/lit/ - Literature

For me, it's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Two books simultaneously:
- Melmoth the Wanderer by Maturin
- Collections of short stories by Borges

>>15281372
The homosexual science by Nietzsche

The North Water

>>15281377
Lmao wtf I'm on the same. Are you me

>>15281414
I'm half way through, it's like I'm living in a psychadelic dream

>>15281372
The Brooklyn Follies. Someone left a copy of it in my bf's hallway, and as Carola made me lose my job, I'm picking through the few books on my shelf I haven't yet read. It's actually quite nice. It's easy to read and very domestic in what it tells.

>>15281372
The Name of the Rose

>>15281448
I only started yesterday, taking it slow. Funnier than I thought it would be

>>15281479
Can you please show us your vagina?

Going to read I have no mouth and I must scream and then I'll start reading The Master Game. I'll also begin American Psycho tomorrow

>>15281372

Soon done with Fahrenheit 451. It's pretty good.

>>15281372
The Tommyknockers

Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel
Remains of the Day, Ishiguro
Girl with Weird Hair, DFW
Conquest of Bread, Kropotkin

Feel like four books may be too many, especially when one is the Phenomenology, but I can't help myself. Quarantine helps.

Currently:
Opus Majus - Roger Bacon
Anatol Rapoport - Conflict in Man-Made Environment
Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Jeremy Bentham - Economic Writings vol. 1 (Manual of Political Economy)
Aristotle - Sophistical Elenchi

After:
Thomas Bradwardine - Speculative Geometry
Jacob Marschak - Economics, Information, Decision, and Prediction
Galileo Galilei - Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
John Stuart Mill - A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive
Porphyry - Introduction to Aristotle's Categories

:3

>>15281372
Moby Dick - Herman Melville

I'd read it in middle school but ended up skimming it once the chapters about whale science started. Figured the /lit/ read along was good enough reason to go back to it and properly finish it.

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville

Convinced my wife to read and discuss a book together and let her pick first. Pretty good so far.

>>15281372
A Critique of Pure Reason and The Prince of Milk

>>15281666
>A Critique of Pure Reason
Interesting

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
And also The Long List Anthology (vol 1)

Swann's Way and Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill.

>>15281699
very interesting, but my wpm must be double digits reading it

>>15281640

why, for what purpose/end?

>>15281735
Many different purposes and ends in life, my friend.

To expand my knowledge of the world is one. We are always learning, from the moment we are born until we die. There is so much to know.

I really only spend about one hour reading every day though, just FYI. Don't waste your life reading either ! :3

>>15281735
>>15281765

But yeah, my main interests are

1. Mathematics
2. Economics
3. Astrology/Astrophysics/Physics
4. Great English/American writers
5. Epistemology

>>15281765
>>15281735
>>15281780

no, i mean: why that particular grouping? is there some overarching project at stake?
it's really just general interest? seems too specific.

>>15281798
Yeah, it's me being interested in learning more about those five things. The five chains of books are sort of related, I'm trying to continue chronologically somewhat.

The main interests are all separate, but sometimes I do try to plan it so that what I'm reading at the same time is related. It's more fun that way.

It's all done purposefully, including planning my time so I'm not wasting too much of it reading.

>>15281780
>Astrology/Astrophysics/Physics
one of those is not like the others

>>15281816
You would be surprised, my friend. After all, Ptolemy wrote the Almagest AND Tetrabiblios, one is concerned with the physical phenomena, the other with the spiritual.

Only until recently were these really divided. I'm also interested in this division and why it occurred. I'm not a fan in your mentality, for instance.

>>15281780
>Epistemology
did his death interest you that much anon?

>>15281562
Sure, pic related.

>>15281372
The Heart of Hebrew History
Basically a book examining the old testament and putting it in the context of historircal events at the time while examining the Bible with a strict literal interpretation of the reading as opposed to some weird
>Well actually it's a metaphor for x
Its a bit dated at points but I dont mind it

>>15281765
>>15281640
What do you do when you're not reading?

>>15281813
>>15281765

why have you mentioned "two much time reading" twice now? this seems a weird point for you.
it doesn't seem like you're a super big reader, anyway--just random interests here and there.

>>15282242
Sleep

>>15282242
>>15282521
I work, chill with my gf, and play Halo.

>>15282333
I mean, I'm a fairly large reader, I have read quite a lot in my life. My goal on Goodreads for this year is 30, and those are non-fiction books, not light reads.

>>15281372
Because of all my downtime, I am reading a lot of historical fiction. I'm rereading Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin series and reading Flashman for the first time.

>>15281372
Self Insert fanfiction

>>15281780
>Economics
>Epistemology
Any suggestions for someone who is interested in these topics but doesn't have that much experience exploring the subject? I have more experiencing with epistemology after reading a lot of Piaget, but that's about it.

>>15281372
Still plodding along.

bump

The magic mountain
Very comfy and suprisingly relevant to lockdown life

>>15281372
Got an advanced reading copy of Charlie Kaufman's Antkind that I'm about 300 pages into and I'm loving it so far. It drops in July and I think lit is gonna have a lot to say about it when it comes out.

Additionally I'm reading Libra by DeLillo but in prob not gonna give it my full attention until I finish Antkind

>>15281372
Poetic Edda

Kim by Rudyard Kipling. Just chose a book on my shelf I haven't read yet at random.

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