I want to become better read but I have zoomer brain and get bored easily. I heard that the best way to make a habit out of something is to make it easy as possible and to just keep doing it over a really long period of time while ramping up the difficulty, so I'm looking for any book recommendations (classics preferably) under 250-300 pages to support this endeavour. I've already read a handful of books over the past few months doing this:
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- I am Legend
- A Clockwork Orange
- Siddhartha
- No Longer Human
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Notes from Underground
I liked all of these quite a bit with the exception of Siddhartha and No Longer Human which I thought were decent but nothing special.
I don't have a strong preference and am willing to read most things but I do gravitate towards weird or gloomy stories.
Of mice and men
Great suggestion
Been doing this as well anon, just finished reading The Sun Also Rises and The Crying of Lot 49. I think those are both short and engaging enough to get your mind going. I also cosign , I've been reading Cannery Row which has also been rewarding. I'm planning on reading Haunting of Hill House and I Am Legend soon, what did you think of them?
Also
rolling
This is really good.
All tomorrows, by kosemen.
Not a classic, but kinda weird.
Watership Down
Watership down is like 400+ pages, what in the world do you mean?
Have a roll.
Also, rolling.
And the more general one for the less read.
Roll
Call me a pleb but I found the movie adaptation of the clockwork orange better than the book
The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine
Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof
Candide
This was one of the most BORING books I have ever read and I've read blood meridian
What are you even saying? There's constantly things happening and they're going from one place to another, tragedies galore.
The Judge is clearly just a thinly veiled Dr Pangloss.
Anyone know of a book about a Russian? Child Spy growing up in American School and telling of his times there?
It was written entire in shitty terrible broken English if that helps.
The Simpsons did an episode on that. He was Albanian if that helps.
Damn you're right, Simpsons really have done everything.
Still can't find the book tho.
Frick it's been almost 12 years I been searching!!!
You've been Mandela affected. Sorry bro.
Nah I know it was a book. It had nothing to do with Simpsons.
Swear it was written by Vonnegut or similar.
Do you mean "Pygmy" by Chuck Palahniuk?
Read Robinson Crusoe
Read short story collections from good authors. "Family Happiness" from Tolstoy is good. "The Sorrows of Young Wether" by Goethe.
Everything by Albert Camus
Everything by Shakespeare
Everything by Kurt Vonnegut (Usually slightly above 300 pages)
Everything by PKD
Everything by Franz Kafka
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Old Man and the Sea
Cows - Stokoe
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
The Great Divorce
Spare Change and other stories
My Man Jeeves
Story of the Eye
Post Office - Bukowski
Montana Gothic
Mary - Nabokov
Play dishonored. If the whaling aesthetic clicks for you, read Moby Dick immediately after playing.
read what's immediately interesting imo
my recommendations:
- Rose/House by Arkady Martine | 128 pgs | a sci-fi detective thriller about a dead body in an automated house
- The Only Good Indians | 300 pgs (a bit long for your criteria) | a thrilling slow-bake (yet kept on the toes) horror about a skinwalking spirit haunting these native dudes and their families after they frick up some deer on sacred land, set current day
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer | 208 pgs | a slow yet beautiful sci-fi book, with a focus on nature. It's ability to keep me unnerved kept me engaged
I wish i had more but i read kinda long books