Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The darkest plot, the most beautiful writing style, and one of the most haunting villain characters ever written- a seven foot tall albino philosopher and murderous genius named Judge Holden. It's about the Indian Wars in the American West, and a gang of murderous white mercenaries who went hunting across Texas and Mexico for human scalps to sell. It's been widely praised as one of the greatest novels in the English language
House of leaves is a great book, but considering how the story is told, and the layout i don't think that makes for a good recommendation, especially to someome trying to get back into reading. Not to say it's badly written, but it can be a bit...much
Loved the Artemis Fowl book series, people often call it a ripoff of Harry Potter but imo it's not like it at all.
It has a very strong focus on the border between the regular world and the magical world and IIRC it also does lot with combining technology and magic (it's been quite a while since I read the books so I don't remember exactly anymore).
Who is calling it a ripoff of harry potter. Literally the only thing they have in common is having a boy as the protagonist and. Having a magic system? Not even remotely similar magic systems at that. Artemis Fowl sweeps the pot any day tbh
Anabasis by Xenophon, probably my favourite book, its a war memoir of a war xenophon was in but its in third person cause he wanted to sound like a historian lol
A lot of people are recommending series and really complex books. They’re all good, but probably not for someone who hasn’t read something in a long time. I’d reccomend Villains By Necessity, it’s a really fun story about a petty thief who needs to make the world more evil in order to stop it from being destroyed. The heroes won the big story and the evil villain lost, and now the world is *too* full of goodness and love that it’s going to end
the arc of a scythe series by neal shusterman. i think its a fascinating series about how corruption can ruin a perfect world and the dire implications that eradicating natural death would cause. a refreshing spin on the sci-fi dystopian genre with good lgbtq+ representation (aka the only explicit and well-written genderfluid character ive seen in a book ever)
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is a fun story about an angel and a demon trying to avert the apocalypse - good read and not too long, imo a great book for getting into reading
Terry Pratchett's discworld series is amazing in my opinion, and it doesn't matter what book you read first.
The Hogfather or Soul Music are my recommendations, they're awesome if you like some kind of silly fantasy that has some really funny interactions and references to the real world, and sometimes even pretty deep messages hidden in there while remaining fun and light for the most part.
Lord of the rings. Red the whole trilogy recently. I can’t really explain how it made me feel but just a sense of genuine adventure throughout the story. As well as tragedy. All of the battles were planned out by the people leading. The scenery described by the characters is genuinely beautiful to imagine
I find it helps to be using it towards some goal. I read Baudrillard in high school because it meant being familiar with quotes I could incorporate with really unique debate case frameworks around critiquing capitalism and hyperreality, and Umberto Eco was already an author I enjoyed who also has essays on hyperreality, so it was all-in on the concept.
Ask me to sit down and read it for fun? There are a million other things I could be doing.
Woah, i didnt know Umberto Eco talked about hyperreality! Ive only ever read his tract on fascism, and not really known anything else about him or his work.
Could i maybe ask some titles that deal with hyperreality in general, Eco and others? Its a concept ive been meaning to check out for a while
I just ordered Eco's Travels in Hyper Reality thanks to your comment. Same as the other person only knew his essay on fascism but I am very interested in the philosophy of pop culture. Thanks for the tip!
had essentially the same program at my school. picture books and *individual* chapters counted. i finished the school year with a certificate that said i read over 400 books, but most of them were 1-7 page chapters or simple picture books. overall it’s a great way to encourage kids to read.
We had an Accelerated Reader Program where each book was given a point value and you had to take a test on the library computer to prove you actually read it, I think there were some kind of prizes or pizza coupons or something if you read a bunch
My pattern recognition really kicked in early because I aced a lot of those sorts of tests by just knowing common story moments and like... Basic metaphors.
Maybe they were easier where I'm from but it almost felt condescending sometimes. Like the multiple choices would be
"How much money did Timmy get for his birthday" and just by skimming the book it was obvious it wasn't something stupid like ten bazillion currencies. Of course when I got it wrong it was the stupid illogical children's books fault. Fucking Timmy, having the opportunity to accrue generational wealth and wasting it on emptying out the sweet shop.
