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51 KB Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:33 No.625534  
ITT: /lit/ achievements.

Endurance Reader: Finish "In Search of Lost Time".

Second Best: Read two Palahniuk novels and think the second one was much worse than the first.

The Grand: Finish a book that is over 1000 pages long.

The Collector: Have at least 5 books in your library that are over 200 years old.

Speeding Ticket: Read War & Peace in less than a month.

An Apple a Week..: Read 52 books in a single calendar year.

Classical Scholar: Read Poetics and The Birth of Tragedy as well as at least two plays by each of the following playwrights: Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:36 No.625547
Masochist: read any Joyce book without using notes.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:37 No.625551
Fanatic: Read more than 200 pages of correspondence written by an author.

Zealot: Read the entire oeuvre of an author who has published more than three novels.

Under the Bell Jar: Read five books written by female authors.

High Seas: Read Heart of Darkness, Moby-Dick, and Robinson Crusoe.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:38 No.625557
Austenite: Read at least three Jane Austens and realize by the end of the third that they're all the same book.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:39 No.625562
Fantastic Fetishes: Fap to the "arse full of farts" Joyce letter.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:40 No.625566
Small Steps: Read 100 short stories.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:40 No.625568
>>625562

On the Marquis Tip: Read 120 Days of Sodom without masturbating.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:41 No.625570
Armchair Philosopher: Read at least one each of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hobbes.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:42 No.625572
Nobel Whore: Read at least one book by every Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:45 No.625581
Religious Zealotry: Read the Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita, and one text each of Taoism, Confucianism, Tibetan Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:45 No.625583
The Analytic Tradition: Read at least one book by the following: Hume, Russell, Frege, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chalmers, Dennet, Quine, Kripke, and Searle.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:45 No.625586
>>625568
that only applies to inmates of an insane asylum treated for anti-social sadism
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:48 No.625594
Paris PoMo: Read at least one book by each of the following authors: Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:50 No.625603
Sit Tight: Pay more than $1000 for a reading armchair.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:51 No.625607
Globe Trotter: read a book by an author from every country.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:52 No.625610
Is This All They'll Publish These Days?: Read 3 books in a row that involve childhood sexual abuse.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:55 No.625616
Doctorat in Revisionist History: Ready every Turtledove book.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:57 No.625620
Bridge Toll: Read three of the following: Twilight Saga, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Catcher In the Rye
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:58 No.625625
The Talker: Spend more than three consecutive hours in the /lit/ chatroom.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:59 No.625626
Questionable Advice: Read twelve books featured in Oprah's Book Club
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)17:59 No.625627
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ARCHIVE THIS
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:00 No.625630
>>625627
not yet...
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:00 No.625632
My record so far:
The Grand
Classical Scholar
Masochist
Fanatic
Zealot
Under The Bell Jar
Fantastic Fetishes (did not cum tho)
Armchair Philosopher
>> Orhan !3VNuRGq.ek 5/03/10(Mon)18:01 < No.625636
>>625625
Achievement - unlocked
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:02 No.625640
You're a Wizard, Harry- Read the entire Harry Potter Series, consecutively.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:03 No.625642
Scholar's Shelf: Own the complete Norton Anthology collection.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:03 No.625643
This is Addicting: Your book collection habit is forcing you to eat ramen frequently.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:04 No.625649
Perhaps we could get some generous drawfags to provide icons?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:05 No.625652
>>625649
perhaps after the archiving.

Should these get point values?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:05 No.625653
Pringles Man: Read The Book of the New Sun.

