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I want to start reading books, could you recommend me some short and good books? 100 pages or less
I have short attention span I need something short because I tend to not finish reading long books

>> No.15239522
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>>15239506

>> No.15239593

bump

>> No.15239668

help

>> No.15239676

>>15239506
Start with "I have no mouth and I must scream". Then get Animal Farm. If you cannot manage that, just give up, your brain is fucked forever.

>> No.15239685

>>15239506
>>15239668
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
L'enfants Terribles
The Metamorphosis
The Last Days of Socrates
Candide
Siddhartha

>> No.15239732

Please promise me you'll look up vocabulary you don't understand and take notes on characters and plot. Or else your a brainlet that nobody can help.

>> No.15239744

>>15239732
>you'll look up vocabulary you don't understand
I always do it
>take notes on characters and plot
why?

>> No.15239748

Read short stories. I'd recommend Hemingway, Kafka, Mansfield and Chekhov.

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>>15239506
Maybe try something like this. They're all pretty short and simple, but you should still find some substance to chew over.

>> No.15239814

>>15239744
Yeah, I'm gonna disagree with that dude. You'll build up your memory skills much more over time if you focus on making those connections in your head. Maybe consider taking those sorts of notes if you've moved on to thick 19th century novels and you're having trouble with all the names. But I still think it's better to let all that material settle into your head organically.

>> No.15239965

>>15239506

>I need something short
So why not read short stories? Here's a dozen by a dozen authors. All super-readable, in my opinion. If you like one, read other stuff by that guy.

>The Hitch-Hiker - Roald Dahl
Dahl in 'Tales of the Unexpected' mode. Comfiness personified. (Doubly so if you like driving fast.)

>The Tower of the Elephant - Robert E. Howard
A barbarian climbs a tower to kill the man inside, but things take an unexpected turn. And by the way, Conan isn't a muscle-bound thug.

>Land of the Great Horses - R.A.Lafferty
Cute idea, well executed.

>Dancing Dan's Christmas - Damon Runyon
Who needs the past tense? Or the future tense? And those last two lines are hard to beat.

>For Esme With Love And Squalor - J.D.Salinger
Salinger didn't publish many short stories. But Mozart didn't publish many clarinet concertos either.

>Cathedral - Raymond Carver
A million people like this but that's OK. A million people are right, too.

>The Speckled Band - Arthur Conan Doyle
This was Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes story.

>A Dollar And 20 Cents - Charles Bukoswki
"The Snows Of Kilimanjaro", Bukowski-style.

>Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Rudyard Kipling
'Good children's stories don't pretend there are no monsters. Children know very well there are monsters. Good children's stories show that monsters can be killed.' (G.K.Chesterton)

>To Build A Fire - Jack London
Yes, they made you read it in school. I don't care. It's still great.

>The Battler - Ernest Hemingway
Great sense of place, character, atmosphere.

>The Sea Devil - Arthur Gordon
A man likes to go out in his boat and catch fish by moonlight. One night he sees what he thinks are two mullet about eight feet apart, and angles the throw of his net to collect them both. Only at the last moment does he realize —

>> No.15239999

OP, where are you from? What do you like to do? What kind of books or what kind of subjects have you been interested in so far?
If you don't give us any information on what you're about, people are just gonna recommend what to you will seem like a bunch of random shit you won't want to read.

>> No.15240191

>>15239506
Of Mice and Men
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters
The Awakening

Also, a lot of short stories.

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>>15239506
Here, you spoon licking baby brain.

>> No.15240366

Dive in headfirst. A little over two years ago I felt the same urge you do now to start reading, so I went to the bookstore and bought a copy of Crime and Punishment. I couldn’t get enough of it and now literature is my #1 hobby. You can’t go wrong with Crime and Punishment

>> No.15240512

Cannery row

>> No.15240665

The Chronicles of Narnia (release order)

>> No.15240980

>>15239506
Read the novellas by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a good one to start with, though they’re all good.

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>>15240338
Rolling for book

>> No.15241241

>>15240338
Keep rolling rollin rollin

>> No.15241700

>>15240338
Give me trips

>> No.15241711

>>15240338
Rollin' on a river.

>> No.15241718

>>15240338

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Hi OP!!!
Start listening to some short story podcasts too and read along with them, this will help your mental inflection while reading and reading speed to a natural pace

I recommend LeVar Burton reads and Classic Ghost Stories
Just google the story name and sometimes you’ll find it but if you can’t just try your best to pay attention

>> No.15242901

>>15240338
based

>> No.15242968

>>15240338
Fuck it, im actually gonna read what I roll.

>> No.15242974

>>15242968
Fuck yeah! I would read anything by the Big D.

>> No.15242983

>>15240338
Roollin

>> No.15243035

>>15239506
>Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
I reread this one often. No joke could recite probably the first 15 pages by memory.

>> No.15243068

>>15239506
you should shred them all and rearrange them so you can read them all at once
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ufmor_ElM

>> No.15243152

>>15240338
Roll

>> No.15243278

animal farm is 100 pages, easy to read and follow,and is simply a good book

>> No.15243281

>>15240338
give me a good book or give me death

>> No.15243413

>>15239506
This book got me into reading.
https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/notes-from-the-underground.pdf

>> No.15243445

>>15239506
Flowers for Algernon, the MC will surely be relatable for you in the first half.

>> No.15243453

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15243473

>>15240338
Yuh

>> No.15243642

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15244681

>>15240338
rollin

>> No.15244789

Fight club

>> No.15244813

>>15240338
ok i'll roll

>> No.15244925

Books are like any other form of entertainment. There are many, many genres and styles. You can get recommended 1000 books that don't fit the genre that you like, or find them generic and tropeish.

Find a genre you like and stick to it.


>I have short attention span I need something short because I tend to not finish reading long books

No you don't. Your problem is that you read books that are uninteresting for you. Imagine watching a series that doesn't hook you. It becomes a chore. Instead of searching books by lenght, look for books that fit your preferences, and then read just as much as you feel like. Feel free to skip whole chapters if you don't like them. Reading foiction is just another form of entertainment, not a chore.

Said that, I'd recommend "The perfume" by Patrick Süskind, a book I never see recommended anywhere but I absolutely loved.

>> No.15244998

>>15240338
Go on then

>> No.15245723

>>15240338
plz trips

>> No.15245929

>>15240338
Roll

>> No.15245956

Op - start with Vonnegut. He got me into reading and his books are easy to digest while remaining entertaining.

>> No.15245967

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15245990

>>15245967
reroll

>> No.15246046

>>15239506
No Longer Human probably made me love reading

>> No.15246225

>>15240338
Trips=The book i want
Quads=Harem

>> No.15246246

>>15239506
Start with the Greeks

>> No.15246264

Just get a book with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and read one tale per day.
Then read Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and then move to Orwell's "Animal Farm". That's it.

>> No.15246316

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15246944

>>15240338
Roll

>> No.15246957

>>15240338
Roll

>> No.15247079

>>15240338
Roll :)

>> No.15247128

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15247569

>>15240338

>> No.15248398

>>15240338
Rollerino unknown

>> No.15248639

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN MEANS YOU'RE A DUMB FUCK

GO PLAY VIDEO GAMES AND WATCH NETFLIX AND DROOL YOU DICK

>> No.15248651

>>15240338
Rolling

>> No.15248688

>>15239506
amazon bizzaro fiction, like shatnerquake isn't good but feels like its for short attentionspan people. Also nonfiction like A slow Death 83 days of radiation sickness for gripping "how can this get worse" feeling. its ok

>> No.15249245

>>15239676
IHNMAIMS is total shit, don’t bother.

Animal farm is kino.

>> No.15249253

>>15239685
Metamorphosis and Siddhartha definitely worth reading, both short too

>> No.15249268

>>15240665
gtfo plz

>> No.15249276

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15249481

>>15241150
>that boomer's finger

>> No.15249502

>>15240338
Roll

>> No.15249607

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15249750

"Treasure Island is short," and it has pirates, surely that will hold your attention! "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is also rather short. You could also leaf through "The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories" by Mark Twain which as you can guess are a short compendium of tales. "The Old Man and the Sea" is also extremely short, though it's a polarizing book, you may think it's amazing, or you'll hate it, there's a fine line.

>> No.15250958

>>15240338
rool

>> No.15250996

>>15240338
penis

>> No.15251162

>>15240338
roll

>> No.15251200

>>15240338
Rollo

>> No.15251210

>>15240338

>> No.15251251

>>15239506
Candide by Voltaire is a fun, short book that makes you sound smart when you tell other people about reading it.

>> No.15252281

>>15240338
gimme

>> No.15252334

>>15239506
Borges, it's all short stories. A bit too deep for a noob maybe.

>> No.15252576

>>15240338
rollan

>> No.15252648
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>>15240338
rolling, ill try to get to it before finishing my stack this year

>> No.15252657

>>15239506
Read short stories.

Nine stories by JD Salinger, or any short story collection by Hemingway. Both are highly accesible/easy to read.

>> No.15252933

>>15240338
Roll

>> No.15253833
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Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
Masks by Enchi Fumiko
Electra by Euripides
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
Misery by Stephen King
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Ajax by Sophocles
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Machine by Susan Steinberg
The Emissary by Tawada Yoko
The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

>> No.15254130

>>15240338
ayo rollerino