In Louisiana, there was something similar where you could grow a sunflower. Points were based on the # of pages of the book instead of the challenge of the content, so a few Diary of a Wimpy Kid books were worth the same number of points as Harry Potter. I fucking GAMED the system using DWK
We did this at my school I went to kindergarten at. I read SO much (or everyone else read so little) that I was the highest scorer out of all grades up to 4th. I won a bunch of things, including tickets to Silverwood and a box set of A-Z Mysteries :)
My English teacher in hs had a bin full of comic books. If you borrowed one, read it, and wrote like a very short summary/review you got a bit of extra credit. You could do this a few times (idr how much)
Moral of the story, any reading is good compared to no reading. It’s not the sole reason I read today, but I do think that kept me engaged in books just a bit in a time in my life when books were the furthest thing from my mind.
Bottom dude will now be skinned alive in public, where passerby can eat the strips of his flesh as they please. Tuesday April 30, 9:45, in front of a random McDonald’s in Cassville, Missouri
It's 1000 books "B4K", so I assume that means before kindergarten. This isn't a kid gaming the system, the whole point is for them to read Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar and 998 other pre-K books. What's wrong with these people
I mean, I could totally believe this, I read most of the books in my schools, admittedly kinda small, library. It’s really fun to read, I spend a lot of my free time reading.
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That is the face of a child who has known only pain
I like the idea of children reading one thousand books before kindergarten. I would want my child to excel in artistically significant ways in order for them to explain their burgeoning emotions better than my autistic ass could do when it came to playing Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World
The worst thing about the internet is that suddenly you come across people who‘ve never opened up another book after graduation and are now judging children’s reading choices.
Apart from that this kid does look like a kid who‘s read 1000 books, no front. And even if they only ever read a single book voluntarily, that‘s still more than the person in the post has read in their entire life.
True. When I was a teacher I used to ask people how many of them have actually read a book in its entirety. The number was shockingly low, like a concerning low number.
I like this kid. I'll defend him forever.
Reading is broken. The benefits of reading are insane. And this day of age where most people are consuming split screen slime subway surfers 60s tiktoks and have 0 attention spam if they're not perfectly stimulated, we need people to calm down and read.
I stan this kid. You go kid. Read more.
the first person is dumb and a fool, even a small story is still a *story* and still provides wonderful experiences and growth for the brain
we LOVE reading books
False the child must be destroyed. Fetch the shredder
book em officer
No, that's how we got here in the first place
bake him away, toys.
Toy story 1, 01:05:31
Been a while since I've read a book. Any suggestions?
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The darkest plot, the most beautiful writing style, and one of the most haunting villain characters ever written- a seven foot tall albino philosopher and murderous genius named Judge Holden. It's about the Indian Wars in the American West, and a gang of murderous white mercenaries who went hunting across Texas and Mexico for human scalps to sell. It's been widely praised as one of the greatest novels in the English language
Eh, I’ll wait for the movie/hj
This book made me ill while I read it. It isn't for everyone.
May i also reccomend House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski?
House of leaves is a great book, but considering how the story is told, and the layout i don't think that makes for a good recommendation, especially to someome trying to get back into reading. Not to say it's badly written, but it can be a bit...much
Fair point, the structure can be... confusing at times
Loved the Artemis Fowl book series, people often call it a ripoff of Harry Potter but imo it's not like it at all. It has a very strong focus on the border between the regular world and the magical world and IIRC it also does lot with combining technology and magic (it's been quite a while since I read the books so I don't remember exactly anymore).
Fowl sweeps Potter any day of the week
that british rat bastard could be swept and dusted by a calculus text book
Who is calling it a ripoff of harry potter. Literally the only thing they have in common is having a boy as the protagonist and. Having a magic system? Not even remotely similar magic systems at that. Artemis Fowl sweeps the pot any day tbh
Yeah I'm confused why people do it as well, they're completely different.
House of leaves.
what kinda genres do you like? Fantasy, horror, scifi, modern, romance, mystery?
I forgor 💀
Anabasis by Xenophon, probably my favourite book, its a war memoir of a war xenophon was in but its in third person cause he wanted to sound like a historian lol
A lot of people are recommending series and really complex books. They’re all good, but probably not for someone who hasn’t read something in a long time. I’d reccomend Villains By Necessity, it’s a really fun story about a petty thief who needs to make the world more evil in order to stop it from being destroyed. The heroes won the big story and the evil villain lost, and now the world is *too* full of goodness and love that it’s going to end
I am a cat by Natsume Soseki
the arc of a scythe series by neal shusterman. i think its a fascinating series about how corruption can ruin a perfect world and the dire implications that eradicating natural death would cause. a refreshing spin on the sci-fi dystopian genre with good lgbtq+ representation (aka the only explicit and well-written genderfluid character ive seen in a book ever)
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is a fun story about an angel and a demon trying to avert the apocalypse - good read and not too long, imo a great book for getting into reading
I second this, great book without costing *too* much from the reader :)
***The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team*** by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller
The very hungry Caterpillar
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, it's like pacific rim x american psycho in ancient china
Angel fall series
The Annihilation series of books is weird and wonderful, if you like strange sci-fi.
