Reading goals 2019 - Q2

Padro Paramo and Lolita (this one made me read poetry)

33/80
best so far: Alone in Berlin, Butcher's Crossing, and a few short stories (Salinger, Maupassant)
huge disappointment: Moravagine

That's two books a week, is that even fun? Seems more like a chore.

Lolita was fun, though I prefer Pale Fire and Ada/Ardor to it.

Where to start with Salinger and Maupassant?

i have read 22 book so far for 2019

>Lolita got me into reading Poe
>Poe got me into poetry
>Been loving it and started making attempts at poetry and writing
I haven't read nothing else by Nabokov, but I do appreciate all I got from Lolita.

I'm having to suspend my literary reading because I'm doing an MSc and I need to start working through dry textbooks.

38/40. Have a bunch more half-finished.

that body was made for black cock!

A Confederacy of Dunces was great, as were Laughter in the Dark and The Idiot.

Ada as well, Nabokov is based

0/0

Only thing on my list is my own (completed) dissertation.

HOOOOOOOOOOGOD

We're approaching Q3 you fucking brainlet.

I've read:
Confederacy of Dunces
Perdido Street Station
Infinite Jest
Gardens of the Moon
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
Ulysses
Smarter Faster Better
Moneyball
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Poor Economics

Out of an attempted 15 novels per year. The remaining books I'm going to read are:
The Brother's Karamazov
Don Quixote
The Alchemy of Finance

I'll probably wind up reading 20 some books this year.

The first of Salinger's "nine stories" is excellent.
I don't know how Maupassant's short stories are organized and collected in translation, but I guess any general collection is ok. It should have Le Horla and stories about girls being bitches and children being ungrateful. Examples of good very short stories (10 pages) would be Pierrot, The Adopted Son, In the spring. (english translation on maupassant.free.fr)

>reading a book under a sprinkler
???

>women

Now that you mention it it all seems laughably absurd.

How long have you been Yea Forums ?

I'm trying to finish up grad school, so much of my reading time has been taken up by that. It's frustrating because I'm doing a bunch of reading, but so much of it is odds and ends like chapters and articles, that I don't get as much of the satisfaction that comes from reading complete books. I'm still trying to squeeze in more pleasure reading on the side, though I think I'll be lucky if I can get to 10 books this year that aren't directly related to my grad work.

Well, I've always been a reader but I only started coming here a couple months ago.

What year is this?

In on #16 and my goal was 26
I do have some door stoppers to read in my stack though - The Man Without Qualities, The Magic Mountain - so it might still be close even though I am ahead of schedule right now

I've read 53 books so far. I'm focusing on Aristotle and GK Chesterton now.

13/30
I'm very proud of myself because I wasn't reading at all before 2019.

Are you in that Chicago group?

Bit bad, 5/30. Started crime and punishment and kinda just phased out of books for a bit.

Moravagine is how you ask for a hooker in Italy ?

why must you tempt me with these jezebels

Why is she reading under a sprinkler? That book is ruined.

I didn’t set a goal because I’m not a fag, I’ve read about 24 so far.

11/20
Highlights thus far have been the Iliad, the Odyssey, and a Cantacle for Leibowitz
Reading Herodotus now

I'll be your Percival bro

you didn't happen to read these for class at TU, did you? these books are part of a program there

>Q2
>your reading goals
>uses pleb transactional jargon to define his relationship to literature

it turns out that you're not reading at all, user. please self immolate and try again

32/??

Been a slow month and that will likely continue as I reread a few doorstoppers

It's a magazine and she's obviously waiting to be "surprised" by some Chad.

15/20 books, including some pretty hefty ones. Feel good so far.

0/any

Nope. Reading them for fun. I've enjoyed Greek history since rome total war, just now actually reading the sources for a lot of it
Im doing a major I hate at the college I go to sadly. Would do history but no dollars

Ha!

I can't read anything, but I do need the encouragement to stop flogging myself. I missed this place. I haven't finished a book since january, but I also haven't killed myself. So next I'm going to read a book.

9 but it has been a lot of philosophy and theory. Thinking I'll speed up once I switch to my fiction stack.

12/??
I didn't really set a goal this year except read from a wide range of regions, time periods and perspectives.

next year though is door stopper family chronicles

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14/60 here. I will probably end 2019 with 40 or something. I've reread Lord of The Rings (counting it as one), and am currently rereading Ulysses (Gabler this time).

kek

5/15
feels a little pathetic but it's better than nothing, i guess. currently reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. Hunter is extremely based and the book is entertaining and so far but it's a bit long

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I've read around 14 books since March, Which feels pretty good; i have bought a lot of books so I hoped to read more. Im working 7 days a week atm so you can only do so much.

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My lifelong goal has been to read nothing and I've achieved it every year so far.

Appreciate it m'man, going to take a look at these!

Good job, man! Just make sure not to burn yourself out, it'd be a shame to force yourself to read just for the sake of reading and end up dropping it altogether by 2020.

