kindle fag here, since christmas day:
READ:
>metro 2033
>the omnivores dilema
>the strain
>horus rising
>the road
CURRENTLY READING
>a clash of kings
>infection
>the fall
PLAN TO READ:
have 233 books on my kindle including all the works of:
>stephen king
>charles dickens
>jules vern
>mark twain
>phillip K dick
>dean koontz
>neil gaiman
and many many moore.

i read a lot.

here's my to-read list:

- the sticky

read:
>Mort - Terry Pratchett
>Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
>The Alloy of Law - Brandon Sanderson

currently reading:
>The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
>Guards!Guards! - T. Pratchett
>The Stand - Stephen King
>A Dance with Dragons - RR Martin

Finished since Christmas:
>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (it was my first DFW and I absolutely loved it -- Infinite Jest has leapt to the very top of my pending purchases list.)
>Work! Consume! Die! (this was a present which I hadn't asked for, but I enjoyed it anyway, it's pretty funny.)

Reading:
>Kokoro (so far so good)

To read:
>The Odyssey
>Infinite Jest

> no excuse to not read

Sorry, sir, but I just made kindle threads all day. Why would I read?

Reading Since Jan 2 (Jan 1 a drunken haze, sex, sleep, pizza, MST3K, more sex)
In a German Pension (1911) Katherine Mansfield 1/4 thru
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) John Kennedy OToole 1st Chapter

Plan to Read & Re-Read: too friggin much:
Odyssey, Iliad, Epic of Gilgamesh, Guns Germs & Steel, Paranormality, Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, on and on and on...

Luckily like to read quality stuff.

Read:

Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Collected Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
Lake (kindle single) - Frank Gilroy
Into the Forbidden Zone (kindle single) - William T. Vollmer

Currently Reading

Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Cutting of an Agate - W.B. Yeats
Moving Pictures - Poor Pterry

>>2293138
5 fucking books since 25 dec?! 5?!

>>2293186
some of us read higher than a 4th grade level.

problem, dyslexicfags?

>>2293188
you're such a rooster

>metro 2033
>the omnivores dilema
>the strain
>horus rising
>the road

>higher than a 4th grade level

Not entirely, sport.

However, I wouldn't have pointed out your entry-level tastes if you weren't such a pretentious cunt.

>>2293192
my my, you seem....perturbed.

>>2293195
Ahahaha u made him MAD!!1 LOlol XDD

>>2293199
samemad

>>2293195
OMG BRO DAYT WAS SOO GUD BRO YU DONT NO HOW MADE HE IS BRO

>>2293186
is being able to read 5 paperbacks in a week some form of achievement or oddity on /lit/?
jesus guys, i thought this was the board for readers.

>>2293221
then you are as wrong as assuming /v/ is for people who play videogames.

this is the board for people to pretend reading atlas shrugged makes them a deep, intelligent thinker.

special flower syndrome in point of fact.

a small few of us actually read books, but honestly the average /lit/ poster is lucky to read 5 books in a year and then its always something monumentally cliche and pretentious that they feel makes them, an anonymous poster, apparently well read to other anonymous posters.

>>2293221
that guys an idiot and you're posting in a kindle thread

>>2293222
neckbeard virgin detected

Kindlefag here, since Christmas day too.

READ:
>11/22/63 (not on Kindle)

CURRENTLY READING:
>The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy

TO READ:
>Clash of Kings

>>2293228

>>2293233
cool film camera, bro

Not to get off topic but I didn't want to make a thread for this but is there a certain website one can go to torrent ebooks?

i haven't read one entire novel since christmas day. oh wait, i read a patricia mckillip novel, lol never mind. also a bunch of james tiptree short stories that were really good, some other short stories that sucked, most of john crowley's "four freedoms" (real good but not as good as "little, big"), a bunch of bloom's "western canon", and some other crappy fantasy.

god, i feel so dirty, like i just masturbated

>>2293238
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2812856/47930802/
tons on demonoid.

Since christmas I've read Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow.

