Good Reads thread

Connecticut?

56 out of 250

feelsbadman

yes

Doing pretty good so far, I'm probably going to bump it up to 25 to make up for counting Watchmen and reading a couple really short books.

What town? I grew up partially in West Hartford

20, Ontario by the way. I forgot.

50 out of 52, currently reading Dune then The Iliad or Mein Kampf. My job gives me lots of time to read.
Age 19, location. Cape Cod ATM

110/150 or something

Do you guys rate your books? Or actually write reviews?

Just rate and talk about them in discords.

It's in the surrounding Hartford area

Read: 39
Goal: 55
i just hope that i will not get lazy at the end

bump

i aim to read 50 books a year and i think i'm ahead
but i've been reading a lot of short books this year. i don't think i've read as many pages

forgot picture

Going for 50, first time.

24, Estonia

Goal: 12
Current: 19
Most so far
22, Sweden

Tell us what's wrong Ibsen and Buzatti then you fucking cunt.

Do you only read in English?

itt: plebians

Mostly. Maritain, some Aquinas and the Church Fathers weren't in English. I've got a kobo so it's much simpler to just get a pdf from libgen.

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I'm a newbie

Goal: 200 books
Current: 106

i dont think i am going to achieve it because i read less and have trouble finding new books that attract me

Goal: 60
Current: 26
First time, currently with pic related.

I can still make it if I read a bunch of novellas, r-right guys?

Haven't been reading at all this year tbqh

wrong pic.

Only just started reading this year

Goal: 26
Current: 32

26/australia

>he fell for the Veeky Forums top 100 books meme

you really like dick don't you

I'm ahead of schedule.

Quite pleased by how many authors from different countries I've read. Didn't set out to do so, but so far have read novels by authors from:
England
America
Russia
Japan
Turkey
Germany
France
Portugal
Iran
Nigeria
Italy
Slovakia

Anyone care to suggest any other international authors?

Read them all in English though. Disgusting monoglot, although I am taking evening classes in Spanish.

Forgot to add
>26
>England

I've only started reading prominently over the course of this year, started with 40 books and I'm right on track (25 at the moment). Feel like I'm missing out on tons of books and have an enormous backlog. Just finished the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, read Huckleberry Finn beforehand and are debating reading Tom Sawyer Abroad & Detective, are they worth reading? Also is there anything like a top 100 or comprehensive essentials chart for me to go on? Don't want to miss on the surface material or classics. Might also obtain a library card soon so I'll get access to most of anything, give recommendations and I'll get to them as soon as possible. On my physical backlog got the following;
>The Adventures of Marco Polo.
>The Age of Reason.
>Anna Karenina.
>Bleak House.
>Chekhov's Plays.
>Doctor Zhivago.
>Faust (but I accidentally purchased the German version).
>Gravity's Rainbow.
>Hyperion.
>Infinite Jest.
>Jane Eyre.
>Metro 2033.
>Ulysses.
>Utilitarianism.

Also got the Brother's Karamazov and Crime & Punishment though I get the feeling that they will have some sort of divine life-changing experience from reading them much like Atonement did. So I'll refrain for around a year.

Congratulations user, that is relatively impressive.

How was 1984? Didn't really enjoy the film at all though I'm aware that the novel is supposed to be great. Is Lolita any good, is there anything comedic about it given the tone? I know a lot of these "comedies" are seldom such.

24/52, behind on my goal but oh well. i have a few short works i can read quickly to catch up, but the past twelve months my reading has slowed down considerably. such is the rhythm of life

I started to read doorstoppers and it completely, and utterly killed my number collecting.

The Dunk and Egg series is the best thing GRRM has ever made. I like asoiaf as well, but the Hedge Knight has more charm than the rest of the books combined.

really makes you think....

100 was probably too many, but I'm pleased with my total thus far.

Age: 26
Location: Germanistan

normalfags don't like to read.

Should I open a goodreads account? It seems kind of like gamefying reading, but could be a motivator.

