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Want to get back into reading this year. Need EASY book recommendations that make me addicted, for example (Lovecraft, Monte Cristo, Houellebecq)
NOT complete slop, please.
help a newfag out

>> No.22974419

>>22974406
Read something relevant for your work. Everything else is definitionally slop written content, unless you care about the mental masturbation of long-dead men.

>> No.22974420

Slopification

>> No.22974422

>>22974406
Donna Tartt's Secret History is pretty good for beginners.
Depends on what you're actually looking for though. For horror (what I read most), I can easily recommend Clive Barker's Books of Blood or Ray Bradbury's October Country.
Also check out some of the chart threads if you want but I don't find them particularly helpful because it's just people circlejerking over how smart they are based on books they likely haven't even read.

>> No.22974437

I'm specifically trying to look for something to give a break from my work, whilst not feeling like I'm consuming something completely vacuous. But I agree it's basically just stroking my own ego

>> No.22974444

Stoner

>> No.22974447

>>22974422
Have read and enjoyed Tartt
Will check out horror recs thx

>> No.22974450

>>22974444
Not boring?

>> No.22974461

>>22974406
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq

It is entertaining and is exactly what you're looking for

>> No.22974466

>>22974406
short stories by roald dahl

>> No.22974467

>>22974406
A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.22974512

>>22974461
>ahhhhh I cannot breed
not sure if this is what op wants

>> No.22974530

>>22974461
Have read Atomised and found it hilarious, so I'll put this on the list
>>22974466
Also seems funny, added

>> No.22974534

>>22974530
Meant >>22974467 not >>22974466

>> No.22974557

>>22974406
The alchemist. Short and sweet

>> No.22974561

>>22974406
SWTG

>> No.22974567

>>22974534
you cannot un(You) me, you have to read it

>> No.22974646

>>22974561
/thread

>> No.22974693

>>22974406
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Very fun read, not pointless drivel

>> No.22974697

>>22974406
>help a newfag out
No.

>> No.22974704

>>22974422
Why barker? Curious

>> No.22974847

>>22974406
Short stories anthologies. I recommend Chekhov or O. Henry

>> No.22974850

>>22974406
Octavia Butler Bloodchild anthology
Hemingway Snows of Mount Killimanjaro

Easy to reD language

>> No.22974901

>>22974704
It's good horror. Some stories in the collection are obviously better than others, but he's really good at building a scene.

>> No.22974902

>>22974901
I often see him recommended over king and joe hill

>> No.22974912

Dubliners

>> No.22974916

>>22974406
Truly, unironically: The Metamorphosis by Kafka

>> No.22974922

>>22974406
I greatly enjoyed The Hunchback of Notre Dame, easy (you are probably a little familiar with the Disney film at least) but not slop (beautiful prose, interesting historical context, very gripping and with a much different ending to the cartoon)

>> No.22974963

>>22974902
I've never read Joe Hill but I'd personally rank Barker over King.
King has some decent concepts but I don't really enjoy the way he writes that much, with the exception of The Stand and 11/22/63.

>> No.22974968

>>22974406
You are - the cheeky boy
You are - the cheeky boy

>> No.22974973

>>22974406
motherfucker. How many more of these threads will we get? The answer is always the same. Bitch.

>> No.22975171

>>22974406
anything by michael crichton. slop adjacent but fun and captivating. I read sphere and jurassic park in one day

>> No.22975173

>>22974406
Salammbô - Gustave Flaubert.

Also seconding the guys that seadd the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

>> No.22975213

>>22974406
Clark Ashton Smith. The better Lovecraft.

>> No.22976133

Flowers for algernon if you haven't read it in school

>> No.22976375

>>22976133
what about flowers for gay algernon

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22976389

>>22974406
If you haven't read it yet, Book of the New Sun. Also Jack Vance's Dying Earth.nkw4k

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22976400

>>22974406
Moby-Dick