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Can I get some books filled with plot twists for my adhd brain? Something that will get me hooked, I'm tired of reading old ppl reflections

>> No.18997390
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The motherload

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>>18997390
also this one. I haven't read the others. But the twists in these are so insane and over the top that they're at nearly comical levels.

>> No.18997437

>>18997390
stop it please i cant take no more

>> No.18997448

>>18997437
It's been memed to death but I'm telling the truth.

>> No.18997450

>>18997383
Sherlock holmes
Hyperion
Really most sci-fi stories by Isaac Asimov
the story total recall was based on We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Im tired gonna sleep now

>> No.18997565

If we tell you, you'll know that the books have twists, which would defeat the purpose of having a plot twist in the first place

>> No.18997574

Handbook for Mortals promised a film adaptation. The plot twist is it's never going to happen.

>> No.18997577

>>18997396
Based. This book goes full End of Evangelion.

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>>18997390
>>18997396
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726

>> No.18997595

Borges is heroin for ADHD

>> No.18997811

>>18997437
If there's one thing those books are know for OP it's the ridiculous twists. The only one I read was Arcade. But it had more twists in it than like all of the M. Night Shyamalan movies combined together.

>> No.18997946

>>18997383
Call of the crocodile of course, Gardner is a dark and twisted genius on the level of Steve King

>> No.18998061

>>18997383
>books filled with plot twists for my adhd brain

You want short stories, not a novel. A novel which has some new twist/revelation/payoff-type thing every three paragraphs will be rubbish.

— Roald Dahl, Tales of the Unexpected etc
— R.A.Lafferty (you rarely know where a story is going to go)
— O. Henry (almost always twist endings. Maybe a bit sentimental for present-day taste)
— Richard Brautigan, The Revenge of the Lawn (very short stories, so you don't have time to get bored)
— J.L.Borges (often twisty, but in a clever literary way, not to everyone's taste)
— Donald Barthelme (he qualifies in the sense of "a new twist every paragraph", but it's all so weird and post-modernist you might just get annoyed)