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What should I read as a beginner who hasn't read a book in 15 years? I'm not that interested in harry potter like fantasies or anything "easy to chew".

>> No.20907689 [DELETED] 

>>20907684
Start with the Greeks then maybe move onto call of the crocodile.

>> No.20907713

>>20907684
Thus Spake Zarathustra

>> No.20907714

Read light novels to get used to looking at texts and move on to less entertaining books

>> No.20907717

>>20907684
look at lit charts see what catches your eye desu so pretty much
>READ
>THE
>STICKY

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>>20907684
>I'm not that interested in harry potter like fantasies or anything "easy to chew".
You don't need to go "easy to chew" but by the sound of it you have a long backlog of relatively "easy to chew" stuff anyway so there's no reason to go ultra-snooty. The world is your oyster, you can read anything and get something out of it. But since you are asking:
>For Whom The Bell Tolls
>The Time Machine
>Kidnapped
>Robinson Crusoe
>Dune
>Ringworld
>Murder on the Orient Express
>I, Claudius
>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
>Riders of the Purple Sage
>The Big Sleep
>La Morte d'Arthur
This is just a sampling of extremely influential, high-testosterone (yes Agatha Christie is high T) /lit/erature that every 4chad should know. If you want something faggier I'd go with
>American Pastoral
>Brideshead Revisited
>In Search of Lost Time (you can stop after book 1 like everybody else, kek)
>100 Years of Solitude
>any Borges

>> No.20908230

>>20907684
Camp of the Saints, unironically

>> No.20909279

>>20907714
>light novels
>entertaining

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>>20907742
>you can read anything and get something out of it.

>> No.20909295

Just try to remember your highschool reading list. If you read them as an adult on your own, they're easier to appreciate. Maybe some Shakespeare, maybe some Steinbeck. Short fiction and novellas are probably best.

>> No.20910136

>>20907684
Read Gold in the Furnace by Savitri Devi

>> No.20910147
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This is a fairly short novel and its really good. I'd recommend reading this then watch the movie after. You're welcome.

>> No.20910150

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte

>> No.20911335

>>20907689
Fuck off shill

>> No.20911341

what are you interested in? It's easier to gauge what you'd like if you have an idea of what you'd want to read about

>> No.20911353 [DELETED] 

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.20911390

Call of the Arcade

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>>20907742
>separates literature into "high T" and "faggy" categories

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>>20907684
I suggest you start with Of Mice and Men. Short book, the language isn't terribly difficult, but by no means is it bad. It's a great book to start with analyzing characters and themes.

>> No.20912333

>>20912241
He's very much of our age.

>> No.20912420

>>20907684
I have similar case as op. If anyone can recommend me a good book for people who don't usually read?

I prefer realistic books.

>> No.20912428

>>20911341
This is a good idea.

>> No.20912455

>>20907689
>>20907713
>>20911390
These are jokes, btw

>> No.20913090

>>20907684
Just read anything you want. I started reading by reading popular anime original source (manga) then I moved to light novels(100 pages) then to novels.

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>>20907684
Something from the left side of this chart.

>> No.20914422

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>> No.20914428

>>20912455
>Start with the greeks
Why is this a joke?

>> No.20914450

Call of finnegan's jest

>> No.20914451

>>20913268
Eragon in D tier? Youre insane

>> No.20914525

>>20907684
Literally start with the Greeks, but maybe not immediately get into complex stuff like Plato.
Aesop's fables:
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/183.htm

The Orphic Hymns:
https://www.hellenicgods.org/orphic-hymns---orphikoi-hymnoi

The Ancient Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers:
https://www.perankhgroup.com/brothers.htm

The Epic of Gilgamesh:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QY3vtGSn9bI

If you want a good novel from more recent times, try Crime and Punishment.

>> No.20914552

>>20914451
Maybe add a F tier just for it, eh?

>> No.20914768

>>20907684
The hungry hungry Caterpillar

>> No.20916090

>>20907684
Thus Spake Zarathustra