ILF Book Challenge?

[friendship]

I read 53 in 2015. What should my goal this year be?

[odontophobia]

Have you read all the other Murakami books? I assume you're talking about Murakami, but 1Q84 is pretty widely regarded as one of his lower works. (I haven't read it myself but yea internet opinions are important.)

Yes I have.

[popvulture]

Have you read all the other Murakami books? I assume you're talking about Murakami, but 1Q84 is pretty widely regarded as one of his lower works. (I haven't read it myself but yea internet opinions are important.)

Yes I have.

Hard Boiled Wonderland is one of my faves... should revisit that, actually. Been quite a while.

[popvulture]

I have a tendency to read long fantasy books because they really help me unwind in the way that video games do. They're a lot of fun. They can be thought provoking. I love the world building and who doesn't like wizards?

I'm pretty much the same, just with Sci-Fi. I love a great piece of literature, but at the end of the day I really just enjoy relaxing/escaping a bit.

[theAntihero]

I read a lot, I've never counted what I've read in a year though.

For those of you that haven't read it...red Jim Butcher Dresden Files series, probably the best long running series I've ever read

[D.o.S.]

Is this 50 new books? Also, I'm with antihero, I don't keep track.

[fcknoise]

Damn, I wish I had time to read that much. All I ever read now is my course literature, most of which I don't even finish.

[UglyCasanova]

As a student of literature, this is going to be a pretty hefty list in 10 months

Here we go (will quote and update as the year goes on):

Teju Cole - Open City
Franz Kafka - Amerika
Charles Baudelaire - Petits Poèmes en prose
Jean-Jecques Rousseau - Rêveries du promeneur solitaire
Walter Benjamin - The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire
Walter Benjamin - Berlin Childhood around 1900
Mario Praz - The Romantic Agony
Robin Jarvis - The Romantic Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1789-1830
Helen Oyeyemi - Mr Fox
Toni Morrison - Beloved (again. so good!)
Tomas Espedal - Gå; eller kunsten å leve et vilt og poetisk liv (Walk; or the art of living a wild and poetic Life)
Robert Creely - Selected poems
Gwendolyn Brooks - Selected poems
Allen Ginsberg - Howl and other poems

Started last year but finished this year:
Lillie Devereux Blake - Fettered for life
Camille Paglia - Sexual Personae

Started last year but not yet finished:
James Joyce - Ulysses (I don't think I'm ready for it, haha)

[gnomethrone]

so far i've read:
RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF MAGIC - Keith Thomas
A FEAST OF CROWS - George R.R. Martin

ugh i need to spend more time reading and less time watching shit-tier horror movies
i feel like a dum dum posting this under uglyC

[Iommic Pope]

I haven't read for a very long time now and I've needed something to push me back into it.
Gotta revisit my DNF pile from last year first.
So I guess I'll be starting again with Anna Karenina, One Thousand Years of Solitude and A Dance of Dragons.
I want to read more SciFi this year, I may revisit Dune, but my primary concern will probably be anything to do with nano tech, weather and climate after nuclear war, the economy and the energy crisis, and time travel.
Probably gonna be trying to scratch the surface on contemporary indigenous issues in rural Australia as well.
Yes, I am also trying to write a shitty piece of sci fi.

[theAntihero]

I haven't read for a very long time now and I've needed something to push me back into it.
Gotta revisit my DNF pile from last year first.
So I guess I'll be starting again with Anna Karenina, One Thousand Years of Solitude and A Dance of Dragons.
I want to read more SciFi this year, I may revisit Dune, but my primary concern will probably be anything to do with nano tech, weather and climate after nuclear war, the economy and the energy crisis, and time travel.
Probably gonna be trying to scratch the surface on contemporary indigenous issues in rural Australia as well.
Yes, I am also trying to write a shitty piece of sci fi.

Read some Ben Bova

[casecandy]

RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF MAGIC - Keith Thomas

Right on! How was it? Been meaning to read for a long time.

[Iommic Pope]

I haven't read for a very long time now and I've needed something to push me back into it.
Gotta revisit my DNF pile from last year first.
So I guess I'll be starting again with Anna Karenina, One Thousand Years of Solitude and A Dance of Dragons.
I want to read more SciFi this year, I may revisit Dune, but my primary concern will probably be anything to do with nano tech, weather and climate after nuclear war, the economy and the energy crisis, and time travel.
Probably gonna be trying to scratch the surface on contemporary indigenous issues in rural Australia as well.
Yes, I am also trying to write a shitty piece of sci fi.

Read some Ben Bova

Did he write Millenium? I read that as a kid and loved it. Pretty sure I still have my copy at my parents place. Might have to revisit it.
Thanks man!

[theAntihero]

I haven't read for a very long time now and I've needed something to push me back into it.
Gotta revisit my DNF pile from last year first.
So I guess I'll be starting again with Anna Karenina, One Thousand Years of Solitude and A Dance of Dragons.
I want to read more SciFi this year, I may revisit Dune, but my primary concern will probably be anything to do with nano tech, weather and climate after nuclear war, the economy and the energy crisis, and time travel.
Probably gonna be trying to scratch the surface on contemporary indigenous issues in rural Australia as well.
Yes, I am also trying to write a shitty piece of sci fi.

Read some Ben Bova

Did he write Millenium? I read that as a kid and loved it. Pretty sure I still have my copy at my parents place. Might have to revisit it.
Thanks man!

He did, although I'm more a fan of his Grand Tour series. Moonrise I believe has a lot of morality etc to do with nanotech

[Iommic Pope]

Awesome, gonna suss it.