Terry Pratchett's discworld series is amazing in my opinion, and it doesn't matter what book you read first. The Hogfather or Soul Music are my recommendations, they're awesome if you like some kind of silly fantasy that has some really funny interactions and references to the real world, and sometimes even pretty deep messages hidden in there while remaining fun and light for the most part.
Lord of the rings. Red the whole trilogy recently. I can’t really explain how it made me feel but just a sense of genuine adventure throughout the story. As well as tragedy. All of the battles were planned out by the people leading. The scenery described by the characters is genuinely beautiful to imagine
I liked the arimas fowl series. Found Jane Eyre to be a surprisingly good book considering it's not normally a genre a particularly like
Shadow wizard literature gang We LOVE reading books
Yeah but they’re a funny fool
What about the second person?
smart and wise
I wish the people I have to interact with daily read more than one book as a child, let alone 1000.
Also how do you expect a small child to read 1000 chapter books
"mods, crucify this 8 year old"
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Mr. Electric, tie this man to the sawing post and have his spine filleted
Mr electric from hit movie the adventures of sharkboy and lavagirl?
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Doflamingo
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He has not even read Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation'
^(I haven't either)
Death
I spent like 8 hours to understand the first essay in that book and then decided I would be content just not comprehending the rest
This book has been on my list for ages, I hate how I always push reading onto another day, hopefully I'll overcome this habit one day
I find it helps to be using it towards some goal. I read Baudrillard in high school because it meant being familiar with quotes I could incorporate with really unique debate case frameworks around critiquing capitalism and hyperreality, and Umberto Eco was already an author I enjoyed who also has essays on hyperreality, so it was all-in on the concept. Ask me to sit down and read it for fun? There are a million other things I could be doing.
Woah, i didnt know Umberto Eco talked about hyperreality! Ive only ever read his tract on fascism, and not really known anything else about him or his work. Could i maybe ask some titles that deal with hyperreality in general, Eco and others? Its a concept ive been meaning to check out for a while
I just ordered Eco's Travels in Hyper Reality thanks to your comment. Same as the other person only knew his essay on fascism but I am very interested in the philosophy of pop culture. Thanks for the tip!
tbf he looks like the type of guy t read 1k books
Lil bro got a bowlcut so he could spend the time he'd be getting it cut on reading more books
This dude would be reading during the haircut. This person reads in the shower, may we all follow their example.
He looks like Boris, who I am confident in saying hasn't read more than 10 books.
Why he steezy with it tho
That's what I'm saying this kids straight swaggin
I bet that fucking simpleton hasn't even read Dune
The dude did not read The God Emperor of Dune.
I just started that one and up until now it‘s not as bad as Children of Dune tbh
I like the movie just 1fine, but why would I go out to read the script??
Uh cause you care about the lore?
The movie is fine but the book is a masterpiece.
The whole series is interesting but very weird
3 day blinding stew
I knew this comment would be here
had essentially the same program at my school. picture books and *individual* chapters counted. i finished the school year with a certificate that said i read over 400 books, but most of them were 1-7 page chapters or simple picture books. overall it’s a great way to encourage kids to read.
We had an Accelerated Reader Program where each book was given a point value and you had to take a test on the library computer to prove you actually read it, I think there were some kind of prizes or pizza coupons or something if you read a bunch
AR tests!! man i was a menace
My pattern recognition really kicked in early because I aced a lot of those sorts of tests by just knowing common story moments and like... Basic metaphors. Maybe they were easier where I'm from but it almost felt condescending sometimes. Like the multiple choices would be "How much money did Timmy get for his birthday" and just by skimming the book it was obvious it wasn't something stupid like ten bazillion currencies. Of course when I got it wrong it was the stupid illogical children's books fault. Fucking Timmy, having the opportunity to accrue generational wealth and wasting it on emptying out the sweet shop.
