Thread 24783932

Can you recommend books (or other media, but pref books) with a character who reads a lot?
In a bit of a slump right now and need to get fired up about reading again. Usually encountering a reading role model works for me, bonus if it mentions real life books I will get excited to read.

>>24783932 (OP)
Umberto Eco

Stoner

>>24783932 (OP)
>reading role model

>>24784438
:-(
I didn't know how else to put it. I just generally get motivated reading, playing, or watching media about people doing things i need to be better at.

>>24783932 (OP)
Drusas Achamian from The Prince of Nothing series by R Scott Bakker.

>Proust's ISOLT
>Under the Volcano
>The Tunnel
>Crossing To Safety
>LETTERS (John Barth)
Most of these are challenging books; CTS is the most approachable and it's a very fine novel that's not read widely enough. Good luck getting back in that saddle, OP.

>>24783932 (OP)
>Try to become friends with Gale
>He talks about teaching me some cool magic
>Proceeds to pull his cock out
Why

dante desu

>>24783932 (OP)
I know you asked for a book, but read the short story "the bet" by anton chekhov.

It's about a man making a bet where he essentially trades years of his life for money, by sitting in a small cell. Part of the agreement is that he can get any book to read and he has different periods and interests in books as the decades pass.

>>24787754
I said decades, but I should have said years, as the bet is about 15 years.

>>24787754
>see this post
>remember that I have an old book that collects Chekhov's short stories
>I've never read it in its entirety
>run up to the shelf to see if "The Bet" is included
>it is not

>>24783932 (OP)
Solenoid, and anything by Eco as the other anon said.