Goal:300
current:20
Actually I try to read 50 pages in every 3 books every day, I have improved, every time I take less than 2 hours for 50 pages (when I started) to 1 20 by 50 pages currently.
age 16,New Zeeland

Joyce liked that ibsen. So did Edward Said. So did Adorno. Says a lot about your taste.

librarything is better imho

>Three George fatfat Martin books

72/100
I'm just waiting for autumn so I can read on the bus on my way to work.

How does this work? Do participants choose any number they wish for their personal challenge? If so, I would think that many people wildly overestimate how much they can read. I'm a slow reader and set aside a good chunk of time reading each day but it still took me 3-4 weeks to finish Brothers Karamazov.

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I've fallen a little behind on my goal because I keep picking tomes. Worth it.

Goal is 70 by the way. Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow were rereads.

Don't forget to move on from Gardens of the Moon. It's trash compared to the rest of the series. It should be rewritten.

how was Europe Central? I've never read any Vollmann but I've been eyeing it for a while. how does it compare to Gravity's Rainbow, Underworld, Sot Weed Factor, or Infinite Jest for example, which is it most like?

It's similar to all of them only in that it's not similar to any of them, or anything else really. I enjoyed it a lot. Vollmann's prose isn't as tight as those others and he has some awkward sentences, but I loved it for its honesty and how obsessive his research obviously was. There are sections that are legitimately beautiful and some that dragged. It's not an easy read, but I'd say it's worth it. The Dying Grass is better, though, at least in my opinion. Vollmann gets trashed on here a lot, and I understand why in a sense, but when he's on he's among the best.

I'm a WW2aboo so I'll probably pick up Europe Central before Dying Grass. Would you consider it a "realist" novel or does it get pretty surreal?

>15
>it's all entry level shit

Don't be an asshole dude.

swinging through

>Traci Lords
what

I just wanted another gritty autobiography after the mm book. Wouldn't recommend it tho.

what the fuck are you doing if you're reading something that feels like work (and isn't literally your work)?

Learning my young triplet

post books
>62 novellas and plays

2017 reading challenge

Nice list brother

Where's a good place to start with Papa Benedict? Something fairly accessible.

Add me boys I need friends

goodreads.com/user/show/31544336-a

Aiming for 40, got 31 so far

To the Islands by Randolph Stow
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser (reread)
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
A Common Humanity by Raimond Gaita
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
Inland by Gerald Murnane
Bhagavad Gita
Walden and Other Writings by Henry Thoreau
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm
A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation by John Corbett
How Much Land Does a Man Need and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The New Guard Movement by Keith Amos
The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
Candide by Voltraire
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Stoner by John Williams
The Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
Dubliners by James Joyce
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
Unscientific Essays by F.J. Wood
The Plague by Albert Camus

>private

Oh I had no idea, I'll change that. :^)

How was St Faustina's diary?

17/52

I'm close to finishing two more, but I've only finished 10 books since February so I have little hope of making it

This is my first full year of giving up the habit of physically writing down the books I read and giving in to technology

Hit and miss. It's the whole thing and it severely needed editing. It's amazing she wrote what she did being borderline illiterate, but it's clear she wasn't a professional writer or someone who devoted his life to writing. It's crude, but beautiful. Find an abridged version if possible.

Personally I find all of his stuff accessible, he doesn't carry a baggage of language like a neo-scholastic would and is a talented writer. It has a nice flow to it and is for the most part very good, even if his V2 era writings have some very questionable parts.
I'd go with the encyclicals (Spe Salvi and Deus Caritas Est) and Jesus of Nazareth trilogy.

Interesting, I'll see if I can find one, my uni library might. Have you got a goodreads?

>the hedge knight
Up! Up!

Yeh, the list was just copy pasted from there
goodreads.com/user/show/29831737-pinkyivan

I'm pretty behind because I took a month-long trip to Africa and I thought I'd have tons of time to read there, but I only got through a book and a half.

22
Seattle, Washington

Wy do you guys read so little?
20 books a year seem too few imo.