Monopoly Man: Read The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Frost Giant in a Hat: Read the Soldier series.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:05 No.625655
>>625640
Harry Potter who?: Read the Dresden Files right afterwards.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:07 No.625659
Hobby Confused: Read three or more novels based off of a popular video game.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:07 No.625661
>On the Marquis Tip: Read 120 Days of Sodom without masturbating.
Well, I lost that one. HARD.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:08 No.625666
Mo' money' Mo problems - Have over 50 books unread that you purchased.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:10 No.625671
>>625642
GOLD TROPHY for having this and only having to get one of them for a class
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:11 No.625673
The Sniffer- you like to smell books; especially when no one is looking.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:11 No.625674
Classic SyFy: Read at least one science fiction book by the following authors: Verne, Wells, Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Bradbury, Le Guin, and Vonnegut.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:11 No.625676
Expat: Read a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein written while they lived in Paris.
>> ThumbsUpWhatsUp !1eEiO51inQ 5/03/10(Mon)18:11 < No.625677
Holy smokes, these are awesome.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:11 No.625679
Stoic to the Max: Watch 'Bright Star' without raging.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:12 No.625686
>>625679
Try again, said the little red hen.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:13 No.625688
Questionable Motives: Read 'Anarchists Cookbook', 'The Turner Diaries', and 'Patriots'.
>> ThumbsUpWhatsUp !1eEiO51inQ 5/03/10(Mon)18:15 < No.625697
Just Beat It: Read at least two works by Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Cassady, Corso, and Conrad.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:15 No.625699
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I CAN SEE FOREVER: Marry a feminist writer.

Your Little Beaver: Continue having open relations while married to a feminist writer.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:16 No.625701
this thread gives my reading life a whole new focus.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:16 No.625704
From Russia With Love: Read one by each of by the following: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Ivanov, Lermontov Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn,
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:18 No.625713
>>625534

read in search of lost time last summer, have many books over 200 years old, have also read both the poetics and the birth of tragedy

so basically the only one's i'd care to bother with i've already done
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:18 No.625716
Cross-Eyed Sartre: Your reading habit forces you to buy perscription glasses.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:18 No.625718
MANLY MOTHERFUCKER: Read the following: The Red Badge of Courage, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, The Call of the Wild, The Iliad and the Odyssey, The Road, Hamlet, and any three books by Hemmingway.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:19 No.625719
Flightless Flock: Own 50 Penguin trade paperbacks

Fatmans Misery: Read Confederacy of Dunces and Lord of the Flies
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:20 No.625727
>this thread gives my reading life a whole new focus.
Seconding this.
Especially because the only achievements I've unlocked so far are
-Fantastic Fetishes
-The Sniffer

Not something to be proud of...
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:21 No.625729
The Basementdweller: Read American Psycho and complain about it being not graphic enough
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:21 No.625734
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>>625697
>Just Beat It
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:21 No.625736
Middle East Beast: Read one by each of the following: Mahfouz, Pamuk, Darwish, Kadare, Maalouf, Shafak, Oz, Khayyám.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:21 No.625737
The Hipster: Read the books /lit/ talks about
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:22 No.625740
Presidential Library: Read a biography of every US president.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:22 No.625742
>>625737
More like, 'The Rand', amirite.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:23 No.625746
Idealist Folly: Read all books by Kant and Hegel.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:24 No.625750
Fantastic FanFiction: Read The Aeneid and any two of Plato's early dialogues.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:24 No.625752
The Red Badge of Courage: Read everything Published in the MEGA (Marx Engels complete works)
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>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:25 No.625755
Crossover Appeal 1: Read No Country for Old Men, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Jurassic Park, The Godfather, The Exorcist, To Kill a Mockingbird, and In Cold Blood.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:25 No.625757
The Braggart: you read books for showing off only.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:25 No.625758
Christfags Fucked My Shit Up: Read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:26 No.625761
I'm not Tao Lin, I swear: Make a thread about _Shoplifting From American Apparel_.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:26 No.625762
The Hivemind: read more than 5 books at the same time.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:27 No.625767
The Regular: Be disappointed when the daily House of Leaves thread doesn't materialize.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:28 No.625769
The Bukowski: finish a book whilst being drunk
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:30 No.625777
The Eschatologist: Read Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", SPenglers "Decline of the West" and Barzuns "From Dawn to Decadence"
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:30 No.625778
>>625767
more like
The Regular: Be content when the daily House of Leaves thread doesn't materialize.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:30 No.625779
The Cosmopo/li/tan: Only read books mentioned on /lit/ more than 5 times in 24 hours.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:31 No.625782
I am Dr. Kashmir: Contribute 7 pieces to ZWG
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:31 No.625784
>>625620

