So, I have been addicted to my phone and videogames for a long time, especially now with my embarassingly long sessions of doom scrolling and gaming sessions spanning days
I now want to replace these addictions of mine with reading, as a few people suggested me to, and I actually tried to read a few books (like All Quiet On The Western Front, Anne Frank's Diary, and don't ask me why but The Communist Manifesto as well)
My big problem is that my attention span is basically gone, rotten, non-existent, so when I read those books (or tried), i just abandoned them after a few pages, was costantly distracted, or in some cases i finished them but because I had really nothing better to do, not even wasting time on my phone.
So, can you suggest me some good reads? I need something short (less than 50 pages), not too complicated (definetly not reading anything from Kant) and not part of a series (so not the Foundation series) unless the others are short too
Themes and genres don't matter, but please not romance, I hate that.
Thanks!
by Beneficial-Bag831
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Try some of John Steinbeck’s shorter works like Tortilla Flats, Cannery Row, or of Mice and men
They’re longer than 50 pages but I highly recommend the Goosebumps books. They’re all quick reads, they’re super nostalgic if you grew up in the 90s, and they’re a lot better than you’d expect a children’s book to be. Plus the cover art is cool on the originals
Arthur C Clarke’s short story Nightfall
The Little Prince
Gotta get rid of the phone to mend your attention span, or put Libby app on your phone and listen to audiobooks for a bit.
I don’t get why people think short books will be better for their attention span. If you can’t tolerate more than 30s of content a piece, a 50 page book (which might take you up to 2 hours tp finish, if you’re really out of it) will not be able to give you the quick fix dopamine any more than a 500 page book would.
You won’t get the dopamine hit you’re used to from reading, no matter how short the book is you’re reading. rather read a good book, which is way easier to find past 250 pages in small chunks than reading 50 page slop, just so you can get the dopamine hit of “finishing a book”, which you’re entirely numb to anyways.