/lit/ - Literature

>>6234463
Start with the Greeks.

>>6234463
Welcome friend! Tell us about some of your interests and we'll try recommending some books to you, if that's what you're looking for. Otherwise, you'll find that there indeed are some threads about maths and philosophy and tech stuff (admittedly, I'm fucking ignorant) in here.

>>6234471
>Tell us about some of your interests and we'll try recommending some books to you, if that's what you're looking for.
Well, computing. I'm getting done reading an ANSI standard right now.
>Otherwise, you'll find that there indeed are some threads about maths and philosophy and tech stuff (admittedly, I'm fucking ignorant) in here.
I forgot to check the catalog first. I apologize for that.

>>6234463
Maybe some hard sci fi or something? Not my area of expertise, but you might like Philip K. Dick or Ian Banks.

>>6234481
Out of curiosity, what's ANSI?

>>6234463
That sounds like a horribly sad existence, but that's just from my perspective.

If following your way through logic is your thing, maybe you could start with analytic philosophy (normally this is the last thing I'd suggest to a newcomer, but I think you're a special case).

But for fiction, maybe Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson or something like it? It focuses very heavily on CS and is a great read, but I'd like to get some others' opinions first.

>>6234463

Try some analytical philosophy, you might get a kick out of modal logic

>>6234492
Not OP, but it's the American National Standards Institute

>>6234492
The American National Standards Institute.

The programming language I use has an official ANSI standard totalling more than 1000 pages.

>>6234493
>That sounds like a horribly sad existence, but that's just from my perspective.
I've thought the same. I can't really justify reading fiction longer than greentext.
>If following your way through logic is your thing, maybe you could start with analytic philosophy (normally this is the last thing I'd suggest to a newcomer, but I think you're a special case).
I've never heard of that. I'll look into it.
Does it have a thread here?
>But for fiction, maybe Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson or something like it? It focuses very heavily on CS and is a great read, but I'd like to get some others' opinions first.
Thank you, but I'm not looking for fiction advice.
>>6234496
It sounds neat.

>>6234501
Cool, thanks!

>>6234496
>>6234493
These, OP
You'd get a kick out of Hegel once you get to him.

>>6234493
>That sounds like a horribly sad existence, but that's just from my perspective.
Why do you say that? Just curious what you're thinking is. I actually think he has a pretty interesting hobby there.

I'm sort of the same way with texts on economics, although I don't think I'm quiet as hardcore as he is.

>>6234503
>It sounds neat.

It very much is -- if you're able to dabble in Prolog at all, I believe there's a modal library (or ten or hundred -- but at least one official one I believe) that extends its operators to all of contemporary modal logic accordingly.

>>6234510
I have not yet learned Prolog. It is on my list of languages to learn though.

>>6234503
>>6234508
Okay, I mean it would be horribly sad if I were in his position. But I'm not. So it isn't.

>>6234463
1. Quit starting threads you suck.
2. If you like non-fiction read social science works, they manage to keep me interested and educated. I suggest guns germs and steel or something similar.
3. Since you don't read much fiction don't go get a Shakespeare collection, pick up GoT or harry potter; anything light really. It will remind you of the joy or reading novels.

>>6234535
>1. Quit starting threads you suck.
I'm better at this on /g/.
>2. If you like non-fiction read social science works, they manage to keep me interested and educated. I suggest guns germs and steel or something similar.
Interesting.
>3. Since you don't read much fiction don't go get a Shakespeare collection, pick up GoT or harry potter; anything light really. It will remind you of the joy or reading novels.
I finished Harry Potter several years ago and I already have a collection of all of Shakespeare's works that I've barely touched.

You might like flatland. It's a story about geometry... and love. .

http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/
You might also check out this guy. I'd recommend the short story As Above So Below, it's about the Mandelbrot set

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>>6234535
1. Learn to actually read the OP and the rest of the thread before responding
2. Never mind, just fuck off to /b/ you illiterate, mouth-breathing, self a aggrandizing cunt
3. ???
4. /lit/ profits

>>6234542
The point is to read something that is gonna get you back in to the habit of engrossment rather than analysis.
>>6234552
Jeez man, what's eating you? I wasn't replying to the thread btw, just the op. Douche.

>>6234608
>The point is to read something that is gonna get you back in to the habit of engrossment rather than analysis.
Would you explain to me why you think this is necessary?
I just read biographies because they feel like fiction in comparison.

>>6234619
I said that wrong. basically to remind you of the awesomeness that is reading fiction.

>>6234690
I guess I could try.

Would you recommend which Shakespeare play I should read?

>>6234696
I wouldn't try to get into fiction by starting with Shakespeare - it's like starting with a fitness program and immediately jumping into a harsh workout, most people will just drop it immediately... especially since Shakespeare's English isn't the easiest

Try Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, or Solaris

>>6234700
It's not like I've never read Shakespeare plays before.

I've already read the usual Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Twelfth Night a while ago.

>>6234718
Well go right ahead and do what you do.

>>6234552
Nothing's eating me, but I'm eating your mum, fuccboi.

No but seriously, you came across as a douche in your post and no, you were not responding to OP. He did not ask for any recs, but merely asked whether there was anything on this board for someone with his interests. Is English your first language?