How many books have you read this year Veeky Forums?

4
and all under 200 pages

23. (according to my gameboy)
12 below 200 pages
10 below 400 pages
and les miserables, which is about 1400 pages

I'm at 6 now, all of them 300+ pages so I'm doing okay-ish given that I've been busy with school and playing a lot of vidya aswell.

Read plenty of non-fiction material on the internet and watch a lot of anime. Apparently that's good enough to get paid.

Are you unemployed?

No. I just try to make the best of my time.
(says the man who discuss Veeky Forums in Veeky Forums)

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Sounds comfy. How'd you set that up?

14
+like, half of ten more

Saved up money to live meagerly for a couple of years, started shitting books, spammed queries, got one signed, gets published in 2018. Still shitting books. The thought of having to cook for people again is chasing me.

Movies based on material from other mediums still need a screenplay, user.

But in the UK, where I live, you can find screenwriting work within independent filmmaking (BFI funding and Creative England come to mind for independent funding), there's plenty of production companies open to original new scripts (Warp Pictures comes to mind) and failing all of that, I would try my hand at the soaps. One episode in a series like Emmerdale can earn you £10k and if you're able to write an episode every month or two, you're doing fairly well.

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Cooking isn't that bad, for me at least.

what app/site is this?

nevermind

yeah, those are usually commissioned by producers though.

television series didn't occur to me at all.

What is the opposite of abstract?

Do the plays of Shakespeare count?

only just realised how to do this

Television is probably the most lucrative thing a writer can be involved in right now.

2 so far:
-Anne of Green Gables
-Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Currently reading and plan to finish this month:
-Les Miserables
-Notes from Underground
-New Testament

7 plus the latter part of the statement posted by

8 or 10, its a good start. I took a nice long break before going back at it.

24. I wanted to read at least one book a week this year but I've fallen three books behind. If toward the end of the year I become overly concerned about meeting my arbitrary goal, I will put a couple weeks aside to knock out some PKD novels. They're easy to read but still entertaining and well-written

Only 9. I don't mind since I read a whole bunch of them last year - I've just been busy and unmotivated this time around.

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35. Just finished school, immediately started working full time. Been doing long-distance for a while, but she comes back soon. I'm assuming I'll slow down after that, sadly.

For those of you who are single, take advantage of your free time. Having a gf is great and all, but it's time consuming, and making time to read and write is difficult, even if you do read while you're together.

Lmao im sixteen and I've turned down like three relationships cause I spend up to six hours of daily reading. Is that bad?

around 20 I think. not a lot but I also read the entire OT, so that's something.

I've started several but since I'm an alcoholic I always forget about them.

its pathetic. youre pathetic

Just 10. A couple of books took me far longer to finish than I anticipated. Cosmos, The Book of Disquiet, The Trial

no excuse

t. married with kids in 30s

16 year olds are beneath contempt in all their actions.

18. the biggest being ulysses, moby dick and divine comedy, which I am currently rereading

of course not but remember to enjoy a social life.

>Lmao
Get out of here.

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Ive come to terms with that. I enjoy books and music more that some shit high school relationship

How many books have you retained this year Veeky Forums?

Damn man. It took me like two months to read Les Miserables. I was working two jobs at the time though.

took me awhile too, about a few weeks.
some scenes i couldn't stand reading much further, so i took small breaks and read books in between, like when fantine sold her teeth.

somewhere between 150 and 170

Only 36

Retained perhaps 10

It's been a busy year with a son and lots of funding applications to fill out

about four
Ham on Rye- Charles Bukowski a second rethrough
The Trial by Kafka
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Tuesdays with Morrie- Mitch Albom
The Brief and Wonder life Oscar Wao- by Junot Diaz

all of these books I read in a mental hospital. In fact the pretty much only time I read any thing other than news and poetry is in mental hospitals because I keep failing at suicide and end there..

go back to /bant/ tripgay

whats the point if youre only going to forget the book you fucking read?

3

which is pretty good since i haven't read a non-textbook since 2013

15

49

4

Nausea
Moby Dick
Paradise Lost
Blood Meridian
Lolita

did you read the second part of Faust? For me I decided a dozen pages in that I'd come back to it at another time. The first part was great though.

How is Demons? I've only read C&P and Brothers K. Suggestions? Also: read Philoctetes if you haven't. That and Ajax.

>The Crying of Lot 49
>Walden
>Butcher's Crossing (Williams)
>Answer to Job (Jung)
>The Republic
>The Sound and the Fury
>Aristotle - The Categories, On Interpretation, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, De Anima
>The Girl from Samos (Menander)
>On Great Writing - Longinus
>The Rape of Lucrece
>Antony and Cleopatra
>Sorrows of Young Werther
>Shakespearean Tragedy (A.C. Bradley)
>The New Bloomsday Book
>Wheelock's Latin
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Faust: First Part
>The Art of Love (Ovid)
>Twilight of the Idols
>The Portable Nietzsche
>Lingua Latina
>The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, King John, Henry V, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus
>Anna Karenina
>White Noise
>Martial - Epigrams
>The Aeneid
>Cicero - De Natura Deorum, De Offiicis, De Amicitiae, De Senectute
>Divine Comedy
>Ficciones - Borges
>Catallus - Poems
>Swann's Way (Proust)
>The Trial (Kafka)

Re-reads:

Some Shakespeare and Ulysses (second time)

>How is Demons? I've only read C&P and Brothers K. Suggestions? Also: read Philoctetes if you haven't. That and Ajax.

