell" now, and want to get to Ubik and Blindsight when I can.

I'm getting pretty far behind then where I was at last year. Got caught up on Les Miserables, still have 160 pages to go...

Am I doing it right?

>counting short stories
You're only lying to yourself

I've read only 6, for some reason I don't have any motivation even though I really want to read. Since three days ago I've been back on track (after not reading for over one month), hopefully I'll stay this way. I wish I had more time, but I study Medicine and I'm tired out.

I usually exceed my goals, but yeah you are correct. I just use to list all the things I've read in a year anyway.

I don't really consider comics or manga as "books" all the time either.

how's from hell so far? been wanting to read that for a while.

It is very good. There's a really interesting philosophy about the power of symbols and patterns as what is commonly believed to be Magic and the power of Magic in the book that's very interesting to me. Some really high-octane insanity and gruesome violence inside too. The art is very simple ink drawings, but they get so crude when things get violent that it is difficult to really see what the panels are depicting, and it makes the awful violence even worse.

This is my first year reading heavily/on good reads so I think I under estimated. Also I read Te-Nehisi Coats for class and it was awful so do not judge me.

fuck I wish that were me

Coates is good, stop apologizing and trying so hard to fit in.

Veeky Forums is full of fags you don't want to fit in with. I like some of those books you read! Gonna read my first Toni Morrison later this year, how did you like her?

I want that cute little emoticon face to gag on my dick.

Hey that looks pretty good, would you recommend it? Also does it have the Nahuatl originals alongside or is it just the Spanish translations?

I'm like 5 books behind...20 was my goal this year.

>counting your books
You people are pathetic

the fuckn scum o the earth!

>Quantity reading over quality reading

What a shit challenge. I'll just read a bunch of Dr. Seuss books and finish this challenge right now.

It's a parallel text edition, with the Nahuatl on one side and the Spanish on the other.

It's actually pretty good if you want to learn about Nahuatl poetry and philosophy. León-Portilla is one of the greatest scholars of Aztec culture, and his introduction is well-written and well-researched.

Wait a minute people sign up to a website to keep track of numbers under 100? lmao

should probably read more

>tfw goal of 5 books
I've read 2. Fuck me, my major is hard. At least I'll have more time to read this summer.

i feel for you freg

thanks friend, hopefully your goal is going more like you wanted :)

good reads is for faggots. What do you do first each day, tell the internet "ooh I'm going to read allllll these books, that makes me a clever and interesting person" or take selfies with your "book hauls" and post them to Instagram? You are shallow and an attention seeker.

an evening of long goodbyes by paul murray what is one of the funniest books i've ever read

i dont have a job and read all day. second or third year doing this (1/2)

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I read The Bluest eye years ago and liked it but beloved i really had to force myself to read.

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who are some good 'minimalist writers'? not sure that's the right term. hemingway, rulfo, williams. not necessarily just the short confident sentences of hemingway, but more like the un-affected, humble way of delivering dope prose. i don't know. any suggestions?

Stuck into Gulag's Archipelago and SICP (a book about programming).

I had such a good start in January/February. Read 15 books in two months.

this is exactly what I do in the morning

why no job man? do you ever get bored of just reading and no other hobbies?

Currently reading News From the Empire which is quite long and dense, so I am a bit behind.

Not keeping track of aspects of my life leads to idle hands

Willa Cather

It's going fine because I don't treat reading like some kind of race

not yet, but i probably will. have an active social life and all that.

In my experience the lit folks on Goodreads are all introverted as fuck. We're all just silently motivating each other.

Have you read Carver?

You aspire to read 15 books in a year? Are they all War & Peace length, or are you a brainlet?

>Counting manga

>counting

>goodnight punpun
>3 times

Hey, I'm also reading Babylon Revisited! What did you think about it.

Babylon Revisited was great! I really like the relation between paying money to make things go away or the way you ant them against transacting with someone to win-back their respect or trust, where currency has no value. I hadn't read Fitzgerald since High School and it was so well written and made me want to check out more of his stuff.

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