Holy shit I have legitimately done this.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:32 No.625785
The Evangelist- Convince a hater that books are not gay, but are actually enjoyable.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:32 No.625787
I'm a Hippie: Read Stranger in a Strange Land, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Doors of Perception, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, and Inherent Vice.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:33 No.625789
The /. - Only read Sci-fi and Fantasy.

(aka The SlashDot)
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:33 No.625791
The Queen: Read all the plays, essays, fairy tales and Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:34 No.625796
>>625785

The Antichrist- Convince a litfag that books are gay and not very intellectual.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:35 No.625797
Old School: Read only books published before 1792 for a whole year.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:35 No.625799
>>625796
Enter Godmode.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:35 No.625803
Yeah, Infinite Jest was pretty great: Pretend to have read a book that you haven't read.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:36 No.625804
The Decadent: Rip out every page you just read for 1 month.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:36 No.625805
The Whole Bard and Nothing But The Bard: Read and seen (in a theatre) the complete works of Shakespeare.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:37 No.625809
Renaissance Man: read 2 plays by each, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson. Plus: THe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli is obligatory
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:38 No.625812
The Accidental Evangelist- Accidentally leave a lesser-known work by a classic author in a public place.

Unlocked... I left The Defense by Nabokov in a subway. I hope whoever found it actually read it. ;_;
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:38 No.625814
The Good /lit/izen: Don't buy books, just use the library.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:39 No.625818
>>625562
can't find it, any hints?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:39 No.625819
Chief Rabbit- Read Watership Down without stopping to read something else.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:40 No.625822
>>625758
Did this but it was abridged.

>>625547

Dubliners, Ulysses. Yes for pretentious adolescence!
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:40 No.625825
A hole in one: Read a complete book of length more than 300 pages in one sitting. (yes pee/coffee breaks are ok)
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:40 No.625826
Blast from the Past: Re-read at least ten books from either the Goosebumps series, the Animorphs series, or the Deltora Quest series.

I want to make one about the whole 'below the dead the living strive' bit in Deltora Quest, and one about Sideways Stories of Wayside School, but I don't have any good ideas.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:40 No.625828
The Mariner: Read "The Nigger of the Narcissus" "Moby Dick" "The Sea-Wolf" and "20000 leagues under the Sea"
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:40 No.625829
Weeaboo: Read fifteen novels written by Japanese authors.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:41 No.625831
Classic Yankee Prose: Read at least one prose book by: Poe, Melville, Twain, James, Sinclair, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Henry Miller.

Latino Lit: Read at least one book by: Borges, Casares, Paz, Llosa, Marquez, Bolano, Neruda, and Cortazar.

Gonzo!: Read A Mencken Chrestomathy and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:41 No.625832
Big Dickens: Read Dickens entire corpus consecutively.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:42 No.625834
Perfect childhood: Read every Redwall novel without turning into a furry.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:42 No.625836
The Tin foil hat: carry a copy of The Catcher In The Rye and The Day Of The Jackal at all time.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:43 No.625844
The Horrorshow chelloveck/devotchka: read A Clockwork Orange without using a dictionary.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:43 No.625846
Love is my Craft- Read the Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:44 No.625848
Eldritch horror: Read 20 stories based on the Cthulhu mythos.

Sagging Gambrel Roofs: Read 40 stories based on the Cthulhu mythos.

