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2013-12-26 12:57 4405973 Mount Invoking Book Pact Initiative YV122613 Thread Act: 1 (literature_book.jpg 1024x692 335kB)
In short: ITT everyone agrees on reading 1 book for the time span of 1 day per 100 pages, which means a book of 500 pages will reach the reading time limit in 5 days.
That is the standard pact, they are more composite pacts.
Book Pact exists to:
Help motivate you to read more books
Create larger synched groups and individuals, reading the same material so we can share opinions, experiences, epiphanies etc.
That way you absorb the most out of a book and it is retained firmer in memory.
About Book Pact:
The Standard Book will be determined after the first 50 posts, the book with most 'votes' get it, if inconclusive then further discussion.
The books must not be too patrician nor too plebeian, the Standard Book must be accessible to most of /lit/ and maintain quality.
In case you have already read the book or find zero interest in it, Book Pacts can also be created between 2 or more individuals on the book and time of their choice.
Trips help to spot your BP buddies.
Ofcourse BP is easier done if you read books in digital form.
Some might not like this, will have a more 'lone-rider' attitude, and try to shit on this in every way possible. For some BP is an enhancement for others almost necessary.
This has been tried personally with some of my old friends and it was successful, it was discontinued by external and unrelated reasons.
If the collective reading time is slower or faster we'll calibrate, as well as any other issue, suggestions on the BP will not be wasted.
2 min later 4405976 Anonymous
>reading books
Disgusting
6 min later 4405982 Anonymous
The Alchemist or Ulysses
9 min later 4405986 Anonymous
>>4405982
:^)
How about a classic?
Anyone up for an oscar wilde book?
12 min later 4405990 Anonymous
>>4405986
No.
Lets start with Animal's Farm
14 min later 4405992 Mount
>>4405986
I'm up for Wilde.
>>4405982
Too plebe/patrician?
>>4405990
Would read
I agree on starting with the classics.
18 min later 4406001 Anonymous
100 pages a day seems a little extreme.
21 min later 4406005 Mount
>>4406001
Really? I think it's like an hour.
Welp, harder books definitely need more time for page, everything is up for a discussion.
41 min later 4406033 Anonymous
I think the most important question to ask is what to do if a book end in, say, 560 pages?
On the 6th day do you just red 60 pages and call it a day, or do you find another book to fill that void?
57 min later 4406062 Anonymous
>>4406005
I read 50 an hour on a good day ;_;
1 hours later 4406089 Anonymous
I'd prefer a pregnancy pact. You can all cum in me
I'm a gril btw
2 hours later 4406219 Anonymous
>>4406005
yeah i like to read books not get a whole picture of it
speedreading its like going to a restaurant and swallowing the lobster like a duck without actually tasting the meat
2 hours later 4406243 Anonymous
Dune
5 hours later 4406575 Mount
>>4406062
What do you read?
>>4406219
So 100 pages a day would be 2.5 hours?
5 hours later 4406598 Anonymous
>>4406575
i read like 20-30 pages an hour
2.5 hours would be pushing it but is very doable.
6 hours later 4406858 Anonymous
>>4406575
History, Philosophy, Classics
8 hours later 4407230 Anonymous
How about Hesse?
He's pretty easy, isn't he?
Maybe Siddhartha or Steppenwolf.
8 hours later 4407241 Anonymous (merica.jpg 225x225 13kB)
wait when do we start reading the book, as soon as it's decided or do we have time to purchase a physical copy?
9 hours later 4407276 Anonymous
>>4405986
like Picture of Dorian Gray or one of the plays or essays?
9 hours later 4407285 Anonymous
>>4405973
what about some good old kafka?
9 hours later 4407326 Anonymous
I read 20/30 pages per hour also.
I would suggest The Castle Otranto; the original Gothic novel, a book I've been meaning to read, or A Farewell to Arms, the famous novel by Mark Twain after the first world war.
9 hours later 4407329 Anonymous
>>4406089
Do you have skype?
9 hours later 4407332 Anonymous
>>4407241
>a physical copy
If we're going to do this I don't want to be held back by these luddites
9 hours later 4407338 Anonymous
>>4407326
>by Mark Twain
K E K
10 hours later 4407591 Mount (1387145415251.jpg 2000x720 127kB)
>>4406598
How about 2 days per 100 pages?
A book of 300 pages would 6 days, or a week, pretty reasonable.
It's 50 pages a DAY, am sure if you're willing you'd be able to find the time.
>>4407241
Well if you can't get a hold of a physical copy you can download or pirate.
I mean while the time limit gives a kind of motivation to read more instead of wasting your time in unproductive ways.
But the biggest fun would be to start a book all together in a specific day and finish the book roughly at the same time and have a discussion.
>>4407276
Not plays, solid books. I read Dorian, it was fun, how about another of his?
>>4407285
I think Wilde, Hemingway would be good starts, they are easier to read than Kafka if am not terribly mistaken.
>>4407326
>A Farewell to Arms
Would
>>4407332
I feel you, although reasonable traditionalism has its aesthetic merits it can be hindering at times.
And i think 4chan should be the least worried with such things.
>>4407338
Regardless, i'd do AFtA
11 hours later 4407605 Anonymous
What if we read Snow Country?.
With only 180ish pages could be a good start,
11 hours later 4407619 Anonymous
>>4407285
Aside of The Trial or Amerika, his works are so short they'd be done in a day, or two at most.