Anyways, here's my list. I'd probably have read more but i can't read when i'm having a depressive episode.
All the Names - Saramago
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Niebla - Unamuno
On the heights of despair - Cioran
The fall - Camus
Bodas de Sangre – Garcia Lorca
Look homeward, Angel - Wolfe
Memorias Póstumas de Blas Cubas – do Assis
A doll’s House - Ibsen
Kingdom of this world - Carpentier
El gaucho insufrible - Bolaño
La gaviota - Chekhov
The Obscene Bird of the Night - Donoso
Ficciones de Brasil – VV.AA
Cuentos de mi mismo(cuentos) - Unamuno
Letters to a young poet – Rilke
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Las armas secretas(cuentos) - Cortázar
Todos los fuegos el fuego(cuentos) - Cortázar
If on a winter’s night a traveler - Calvino
El lugar sin límites - Donoso
La invención de Morel – Bioy Casares
Disgrace - Coatzee
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Magic Mountain - Mann
The Sheltering Sky - Bowles
El sentimiento trágico de la vida - Unamuno
The myth of sysiphus – Camus
Death of a Salesman - Miller
La consciencia de Zeno – Svevo
Sobre Héroes y Tumbas - Sabato
Moby Dick - Melville
Don Quijote - Cervantes
Demons - Dostoievsky
Society of Spectacle - Debord
The plague – Camus
Amsterdam Stories – Nescio
Kosmos – Gombrowicz
The Hour of the Star – Lispector
Ubik – Phillip K. Dick
The loser-Bernhard
American Pyscho-Ellis
Complete Works of Pablo Palacio
Coplete Poems by César Vallejo
La vida breve Onetti
Suicidios ejemplares, Vilas-Mata
La colmena, Cela
The third policeman, O’Brien
Altazor, or the voyage in a parchute, Huidobro
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Inherent Vice, Pynchon
Murphy, Beckett
Users and abusers of psychiatry, Johnstone
Enquiry on human understanding, Hume
The Borthers Karamazov, Dostoievsky
Selected short stories by Robert Walser
War and peace and war, turchin
A personal matter, Oe
L’exil et le royaume, Camus
Trois contes, Flaubert
Contes du lundi, Duadet
Skylark
Letters to a stoic, Seneca
Berlin stories, Walser
Zama, Di Benedetto
Mortal y Rosa, Umbral

A pretty spanish list

I should read short books like you, boost my numbers.

Hey brother

I've been in a bit of slump and haven't read much of anything for the past few years, but things are starting to pick up, sort of. I don't set goals, and I'm not particularly well-read. This is just what I've read this year and some stuff I plan to read for the remainder of the year and going into the next.

Read:

Crime and Punishment (re-read)
Heart of Darkness
Martin Eden
Adolf Hitler (John Toland)
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
The Shadow of the Torturer
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Blood Meridian (re-read)
Roman Lives (truncated version)

To-read:

The Bible (KJV)
War and Peace
Lord Jim
Under Western Eyes
The Brothers Karamazov (re-read)
Notes from Underground (re-read)
A Writer's Diary
A Storm of Swords
A Feast of Crows
A Dance with Dragons
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
The Woman in White
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Mythology
Journey to the End of the Night
A Hero in Our Time
The Communist Manifesto
Dune
The ABC Murders
The Sea Wolf
The Call of the Wild
Essays and Aphorisms by Schopenhauer (re-read)

You should read what you want. I don't read short books to brag about how many books i've read
Claro que sí. La gran mayoría de lo que leo es en español.

>Adolf Hitler (John Toland)
How did you like this one? I've been trying to figure out which Hitler biography I want to read.

>20 book goal
>only completed 6
>2 were novellas

Lol well doesn't look like i'll make it.

This is a poisonous ideology. Read books to understand

>implying you can't do that while keeping track of things as well

>The Sea Wolf
How is it? Been planing to check it out for a while, I loved White Fang, and Call of the Wild too (but not as much as former)

I read books to understand how it feels to be happy.
desu

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