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Hey /lit/ can you give me some book beginner book recommendations? Playing Vidya and watching anime are getting boring

>> No.15474840
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15474840

>>15474826
What kind of stories do you like?

One of my favorite books is No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, but while a fairly easy read in English translation, it is also quite dark. So it may or may not be something I would recommend.

>> No.15474848

>>15474840
Anything would do anon

>> No.15474850

>>15474826
Dune or clockwork orange

>> No.15474852

read the sticky before making a thread

Recommended Literature
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

>> No.15474867

>>15474852
I just did but I don’t know here to start that’s why I just made this thread

>> No.15474924

>>15474867
pick any book on those charts, find the book, read the book, discuss the book

not that hard.

>> No.15474970

>>15474924
I know anon but I’m afraid that I’m too much of a brainlet to understand them

>> No.15474985

>>15474970
You'll know, you can switch to a different one.

Maybe try someone with short stories like Kafka or something that's easy to digest like Hemingway

>> No.15474990

>>15474867
The Stranger, Crime and Punishment, Lolita

>> No.15475020

>>15474985
I agree. Old Man and the Fish is a great beginner literary book.

>> No.15475053

>>15475020
Old man and the sea.

>> No.15475102

>>15474990
I tried reading crime and punishment but I stopped since the names confuses me

>> No.15475128

>>15474970
>>15474867
>>15474826
If you're like me and wasted your formative years on video games and now have trouble concentrating, I'd recommend reading some short-ish novels or short story collections to get back into the swing of things.

I read a lot of Philip K. Dick (Androids, A Scanner Darkly, Ubik etc.) and that helped a lot. Then I went back to all the normie highschool lit like Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye.

After that I was pretty comfortable reading again so I Started With The Greeks™

Hope this helps

>> No.15475468

>>15475128
Thanks for help anon

>> No.15475496

>>15474970
the recommended starter kit is for brainlets.

>> No.15476067

>>15474826
Read exciting trash to start and remember why you loved reading as a kid. You did love reading as a kid, didn't you? Check out the Altered Carbon books. I haven't seen it but assume the Netflix adaption is trash, just read the books. It's pretty much just a violent and sexy romp, no literary value whatsoever but will warm up your reading muscles. Then read Iliad and Odyssey.

>> No.15476082

The Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings