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Is this good for someone that doesn't like reading
last thing I read was the Bible I've got bored after the destruction of Sodom and stopped

>> No.16893574

No, it really isn’t.

>> No.16893627

>>16893570
It depends. I didn't read at all and then i read this and loved it.

>> No.16893635

>>16893627
Same. If you're not into it within the first few chapters though you might not like it. It does pick up and get more violent but the tone stays pretty much the same

>> No.16893637

>>16893570
thats gonna be a tough one to start on. what sort of movies do you like? maybe we can come up with something based on that.

>> No.16893673

>>16893637
I've just seen unforgiven and I've been thinking a lot about the Assassination of Jesse James I guess I want to read something brutal

>> No.16893678
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16893678

>>16893673
I got you nigga

>> No.16893824

>>16893673
>I've just seen unforgiven and I've been thinking a lot about the Assassination of Jesse James I guess I want to read something brutal
You're wanting The Proposition

>> No.16893831

>>16893673
hemmingway has some good gunplay. check out to have and have not and for whom the bell tolls. ernst junger's storm steel is also very brutal.
>>16893678
you. plug that shit somewhere else.

>> No.16893848

>>16893673
Just read McCarthy, maybe start with No Country for Old Men. Céline you might also like.

>> No.16893865

>>16893831
$10 says you haven't read it.

>> No.16893918

>>16893865
you're damn right i haven't read it, it sounds god awful.

>> No.16893944

>>16893918
idk if you can get a sample chapter or something on amazon but the prose is, by genre standards, amazing.

>> No.16893950

>>16893944
only gene wolfe from what i've read surpasses it

>> No.16893970

>>16893944
>>16893950
Mervyn Peake? Gormenghast?

>> No.16893993

>>16893970
I haven't read Gormenghast, though I've heard of it. Either way, the prose is stellar.

>> No.16894984

>>16893678
fuck off bakker

>> No.16894994

definitely not. this faggot uses words that aren't even in the dictionary and he hates punctuation.

>> No.16895134

>>16893678
Based bakker shiller

>> No.16895160

>>16894994
It's easy to read, faggot.

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>>16893570
Do you want to read to rise your stock in the human market or just because you want to read something fun?

Either way, I'd start with some pirate stories by Emilio Salgari or Papillon by Henri Charriere, about prisioner escapes from french/south american prisons during the first half of the XX century.

They're fun and adventurous books and focus on the action instead of more complex ideas that might bore you and drag a bit.

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>>16895838
>Do you want to read to rise your stock in the human market

>> No.16896059

I like reading and it's a bit of slog sometimes, not recommended for getting into reading altogether. Try no country from him though, easy to get through and understand

>> No.16896092

>>16893570
This is a great book to start reading with because it is so good

>> No.16896168

>>16893570
Go for it, OP, you can do it.

>> No.16896198

>>16893570
Sneed Chuckidian