In Louisiana, there was something similar where you could grow a sunflower. Points were based on the # of pages of the book instead of the challenge of the content, so a few Diary of a Wimpy Kid books were worth the same number of points as Harry Potter. I fucking GAMED the system using DWK
Once had a teacher give straight giving out 50$ cash if you copped 1000 points while in their class. Spent that shit on pool diving toys lol
We did this at my school I went to kindergarten at. I read SO much (or everyone else read so little) that I was the highest scorer out of all grades up to 4th. I won a bunch of things, including tickets to Silverwood and a box set of A-Z Mysteries :)
One year I just read all of the next year's required reading books over the summer. I remember really enjoying Mr. Lemoncello's Library.
Why does he look like he’s pretending to be an old man?
He is burdened with the weight of knowledge.
Those 1000 books have made him wise beyond his years
My English teacher in hs had a bin full of comic books. If you borrowed one, read it, and wrote like a very short summary/review you got a bit of extra credit. You could do this a few times (idr how much) Moral of the story, any reading is good compared to no reading. It’s not the sole reason I read today, but I do think that kept me engaged in books just a bit in a time in my life when books were the furthest thing from my mind.
Konrad Curze behaviors
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Bottom dude will now be skinned alive in public, where passerby can eat the strips of his flesh as they please. Tuesday April 30, 9:45, in front of a random McDonald’s in Cassville, Missouri
Actually it was crime and punishment 500 times followed by Moby dick 500 times
alright Konrad Curze
I want to be as cool as that kid when I grow up. Hell yeah little readin dude
It's 1000 books "B4K", so I assume that means before kindergarten. This isn't a kid gaming the system, the whole point is for them to read Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar and 998 other pre-K books. What's wrong with these people
People who haven't read since they were last in high school detention feel humiliated by a prepubescent child. Sad.
Based Night Lord criminal system
Holy shit Konrad Curze
I mean, I could totally believe this, I read most of the books in my schools, admittedly kinda small, library. It’s really fun to read, I spend a lot of my free time reading.
Konrad Curze moment
Curze?
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:3
the man that walks 1000 inches is better than the man that walks no inches at all
what if the guy that walked 1000 inches walked into a meat grinder
I said better not live longer
Why is he posted up like that? He looks so damn smug.
I mean, if I got that award I'd be smug too. Lil' bro earned that.
https://preview.redd.it/jqmyfxyx5nxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41ba621276d0a141b8394f866c1812e7ed3ff8be That is the face of a child who has known only pain
Gatekeeping (book-keeping?)
1000 books? How many personal pan pizzas is that?
Finally, someone who gets it
No sense in covering the name Op because clearly that’s fucking Judge Holden lol
you aint a real preschooler if you haven’t read homer’s odyssey 🗣️🗣️🗣️
I like the idea of children reading one thousand books before kindergarten. I would want my child to excel in artistically significant ways in order for them to explain their burgeoning emotions better than my autistic ass could do when it came to playing Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World
Konrad Curze posting
Me when an 8year old isnt reading the Iliad >:(
Give them the one day blinding stew.
Rookie numbers. Katt Williams reads 3000 books a year.
He’s not wrong (all 3)
HALF LIGHT [Challenging, Success]
Harry Potter fans could never
Hey dude you cant say that! That's supposed to be my thing, MY shtick!
European faefolk-ass response
I want to grow up to be as cool as this kid
What
this is like George Orwell's uhh book 1984
Guys I need a series recommendation. I’ve finished both lotr and gottrek and Felix. I’m pretty sure they’ll stay my favourites for years to come.
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The worst thing about the internet is that suddenly you come across people who‘ve never opened up another book after graduation and are now judging children’s reading choices. Apart from that this kid does look like a kid who‘s read 1000 books, no front. And even if they only ever read a single book voluntarily, that‘s still more than the person in the post has read in their entire life.
True. When I was a teacher I used to ask people how many of them have actually read a book in its entirety. The number was shockingly low, like a concerning low number.
I’d love to hear his thoughts on Finnegan’s Wake
I like this kid. I'll defend him forever. Reading is broken. The benefits of reading are insane. And this day of age where most people are consuming split screen slime subway surfers 60s tiktoks and have 0 attention spam if they're not perfectly stimulated, we need people to calm down and read. I stan this kid. You go kid. Read more.
He was forced to read one thousand books, just look at this hopeless face
Those who jest at the accomplishments of others have little of their own
The Hoff Twins done did it again!