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What are your favorite easy reads? Nothing that would take any serious critical thinking skills. Books just for entertainment's sake

>> No.2286974
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>> No.2286975

Pic related, I assume?

>> No.2286977

>>2286975
yep

>> No.2287011

Blindness, by Jose Saramago

>> No.2287014

I don't read those types of books.

>> No.2287015

Pre-Rant Palahniuk is just that; quick, light, entertaining.

>> No.2287022

pratchett

>> No.2287028

I think of Vonnegut and Nabokov as quick and easy reads, but that isn't to say that these authors don't tell stories with any depth to them.

>> No.2287036

Is this a troll thread?

Or do you choose to read P&P for only surface stuff?

>> No.2287050 [DELETED] 

>>2287028
>nabokov
>"quick and easy"

you doublenigger

>> No.2287195

>>2287036
I am not saying that P&P is bad, in fact, it is one of my favorite romances, but it isn't exactly hard to decipher.

>> No.2287202

Hermann Hesse
W. Somerset Maugham
Dorothy Parker
Oscar Wilde

>> No.2287204

>>2286955
>Books just for entertainment's sake

This is basically all fiction for me. If you're not principally reading for entertainment you're doing it wrong.

>> No.2287211

>>2287204
well, some novels I think are more like a piece of art. You get enjoyment out of it and they challenge you to think, or make you feel complicated emotions, but they aren't strictly "entertaining"

>> No.2287212

>>2287202
Ha-durr-durr-durrrrurrrrrpppperp!

Oh, I get this game. I can act retarded, too. Hurrr durrrr Gravity's Rainbow. LOL this is great fun. (i have no life)

>> No.2287215

>>2287204
Yeah, but there's a difference between what you read when you're stressed, tired, half-asleep, and mentally worn out a bit from studying all day for upcoming exams and when you're free to concentrate more mental capacity on what you're reading.

>> No.2287228

wish this thread would have some actual recommendations instead of a bunch of trolling.

>> No.2287234

>>2287228
well, you did decide to post on /lit/

i mean, i'm just sayin'

seriously though, pratchett, jack vance, tim powers