Trying to claw my way back towards having a decent attention span, any authors who have some depth to their work but are relatively easy to digest? Like Twin Peaks but in IQfy form. I tried Hemingway but it was boring, McCarthy's The Road was pretty good, but I don't really feel an inclination to read more of his stuff.
Try White Noise by Don Delillo, it’s good.
it's utter garbage and boring af
why do boomers love boring shit?
Give a rec then gayet
Based.
Kobo Abe, J.G. Ballard (Short Stories), genre-tier lit.
read Quo Vadis? and thank me later
Alice in wonderland
Probably Shaw or Wilde’s plays.
Plays are kind of underrated for light reading. It’s like a book but with all the multi-page descriptions of rooms and people’s faces cut out.
How are Ancient Greek plays for readability? I recently picked up a copy of Sophocles’ ‘Three Theban Plays’.
Schopenhauer.
Tolkien, Calvino, Borges, Dostoevskij, Pessoa. If you want to read philosophy, the stoics are essential 100 IQ-core.
Terry Pratchett. Any title.
read Quo Vadis
I read In Search of Lost Time and my attention span is still awful
, yr toast anon
If you like Twin Peaks try 'Mysteries' by Knut Hamsun
Hesse
FRICK the execs for cucking lynch from his original script, the arc for Audrey and Cooper was one of the best parts
Most "recommended" books by educational institutes are often about uninteresting 2-dimensional characters while the writer desperately tries to inflate into "interesting protagonists" by repetition and long poorly descriptive passages.
"Best sellers" are usually vapid and simplistic, or irrational trendy junk.
Basically you just need to read a wide variety of novels until you find writers and genre you personally like.
Plenty of choices, anything from Gilgamesh by Shin-Leqi-Unninni to Book Lovers by Emily Henry.
>Diary of Laura Palmer
>Robert Walser (top cozy)
>Maeterlinck plays
McCarthy put put two new ones recently
try Little Life.
Too bad anon you don't like Hemingway, because hes god.
On the other side, Little Life is contemporary, woke , with elements of bdsm, gender awareness and self mutilation, all the good stuff to qualify as a good /lit for zoomers. Plus it literally captures your attention like if you were reading bulgakov's M&M.
read 'Under the Volcano'
quo vadis
you're probably better off sticking to IQfy, if you want to watch Twin Peaks, watch Twin Peaks. You won't like literature if you just want it to be like a movie.
I do like literature, I just shifted to TV awhile because I can watch a whole series before I can force myself to read a single chapter of a book
That's too bad. As someone who actually enjoys reading Ive never had that issue and I'm an "adhd" zoomer.
1984 or Brave New World
i was in your situation too, read the great gatsby.