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HI, I'm 22 and all I've read was Harry Potter and a few Stephen King stories.
I want to start reading, but each book I try ... just doesn't seem interesting for me. I really hope, that you could suggest something to start with. I want to read a book that will pull me out of reality, something with action, drama and mystery.

>> No.5851869

BUMP !!!

>> No.5851873

BUMP AGAIN !!!

>> No.5851883

Lolita

>> No.5851884

BUMP BUMP !!!

>> No.5851885

>>5851884
What's wrong with >>5851883?

>> No.5851889

>>5851883
Thanks.

>> No.5851894

Start with simpler stuff, Ender's Game or The Giver. Look for books regarded to be very good and routinely read in schools, but not for being "classics of an older era", such as Shakespeare. It will be harder to get into something when you have to think more about each sentence or parse it into modern English.

>> No.5851895

>>5851857
No. Subhuman robots are not welcome here.

>> No.5851896

>>5851857
There is no way we can tell what will interest you, it will inevitably be a thread of other people's interests which may or may not correlate to your own potential interests.

>> No.5851905

>>5851894
Please don't encourage him, if he can't actually make a reasonable thread (well, he really shouldn't even make a thread and just read the sticky).

Captcha: Plenna was

>> No.5851913

>>5851894
Thanks

>> No.5851918
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5851918

You degenerates need to leave. Can't even read a fucking sticky, my goodness. Truly scums.

>> No.5851926

>>5851905
>>5851918
I was thinking of the sticky when I made that post. I don't know how "accessible" all of those are. Most of my classmates hated The Great Gatsby, so much that I didn't bother reading it until many years later. I read Catcher in the Rye when I was in school and didn't enjoy it that much, maybe I'll give it another shot later. I didn't find the plot very gripping.

Cuckoo's Nest is pretty out there, and Brave New World isn't particularly a fast-paced plot-driven book either. I wanted to give some examples of books that are more easily engaged with, to get into the habit.

I can remember putting Dune down the first time it was offered to me, because I thought I was going to have to flip back and forth to that little dictionary in the back every two pages. Obviously, it isn't like that all the way through, and it is one of the few regrets of my life that I did not give it more of a chance then.

>> No.5851933

>>5851926
But no threads here will help you find books to read more than you just going out, finding one that sounds even remotely interesting, and then reading it. If it's not for you, save it for later and try again, then go on to another one. It works way better than you think.

And I think that it's great that you want to read, these threads just kind of clutter the main board. I hope you find what your looking for OP.

>> No.5851938

>>5851926
>fast paced plot-driven
I threw up a little.
>>>/r

>> No.5851945

>>5851933
Listen to this anon then delete this thread.

>> No.5851946

>>5851926
Thank you