I am Providence: Read the entire works of H.P. Lovecraft
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:44 No.625849
"Storm and Stress":
Read any 10 Works from the German literary period between
170 to 1780. A work by any other author than Goethe and Schiller will count twice...
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:44 No.625854
Hipster:
Read books written by Easton Ellis, Murakami and Vonnegut
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:44 No.625855
Never Doing That Again: Lend a book. The borrower never returns it.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:45 No.625857
A Hitchhiker through and through: Know where your towel is.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:45 No.625858
Celluloid Freak: Every time you watch a film you read the book it was based on if there is one, and viceversa.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:45 No.625860
I'm so into this.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:46 No.625862
I did The Grand. Swedish translation of Order of the Phoenix was 1001 pages long.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:46 No.625864
I've done the gRand.

lolatlasshrugged
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:47 No.625868
Dog Pound: leave dogear tabs in 100 books.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:47 No.625869
The Devils Advocate: Read "Faust", "Paradise Lost", "Master and Margerita" "His Dark Materials" and "Inferno"
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:48 No.625871
Reading Pals: Lend someone a bookmark when they desperately need one.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:49 No.625878
>>625844

People use a cheatsheet for that? Man, that kills all the fun. Faggots.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:49 No.625879
Cogito Eco Sum: Read "The Name of The Rose", "Foucaults Pendulum", "Baudolino" as well as one academic work of Umberto Eco.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:51 No.625891
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The Canadian Experience: Read "The English Patient", "Life of Pi", 2 novels by Farley Mowat, 2 novels by Margaret Atwood, 3 short stories by Margaret Laurence, and Pierre Trudeau's autobiography.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:52 No.625893
Keeping Up With The Brontës: Read all the Novels written by the Brontë sisters.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:52 No.625896
>>625891
Add the Deptford Trilogy to this one.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:52 No.625897
>>625878
sorry, since i didn't grow up in a socialist country, I don't know Russian, my bad...
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:52 No.625899
Bookworm: Have over twenty images of books, libraries, bookshelves, etc. saved to your harddrive.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:52 No.625900
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>>625891
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:53 No.625904
Upside Down Words: Read 5 books by 5 different Australian authors.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:53 No.625905
>>625900
By the end you will be bleeding maple syrup.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:54 No.625909
>>625855
I don't want the copy of Lolita I lent you if you've been holding on to it for a year.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:54 No.625911
5 Under 35: Read five books written in the last ten years.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:54 No.625912
>sorry, since i didn't grow up in a socialist country, I don't know Russian, my bad...
You're supposed to not understand it. The beauty of the book is that it shows you how quick you learn to use slang yourself.
I have to admit that I used a dictionary for the first 3 chapters though, after that,the language started to feel naturally.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:55 No.625917
Brilliance and Banality: Read 3 works by Jane Austen
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:56 No.625922
The Deviant: read Naked Lunch, Gravity's Rainbow, Crash, Salo, and rape a child in an unusual fashion
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:57 No.625925
The Monocle And Top Hat: Only read books written over 100 years ago.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:57 No.625926
Asia on Viagra: Read any novel of James Clavell's Asian Saga.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)18:58 No.625930
Over9000: Own more than 500 books.
>> Orhan !3VNuRGq.ek 5/03/10(Mon)19:00 < No.625935
Archive please-

http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/main.php?mode=submit

thread id:625534
board: /lit/
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:01 No.625937
>>625935

