What do you read for fun Yea Forums?

Emil Cioran

Movies are actually a thousand times more boring than books are.
>Ooga booga sitting and staring in 1 direction for 2 hours is fun!

Pulp stories with Robert McGinnis artwork on the cover

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Everything except middle-aged housewife erotica and self-help

Yeats really relaxes me especially when everything seems to be going poorly

Borges
Dostoevsky
Maupassant

Religious and mystical texts.

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any recommendations?

I came here to post this.

Evola and Agrippa

Modern philosophy, a little math here and there.

>a little math

what typa math? elaborate negro

Don't you sit and stare in one direction for an even greater number of hours for each book you read?

Based retard

>Everything
>Anything
~Jane Austen

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>Maupassant
His short stories are amazing.

read the sprawl trilogy recently

Lately, historical mathematical documents/texts, nothing too sexy. History of math especially is a big personal interest. My "history of math" section is large enough that I've started branching it off from the "proper" math (an undergrad education).

I have the following, have read almost none of it but it's available to peruse in hard copy whenever I'm inclined: Six volumes of Bourbaki, a short text on the Rhind Papyrus, a major personal interest, Descartes' Geometry, Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (requested from parents for last birthday), Whitehead/Russell's Principia Mathematica (first edition) plus personal scans of the second-edition only contents from my alma mater's second edition copy (so I have the entire thing), Russell's IMP (Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy), Fibonacci's Liber Abaci (the historical document which promotes Arabic/Indian numerals 012345 in the West, also contains the literal "rabbit" story problem which kicks off the Fibonacci sequence itself and another story problem closely related to Rhind Papyrus), Lewis Carroll: Euclid and his modern rivals, Cardano, Ars Magna, Games of Chance and an autobiography I found the other day, Sierpinski, Pythagorean Triangles (elementary mathematics on Pythagorean triples related to the notion of an Euler Brick, I got part way through this slim one at one point). I've also collected a personal hard copy of the complete professional mathematical work of Ted Kaczynski; he tossed-off one very short paper on number theory unrelated to his more "serious" analytical work, which considers digits of numbers. This note turns out to be closely related to a "trivial" problem selected by Hardy in his Mathematician's Apology (I have that slim one too) which he cites as an example of uninteresting mathematics: show that 1089 and 2178 are the only 4-digit numbers which, when multiplied by appropriate integers (9 and 4) yield their digit reversals.

I've been hung up on the frontispiece of Heath's Euclid and haven't done anything with it for a few months-I want to do an exegesis on that, "because it's there" before doing anything more. Basically it illustrates a roughly millennium-old codex manuscript of a particular theorem, so the idea is to do a transcription, transliteration etc of the idiosyncratic Greek of the page, which is available online. Pic related is one working state from my notes.

based

I get up, walk around, meditate on whatever I just read, then sit back down. Reading requires more active attention than movies which are a passive experience and the majority of movies really aren't worth the time.

I read for meaning but I figured out all the answers so I dont read, in fact i don't do a whole lot with my fun so i mostly just stare into space and listen to shitty pop music

Pic related is the working state spoken of earlier. the red-boxed items are specific geometric figures spoken of in (this codex's rendering of) Euclid: circle "ABC", line "DE" (or whatever it actually is), etc. This particular enunciation of figures over the course of the proof turns out to exactly match Heath's modern English update, which is expected but also gratifying to see and learn in person, relative to an older edition.

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>so i mostly just stare into space and listen to shitty pop music
Holy shit I thought I couldn't imagine a life more depressing than mine.

I'd recommend: The Gospel of Thomas, Tao Te Ching, to anyone.

Moby Dick

>>Ooga booga sitting
damn those negros and their sitting down

Are there seriously people who read something even if it isn't fun? Difficult books can be fun too.

What you're doing is very cool, user. I've had some interest in reading up on the history of math as well but I've been concerned that it may further impair my already diminished math, confusing me with archaic approaches. Do you feel that this ever happens to you?

Whatever I happen to be reading.

Kurt Vinnegut

*Vonnegut

Almost anything I read I also read for fun, expect for very factual nonfiction, like that history of torture in democratic states I recently finished that had lengthy enumerations of all known forms of nonscarring torture used in the 20th century.

This means I consider even philosophical treatise to be a fun read, if you take them with the right approach.

I'm jealous of you now. Are you still studying maths.

Shitposts

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Whatever you find too difficult to enjoy because I'm much smarter than you

Books

Gravity's Rainbow

Tauler, Eckehart, Theresa von Avila, Johannes vom Kreuz, Ignatius von Loyola, Romano Guardini

Horror and military sci-fi.
I don't read for purposes other than fun though.

books about motorsport

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garbage

That's so picaresque

>He doesn't write erotica to get some extra cash
It's simple af, you just follow the template:
>Lonely cool wine aunt who moves to another place
>Gigachad male characters who are billionaire no matter if they are the gardener
>all of them are over her tiddies
>She ends up with a gigachad doctor
>End

I have a bachelor's in pure math (+history/philosophy minors), so I know my "real", modern phrasing from the old, confusing and archaic. This helps me to navigate the clunky and inefficient usages which were peculiar to old documents.

Another example of clunky/needlessly complicated steps in old math: in the 16th century, Cardano worked on a general solution for the cubic equation, using one specific solution confided to him by Tartaglia as his starting point. Cardano did not conceive of the modern polynomial notation, which runs thus:

ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d = 0

Rather, for him, he was obliged to divide the thing into several cases, e.g.

ax^3 + cx = d
ax^3 = bx^2 +cx

Where each possibility of moving terms around represented (for him) a materially distinct situation. So he identified all of them, and did the solution for each, thus solving the cubic-as-such. When you understand this, it begs the question of a little counting argument: find a formula to represent the number of all such "distinct" possible cases as Cardano (inefficiently) used. It's some finite series thing involving combinations and a few other terms, I may have it written down somewhere (teased at right in pic related) but I'd just re-derive it/revisit if I take this back up later.

Not much, lately, I've had a project of reading philosophy lately. As I said, lots of the math-stuff is stalled out atm.

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>he wants to have fun
c & bp

What do you do for a living?

Same as this guy basically. Also shit-tier fiction like LNs if I can't muster up the will to start something decent, but don't want to engage in pleb media consumption.

Sci fi

grocery store manager.

I got his short stories on my backlog. I should add that one too.

I read for the feeling too.
When you see a character suffering and you stay there because it got you. You aren't having fun, but you keep going.

That's a good reason for reading too. I don't often get too emotional with books, but it can happen depending on the story and on how it is written. What's the last book that you've read that made you sad, user?

One Hundred Years of Solitude. The death of a character and the suffering of another, plus the whole "alone even around people" feeling the book gives, hits me really hard.

Do you stand and jerk your head around when reading?

I felt the same when reading that book too.

>Picaresque novels and postmodern shit
Give me a list.

This but seriously

Sci fy is unironically the smartest and most entertaining genre of books

Anti-Oedipus