Thanks. So far I'm far from burning out. In fact I want to read more books but my time doesn't allow it r n

that book is going to get wet

Based quads remind us that women only read for fasion
That picture was aimed at a niche audience of imagebord turbo autists but you found your way through the illusion oh great bearer of quads

Got back into reading last year, so I'm happy with my progress. Going to be reading some longer books now.

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20/50

I've been so busy with school and work, I'm impressed I've gotten this far.

It's misleading to say I've read 20 books though. I'm trying to read chronologically, to build up a more naturally acquired base of knowledge. This means that a number of my books (Alcestis, Antigone, Oedipus) have been shorter Greek plays, with two additional Shakespeare plays.

I read staggered, which generally means that I'll finish a number of books at the same time. By the end of this week, I should be finished with The Death of Virgil, Sartor Resartus, The Flies, and the Complete Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca

You've probably already read it, but for me, Lem's peak is "His Master's Voice." Worth checking out if you have the time.

I actually haven't read it yet, even though I have it sitting on my shelf together with Fiasco, Invincible, Imaginary magnitude and More tales of Pirx. The story for "His Master's Voice" seems really interesting and I'll probably start on it today. I just wish I had more of his more light-hearted novels left, like all the Ijon Tichy/Pirx ones and Cyberiad.

Definitely the best sci-fi writer I've had the pleasure of reading thus far!

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3 books out of 24 :(

43/60

best so far: Of Mice and Men, The Stranger, Permutation City

worst: Macbeth (reading early 1600s english is too much work), Notes from Underground (fuck dosto, his books are just people rambling incoherently the entire time)

Maybe Sophocles or something like that seems a little too short/easy to count every work by itself.
But do you guys find a Shakespeare play easier to read than a novel?
(It isn’t my first language, so maybe that’s why I don’t.)
I feel that “one book” on Goodreads or whatever would probably mean 200 pages of ridiculously easy to read material to most people,

11/112

Good enough bait to warrant a reply

I've read 18 books. 8 of them solely for entertainment and 6 of them with the goal to improve myself. This is noticeably less than last year, fortunately enough I think reading goals are for idiots so it does not really bother me.

18 or 19 so far, and have a couple more I've been meaning to finish,
pretty good year, the best in a while I think

nice list, those swedish egon schiele dostojevskij covers are neat

I really enjoyed moravagine.
The end wasnt really logaically consistant with the rest of the novel tho. Roher than that, i thought it was really entertaining to read.

>pretty good year, the best in a while I think
If you're on goodreads, what's your average rating for this year? Mine is 4,3 LOL - either I've been very lucky with my picks, or I'm easily entertained.

>egon schiele dostojevskij covers are neat
Ypu've got to be shitting me. It's like they went out of their way to pick the most disgusting and ugly pictures of his to put on the covers. The only reason I'm not buying The Idiot and Crime and Punishment from the same publisher is because of the hideous covers. I'm hoping at least Demons will be better...

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better than these extremely boring norwegian covers at least

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>She was underage when they shot this scene
How did they get away with it!

Could you take a seat

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I honestly think your editions look better, much cleaner, but hey, whatever floats your boat m'man!

6

The Idiot took me most of summer, now on winter i can read a lot more. Stoner and Lolita are the next ones

i aim for 50 a year without cheating and still reading long books when i'm interested in them and i'm doing ok

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How many did you read last year? If it's less than three, you're still making progress buddy!

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Try reading Shakespeare out loud. It's cliche advice, but it really does help

Ada is my favorite Nabokov and one of my favorite novels ever. But I only ever talk about it with people who are either familiar or known to be open minded since the incest is a little much for your average Joe

Thanks, it’s not that it’s too difficult, it’s just that it sometimes seems reading a play by him isn’t considered a feat on par with reading a semi-long novel, which I feel like it is.

I'm through my 16th book this year. It's a really inconsistent list, some books are 500-1000 page-long classics, others are less-than-300-page-long mystery or fantasy books. Some take weeks, others take days. I don't think I'll reach my goal, but now I'll read some lighter books.

I don't have reading goals, I just like to read.

I've read 24 and finishing Micheal Ondaatje's The Cat's Table tonight.

Best novel I've read so far this year: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by V. Nabokov.

Worst novel: French Exit by P. DeWitt.

Agreed, it's a fantastic book and I think if people can "accept" Lolita, they should be able to accept Ada.

Didn't set any goals, but went on two amazon sprees (one in November, one in February), so I'm not without a book for a long time.
Have read 15 novels and 4 non-fictions. Serious stack (stuff I actually want to read) is down to about 28 titles and leftover stack is at about 15 titles, take 'em or leave 'em.

22 so far. I fell behind during the last semester writing my thesis, but now I have time again.

Best so far: The Tragedy of Man, The Atlas, Anna Karenina (reread), Pan Tadeusz, and Envy. Rhodes' book on the atomic bomb was also fascinating when it wasn't too technical for my non-STEM brain.

What did you think of the ending?