Today is the day /lit/.I am finally getting back into reading...Life has been complicated ever since the lockdowns, and I haven't had the time to actually sit down and enjoy any books in years.I just pickedup some new books that I've never read before...Perhaps these books will spark my love for reading again.Thoughts? Also please recommend me books to read.
>>25425882why is there a bbc on top left cover?
1. Self-help books are all scams2. You know you can read books with likeable characters, right? The closest you've got there is fucking Sherlock Holmes and that stars a standoffish drug addict.
>>25425897>noo I don't find these characters likeable and wouldn't hang out with them in real life so I can't read about themphilistine
>>25425882>rise the secret history and of israel's kill targeted assassinations firstwhat did he mean by this?
Op you are a chad /lit/ is retarded and wont agree but dont listen to them
>>25425882There's nothing wrong with those. Dazai might be a bit difficult to understand if you're trying to ease yourself back into reading. 48 Laws is very interesting if only for the quaint historical anecdotes he uses to support his 'laws', these might spark an interest in a particular historical period that you can then go and read some dedicated non-fiction for. Holmes is a solid entry into crime fiction, and Jurassic Park is readable science fiction (a lthough not fantastic).
>>25425896heh
>>25425882Throw away the Robert Greene and Ronen Bergman books.>recommendationsIn the meantime play it safe and work around the things you have.>danzaiRead more japanese naturalism from the late 19th and early 20th century. Tuttle and Kodansha have a decent catalog, the university of Hawaii as well.>doyleFather Brown, The Thinking Machine, Charlie Chan, DR. Poggioli.Read classics. Modern, old, doesn't matter, you have to start somewhere.
>>25426088>Dazai might be a bit difficult to understandIt's basically impossible to talk about Dazai on /lit/ without some retard crying about the fact Yozo got to have sex (with women) and it didn't magically fix him.
The IDF/Mossad one is quite good, read like half of it.
>>25425882cool, but as a general rule I would recommend avoiding self-help books and translations
>>25425882>moorefag is psued who doesnt actually readI hate Alan Moore’s fans
>>25425882people who don't read be like i'm going to read no longer human
>>25426596He wrote one of the longest books in the English language.
>>25425897>Self-help books are all scamsRobert Greene books are really just history books.
>>25426500>I would recommend avoiding....translationsWild take. Pseud shit.
>>25425882>comic book>meme novel>book based on a kids movie>kids mystery stories>self help book>schizo conspiracy bookgreat start op
>>25426932>book based on a kids movieAre you even trying?
>>25425882Reading wont fix your life.
stem taste
>>25426932It's a GRAPHIC NOVEL, mom!
>>25426932Wow look at him guys give him a (you) please
>>25425896lol
>>25425949Calling someone a philistine for shitting on basic literary classics for having unlikeable characters is like calling someone a miser for living as an ascetic. Most of those books sell off name recognition and my complaint was an intellectual one. Reading a book involves putting yourself in the headspace of the characters. Likeability is an important part of the fucking experience, especially for someone trying to get back into reading.I'm not saying you can't enjoy books with unlikeable characters, but certainly likeable characters make a book more easy to enjoy.Which is why I read nothing but isekai harem trash.
>>25427661>Which is why I read nothing but isekai harem trash.kek
why don't you try reading something good?
>>25425882>i spent a decade reading only comics but want to be a big boy now!
>>25426923Power isn't.
>>25425882>please recommend me books to read.How old are youWho are your favorite authorsWhat shitty hobby were you ruining your life with before (hollywood, vidya, anime, porn, etc)Are you a drug addict
>>25425882>>25429310the 48 laws of power authors wife divorced himjust so we areall onthesamepage ;-)
>>25429327damn maybe she should have read more marriage self-help books
>>25426338This
>>25426338Penguin books ruin the aesthetics of a book pile……>>25425882Also Robert Greene is kinda trash, only gimps read him to try and ‘manipulate’ people….Most manipulation people do is almost subconscious at a point, like a hidden passenger giving you directions.
>>25425882>t. 21 year old sociopath-in-training starterpack
>>25429321>hollywood, vidya, anime, pornNTA. All of the above plus books.
>>25425896fpbp
>>25425897I unironically liked The 48 Laws of Power. Felt like a bunch of little stories from history rather than self help. I'm sure his angle means that you shouldn't take those stories as fact, but it was still a fun read.
>>25429722Most self-help books feel like an arbitrary collection of feel-good anecdotes centering around a primary academic discipline (sociology, economics, psych, history), so uhhhhh
>>25429729I don't know, I don't generally read self help, someone just recommended me that book for the historical anecdotes so I read it and enjoyed it.
>>25429742Uhhhhhh
