I have never read a book (ever). I'm 22. What would be something

>>8962451
1984
Blood Meridian
Heart of Darkness
Oblivion by DFW

>inb4 start with the Greeks

It would help to know some of your interests or TV shows, movies, music, etc. you already enjoy

>>8962462

Thank you

>>8962465

I enjoy thriller and suspense/murder dramas and that kinda thing on TV. Music is pretty varied though.

these threads aren't funny

go away

>>8962462
authors Kurt Vonnegut and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are also pretty good intros

>>8962470
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

>>8962451
The Hobbit.
Volsunga Saga.
Nowergian Wood xOR Kafka in the Shore.
The Catcher in the Rye.
HP Lovecraft short stories.

McGuffey's first reader.
Spoiler alert:
Spot runs.

>>8962472
no you

>>8962451
Green Eggs and Ham.

>>8962470
The Hound of the Baskervilles

>>8962451
What do you like to do for fun? What are your interests? What books/movies/shows do you like?

>>8962451
Dostoevsky

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Don't be afraid to read things you associate with edgy high schoolers. You have the advantage of being old enough to tell what's bullshit without spilling spaghetti everywhere in the process.
I liked reading things that are oft spoken about here just to know what the fuck was going on. You can always re-read so don't be intimidated if you don't understand something.
I'll suggest reading something like cliffsnotes or sparknotes to help with interpretation to start with, but they are training wheels you have to drop eventually.
Get a book of short stories (I think there's a reading group doing random short stories you should join in on) they aren't intimidating and can be just as rewarding as some novels.
Read as much poetry as you can.

>>8962856
not op but

>What do you like to do for fun?
watch movies, listen to music, lift

>What are your interests?
Secret societies/consíracy stuff, existential depressing stuff, techno

>What books/movies/shows do you like?
Lost, Leftovers, Fargo, Mad men
Bresson, Von trier, Wong kar wai, Haneke

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>>8962915
noRMIE

>>8962932
w-why?

>>8962451
>pepeposter
Read Naruto or you can read the fucking sticky, faggot.
>>>/out/

Your never gonna like reading if you listen to people here. Read dumb stuff for enjoyment Harry Potter for example. Then move up.

>>8963123
Sorta true, Read A Game of Thrones and if you like it read the series. It's easy as tits to read.

>>8962451
same here, difference me being fucking 26
I really want to be able to appreciate and enjoy literature the way i enjoy other art forms (painting/visual art and classical music) but i just can't get into it.

>>8963663
>but i just can't get into it.
Either you haven't tried hard (my bet) or you just can't read

>>8962489
Fucking great work.

>>8962451
The Turner Diaries & Hunter by Andrew MacDonald (William Luther Pierce)

>>8963755
ppl who grow up watching tv and movies all the time basicly let their brain rot
they cant imagine things
they can read, but they will be reading, they wont see what they are reading, hence it will be unenjoyable for them

>>8962451
Read some Bukowski, it's easy to read.

Read 'the girl next door' by jack ketchum

>>8962451
My Little fucking Caterpillar.
Spot the Dog
The Oxford Dictionary
Where's Wally?
The back of your cereal box
The inside of your eyelids

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>>8962451
Start with this one, it will make you want to become patrician through reading

It's a book about wanting/being forced to rise above the common plebs, it's a book about people reading books

It's the perfect book to get into reading

Prove me wrong

>>8962795
only correct answer in the thread

>>8962834
>>8962494
youre trying to turn him into a redditor

>>8962451
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut. Short enough to read in a few days and the language is easy enough.

>>8962451
the stranger by albert camus is super easy to read and a good starting place. I wouldn't start with blood meridian.

>>8964158
Meg dies after she gets her clitoris burned off.
Also it's bad.

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>>8962915
>What are your interests?
>Secret societies/consíracy stuff, existential depressing stuff, techno
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick.
I think it hits these interests pretty well and it's short and simple enough to keep your attention. Blade Runner was based on this book.

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>>8964194
>His first novel, 1991's Lee, received favorable reviews in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Reader and The New England Review of Books. His other novels have been praised in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, The Quarterly Review and The Occidental Observer.
>...The Occidental Observer

/pol/ please go