Why not wait until we hit the reply limit?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:03 No.625949
>>625917
that was in the goddamn third reply
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:04 No.625954
>>625926
I got 500 pages into Shogun, can I get partial credit?
>> ThumbsUpWhatsUp !1eEiO51inQ 5/03/10(Mon)19:05 < No.625961
>>625937
Doesn't the archive update the threads until they die?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:05 No.625962
>>625937
Are we ever going to?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:06 No.625969
>>625961
yes, therefore it doesn't matter.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:07 No.625971
Supreme Erotomania: The Tropic of Cancer, Quiet Nights in Clichy, Delta of Venus, Justine, Philosophy In The Beaudoir, Venus in Furs, The Kamasutra, Songs Of Salomon, Fanny Hill,The Decamerone, Lady Chatterleys Lover, Fear Of Flying, Lolita, Casanovas Memoirs, La Ronde.
Also Fap furiously while reading them.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:08 No.625972
>>625954
I do believe that's sufficient.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:08 No.625975
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>Thread 625534 has already been archived.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:09 No.625979
Platinum Membership- Become a member of the rewards program of three or more bookstore chains.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:11 No.625983
FUCKING BORDERS!: The Borders you just went to didn't have any of the books you were looking for.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:11 No.625984
Garage Sailor: Obtain a used book for <10% of what it would have cost at a chain book store.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:14 No.626002
>>625857
>>625855
>>625846
>>625762
>>625762
>>625737
>>625674
got all these
also
Turned my life around: /lit/ reminded you how great reading can be.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:14 No.626006
Someone artistically inclined should design medals/trophies for these, if they're up to it.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:15 No.626011
>>625984
This is the best part of summer
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:16 No.626017
>>626006
I volunteer my time, once i get around to it. I'll do them in the order i get ideas for them.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:17 No.626021
>>625984
I bought four books for a grand total of 40 cents.
Felt good, man.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:17 No.626022
>>626006
Maybe we should filter out the best ones first.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:18 No.626028
>>626022
That may take time...
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:19 No.626030
>>626028
Time well spent.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:19 No.626031
>>626006

Perhaps some magnanimous drawfags from /ic/ (or wherever it is they hang out) could help us out with that..
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:21 No.626040
The Rocket Ship: Read every book that has won the Hugo Award
Starman: Read every book that has won the Nebula Award
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:21 No.626042
>>626031
/co/ has some good (and mostly nice, what with /co/ being love) ones. maybe we should ask around in there?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:24 No.626052
>>626042

Sounds like a plan..wanna start the thread over there?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:24 No.626053
The Kindred Spirit: Start up a conversation with every stranger you see reading a book you have read
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:25 No.626057
>>626052
nah. You go right ahead.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:27 No.626063
>>626052
>>626057

>/lit/ is too scared to ask other boards for help
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:29 No.626069
>>626063
What on earth for? The Anons of /co/ are practically family!
>> ThumbsUpWhatsUp !1eEiO51inQ 5/03/10(Mon)19:29 < No.626070
The Inner Child: Read every Newberry-winning book.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:30 No.626073
>>626063

I was just thinking >>626042 was more familiar with /co/. I might unknowingly commit some horrible faux pas, and this is 4chan after all.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:31 No.626083
Picture Books Are Literature Too: Read every Caldecott Medal winner.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:32 No.626088
>>626073
I don't think it's possible to do something like that on /co/. They're pretty chill most of the time, and I don't see how you could mention any of the few things that might set them off if you're just asking for some drawfag help.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:34 No.626093
The Grand
An Apple A Week
Fanatic
Zealot
Under the Bell Jar
This Is Addicting
Hobby Confused
The Evangelist
The Good /lit/izen
A Hole In One
Never Doing That Again
Dog Pound
Bookworm
Fucking Borders!
Garage Sailor
Turned My Life Around

All the ones I have...
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:35 No.626099
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>>626083
High Five!
>> Ace Rand !Hd0MadUVkQ 5/03/10(Mon)19:36 < No.626101
The Russian: Read at least five books by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Chekhov, or Strugatsky.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:37 No.626110
>>625557
>>625917

>>625704
>>626101

Okay, repeats are starting to pop up. F3 is your friend, guys.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:38 No.626116
Grand And A Half: Read a work that is 1500 pages or longer.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:38 No.626117
Compiled these to a .txt document

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nnwgmymwmnn
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:40 No.626129
>>/co/16493196
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:41 No.626134
>>626117

Might as well use pastebin for that..much easier access.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:41 No.626136
>>626117
Oh, you're wonderful!
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:43 No.626151
The Distracted: Have at least 15 books in your to-read list.

How Do You Turn This Thing On: Read at least 30 ebooks.