I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now but I dunno if I really want to continue reading it.

I don't really have a list of books tor read. I just stare at my collection until I realize what book I wanna read.

>>2293247
I use demonoid but my whole family has kindles and I want to be able to get books for them so I was wondering if there was a special site for ebooks like passthepopcorn is all about just movies.

Well i only got my Kindle on new years so this is what i'm at so far...

Planning to read:
Hunger games trilogy (heard it was good)
Ender series (scott orson card)
Fight Club
Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy series (Douglas Adams <3)

Currently reading: Hunger Games (the first)

I'm not gonna go on here and pretend to be such a hardcore reader. I just read. THE ONLY BOOK IVE READ BY AYN RAND WAS THE ANTHEM

Read:

>The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
>The Vang: Battlemaster
>Halo: the Fall of Reach

Reading:
>Lonesome Dove
>'Salem's Lot

>>2293323
not reading Ayn Rand doesn't really disqualify you from being a heavy reader.

Read:
Fear and Loathing
Richard Yates by Tao Lin (Please don't hate me)

To Read:
Illuminatis! Trilogy
2666
The Master and Margarita
The Corrections
Proust
Various Hemingway, Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Nabokov, Kafka, McCarthy, Murakami, Pynchon, Dostoyevsky, Delillo, Tolstoy, Joyce, and a few more.

Read:
>Hitch-22
>Kitchen Confidential
>Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee

Plan on reading:
>The Bell Jar

I don't plan too far ahead...

have read since christmas

Metamorphosis Kafka
Essays of Schopenhauer
and about half of the collection of best Russian short stories.

currently reading; Heart of Darkness

>>2293323
None of those books are good. That is the shittiest reading list I have ever seen.

Got a Nook Simple Touch

>Currently Reading
-The Girl Who Played with Fire
-A Game of Thrones

>Plan to Read
-The Instructions (Adam Levin) (How is it?)
-Lolita
-Pale Blue Dot (Sagan)
-1Q84
-American Gods
-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest

And a few more I can't think of right now.

Read:
>The Road - Cermac McCarthy
>On the Road

Reading
>Last NIght a DJ Saved My Life

To Read:
>The Stranger
>The Fall
>A History of Pop Music Before Rock - Pierro Scaruffi

>>2293323
You're in high school, aren't you. Especially those caps about Ayn Rand - I read that book when I was in 10th grade.

GTFO underageb&

>>2293401
Your school made you read Ayn Rand? Thats fucking terrible. I cant think of any other author who could turn me off to reading as much as her.

Are you by any chance in the deep south(USA)? Cause than it would make sense... No one loves to play 'the evil majority is hurting us minorities' more than the red-neck states. Which is all the more funny when you realize how they treat their women/blacks/gays/musslims/... Well, pretty much anyone who isnt a devout christian, white, straight, male.

Read:
>An Age Ago: A Selection of Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry - Joseph Brodsky

Currently Reading:
>Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>The Adolescent - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Osip Mandelstam: 50 Poems - Osip Mandelstam
>Good Poems - Garrison Keillor
>Coffin County - Gary A. Braunbeck

To Read:
>Poor Folk - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm kind of on a Dostoevsky binge right now.

>>2293422

Have you ever been to the South?

read so far:
Witches Abroad, Maskerade, The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Reading now:
Hyperion - Dan Simmons

>>2293422
Yup. In 10th grade we had to read Anthem. The teacher didn't really push it on us, but it was part of the curriculum.

Funnily enough I live in central New Jersey, about 45 minutes away from NYC. But I agree with the redneck thing.

>>2293441
To read; Crime and Punishment, the new Discworld novel - not sure what epse. Open to suggestions.

>>2293422
>implying the entire South is like that

>>2293449
I despise his sallow, bloated countenance.

>>2293449
>implying it isn't.

>>2293447
I had to read Anthem in 9th grade and I'm from Central Jersey as well, I enjoyed it but not as much as I did when I read it again.

