Light Books to Read

>>8937658
famous jewish athletes

>>8937658
My favorite humor book is Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. It's the greatest depiction of a pseudointellectual NEET lifestyle ever put to paper.

>>8937658
reading the hobbit right now. The story is good but the writing is boring as fuck and I feel like I am degenerating my reading ability by reading it.

>>8937661

Very droll.

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>>8937688

I read the Hobbit, I liked the story, but felt that the writing was also really boring; did I really need to revisualize and understand all the varied environmental scenery Tolkien was trying to convey? I suppose if you appreciate that sort of writing, you could, but I absolutely hated it as well

Life is too short to read anything not serious. Start with the Greeks before it's too late.

>>8937658

Haruki Murakami's short stories are pretty nice, OP. Try The Elephant Vanishes

Resident Evil tie-in books.

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Artemis Fowl series

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Kafka, Borges, or Hemingway short stories.

harry potter :^)

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/thread

Sherlock Holmes
Edgar Allan Poe
HP Lovecraft
Short stories

Still semi-/lit/ to full /lit/, but light reads.

>>8937688
i read the hobbit and really liked it, didn't feel it was dense
but then i moved to lotr and FUCK, you described my exact feelings:
>I am degenerating my reading ability by reading it.

>>8937658
Anything by Pratchett is good. I recommend Hogfather, it's an imaginative fantasy take on the Santa Claus mythology. Paragraphs are short and the plot moves fast, so it's a breeze.

Hegel or Kant.

>>8937658
Do I have to go to bed so soon?

>>8938290
these are great, but still take some serious thought. I like to keep a historical fiction going at the same time as my true /lit/, just to zone out with, especially for reading in shtty places like the subway. I just finished Lincoln by Gore Vidal and Shogun by James Clavell