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Hello /lit/.
I'm a fairly young chap who grew up in a very "computerized" home, but as I've grown up reading has become a part of my everyday life.
So far I have read about a hundred book, probably a few over thay number rather than under it, and I'm starting to really get into the whole reading thing quite greatly.
Now, for the summer that is to come I have a lot of free time and I have only planned 4 books that I wish to read.

One specific book that I for some reason really want to read is pic related, but I did try reading it once but stopped when after 20 pages or so I ubderstood very little of it.
I've come to realize that my english skills fail me when trying to read books like this one, and I really want to learn more english. It is not at all my mother tounge and I am still taking classes in english as part of my education.

What I am asking of you /lit/ is if you can reccomend any particular books for me to read during summer that might help speed things up when it comes to learning a bit more advanced english.

>> No.9598794

Joyce

>> No.9599014

Finnegans wake

>> No.9599021

Read Hemingway and get the absurd idea the loose collection of campfire stories in pic related has any artistic value out of your head, then >>9598794

>> No.9599031

>>9598781
The way you write is infuriating.

>> No.9599066

>>9599031
this, fucking cock mongler

>> No.9599085

>>9598781
i would suggest that you find a book in your native language, and read a translation of it into english simultaneously. that will help guide you a little further down that track, read genre fiction formamlittle while, no shame in reading fantasy and early scifi like asimov, heinlein, or vonnegut jr. good luck, and always challenge yourself. keep looking forward in your pursuit of literature.

>> No.9599091

Give it time, I highly recommend the Archipelago but maybe read A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich first and go from there.