> reads 5 books a week
> wikipedia to figure out what the fuck happened in all of them
> act superior about reading 5 books and understanding them thanks to cliff notes

>>2293478
I thought it was...okay. I didn't like the prose, though, or the morals and stuff she tries to push on us. I was never a fan of Rand.

Where in Central Jersey? It's good to know I'm not the only one who lives around here.

>>2293477

>Implying you've ever spent a significant amount of time here

Visiting grandma in Florida and your Charlotte/Douglas layover don't count.

Haha isn't there a part in Anthem where the main character reinvents electricity and the lightbulb in about half an hour?

>>2293487

That's the power of the almighty Invisible Hand for you, my friend.

>>2293487
Yep. He, like, finds a lightbulb underground or something and fixes it. It's like she made him perfect or something.

>>2293485
>Implying spending 2 summers down South doesn't prove what I'm talking about.
Seriously. I mean, most of the people down there were nice, but the entire area just seemed...slow. I don't know

>>2293135

I've read Sanderson's The Allow of Law, am in the process of reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Locke's Essay on Human Understanding, The Hobbit.

I just finished The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. I think you would all like it very much.

>>2293498
It doesn't prove anything. Try living here for 20+ years before you make stupid assumptions.

>>2293511
Not everyone down South is stupid. Most are, though.

Read-
The Color of Water
A Dance with Dragons

Currently Reading-
The Jewel of the Seven Stars (1/3)
Moby-Dick (1/3)
Enchanter's End Game (3/4)
11/22/63 (1/2)
The Coldest Winter Ever (1/6)

To Read-
...And Ladies of the Club
Tehanu
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
White Night

>>2293515

Most people in general are pretty stupid, I'd say. The difference is that most dumb Southerners are polite enough to keep their mouths shut most of the time (or at least they used to be.) Yankees, dumb and smart, are more likely be loud, uncouth assholes.

>>2293542
Up here we may be rude, but I feel it's better to be rude and truthful than silent and seemingly happy. Also, up here we aren't so super-religious.

I agree with the "most people are stupid" thing, though.

>Read:
The World According to Garp
The Hotel New Hampshire
Walking on Water
A Language Older than Words
Until I find You
>Currently:
Last Night in Twisted River
Returning to Earth
Dalva
>Planning to read:
The Possessed (have had it for the longest fucking time and i plan to finish it so help me god)
A bunch of Gaiman cause Gaiman is the shit
finally planning on reading everything of Lorca, Marquez, Paz, Carlos Monsivais-yeah i need to get in touch with my heritage/culture.

Have the following books on my to read list:

Codex
The Nano Flower
A Second Chance at Eden
Zima Blue
Assassin's Apprentice
The Vanished Race
The End Specialist
Firebird
Flashback - Saskia Brandt
Among Thieves
MECH
The Quantum Theif
Guns of Seneca 6
SIM
Sighing Suns
S.I.
Til We Come to be
Future Freaks
Vallar
Name of Alt
Worlds Without End: The mission
The Human Experiment
Spores
Lost Cargo
infinities (collection)
The Grendel's Shadow
Vimana
Towards Yesterday
Rebellion (star force series book 3)
Origins (spinward fringe)
Statis None
The third side (balle for solar system #2)
Spyware

Currently reading: Hal Spacejock

>Read

Entire Harry Potter series

>Planning to read next

Michael Bubles Autobiograhy

I spent Nov and December rereading old stuff. Only bought one book this year, The Dark Side of Love, just started reading it.

Iain Banks - Use of Weapons

Dune - Frank Herbert

The Trial of Henry Kissinger Christopher Hitchens

John Brunner -- The Shockwave Rider

Read:
>Norwegian Wood - Murakami

Currently Reading:
>Don Quixote - Cervantes

Will Read:
>Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami
>A Personal Matter - Oe
>Silence - Endo
>Sanshiro - Soseki
>Neuromancer - Gibson
>I, Robot - Asimov
>Rig Veda - derp
>Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
>The Divine Comedy - Dante
>Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
>First Love - Turgenev
>A Discourse on Inequality - Rousseau
>The Social Contract - Rousseau
>The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
>The Quran - derp (rereading)
>War and Peace - Tolstoy (another attempt)

>>2293716

>Use of Weapons

mahnigga.jpg

best sci-fi by Banks in my opinion, with The Algebraist and Inversions having honorable mentions.