The Lover: Read 20 books with explicit sex scenes.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:43 No.626155
>>626134
http://pastebin.com/ZWnSdUwv

A bit weird looking right now. Will fix.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:45 No.626168
The Grand
Grand And A Half
An Apple A Week
Fanatic
Zealot
Under the Bell Jar
This Is Addicting
Hobby Confused
The Evangelist
The Good /lit/izen
A Hole In One
Never Doing That Again
Dog Pound
Bookworm
Fucking Borders!
Garage Sailor
Turned My Life Around
The Undistracted
The Dedicated
Mile-Wide Attention Span
The Distracted

A few more for me...
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:47 No.626176
How the hell do so many people have Fanatic? Which author's correspondence did you read?
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:49 No.626190
What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: Read 7 works by Tom Clancy
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:50 No.626197
The Idealist: Refused to dislike a book until you attempted to read it.

The Assumption: Hate a book you've never attempted to read.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:51 No.626207
I feel insecure that I don't have as many of these as I thought I would.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:53 No.626218
again and again: read a book until you know the plot by heart.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:53 No.626222
>>626218
I've read Black Hawk Down five times and own the DVD. I've lost count of how many times I've seen the movie.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:54 No.626227
Dan Browned: Found the hard way that Dan Brown is full of shit.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:54 No.626228
>>626222
*bleep bloop*
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:55 No.626234
>>626207
The conspicuous lack of people posting their achievements suggests you're not alone.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:56 No.626238
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>The Assumption: Hate a book you've never attempted to read.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:57 No.626239
Hipster Tier: I read a Bukowski book in under a month once. I reread it later in the same amount of time. And get this: The second time through I didn't even puke or get mad at how bad of a writer he was.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:57 No.626240
>>626238
Yeah, I assumed that would nab almost all of /lit/. Either Ayn Rand or Twilight or something along those lines.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:58 No.626244
>>626234
ive been posting a few but I have to look around the room to find more things to come up with.

also
Darksider: wrote a fanfic. (more like an anti-achievement)
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:58 No.626248
Speed Reader: Read an entire book in one day.
Double Down: Read two different books in one day.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:58 No.626250
>>626129
>>>/co/16493196
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)19:59 No.626255
The Contributor: Have a novel that your wrote successfully published

Iamb is an Iamb: Write a sonnet completely in iambic pentameter

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee: Read the complete words of Shakespeare.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:00 No.626259
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>The Monocle And Top Hat: Only read books written over 100 years ago.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:02 No.626270
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>>626218
>Again and again
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:02 No.626273
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>Sit Tight: Pay more than $1000 for a reading armchair.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:03 No.626281
>>626273

>Faggot Tier: Posting a thumbnail.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:03 No.626283
>>626255
Trochee is a Trochee: Write a poem in trochaic tetrameter
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:04 No.626285
The Dragon Dancer: Dedicate your life to a book that will never be finished.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:05 No.626290
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>This is Addicting: Your book collection habit is forcing you to eat ramen frequently.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:06 No.626297
>>626281

Just standardizing them at a manageable size so they can easily be tiled into a single large pic with all the achievements.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:06 No.626300
>>626290

Way to post another thumbnail you cunt.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:07 No.626308
>>626290
see >>626281
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:08 No.626314
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>The Sniffer- you like to smell books; especially when no one is looking.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:09 No.626317
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>>626151
how do you turn this thing on: read 30+ ebooks
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:09 No.626320
>>626300

chill bro
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:09 No.626322
Osmosis: For whatever reason, sleep with a book under your pillow once.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:09 No.626324
>>626281
>>626300
>>626308
see
>>626297

You need to think ahead.
>> Orhan !3VNuRGq.ek 5/03/10(Mon)20:09 < No.626327
>>626314
i lold

good job anon
>> Orhan !3VNuRGq.ek 5/03/10(Mon)20:10 < No.626332
Unlocked:

Second Best
The Grand
The Collector
An Apple a Week
Fanatic
Under the Bell Jar
Small Steps

The Talker
This is Addicting
Mo' money' Mo problems
The Sniffer

The Basementdweller
The Hipster
The Hivemind
A hole in one
Never Doing That Again
Reading Pals
Bookworm
5 Under 35
FUCKING BORDERS!
Garage Sailor

The Kindred Spirit
The Undistracted
Grand And A Half:
The Distracted
How Do You Turn This Thing On
The Idealist
again and again
Speed Reader
Double Down
Turned my life around
Osmosis
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:12 No.626341
The Serial Killer: Read "The Catcher In The Rye" and "A Clockwork Orange" and genuinely find them to be your favorite books of all time.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:13 No.626350
The Double-Metro Insert: have two hardback copies of the same book from the same printing year; book must be from prior to 1970.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:14 No.626354
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>>625782
> I am Dr. Kashmir: Contribute 7 pieces to ZWG
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:15 No.626358
I think I got 5 under 35 when I read the Deltora Quest in like 3rd grade when I bought each one the week it came out.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:18 No.626362
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>Questionable Advice: Read twelve books featured in Oprah's Book Club
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:20 No.626367
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>MANLY MOTHERFUCKER: Read the following: The Red Badge of Courage, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, The Call of the Wild, The Iliad and the Odyssey, The Road, Hamlet, and any three books by Hemmingway.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:20 No.626372
>>626362
can she even read? I mean with her whole 'BAWWWWW I GREW UP IN AN IMPOVERISHED BLACK NEIGHBOURHOOD AND GOT RAPED BY A PENIS' story? Or perhaps that's all bullshit.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:21 No.626375
Enemy of anon: read any L. Ron Hubbard book.
(dont have. dont want.)
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:22 No.626378
>>626367

>implying Hamlet is manly
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:22 No.626380
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>Paris PoMo: Read at least one book by each of the following authors: Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:24 No.626387
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>From Russia With Love: Read one by each of by the following: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Ivanov, Lermontov Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:25 No.626394
I hope someone is making a graphic/Bingo chart for these things.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:26 No.626397
The Grand: Finish a book that is over 1000 pages long.
Grand And A Half: Read a work that is 1500 pages or longer.
An Apple A Week: Read 52 books in a single calendar year.
Zealot: Read the entire oeuvre of an author who has published more than three novels.
Under the Bell Jar: Read five books written by female authors.
This Is Addicting: Your book collection habit is forcing you to eat ramen frequently.
Hobby Confused: Read three or more novels based off of a popular video game.
The Evangelist: Convince a hater that books are not gay, but are actually enjoyable.
The Good /lit/izen: Don't buy books, just use the library.
A Hole In One: Read a complete book of length more than 300 pages in one sitting.
Never Doing That Again: Lend a book. The borrower never returns it.
Dog Pound: Leave dogear tabs in 100 books.
Bookworm: Have over twenty images of books, libraries, bookshelves, etc. saved to your harddrive.
5 Under 35: Read five books written in the last ten years.
Fucking Borders!: The Borders you just went to didn't have any of the books you were looking for.
Garage Sailor: Obtain a used book for <10% of what it would have cost at a chain book store.
Turned My Life Around: /lit/ reminded you how great reading can be.
The Undistracted: Continue reading a book while going to the bathroom.
The Dedicated: Continue reading a book while using a urinal.
Mile-Wide Attention Span: Successfully read two different books at the same time.
The Distracted: Have at least 15 books in your to-read list.
What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: Read 7 works by Tom Clancy
The Idealist: Refused to dislike a book until you attempted to read it.
The Assumption: Hate a book you've never attempted to read.
Again and Again: read a book until you know the plot by heart.
Darksider: Wrote a fanfic.
Speed Reader: Read an entire book in one day.
Double Down: Read two different books in one day.
Osmosis: For whatever reason, sleep with a book under your pillow once.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:27 No.626399
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>mo money mo problems: have over 50 books unread that you've purchased
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:27 No.626407
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>Religious Zealotry
>Scholar's Shelf
>A hole in one
>The Undistracted
>Speed Reader
>again and again
>Love is my Craft
>Never Doing That Again
>Bookworm
>How Do You Turn This Thing On
>FUCKING BORDERS!
>The Kindred Spirit
>Double Down

