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Are there page-turners that aren't shit and don't make you dumber?

>> No.16468905

>>16468899
Brothers Karamazov

>> No.16468907

I find psychoanalytical literature to be “page turners”

>> No.16468908

Faggot pseud, go watch tiktok vids for so long you forget to eat and die

>> No.16469039

>>16468908
I would say "I hope you die lonely and sad" but I don't really need to state the obvious. Maybe young people just want something actually enjoyable to read, so you don't need to act like a high horse faggot. Oh, and fuck you.

>> No.16469817

>>16468899
I guess its kinda subjective but a few that i had page-turning experiences with:
Stoner by John Williams
Moby Dick by Meville
any play by Shakespeare

>> No.16469841

w&p, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black,the savage detectives,c&p,lonesome dove, buddenbrooks, TSaTF and AILD off the top of my head

>> No.16469851

>>16469817
>Stoner by John Williams

This one. It was the most 'boring' book that I couldn't put down.

>> No.16469862

>>16468899
I say Dickens, but he's pretty wildly hated too. It's subjective.
>>16469851
Those Charles Walker chapters were absolute nail-biters.

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>>16469039
> Maybe young people just want something actually enjoyable to read
The entire world library of timeless classics... The distilled words of the world's greatest of men.............. Boring.............

>> No.16470231

>>16468907
Such as...? I pressume you're talking about fiction of course.

>> No.16470271

>>16468899
Antinatalist fiction

>> No.16470274

>>16468907
I find Frederick Crews' debunkings of psychoanalysis to be page-turners.

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16470297

this was alright

>> No.16470302

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic page-turner, and a fine example of American crime fiction.

Whether that means it isn't shit depends, I suppose, on the eye of the beholder.

Imho, any book that's a page-turner demonstrates a very high level of skill on the part of the author, that's worthy of respect in and of itself.

Virtually every fiction book that's published by a large house *tries* to be a page-turner, but very, very, very, very few of them actually succeed.

>> No.16470551

The magic mountain by Thomas Mann

>> No.16470567

>>16468899
Basically anything by PKD. I think Ubik is a good place to start if you haven't read anything by him yet.

>> No.16470590

>>16468899
The Odyssey

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16470599

>>16468907
Semitic hands types this post

>> No.16470634

>>16469817
stoner is a complete page turner

>> No.16470646

>>16468899
Crichton is a turbo page turner. The subject matter is great and dips into chaos theory in math etc but it is a bit pulpy.
Less pulpy, less scientific but certainly deeper is clavell

>> No.16470678

>>16470646
I just slogged through Shogun and while it does have some page turning qualities at times, the writing is atrocious

>> No.16470841

>>16470646
is jurassic park worth reading? I feel some aversion to the thought because of the movie

>> No.16470853

>>16470302
Any other example of books that succeeded?

>> No.16470865

>>16470678
that's upsetting to me. It's one of my favorite books and I enjoyed it from beginning to end and was recommended it by someone who said it changed their life. Taipan is shorter and more page turnery. Very clint eastwood style hero.

Yeah jurassic park is amazing. Everyone feels that way but it's his best book I've read and I get a big kick asking ppl if they've read jurassic park just to get the same reaction it always gets. It never gets old. It's a really good book but you don't appreciate the movie more for it.

>> No.16470989

Ficciones was a page-turner for me. The first short story starts slow to prepare the field, but then it goes at full speed all the time until the one about the gauchos picking a fight against the city guy.

>> No.16471240

>>16468899
I once had one that was pretty good, kept still and quiet, turned swiftly and always put the book back in the stand properly. After some years he said he couldn't do it anymore and quit, shame.