/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17443644]

Post what you're reading now and what you'll be reading after

Now:
Thomas Bradwardine - Speculative Geometry
Jacob Marschak - Economic Information, Decision, and Prediction vol. III
Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Jeremy Bentham - Economic Writings Vol. III
Aristotle - Physics

After:
Thomas Bradwardine - Speculative Arithmetic
Gerard Debreu - Mathematical Economics
Galileo Galilei - Two New Sciences
John Stuart Mill - A System of Logic
Aristotle - Secretum Secretorum

[Anonymous No.17443649]

you read 5 books at once? lol

[Anonymous No.17443677]

>>17443649
Yes except where income limits me. I literally don't have enough money to buy all the books I need right now, which isn't as sad as you think it is: sometimes the books I need cost upwards of $300.

[Anonymous No.17443733]

>>17443677
i hope you shit you aren't buying college textbooks for recreational purposes. anyway you can find all that stuff online. ebooks

[Anonymous No.17443754]

>>17443733
I'm not in college :3

[Anonymous No.17443764]

>>17443754
so you're buying college textbooks for fun.. lol. newsflash, those things are a grift, and they're only as expensive as they are because they are required for the courses. you can get that information from a variety of different sources, including those same sources for free if you look hard enough. paying 300 dollars for a book you don't have to is honestly just silly.

[Anonymous No.17443786]

now:
daisy johnson - everything under
james joyce - dubliners
neil gaiman - absolute sandman volume 2
after
david mitchell - the bone clocks
james joyce - the portrait of an artist as a young man
alan moore - swamp thing 2nd trade paperback

[Anonymous No.17443818]

Now:
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Art Spieglman - Maus

After:
Johan Huizinga - The Autumn of the Middle Ages

[Anonymous No.17443845]

>>17443786
You read 6 books at once? How long does it take?

[Anonymous No.17443870]

>>17443644
Now:
Fooled by Randomness

After:
The Black Swan

[Anonymous No.17443891]

>>17443644
>Now
The Corporation - T.J. English

>Next
Either Murphy, A Confederacy of Dunces or King Henry V, idk yet

[Anonymous No.17444130]

>>17443764
None of those listed are textbooks, ignoramus
>>17443845
It's five.

[Anonymous No.17444165]

>>17444130
>None of those listed are textbooks, ignoramus
they're course required reading, whatever. there is no fucking 300 dollar book that isn't part of a curriculum.
>inb4 some collectible

[Anonymous No.17444264]

>>17444165
>there is no fucking 300 dollar book that isn't part of a curriculum.
There is a bridge between 'collectible books' and casual reading, you ignoramus. Obviously collectible books were once casual reading.

With older books that are out of print, they cost 300 for a physical copy sometimes, and who cares if they're online, since reading in real life is so much better anyway.

[Anonymous No.17444275]

>>17444264
>and who cares if they're online, since reading in real life is so much better anyway.
obviously, but everything has a price. i think 300 dollars is insane. you could buy several ereaders for that

[Anonymous No.17444663]

Now:
Aristotle - Politics
After:
Cicero - On Obligations

[Anonymous No.17444682]

>>17443786
>Dubliners
Patrician choice.

[Anonymous No.17444710]

>>17444275
Well, you're a child. 300 dollars is not that much money if you have a salaried job.

[Anonymous No.17444911]

>>17444710
there's no excuse to be wanton with money.

[Anonymous No.17445087]

>>17444710
>I literally don't have enough money to buy all the books I need right now
>300 dollars is not that much money
>I literally don't have enough money

[Anonymous No.17445103]

>>17443644
only walden rn

[Anonymous No.17445138]

>>17445087
>>17445087
I have been in different states of income and wealth, throughout my life.

That's actually how life can be.

>>17444911
If you don't want to have a good time, that is.

[Anonymous No.17445950]

>>17443644
>>17443786
>>17443818
Seeing that you read more than one book at a time has left me with a question. Do you read more than one book a day or do you alternate between books?

[Anonymous No.17445968]

>>17445950
Not any of them but I also read multiple books at once. 90% of the time I will read a decent amount from each book every day. I find that if I am not getting to a book at least 5 or 6 days a week then I begin to lose grasp on it and it becomes a less enjoyable experience.

[Anonymous No.17445997]

>>17443764
There are plenty of books that are very expensive that are worth reading. Don't denigrate authors because of greedy publishers.

[Anonymous No.17446019]

>>17443644
Now:
I started reading Thinner but I tapered off from it for the moment. I read three whole books in just a week before starting Thinner, my first time reading a book in a while. It's good to see i'm still a fast reader.

After:
I'll probably sink my hooks into Shadowfires by Dean Koontz. I think i'll do a binge into his novels later this year

[Anonymous No.17446428]

arabian nights

[Anonymous No.17446598]

Now
Dance dance dance - Haruki Murakami
Life itself - Robert Rosen
After
Stoner - John Williams
The Japanese discovery of Europe - Donald Keene

[Anonymous No.17447103]

>>17443644

Now
Sexual Desire by Roger Scruton
A Guide for the Perplexed by E.F. Schumacher
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

After
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Quantum Philosophy by Roland Omnès

[Anonymous No.17447329]

Now:
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

After:
Querelle of Bresby Jean Genet

[Anonymous No.17447341]

>>17443644
now: some essays by evola and leviathan and it's enemies
afterwards: something by natsume soseki, don't know if i should start with i am a cat or kokoro.

[Anonymous No.17447533]

>>17447103
Sauce