Awww yeah!
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:28 No.626408
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>The Hipster: Read the books /lit/ talks about

Going to sleep now..if someone would collect the latest achievements into a new textfile/pastebin it would be pretty sweet.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:29 No.626410
/b/tard - Read Lolita, American Psycho, 120 Days of Sodom. Fap to all three.

Linguist - Read Kafka in German, Dostoyevski in Russian, Les Miserables in French

Sadist - Read Finnegans Wake, with no spark notes or any such analysis
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:38 No.626445
Is This Real Life?: Read only non-fiction for one year.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:40 No.626456
Just Want to Fit In: consciously hold your books with the title facing inward as you walk.

Check Me Out: Consciously hold you books with the title facing outward as you walk.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:44 No.626473
Small Steps
The Talker
Classic SyFy:
The Hivemind:
The Evangelist
A hole in one
Blast from the Past
The Horrorshow chelloveck/devotchka
Never Doing That Again:
A Hitchhiker through and through.
Reading Pals
5 Under 35:
FUCKING BORDERS!:
Garage Sailor:
Turned my life around
The Kindred Spirit
The Undistracted
Mile-Wide Attention Span
The Assumption
again and again
Osmosis:
The Serial Killer
Is This Real Life?


More than I thought I'd have
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:51 No.626513
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> The Sniffer-

> Osmosis:

> Again and Again:

> Garage Sailor:

> The Distracted:

> Fucking Borders!:

> Speed Reader:

> Check Me Out:
>> Group is against porn for women Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:53 No.626522
>>626445
Or is this just fantasy: Read The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings / The Silmarillion all by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, Anansi Boys / American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)20:54 No.626529
Timeline Traveller: Read the Silmarillion, the Hobbit and then the Lord of the Rings trilogy in order.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:03 No.626568
What the Fuck am I Reading?: Read a choose your own adventure book like a normal book
>> ThumbsUpWhatsUp !1eEiO51inQ 5/03/10(Mon)21:03 < No.626569
Well, it's been fun. Looking forward to seeing these in one list.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:04 No.626575
>>626568
That is hilariously difficult (but not impossible) to follow. I did it once.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:20 No.626669
certified il/lit/erate: don't read books, too busy reading /lit/.
Justin Bieber: Never read a work of fiction or nonfiction originally written in German. see below for sauce.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKqihEUmH4&feature=player_embedded
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:25 No.626696
Humbert is a Monster: Do not smirk at any joke or word-play in Lolita
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:29 No.626718
Screw Biology, I have Literature: As a child, you frequently read well after bedtime, in the dark.

American Education: You got in trouble in school for reading too much.

Done both.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:30 No.626728
Too Deep for You: Attempt to discuss deeper meanings of books with others

ADMIT IT, YOU'VE DONE THIS
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:30 No.626731
>>626669
I will kill this child.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:41 No.626788
>>626731
Get in line. I raged.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:57 No.626901
Have You Heard?: Read and discuss a widely known book without knowing it is widely known.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:58 No.626908
That's it?: Read an abridged book without realizing it is abridged.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:58 No.626909
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>>626788
Deutch Rage!
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)21:59 No.626914
>>625530
HttP://@+.Kimm0à.se/
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)22:03 No.626928
>>626908
I've done that before. I was a kid at the time, though, so.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)22:04 No.626933
The Completionist: Read the intro to books.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)22:04 No.626937
>>626933
Always.
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)22:05 No.626938
Fukken Saved!
>> Anonymous 05/03/10(Mon)22:07 No.626952
>>625531
H t t p : / / A T . k i m m

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