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10956731 No.10956731 [Reply] [Original]

Just recommend me a fiction book that will rekindle my motivation for reading books. I now see reading as work you have to do to keep up with the pseuds.

>> No.10956739

>>10956731
Youth in Revolt. It's a romp.

>> No.10956742
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10956742

try out something from my handy new chart

>> No.10956745

>>10956731
read short stories, get a chekov collection
a lot of them are only ~4 pages and you can finish it in a few minutes and think about the story while you eat breakfast

>> No.10956746

>>10956742

I've already read 4 and given up on 2

>> No.10956774

>>10956746
still leaves 12 to pick from, by my count

>> No.10956780

>>10956774

It looks like "slightly off the beaten track edgy stuff that people pretend is incredible but is obviously worse than mainstream"-core

>> No.10956783

>>10956780

Just to add: People pretend to like this stuff a lot because you can get the pseud cred (such as liking m&d and Pynchon) without the intellectual pressure of having to "successfully analyse" the book (e.g., Gravity's rainbow) because the academics haven't paid much attention to it.

>> No.10956904

>>10956783
I made the chart I can talk about any of the books in depth. Also I don't appreciate your condescending tone, I am trying to help.

>> No.10957099

>>10956742
>Sinuhe
based.

>> No.10957122

>>10956731
The Mezzanine, short, entertaining, made me reconsider suicide

>>10956745
This is a good option too

>> No.10957127

Don't ever actually read what /lit/ recommends. I've been burnt way too many times.

>> No.10957136

>>10956731
Londonfrog, is that you? Where's the long-winded copypasta?

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>>10957127

>> No.10957181

>>10956731
1Q84
Neuromancer
Anything by PKD

>> No.10957197

>>10957181
OP said he wanted to rekindle his love of reading not suicide it into the fucking Pacific

>> No.10957212

>>10957197
>suicide it into the fucking Pacific
Elaborate

>> No.10957496
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>>10956731
Any Discworld novel because you'd might as well give up on caring what pseuds think.

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10957594

Just get something easy to read(and good) to get back in the habit. Not every book has to be an aruduous task.

>> No.10957692

>>10956731
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

>> No.10957699

>>10956742
Possibly the worst chart I've ever seen in the past thousand years of my existence.

>> No.10957813

Try reading the count of monte cristo if you haven't. It's long but its a very easy read and very fun.

>> No.10957880

>>10956904
Why is Robert Penn Warren evidently sooooo pissed off at Huey Long? Was Long really *that* bad?

Also, why Warren's turn from Southern trad (circa his John Brown book) to whatever he morphed into?

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>>10957880
I really don't think it was a character assassination piece, if anything I felt it was rather sympathetic. Warren writes "The Boss" as someone capable, intelligent, and compassionate but over-reaching and flawed. As to your second question I think it's answered in the novel quite well by the description of the highway - it's shiny and too clean and straight and if a car crashed there is still gonna be some form of indentured servant around to witness it.
>>10957699
it is a bit hideous, isn't it? it's not even the final form though so calm yer vampire tittays