Thread 24537221 - /lit/ [Archived: 384 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:47:33 PM No.24537221
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Give me some books I can finish in one sitting, please. I donโ€™t mind if itโ€™s fiction or non-fiction. I need to get back into reading and spending less time melting my brain with screens.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:01:29 PM No.24537242
>>24537221 (OP)
Adam in eden by carlos fuentes is very easy to read, also keep the aspidistra flying by orwell
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:09:59 PM No.24537260
Read The Crocodile, by Dostoevsky.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:12:00 PM No.24537266
Flowers for Algernon
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:30:50 PM No.24537296
K. Vonnegut's short stories are excellent
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:51:06 PM No.24537322
>>24537260
Seconding this + also recommending Dream of a ridiculous man by the same author

If you are new to reading you could try simpler short stories like Lovecraft's or Asimov's. Or even Chesterton's Father Brown.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:27:54 PM No.24537390
Dream Story
The Royal Game
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:30:50 PM No.24537395
Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner. It's in the collection "In A Lonely Place" that was recently republished. Known as one of the best horror short stories ever and it served as the inspiration for the Blair Witch Project
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:23:37 PM No.24537479
>>24537221 (OP)
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:36:05 PM No.24537501
>>24537221 (OP)
Corndog Zen by Wallace Mack (inb4 buy an ad) it's very sublime and the author is a lit-izen :)
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:35:40 PM No.24537645
>>24537390
>The Royal Game
it's bad
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:06:54 PM No.24537734
>>24537221 (OP)
The Tao Te Ching
Way of the Cross and Dragon
Rescue Party
Ecclesiastes
The Tower of the Elephant
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:24:28 PM No.24537773
society of the spectacle is a fun overnight read if you dont need sleep
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:36:20 PM No.24537811
Quenta Silmarillion part of the Silmarillion
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:47:30 PM No.24538173
Goosebumps
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:06:18 PM No.24538216
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:37:16 PM No.24538295
>>24537221 (OP)
The Necrophiliac by Wittkop
Whatever by Houellebecq
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:33:54 AM No.24539476
>>24537645
Why
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 12:09:18 PM No.24540001
>>24537221 (OP)
Arrabal's Viva la Muerte! (The book, not the movie)
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 12:26:37 PM No.24540021
>>24539476
too contrived
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:12:08 PM No.24541270
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:56:45 PM No.24541367
>>24537221 (OP)
Read some Plato's dialogue, e.g. Menon etc.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:54:44 AM No.24541698
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