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20343716 No.20343716 [Reply] [Original]

Basically, there's a lot of good books out there but very few famous books use normal English the way Harry Potter does.
Anyone can pick up a Harry Potter book and understand it, unlike this:
>He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
What even is a verteran bore?
I'm looking for a good book series to get stuck into but one that uses normal English, like how Harry Potter does.
Any recommendations?

>> No.20343717

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>>20343716

>> No.20343726

>>20343722
i may sound so dumb it sounds like i'm joking but i'm actually not.

>> No.20344035

>>20343726
lmao, read dune if you're trying to literally just get into reading. It's long and fun

>> No.20344136

>>20344035
Dune suffers from exactly the shitty prose problems OP poses.

>> No.20344149

>>20343716
>What even is a verteran bore?
a mature pig

>> No.20344157

>>20343716
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is really fun and easy to read, and this is coming from someone who put off reading it for years because obese harry potter fans kept recommending it to me

>> No.20344231

>>20343716
Harry Potter is a children's book, anon. Maybe check out the paranormal romance section, or ask for other popular books for older children/early teenagers. Dean Koontz is right down your alley, but I worry he would use too many big words for you.
My mom's students used to love reading my old Redwall books, and they're in the target age group for most of Potter books. Try Redwall, I loved those as a kid.

>> No.20344289

>>20343722
>>20344231
i bet these posters couldn't explain for their lives what even is a "veteran bore" though

>> No.20344301

>>20344289
Veteran bore is so self explanatory that typing the definition out to you is redundant. I'm a smarter guy than you so I obviously know what it means.
Actually how about YOU explain to ME what a "veteran bore" is and I'll tell you if you are correct.

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>>20344301
kek
>>20344289
Get owned

>> No.20344509

>>20344289
The narrator is lamenting the fact that since he's reserved in his judgement, he often runs across people who withhold their judgement entirely.These people are the veteran bores: habitually boring people with nothing to say, and no real stance on anything.

>> No.20344568

>>20343716
The “Space” (Cosmos/Heavens are more preferable, you’ll see why) Trilogy, Clive Staples Lewis

>> No.20344591

>>20344157
Maybe you read some of his YA novels? I found color of Magic with decently complex prose. It's satire and the subject is often parody and comedy but it still is intelligent writing.

>> No.20344604

>>20343716
I'm the opposite. Moment I start reading lines that sound colloquial I get filtered. One of the many problems I have with Sanderson. I dont want to imagine stupid people talking simple. I live in Texas. English here is slow and retarded.. I want poetry and beauty.

>> No.20346490

>>20344231
Dean Koontz and the majority of authors from that genre (including Bradbury) have serious issues with narration. I am not a stickler for everything having to be a police report but c'mon man can't we read three pages without the narrator having a diarrhea?