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What’s a good first book for a brainlet to get into reading with?

>> No.16959928

>>16959923
The Swiss Family Robinson

>> No.16959933
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>> No.16959948

>>16959923
Bottom’s Dream

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>>16959948
>translated work

>> No.16959959

>>16959923
Literally read anything. Pick up anything. My first book was The Book of Disquiet. I recommend the last book I read The World of Yesterday by Zweig.

>> No.16959965

>>16959923
Read the sticky.

>> No.16959982

>>16959923
1984

>> No.16960022

>>16959923
It depends on where you want to go in regards to reading. Is you don't know yet, then I suggest A Song of Ice and Fire.

>> No.16960023
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>>16959923
Read Swiss Family Robinson!
No one ever takes my advice, and it's such a good, comfy fucking read! A pious family gets shipwrecked on an island, and they build a sweet-ass tree house and go on awesome island adventures, while their father teaches them important lessons about life, religion and science. It's so good! Read it, or I'm gonna get mad and cry really hard about it.

>> No.16960035

how to read a book but unironically

>> No.16960040

>>16959923
Fantômas
Arsène Lupin

>> No.16960049

homer is an easy read, particularly the fagles translations

>> No.16960075

>>16959923
We have a chart for this...
Anyways I'd recommend The Hobbit > LOTR

>> No.16960822

>>16959923
TCoL49

>> No.16960832

The Alchemist

>> No.16960856

Harry Potter

>> No.16960866

>>16959933
based

>> No.16960878

>>16959933
cringe

>> No.16960879

>>16960023
Added 2 list

>> No.16961039

>>16960879
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!

>> No.16961086

>>16959923
maybe some bukowski idk

>> No.16961095

>>16959933
cringe christcuck larper

>> No.16961131

I heard that you're supposed to ignore your inner voice that reads everything aloud because it slows you down. They also recommend following the words with your finger. Should I adopt this way of reading?

>> No.16961164

>>16959923
Finnegan's Wake

>> No.16961204

>>16959923
Read whatever Buddhist text they have at your local library! The Buddhists are very simple and useful and extremely comfy.

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>>16960878
>>16961095

>> No.16962583

>>16959923
Jurassic Park was really good, much better than the film

>> No.16962609

>>16959923
Stoner

>> No.16962617

>>16960049
Homer is a terrible recommendation for someone new to reading

>> No.16962627

>>16961131
Yeah, this is something I have always had issues with. Normally I'm fine but when I get tired I start doing that and I stop actually understanding the text and start just reading it without understanding it.

>> No.16962628

>>16960023
>>16959928
Agreed, one of the best adventure novels of all time. I probably read it a dozen times as a kid.

>> No.16962630

>>16959933
this is one of the more difficult books you can read, hardly recommended to someone that doesn't read at all

>> No.16962635

>>16959923
Kant

>> No.16962638

>>16961131
No. Do what comes to you naturally

>> No.16962645

>>16959923
The best way to get into reading is with a book in a foreign language. Sound out the words without "understanding" anything at all

>> No.16962646

>>16959923
Swiss Family Robinson
The Invisible Man (Wells not Ellison)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
King Solomon's Mines
Robinson Crusoe
Journey to the Center of the Earth

don't fall for the memes around here, have fun

>> No.16962659

>>16959923
>Animal Farm
>1984
>Brave New World
>Catcher in the Rye
>Franny and Zoey
>Slaughterhouse Five
>Sirens of Titan
>Factotum
>On The Road
>Dharma Bums
>The Sun Also Rises
>A Farewell To Arms
>Dubliners
>A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man

These are all not that difficult novels that I would suggest to someone wanting to start reading again.

>> No.16962660

>>16962617
lol, 13 year olds used to read homer