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How do I into reading?

>> No.12667863
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12667863

>>12667857
Start with short stories.

>> No.12668047

>>12667863
Such as?

>> No.12668087

1: Find a book
2: Read it

>> No.12668089

>>12668047
How about some of Raymond Carver’s works?
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/raymond-carver

>> No.12668116

>>12667857
Start with Gravity's Rainbow or The Pale King

>> No.12668121

Short, simple novels are a good place to start.
>Of Mice and Man
>Old Man and the Sea
>Animal Farm/1984
>Lord of the Flies
these are all books i read in English class in high school, so they shouldn't be challenging to read.

>> No.12668131

>>12668047
culture of critique

>> No.12668142

>>12668116
Horrible suggestions

>> No.12668171

>>12667857
You just pick up a book and read it, that’s all there is to it.

>> No.12668276

>>12668121
ignore those read Macbeth

>> No.12668296

>>12668276
Macbeth is also in the same curriculum, but might be challenging to read when starting off from the style of English.
still worthwhile to read, but i wouldn't start off with it.

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>>12668296
I meant McGruff

>> No.12668328

>>12668276
Unless you plan on becoming a playwright yourself, why read plays? They're meant to be performed.

>> No.12668387

>>12668328
but the vocabulary, prose and stories can stand on their own.
i tried to compare a play to a film script, but the latter is much more visual than a play.

>> No.12668820

Read something fun, I started with mistborne the final empire
Also I find reading harder as I get older with work and social life, and have recently gotten in to audio books.
And fuck nigs who say actually reading the words instead of taking in the information is what matters

>> No.12668829

1: Read books you like.
2: Have a scheduled reading time, I read roughly half an hour before going to sleep, more than that if I have time.

>> No.12668865

>>12667863
That's a beautiful gif.

>> No.12668874

>>12668142
Faggot.

>> No.12669141

>>12667857
Start with the Greeks

>> No.12669577

>>12668121
These and also unironically Stoner

>> No.12670885

>>12668328

I wasn't big on Shakespeare in high school until my English teacher gave us an assignment to help us interpret it. We read the play, and then we watch the movie adaptation, and then we read it again. Really helped. I started doing it with other plays until I felt comfortable just watching them by themselves.

>> No.12671526

>>12668121
this.
we should make stater pack for people like OP

>> No.12671576

>>12669577
Stoner seems like a good book to read both at the beginning of your intellectual life and again when you are a very old man

>> No.12671768

>>12671526
Imagine being this new