sounds gay af im in

we both know ur ass can’t read either

worry about your exams man

Just started Ubik trying to get into PKD and its been both enjoyable and easy so far

Communist Manifesto has a new cover?

Notes from Underground

my fav comedy

I think sci-fi could be a good place to start; consider classics like Hyperion, Dune, or Lord of Light, or maybe The Rediscovery of Man if you want to get weird with it (all are very readable)

I recently read this, quite good as well…

Idk what you're into so I can't rec anything specific, but I would suggest you start with something kind of lower rent. Ya know, not super dense prose, not super long. Sit down, read 50 pages in your first sitting.

There you go. You're invested in that book, it won't take long to finish it, and you'll pick up another after. All about making it a habit

What genres do you like @op ? Are you into fantasy, thriller, horror, or do you like literary fiction?

Start with this @op

Quick read, short book

ayo I was just talking about getting back into reading with my homies

I bought a book called The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom but I still haven't started it.
Wrote Jade City and Capital Volume 1 into my list but idk when I'mma get to read them

edit: ayo was the capital volume 1 recommendation a troll

Some random favs of mine:

Capital (Marx)
Agua Viva (Clarice Lispector)
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Flaubert)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Children of Our Alley (Naguib Mahfouz)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Rebecca West)
Barabbas (Par Lagerkvist)
Ficciones (Borges)
2666 (Bolaño)
Jerusalem (Alan Moore)
From Hell (Alan Moore)
Cyclonopedia (Negarestani)
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
Pale Fire (Nabokov)
Suttree (McCarthy)

@op If I’d recommend a short book with quite easy prose, I’d say Less Than Zero which I read quite recently. It’s more of a Teen angst book tho, basically a very nasty coming of age. But very funny and entertaining in some parts and s*** has vibes.

i feel like i’m open to anything tbh

I got back into reading in 2020, here are some of my favorite books I've read since then, as well as some personal favorites from before

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
anything by Haruki Murakami
anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
In The Distance by Hernan Diaz
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Narcissus & Goldmund by Herman Hesse
The Sellout or The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adicihie
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Stories of Your Life & Others by Ted Chiang
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Heat 2 by Michael Mann

if you read one of these post your thoughts in the Just Finished A Book Thread

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Unfathomably based for Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Have you read Patrick Leigh Fermor’s books about his travels through Europe?

No I haven't but I've only heard great things about his oeuvre

thanks for the suggestion!

WHat?? Jade City? Real.

lowkey interested in this

could you recommend some other authors or travel books that i should check out?

A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East by William Dalrymple

Mediterranean Winter by Robert Kaplan

Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski (since it’s not obvious from the title, it’s about his travels in Africa)

These are in a similar vein as Rebecca West and Patrick Leigh Fermor mentioned earlier: delightful travelogues with high-quality writing that dig deep into the history and cultures of the places they go. This genre really oils my gears because the Venn diagram of the books’ contents and my interests is basically just a circle. So I think any of these would be great to check out.