I have never tried to read books in English but decided to start this year. At first I chose “Do I androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” because I read it long time ago. Of course, that was a big mistake… The text has huge amount of unfamiliar words for me and is very complicated so I dropped it for now.
Then I asked chatgpt and he said Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a good read for a beginner. This one is easier but text is written like I’m reading Shakespeare texts…
So here I am, asking for a recommendation. The genre can be anything but I prefer fantasy or a good classics.
by valeriaraw
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Did you try any books by Charles Dickens?
I remember it being easy to read. Some well-known ones are:
– A Christmas Carol
– David Cooperfield
– A Tale of Two Cities
– Oliver Twist
The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton.
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway.
I’ve never learned a second language so it’s difficult for me to understand what level of vocabulary is right, but these books are written in a straightforward manner so maybe they will be useful to you.
Hemingway may be a good start for classics. Note: I don’t enjoy Hemingway, but his prose tends to be punchy, terse, and direct.
For fantasy/sci-fi the Red Rising books can be pretty direct. For example,
>I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
I watch twelve hundred of their strongest sons and daughters. Listening
to a pitiless Golden man speak between great marble pillars. Listening to
the beast who brought the flame that gnaws at my heart.
>“All men are not created equal,” he declares. Tall, imperious, an eagle of
a man. “The weak have deceived you. They would say the meek should
inherit the Earth. That the strong should nurture the gentle. This is the
Noble Lie of Democracy. The cancer that poisoned mankind.”
It’s insanely Reddit-popular right now, and for good reason.