34 and I haven't read many books. Currently reading Harry Potter book 1 and loving it! I'm planning on doing lord of the rings next.Give me some book recommendations motherfuckers!
>>25223677Camp of Saints
The Weltalter
good god if youre fucking 34 and harry pooter excites you?stop reading.lol jk reade the series, but for real, shes a terrible writer get out of her lane ASAP
>>25223677120 Days of SodomFinnegans Wake
>>25223726>>25223726Maybe so. You know any fantasy books similar to Harry Potter that have tighter writing?She also isn't transphobic. Like ffs I read through her supposedly transphobic tweets and they were all just her stating basic facts. Calling JK transphobic is like calling somebody racist for pointing out that Asians have almond shaped eyes.
>>25223752>120 days of Sodom Sounds like some epstein type shit.>finnegans wakeSounds challenging. I read James Joyce's eveline in college.
>>25223790>Sounds like some epstein type shitYou speak more truth than you know>Sounds challengingNah it’s pretty entry level for Joyce.
>>25223778>You know any fantasy books similar to Harry Potter that have tighter writing?I heard good things about Gormenghast.
Reading the series also. Every woman ive known has liked it so why not?
>>25223677Read The Hobbit before LOTR, with one other book in between as an amuse bouche, something light perhaps another children’s book like The Wind in the Willows
>>25223677what has this board become...
Harry Potter is one of the best, unfortunately in the later books more and more descriptions if the magical world get replaced by action scenes.
>>25223963They have awful taste in everything, that’s why not.You know what, I half take that back, there are a lot of simps and women here and they’ll rip me apart lol.
>>25223778You'll literally get banned off subreddits for stating this, btw lol
>>25223778A Wizard of Earthsea by Le Guin is a much more literary take on "children's magic school" by a much more skilled author.
>>25223677Don't listen to the fags here, it's a comfy series that got overtaken by femoids and trannies. If you strip away all of its current context in the zeitgeist, they are enjoyable reads. You gotta start somewhere, although I would've pointed you first to the Hobbit. So my recs for you are to start reading The Hobbit afterwards and consider either jumping into easier literary fiction like Victor Hugo (highly recommend Hunchback) or doubling down on fantasy and then going into Lord of the Rings. You'll start seeing good books to read the more you lurk here
>>25223677It's good you're enjoying it, anon. Lord of the Rings is a great next step, too, it's a much richer and more challenging story. Maybe you'd like the Hobbit as a primer for LOTR?Might I recommend Beowulf, a great little poem to which modern fantasy is eternally indebted. It's also a little easier than the Homeric epics, Dante, or Milton, all of which you should eventually read when you work up to them.Another guy here said Earthsea, and you'd probably like that a lot.Perhaps if H. Potter and Earthsea aren't too "childish" for you, you'd like Redwall?Also, Shakespeare is delightful to read, and rather accessible provided you get an edition with footnotes that explain some of his vocabulary and cultural references.
>>25223677A couple basic recs, in roughly ascending order of difficulty;Chronicles of PrydainTale of Two CitiesThree MusketeersSense and SensibilityIvanhoeBeowulfHamletBook of the New SunCrime and PunishmentThe OdysseyDivine ComedyInfinite Jest
>>25224293Paradise Lost and Ulysses (if they aren’t too advanced for a beginner) are great for this list too.
>>25224337Paradife Loft is more or less legible, but Ulysses is cock & ball torture unless you're an experienced reader. I'd also sooner put Moby-Dick over Infinite Jest.
>>25224347I actually had a tougher time with PL on my first read than Ulysses, Milton’s Latinate syntax takes getting used to. But yeah Moby Dick is essential.
So...uh... what did Dumbledore see in that magic mirror exactly?
>>25224337>>25224347I would've put those on there except that I've yet to read them myself (all three have been on my radar for some time). Do you anons have a recommendation for which of these to read first?I should have put the Bible on there too; you can start with the easier books and work up to the harder ones as you advance.
>>25224426Paradise Lost is probably your best bet, it’s my favourite work of literature ever so I’ll always have a bias towards it, though it’s not “easy” it isn’t the most difficult thing ever not even close. Ulysses is brilliant too, but it’s more challenging than IJ by quite a margin; the stream of consciousness prose can be daunting if you’ve never dabbled in it before, and there are chapters that shift styles completely from what you’d grown accustomed to. You should read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before considering Ulysses.
>>25224426>>25224461Oh and you’ve already read The Odyssey and Hamlet so I think Ulysses should be smoother sailing for you, just in terms of allusions and referencing, and how they relate to the themes of the book.
>>25223778What a shame and I was just starting to like her and thought she was based.
>>25224461>>25224475Thanks anon.
>>25224181Lol I have gotten warnings for making similar statements on reddit. Wasn't even being a dick about it.4chan is unironically more inclusive than reddit.
>>25224189According to the Google ai overview it takes place on an archipelago. I dig tropical settins in games, so I have a feeling ill like this one.
>>25224538All good, anon, if you liked Dosto’s book also, check out his other stuff if you haven’t already, and Gogol’s works too, The Overcoat, The Nose and Dead Souls are his best books.
>>25224293holy shit i remember prydain
>>25223778>>25224181>>25225020its more complex than you make it sound:https://theweek.com/feature/1020838/jk-rowlings-transphobia-controversy-a-complete-timeline>>25225020>4chan is unironically more inclusive than reddit.not really no.
>>25225865Some highlights are jk rowling accusing random cisgender women of being trannies:https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jk-rowling-barbra-banda-bbc-footballer-of-the-year-award-trans-b2654651.htmlIt also happened more notoriously with the boxer Imane Khelif.
Start with the greeks
>>25226032eat humus, get oiled up and penetrated?
I recommend this series. They're quick reads, but will really help to boost your literacy.
