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Oh, those are dead and gone.... Would be a reasonable thing to assume in a better world.

It apparently came out but we've not found a surviving copy, Lucian of Samosata's "A True Story"

It's one of the oldest recorded sci-fi stories, written in 200 BC and a parody of travelodges that were popular at the time, but it's was just such an enjoyable read, it's wild, he teases a continuity in the story but we haven't found any surviving copies.

I recommend it, short read and wild, like 1800 years later we have these similar ideas and it's crazy to think. xD

I heard him read it aloud at UCLA some 50 years ago. Funny and dynamic guy. Still have the original copy. Hope it gets released.

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Lolita - Nabokov

Grapes of wrath - steinbeck

Anything by Toni Morrison

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Jane Eyre - Bronte

Sherlock Holmes, Jekyll and Hyde, Rebecca, Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins' novels are long, but easy to read.

I have a story somewhat related to this because I'm a speed reader.

In my elementary school, I used to read as much as possible. Kindergarten teacher was surprised at how quickly I was reading books but she was extremely supportive so after making sure I knew what the book was about she personally helped me with vocabulary and reading comprehension. I still remember her name to this day and give her credit for why I used to go into school happily (until the dreaded years of high school)

But... 1st grade I had a horrible teacher. I don't know why she had everything against me. Still remember that she made me reread a book 4 times because she didn't believe I knew what I was reading. Didn't even ask me questions to test my reading comprehension (Well she asked one but I got it wrong but she still didn't ask more). >!I have a lot more stories about her but that's for another subreddit.!<

I think this is why some people don't like reading in general. They can get discouraged pretty easily when younger if there's not enough support. I was lucky with loving parents and great teachers but that one year of having a terrible teacher almost made me stop reading for some time.

They want to maximize profit. Over many years they created the perception that Hardback is much more expensive to print than trade paperback and that is more expensive than mass market paperback. So, first they publish it as a hardback, for $50 and when they run out of people that are prepared to pay that they publish in cheaper format.

The thing is, the printing of the hardback is only a tiny bit more expensive than that large paperback, which is tiny bit more expensive than small paperback. Certainly the difference is much, much smaller than the retail price difference.

This has backfired hard, when they started to publish e-books and people expected that an e-book would be markedly cheaper than the cheapest paperback.

Wait finally? I have given away so many copies of Shades of Grey. I'm so filled with anticipation.

wtf did I just read

Better leak all the embarrassing DMs now and get it over with while you’re still alive.

That is one of my favorite books. It’s a must read that is often overlooked or forgotten.

The right to barely look at the page and skim over the pages collecting just the most basic of details and forgetting all of the characters names as soon as the last page has been turned!

Yes, I am that person. It takes a lot for a book to really rope me in.

Alexandre Dumas should be top of the list. His works fits exactly the type.

Except it is a VERY important distinction if he literally cannot walk to describe it as "he's walking". Why call it something that it isn't?

Ah, that makes a lot more sense.

The right to underline, highlight, and dog ear.

I read the Wikipedia summary and think the names are ridiculous, and the storyline seems boring and exactly what I expected from the title.

Why have a goal at all? Just read for the joy of it. Putting a target on it just puts you under unnecessary pressure.

Infinite Jest but something tells me the author won’t write it.

Definitely happened to me at least three times in my life already. Remembering someone that used to exist for years after I've lost touch with them, only to realise the person I loved doesn't exist anymore. They changed.

His feelings were made of jade. What I mean by that: I knew a girl who I had a huge crush on. She was just so cool and gorgeous and good at everything. I’d get so nervous anytime she was in the room. When I did talk to her, I was honestly a little intimidated by her intensity and the sort of things she spent her time doing. The more I got to know her the more I realized we really didn’t have anything in common, but I still felt these intense feelings towards her, not all of them pleasant. I somehow felt upset at her for not being like I wanted her to be. I realized I’d built up this idea of her in my mind and was more attracted to that than I was to her. She was named after a jewel, and so after I had a moment of clarity about how I was feeling, I renamed the idea of her after a different jewel, Jade. Now whenever I start to have these parasocial feelings or start to put someone up on a pedestal I stop and remind myself that those things aren’t real, they’re just made of jade.

Both of these statements just come off as so self-absorbed and self-important.

Where did the goal of 50 come from? If you’ve never tracked your reading before, I would make your first year’s resolution be to track your reading for a year (a task in itself to figure out your best method if you have ADHD) and just read naturally. If you end up reading 10 books this year, then you can make a more realistic goal if you want to start bringing numbers into it as you can take your reading habits from this year into consideration.

I am looking for a collection of short-stories by latinx writers. Something like, “The Best short-stories by Back Writer’s.” Something that would be read and analyzed in a creative writing classroom at the college level.