Like the title says, yes it's true. I haven't been able to get through a whole book in a long time. The only books l've finished are Unbroken, Hatchet, and the Rangers Apprentice series. I haven't been able to find anything else I like. I want to get into reading so l'll have sometime to do on solo camping trips. Any recommendations?
by Klutzy_Consequence20
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Band of Brothers
If you like survival stories, maybe *Into Thin Air* or *The Heart of the Sea*?
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
The Dog Stars – Peter Heller
I recently was in a slump and got out of it with some easy non fiction. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green is very easy and fun. I read some of A City on Mars and found it fun. David Foster Wallace essay collections like Consider the Lobster are great as well imo
I found Children of Time really interesting and easy, as well. Usually takes me a month to read a book but I read all 600 pages in about a week.
Cats cradle by Vonnegut, fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter s Thompson, rant by Chuck palahniuk. All good short reads.
Watchmen and Saga for graphic novels
Harry Potter Series (if you haven’t read it)
(Winter is good for reading this series…. don’t know why.. but it is..)
Did you read The Brotherband Chronicles? It’s in the same universe as Ranger’s Apprentice.
I’d suggest The Riyria Revelations and Chronicles by Michael J Sullivan. It’s a really good series with engaging characters, a really good bromance between the two main characters.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is fantastic as well. The prose is just amazing.
The Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames is a fun read with a lot of laugh out loud parts.
Desert Solitude, Monkey Wrench Gang, Animal Dialogues, and Emerald Mile are all great camping books. All relatively short and very entertaining.
I suggest picking up a few books that catch your attention from a secondhand store and setting aside time to read. Turn off your phone, get away from other distractions, and let your mind wander.
I think try reading something ultra short like short stories or collection of stories
Personally these books got me out of a slump so you might like to give them a try
Murakami’s Birthday Girl (ultra brief yet extremely thought provoking) and his Men without women (Collection of 7 short stories)
The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin bond
Short stories by Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekov, O Henry, Ravindranath Tagore
Ik this might seem juvenile but when I was younger I used to read Arabian nights to get out of a slump
Other than these
Boy parts by Eliza Clark
Daddy long legs by Jean Webster (again juvenile but I loved it when I was younger)
Emma by Jane Austen (long but very readable)
The white tiger by Arvind Adiga
All the lovers in the night by Mieko Kawakami
After dark, south of the border west of the Sun, Sputnik sweetheart, Norwegian woods by Murakami
Any roald Dahl book that you did not read when you were younger
Into The Wild, The Things They Carried