This year, I will read:

Naked Lunch
A Canticle for Leibowitz(Finish)
Ender's Game
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Anathem
A Scanner Darkly
The Man in the High Castle
Slaughterhouse Five
Mao's Great Famine(Finish)
Rubicon
Lost to the West
In Pharaoh's Army
Empire of the Summer Moon
Stupid History
Empire Lost
Empire of Blue Water
Dreams in a time of War
A commonwealth of thieves
The Black Company
Fool Moon(Finish)
The Light Fantastic(finish)
Blood of Elves
Quicksilver
Shogun
Good Omens
Stardust
The System of the World
The White Rose
Shadows Linger
The Confusion
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The New York Trilogy
Sanctuary
The Mansion
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
Collected Stories
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
Intruder in the Dust
As I lay dying
East of Eden
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Infinite Jest
War and Peace
On the Road
Catch- 22
Invisible Man
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
No Country for Old Men
Blood Meridian
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore
The Sailor who fell in love with the sea
Rashomon

Theres a couple other Mishima Books.

>>2293188
you don't work? or go to parties? or have sex? or live a normal life?

>>2293542

This is true. I'd say most southerners are stupid, but polite with it. While most northerners are stupid and rude, and unafraid to show it.

Also, I'm from London, and whenever I'm in NYC, people seem slow to me, so don't get on your high horse about southerners. You walk so bloody slowly as well.

>>2293770
Honestly, that isn't that much. Also he has a couple genre lit books in there which are easy reads.

>>2293721
not same person but have never read banks. I know he's famous and all, but are you meant to read his books in a series or can I read them as stand alone?

I read 128 books in 2011, but I think that's anomalous for me. 2010 I read 97. I will be happy with 80 books this year. I hope to read more Victorian lit, and hopefully tackle my stack of Zolas. Plus, I have The Monk and Uncle Silas and two Radcliffe novels on my stack. And three Patrick White novels to read.

>>2293811

>joins thread about kindles
>wanks off his own cock in front of everyone with his reading "prowess"

Go fuck yourself, you cunt.

>>2293908
u mad I read more than you, bro?

Sorry I don't read neckbeard fantasy

First off, some more Safran-Foer. I read ELAIC and thought it was pretty cool.

>>2293515
>Not everyone down South is stupid. Most are, though.
Right, because you can prove that with facts, and not anecdotal evidence?

First off, I buy books or go to the library, like a real man. I hate musicians, so I steal from them. I don't do that to Authors.
>Read:
>Nothing (A few years ago, I could read a six hundred page book in four days, but thanks to 4chan and writing. . .)
>Reading:
>Fellowship of the Ring- Tolkien
>Lies of Locke Lamora (love it so far)- Scott Lynch
>Dance of Dragons- Martin
>The Dragonbone Chain- Tad Williams
>Princess of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
>Neuromancer - William Gibson
Want to read:
>On the Road - Kerouac (Finally ordered it)
>Book of the New Sun (Also ordered) - Gene Wolfe
>Complete Conan stories - Had it on my shelf for six months
>Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake

>>2293941
When you pirate a book, you don't steal from the author. You're stealing from the publisher.
Fuck publishers. They generally offer shitty percentages, especially for first-time authors.

>>2293941
>posts list of authors
>implying that stealing their books is really going to affect them

>>2293943

You're not stealing from the author OR the publisher anymore than you would be had you bought the book used.

That said, do make the effort to support the authors whose works you like.

>>2293949
To be honest I generally don't read new fiction books - it's a bad habit, I just don't have the interest in keeping up with the contemporary scene. I've got a big back catalogue I can't justify to myself not pursuing, either by dead or obscenely rich writers who I don't feel guilty about pilfering from.