Book suggestions?

[Anonymous No.12562859]

Hello everyone! Brand new to the board. I want to start reading but I don't really know where to start. Any suggestions would be nice.

[Anonymous No.12562864]

>>12562859
Dr. Seuss should suffice for someone of your mental capability.

[Anonymous No.12562869]

>>12562859
Ignore>>12562864
Suess is hackneyed trite, you’ll want to read Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.12562871]

plato

[Anonymous No.12562882]

>>12562859
Read the sticky at the top.

[Anonymous No.12562886]

>>12562864
Wow such a smart and whitty response! No thank you though.

[Anonymous No.12563998]

>>12562886
Depends on your speed. If you like sci-fi/comedy, I would suggest "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". If you are more into heavy sci-fi, Asimov is up your alley. I would suggest the short stories by him before trying to conquer big stuff like the foundation trilogy. Kid-friendly mythology stuff is Rick Riordan writing. J.R.R. Tolkein is good for the slow, fully fleshed out fantasy readers. Ayn Rand is for the anarcho-capitalists. If you want a murder mystery without any hints or allusions, Sherlock Holmes is the collection for you (fuck Doyle. As if anyone was going to guess that a foreigner was going to use a ladder to sneak into somebody's room through the window and poison their tea.) Clive Cussler is annoying in his style of "set the scene a few hundred years before present year, have some things happen, have that prehistoric thing tie in, the end" books but they are adventurous. Neuromancer is a cyberpunk trip. Good coming-of-age novels are A Clockwork Orange, Catcher in the Rye, and The Great Gatsby. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were fucking pointless. Aesop's Fables are good for a really quick read. Anne McCaffrey is decent with fiction but goddamn does her "Dragonriders of Pern" take forever. Then there are the light classics like "Gulliver's Travels", "Hans Brinker"," Moby Dick", and "Swiss Family Robinson". Basically, there are a metric fuckton of books out there, so we need to know a little bit more about your style/preferences.

[Anonymous No.12564004]

START

[Anonymous No.12564007]

>>12563998
Tolkien*

[Anonymous No.12564010]

>>12563998
>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were fucking pointless.
stfu

[Anonymous No.12564020]

>>12564010
Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.12564029]

>>12562859
Start with the Greeks
(Illiad and the Odyssey)
(Histories by Herodotus)
(Plato's dialogues)

[Anonymous No.12564034]

>>12564010
Huck was the very essence of the static protag. Literally nothing changed. Yeah, they went to some different towns, Jim got shat on, the two got held hostage, they make it to a relatives house, Jim gets mistaken as an escaped slave, everything works out when some messenger finally finishes taking his sweet time to deliver a message that the original owner felt sorry for Jim and meant to set him free, the end. Fucking pointless.

[Anonymous No.12564044]

Whatever people say, don't start with the Greeks, you'll lose interest if your brain is not used to reading long texts yet. Just pick and choose some classic that seems interesting.

[Anonymous No.12564067]

>>12564044
Also check out chart threads, they are a good way to get into specific kind of books you're interested in.

[Anonymous No.12564127]

>>12562859
"Animal Farm" and "The Stranger" are both excellent and very easy to read.

[Anonymous No.12564243]

Read about the books in pic related and >>12564044 and chose something that sounds interesting and is under 300 pages

[Anonymous No.12564260]

>>12564243
Also I'd recommend avoiding Lot 49, Blood Meridian, and As I Lay Dying for now.

[Anonymous No.12564570]

>>12564243
This. People usually start with something like Orwell or Huxley, which are honestly good and easy reads. Personally I would advocate for Catch 22, since it's pretty light minded, although it's a bit longer for a person who doesn't read.