Tips to getting into reading as a hobby?
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Tips to getting into reading as a hobby?
Tips to getting into reading as a hobby?
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Undesirables will do anything but read.
i'll the rings of your butthole homie
Undesirables? Undesirable to whom? The undesirable?
Read slower. Start with piss easy books like fantasy and sci-fi. Then you can start going through top 100 lists getting into "real" literature
this is decent advice, but overlooks the problem that 95% of sci-fi and 99% of fantasy literature is crap. how can OP filter through the crap to find the good stuff?
start by reading short books with consistently good reviews that appear on multiple "best books" reading lists.
In this respect, "Animal Farm" might be a good start, &/or "The Old Man and the Sea". Then, read more Orwell or Hemingway, depending on which you preferred, or neither, or both.
I second this. Books like 1984 and Of Mice and Men are great places to start. If you want to stick to the genre fiction advice, then unironically read Harry Potter. Make shre you understand that you are reading this stuff just to get into a habbit. They aren't the best books ever written lol
>"Animal Farm" might be a good start, &/or "The Old Man and the Sea"
My fricking sides
Imagine still reading books lmao. Get with the times, chuds. Bitter clingers indeed.
Over 50% of the population is physically incapable of becoming literate. Give up and go watch something.
Not OP but I also want to get (back) into reading.
I have severe brain fog most days, on top of having ruined my attention span with years of YouTube and IQfy.
I tried reading The Call Of Cthulhu but only got to the second chapter before I became functionally illiterate. The next time I was lucid enough I couldn't remember enough to fully get back into it so I'm going to have to re-read it from the start.
What are good very short stories that I can read in single short sessions?
O. Henry is a good writer for some "light stories"
>Gift of the Magi
>Summertime a la carte
>Ransom of red chief
>Makes the whole world go kin
To name a few
Thank you.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
You need to read and then re-read every page
After you've finished a page try to think about what you've just read, try to imagine the scenes, what the action is and think about what the characters are saying
There's nothing wrong with re-reading a sentence you just read until you understand what it is you actually just read. Don't just press on with the idea "I think I got it enough." With practice comprehension will come
The Wanting Seed
just read something canonized that seems interesting to you
Short stories are the best way to get into reading. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Tolstoy and "The Kiss" by Chekhov are good examples to start. After you've read enough short stories, start reading the classics throughout the ages.
Some people are readers/writers, others are listeners/speakers. There's no hope for the latter.
read slowly at first, worked for me
Give up
Are y’all ducking morons or somethin?
Undesirables will never read.
Short stories and poems are great for 21st century attention spans
Novels weren’t normal to begin with. It was for bored Bourgeois wives at first but then became so cheap they began shilling them as the only way to enjoy a story, as a predecessor to television and film.
Read a lot, but don't burn yourself out.
The more you read, the more you'll enjoy it and the more natural it will feel.
But it's important that you don't get into the mindset of "I have to read X pages today" or "I need to finish this book before..."
When you start feeling like you HAVE to read it will feel like a chore, you'll get less out of it and eventually stop.
Read all kinds of different stuff. Make up your own mind about what's good and what's bad and what it all means to you.
When you really aren't enjoying something, stop reading it.
When you feel the instinct to read, follow it.
When you find a book you love, cherish it, no matter what anyone else says.
And most importantly, READ. Don't just think about reading, actually pick up a book and read it. If you don't do that nothing else matters.
Read memeshit. Read shlock
No really, read whatever intrigues you off the bat. That intrigue will carry your first few books, before you actually start appreciating literature and writing to move to things that are stripped off any and all “MoST GoRy fricked Up XxXx” gimmick.
Also, do not start one book without finishing the one you’re on, no matter how tough it may feel at some passages to get through. Builds resilience and patience as well as the attention span.
>Read memeshit. Read shlock
Why?
Why not start with something good? Surely you can find something that's both interested and highly regarded, so why waste time with bad literature?
I mean, do you know what you enjoy?
Because like TV, reading as a hobby is all about pleasure. If you don't like what you're reading, then what's the point?
Why so you think there's so many trashy paperbacks?
If you haven't read for a few years, even reading things that you enjoy and find interesting can be difficult, so making baby steps get yourself used to reading again, can be much more helpful than jumping into whatever you want and struggling to power through.
Read short stories. For example, if you like Horror, start with Goosebumps series. Yes, it's aimed for children, but they are still pretty good.