I love Dostoevsky, TBK is one of my favorite books of all time but the first half of Demons is much weaker compared to his other works. The second half mostly makes up for it but you need to be patient because, I almost never claim things like these, but Demons could be half of its length and it would be better.

I'll take a look at those plays but first I want to reread The Odyssey since I did the same with The Iliad not long ago.

I've not read as much as I would have liked to.

February:
(1999) Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Audiobook)
March:
(1891) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
(1883) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(1924) The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft (Audiobook)
(1813) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
April:
(~117) Annals by Tacitus (Nero section only)
(121) Twelve Caesars by Suetonius (Nero section only)
May:
(1977) The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (Audiobook)
June:
(1897) Dracula by Bram Stoker
(~750 BC) The Iliad by Homer
(~750 BC) The Odyssey by Homer
July:
(1320) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
(429 BC) Oedipus the King by Sophocles

excellent choices for your recent reading

about 10~

I really do try to read, but my work took over my life

Twenty-one.
Good year so far.

I literally just vowed to begin reading again this month when I paid acknowledgement to how much time I wasted reading brain-mush "debates" on Veeky Forums, or worse, YouTube comments section (although it's a better venue to find leftists).

I ordered about 10 books since 4 weeks ago, although one of them is a volume of all Plato's dialogues, so lets say that one book is really like 8 or something.

I'm a slow reader, but I've read four of the books I ordered so far.
>How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
>Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genaology of Morals
>Black Book of the American Left, Vol. 2: Progressives

I've got "History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1" on deck for my next read, but that's a much larger book than the last four.

Just book? 6. Books and comics? 42.

2017-01-03 - 2017-01-08: Randall Garrett, Lord Darcy
2017-01-09 - 2017-01-11: Tony Kevin, A Certain Maritime Incident, The Sinking of SIEV X
2017-01-11 - 2017-02-01: Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
2917-02-01 - 2017-02-03: Arturo Perez Reverte, The Sun Over Breda
2017-02-03 - 2017-03-04: Diane Johnson, The Life of Dashiell Hammett
2017-02-04 - 2017-02-08: John James, Votan and Other Novels (desu I only read Votan)
2017-02-08 - 2017-02-12: Isabel Allende, Zorro
2017-02-12 - 2017-02-14: John Pilger, Freedom Next Time
2017-02-14 - 2017-02-15: Gene Wolfe, Castleview
2017-02-15 - 2017-02-26: Ian M. Banks, The Algebraist
2017-02-25 - 2017-02-27: Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier
2017-02-28 - 2017-03-03: Xenophon, The Persian Expedition
2017-03-03 - 2017-03-07: Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds, The Medusa Chronicles
2017-03-10 - 2017-03-14: Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies, Inside Americas War on Terror
2017-03-14 - 2017-03-25: Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark
2017-03-26 - 2017-03-27: Arturo Perez Reverte, The King's Gold
2017-03-27 - 2017-03-30: Charles de Lint, The Very Best of Charles de Lint
2017-03-30 - 2017-04-02: John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting
2017-04-02 - 2017-04-03: Harlan Ellison, Can & Can'tankerous
2017-04-03 - 2017-04-06: Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers
2017-04-06 - 2017-04-08: Arturo Perez Reverte, The Man in the Yellow Doublet
2017-04-08 - 2017-04-09: Arturo Perez Reverte, Pirates of the Levant
2017-04-09 - 2017-04-16: Alastair Reynolds, Absolution Gap
2017-04-16 - 2017-04-17: Kingsley Amis, The Alteration
2017-04-18 - 2017-04-26: Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
2017-04-27 - 2017-04-29: Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot
2017-04-29 - 2017-05-01: Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces
2017-05-02 - 2017-05-03: M. John Harrison, Nova Swing (easily the worst thing I have read this year, or any year)
2017-05-03 - 2017-05-04: Ian Flemming, The Man with the Golden Gun
2017-05-04 - 2017-05-06: George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
2017-05-06 - 2017-05-10: Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of the American West
2017-05-10 - 2017-05-11: Ben Bova, New Frontiers
2017-05-12 - 2017-05-15: Jane Mayer, Dark Money, the Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
2017-05-16 - 2017-05-18: Stephen King, The Shining
2017-05-19 - 2017-05-20: Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
2017-05-20 - 2017-05-27: Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
2017-05-28 - 2017-05-30: Joe Gores, Hammett
2017-05-31 - 2017-06-10: Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City

2017-06-11 - 2017-06-13: Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
2017-06-14 - 2017-06-17: Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
2017-06-18 - 2017-06-25: David G. Hartwell, The Space Opera Renaissance
2017-06-25 - 2017-06-27: James Ellroy: My Dark Places
2017-06-28 - 2017-06-30: Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers
2017-07-01: Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang
2017-07-01 - 2017-07-04: Stephen King, Night Shift
2017-07-04 - 2017-07-07: Allen Steele, Avengers of the Moon
20017-07-08 - 2017-07-11: Alastair Reynolds, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
2017-07-11 - 2017-07-14: Robert Graves, The Greek Myths
2017-07-14 - 2017-07-15: John Owen, Sleight of Hand: The $25 Million Nugan Hand Bank Scandal

I finished Sleight of Hand on the train home today, began reading Gregory McDonalds first Fletch book