11 hours later 4407622 Anonymous
>>4407619
Everyone has read The Trial.
Many of us haven't read the Castle.
11 hours later 4407623 Anonymous
>>4407605
seconding snow country.
I need some erotic shit in my dick.
11 hours later 4407697 Anonymous
>>4407622
I've never read The Trial. My only Kafka was a book of short stories.
11 hours later 4407704 Anonymous
If we decide to read Kafka I'm not participating.
11 hours later 4407710 Anonymous
I'm up for this, I leave the book of choice to you guys.
11 hours later 4407716 Mount
I see the direct democracy voting system in our book club doesn't apply that well, i'll go representative because we'll never make our minds.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show /16.Best_Books_of_the_19th_Century
Pick several and i'll 'triangulate' one, it doesn't have to be a GREAT choice, just good enough so we don't have reactions like this >>4407704
11 hours later 4407718 Anonymous
I vote for Ulysses as well
11 hours later 4407740 Anonymous
I'll chime in a third vote for Snow Country.
I'll third "something by Oscare Wilde or Ernest Hemingway".
I'll second "something by Hesse, maybe Siddhartha or Steppenwolf".
Does anyone else have any suggestions or should we just start arguing the ones already presented? Or let the resident tripfag choose one...
11 hours later 4407754 Anonymous
Alright, get yourself a copy of Snow Country and we can begin.
11 hours later 4407771 Mount (1381987552146.jpg 1024x683 451kB)
>>4407718
Too soon.
>>4407740
You're right, we'd better spend our energy in reading instead of being pedantic.
Lets just go for Snow Country now and then something classic, it's short anyways.
Lets give it 4 days from now cause it's our first attempt here, plenty of time for 170 pages.
It's official.
Book Chosen by High Royal Committee of Eternal Book Pact, Act 1:
SNOW COUNTRY
12 hours later 4407789 Anonymous
Anyone got a epub/mobi of snow country?
12 hours later 4407798 Mount
Just downloaded Snow Country.
I'll be around almost daily but in 31 December we'll recap and discuss and we'll announce another book.
Let the /lit/ god bless our path.
>>4407789
http://en.bookfi.org/s/?q=snow+coun try&t=0
12 hours later 4407801 Anonymous
>>4407798
Cheers
12 hours later 4407815 Anonymous
>>4407798
There's no mobi file here you twat. What am I supposed to do? Convert it myself?
12 hours later 4407836 Anonymous
>>4407815
http://ebook.online-convert.com/con vert-to-mobi
12 hours later 4407841 Anonymous
>>4407836
>>4407815
That or you can download calibre or similar programs and be set for life.
12 hours later 4407883 Anonymous
So is anyone actually reading this?
12 hours later 4407890 Anonymous
>>4407883
yes?
Why?
12 hours later 4407907 Anonymous
Vote:
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
12 hours later 4407908 Anonymous
Can we pick something less ethnic?
12 hours later 4407931 Mount
>>4407907
>>4407908
see
>>4407771
We could argue all day, i say lets just do this and in few days we'll get something else, plus having something 'alien' as the first read creates a more memorable beginning in my opinion.
Anyway, i already started reading, fun.good.do it.
12 hours later 4407948 Anonymous
>>4407883
I started, it seems rather short since in 40 minutes I'm about 37% through with it.
12 hours later 4407950 Anonymous
>>4407948
what's your opinion so far?
I'm going to start the reading right now.
12 hours later 4407954 Anonymous
>>4407950
It's not really the kind of story I'm used to.
Seasonally appropriate given the weather we have where I am right now.
13 hours later 4407979 Anonymous
Anyone else not enjoy reading translated novels? It always feels like something is lost in translation.
13 hours later 4407988 Anonymous
>>4407979
That's because something is lost, always.
Still, that's better than not read it at all.
13 hours later 4407995 Anonymous
Couldn't make it past the introduction
13 hours later 4408010 Anonymous
>>4407995
I skipped introduction altogether.
13 hours later 4408017 Anonymous
So what book is it?
13 hours later 4408020 Anonymous
>>4408017
Snow Country
13 hours later 4408024 Anonymous
>>4407931
Murakami-guy here. Thanks for the heads up.
13 hours later 4408025 Anonymous
>>4407979
Well, ask me in 3-4 years when I'm able to 分かる the 日本語 and then I'll try reading 雪国 in the original language.
Until then, and further when I have learned all the world's languages, I'm going to continue reading translated novels so as to not restrict myself to the province of Anglophones.
13 hours later 4408027 Anonymous
>>4407979
i hate it but it's one of those things you just learn to deal with. better to read the translated divine comedy than not at all
13 hours later 4408047 Anonymous
Don't read the introduction, the asshole translator spoiled the novel
13 hours later 4408087 Anonymous
>>4408047
I never read any kind of introductory material before reading the book, unless said introductory material was written by the author.
14 hours later 4408225 Anonymous (Anti-Japan2.png 445x554 277kB)
14 hours later 4408239 Anonymous
>>4408225
God, America used to be so badass. What happened?
22 hours later 4409450 Anonymous (1353499413655.jpg 720x537 88kB)
>tfw i'm now member of a book club
S-see mom, i told y-you am not autist-tic
26 hours later 4409772 Anonymous
>11 pages in
>Literally me everytime i use public transports
>tfw
27 hours later 4409833 Anonymous
>only 100 pages per day
I read about 300, think I'll be displaced constantly, I'd join otherwise
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