Hello guys.
I need some help.I'm pretty desperate.
I'd like to get into reading, but the catch is, I've never read a book (only some children's books when I was younger).
Some recent events in my life have made me realize that I won't be able to rely on others to support me my entire life.
Today I bought a library card, but I didn't know wich book I should get started with, and as my social anxiety is that big I didn't ask anyone in there for help.
So. Here I am asking you guys for help. Since anonymity helps.
Sorry for any typos inm advance.
Read the sticky fgt.
>>7713503
It'd help if we knew more about you.
Tell me which 3 of the tarot that might describe you and I'll suggest something.
G'luck in advance on your way to reading.
>>7713507
I did, but I don't find the answer that I'm looking for there
>>7713532
read it again you fucking retard
>>7713526
Thanks for replying!
The fool.
The Hermit.
Death.
Adorable troll is adorable
>>7713548
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground
Written as the memoirs of a recluse cut off from society. Expresses complex emotions and views of everyday life, including the shallowness of people.
100 pages
Jean Genet - Our Lady of the Flowers
The author wrote this while in prison. Story concerns a flight into the seedy city underworld, where the protagonist encounters thieves and killers, and evil is everywhere.
>>7713503
Start with the Greeks.
>>7713526
not op but
the magician, the moon, the world
>>7713573
This is awesome! Thanks so much >.<
Just try a few books from the sticky
Nobody is going to have any meaningful advice until you read a few books and can tell us what you like and don't like
Poor OP
If you want 'serious' literature, the lit starter pack is a good place to start.
But since i get the impression your reading comprehension level isn't yet up to snub, start with some stuff that's considered mainstream, YA shit. Darren Shan is an easy fun read. Also Harry Potter, i assume, would probably be a book that would help get your reading levels up.
Once you've done that (or simply want to skip it and challenge yourself) go for some more difficult stuff:
Ray Bradbury
Nathaniel West
The Stranger by Camus.
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell (a fun read and not as difficult as 1984)
hope this helps
>>7713526
not op but
the moon
the fool
wheel of fortune
what can you recommend me, knowing nothing else? I'm very interested
>>7713587
Borges
Calvino
>>7713637
>1984
>difficult
>>7713648
Bartleby the scrivener
The Baron in the Trees
>>7713655
For somebody who hasn't read a book for years on end?
1984 would be a slog to get through
>>7713637
He spelt anonymity and social anxiety correctly, I don't think he's the idiot you make him out to be.
>>7713667
1984 was the first book in high school I willingly read from cover to cover. It's not particularly difficult.
>>7713715
Stop trying to make yourself look smart.
>>7713720
I'm not. My point is that 1984 is a fairly easy read, as well as short.
>>7713729
Sorry for being rude then.
>>7713709
well thank god you're here
>>7713526
The Hierophant
The Tower
The Moon
somebody read me
>>7713772
Bakker - The Prince of Nothing trilogy
>>7713715
Oh, scratch that, it was actually Macbeth, though that's only a play, so maybe I didn't contradict myself.
>>7713526
What the fuck is this shit?
How could you know more about him thanks to the tarots?
>G'luck
>glück
Never realized they were that similar.
>>7713805
For the same reasons you could form a link between an English contraction and a similar German word.
>>7713637
Thanks mate.
I am serious about starting to read a few hours a day since I live pretty much alone
>>7713709
I learned English from cartoon network and grammar nazis on the internet.
>>7713813
That's not what I did, though. The contraction simply reminded me of glück and then I realized that luck means glück.
>>7713526
I pick The World three times. Do me.
>>7713526
The Fool
Death
The World
>>7713503
>>7713503
>>7713503
http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/all/
This is a pretty good list for a beginner. It covers most contemporary classics and is made up mostly of novels readable by a determined beginner. Just don't read Blood Meridian, The Sot Weed Factor, Infinite Jest, The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, or A Dance to the Music of Time until you've read at least half the list.
>>7713814
Not that guy, but here's a chart for you pal. This is an alternate /lit/ core chart and I haven't seen it as often as the more "official" one. However, don't think much of it. They are all a great start but if something catches your eye, definitely check it out, as long as it interests you.
>>7713526
Not sure if you're still doing this, but I pick...
The Emperor
The Lovers
The Hermit
Pic unrelated
>>7713832
the book of law
war & war
>>7713847
Pedro Paramo
Omensetters Luck
>>7713870
Tropic of Cancer
The Tartar Steppe
>>7713526
I want to play too.
The hermit
The judgement
The world
>>7713503
Start with Kant's critique of pure reason.
It will break you and disavow any silly delusions you had about literature.
>>7713935
More like he won't understand shit about it and drop it after the second page.
>>7713935
Ulysses is an easy, fun read as well
>>7713526
The Devil, The Magician, The Wheel of Fortune.
>>7713931
Moravagine
Hadji Murat
>>7713952
The Master and Margarita
The Unfortunates
>>7713526
Why not?
>Justice
>Judgement
>The lovers
>>7713972
Money-- Amis
Death and the Dervish
>>7713964
The Unfortunates by who?
You know that The Master and Margarita is next in my reading list as soon as I finish Le Mythe de Sisyphe
>>7713984
>The Unfortunates
B.S. Johnson
>>7713935
Joke's on you . I didn't even read it's wiki page without being scared out
>>7713526
are you entering this in a website or is it your personal intuition to decide which books for each person?
>>7714553
I read a couple of the people, but am not regularly at my table, so some other helpful anons were generous for the rest.
It's personal intuition.
>>7713982
Wow thanks anon
>>7714572
cool shit mang
>>7713503
Harold and the Purple Crayonhe shoves the crayon up your ass
>>7713526
You still doing this?
The fool
Justice
The hanged man
This is a neat idea
>>7714665
Missing Person--Patrick Modiano
the maimed
>>7713526
Curious.
>The chariot
>The devil
>The sun
Thank you.
>>7713526
The Hermit
Strength
The Emperor
pls
>>7713854
that is literally the same starter kit just with a faggy filter over it
>>7713526
The Hierophant
The Devil
Wheel of Fortune
>>7713526
The Fool
The Hermit
The Hanged Man
The starter kit is awful
Read
>Dubliners
>The Stranger
>Odyssey/Iliad
>Crime and Punishment
>The Cossacks
>A Hero of Our Time
>The Trial
>>7713526
The moon
The hermit
The lovers
This is so cool
>>7715202
Can confirm, have read half of these and feel better about myself already.
>>7713526
the devil
the hermit
judgement
hermit
magician
tower
tarot-anon onegai
>>7713503
Finnegans Wake
>>7717261
Are you a 30 year old virgin?
