How many (non-fiction) books have you read this year?

[Bipolar Vamp6ix]

Like 10-ish

 

[Deleted member 90909]

How do y'all manage to read and not forget what you read like 5 seconds after or forget to memorise, or with fucked up attention span

Try reading first thing in the morning.

 

[moodless]

I don't read non-fiction, only fiction

 

[Deleted member 43881]

I don't read non-fiction, only fiction

i hate fiction, literal tales

 

[moodless]

i hate fiction, literal tales

I hate non fiction, "philosophers" are retards who just can't get to the fucking point

I also only mention philosophy because it's the only non-fiction text I could see myself leisurely reading.

Most finance and self help books are complete garbage.

 

[Deleted member 25571]

just one but i liked it a lot

 

[galoistheory]

I wanted to start reading Dostovoesky along with other Russian authors from that era, or Kafka, just gotta make time. I've heard a lot of interesting quotes from them already

Dostoyevski is great and I highly recommend him. He's not everyone's cup of tea as some people find his characters too obsessive. It is true but not an obstacle in my case. If you want to give him a try "The Gambler" and "Notes from the Underground" are short novels and pretty light compared to his other works. "Brothers Kamarazov" and "Crime and Punishment" are quite long and might require several rereads but I found all very enjoyable.

 

[Deleted member 109485]

0 reading is overrated

 

[longjohnmong]

fiction > non-fiction

 

[Esteban1997]

The only book ive ever red in my entire Life until now was the art of war

 

[longjohnmong]

i hate fiction, literal tales

All the worst, most tedious people think shit like this. First of all, the language is usually vastly superior, so while the stories might be fake, the words are real. Secondly, all the best fiction uses its literal tales merely as a vehicle for shedding light on psychological and philosophical truths.

Nietzsche said of Dostoevsky, “He was the only psychologist I had anything to learn from.”

But you're too fucking smart for fiction.

 

[longjohnmong]

Dostoyevski is great and I highly recommend him. He's not everyone's cup of tea as some people find his characters too obsessive. It is true but not an obstacle in my case. If you want to give him a try "The Gambler" and "Notes from the Underground" are short novels and pretty light compared to his other works. "Brothers Kamarazov" and "Crime and Punishment" are quite long and might require several rereads but I found all very enjoyable.

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[Deleted member 43881]

All the worst, most tedious people think shit like this. First of all, the language is usually vastly superior, so while the stories might be fake, the words are real. Secondly, all the best fiction uses its literal tales merely as a vehicle for shedding light on psychological and philosophical truths.



But you're too fucking smart for fiction.

What are your 2 favorite books?

 

[Deleted member 95445]

Only a few. Hope to read more next year.

 

[Deleted member 11127]

15 books tbh
All of ‘em are written by Neville Goddard

Run away from that cult asap. It won't change anything in your life, you will be just fucking idiot thinking he is smart just like religions work.

 

[Deleted member 11127]

If you have time to read books in 2024 it's over for you. First of all books are useless. Second thing is that even watching tiktoks/youtube shorts make you learn something while books do nothing.

 

[Deleted member 102323]

Run away from that cult asap. It won't change anything in your life, you will be just fucking idiot thinking he is smart just like religions work.

Already proved it to myself time after time, then why would I stop?

 

[Deleted member 11127]

Already proved it to myself time after time, then why would I stop?

Over for you then, you are in a cult. RIP

 

[longjohnmong]

What are your 2 favorite books?

Catch-22 and War and Peace

 

[Tusseleif]

I have only recently started getting into reading and reading more, keeping attention while reading has always been hard for me, and I also read very slow. I just got a book about the Norman conquest and plan on reading more history books by acknowledged historians

 

[Nectar]

-12

 

[Nodesbitch]

do threads count

 

[|Daddy_Zygos|]

I think I've read like 12, but maybe only completed 1-2.

The one I did read in full (and wanna buy a physical copy of is):
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One I'm still reading:
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Phenomenal writing, genuinely surprised one person wrote this because it's S-tier

Four of them

 

[Gaygymmaxx]

Consciousness shifting / How belief in the unseen reality hardens it into fact slowly but surely. Neville is well known and has a large community among his teachings, he was a great writer and seemed to have an insane life experience/testimony. One of his biggest success is the company he imagined with his brother on Barbados, which has crossed the 1B$ revenue barrier last year.

I keep getting Neville recommended to me ill listen to one of his lectures tbh

 

[RAITEIII]

3 or 4.