No, I am serious about this. I wish to get back into the learning of reading, but as a beginner I am repelled by the intense use of vocabulary, literary devices of classical literature books or intense and difficult-to-follow storyline of modern day fiction. I want to read a book that is clearly made with people like me in mind.

I’m not saying I want 10 second short paragraphs or extremely racist or bigoted comments to fuel my interest in reading the book. Though I rarely use social media, I do quite often look at memes, and they make me feel at home with how they are relatable and make use of clever wordings and phrases to express that one particular feeling. Same thing is seen in comments of meme forums where people come up with things to add to the humor of the original post or make it even better. I feel like this kind of expression could very well be possible to implement in a book in a textual medium while retaining the same amount of engagement and creativity.

I know my request may seem unnecessary, that I should quit bickering and just pick up a book and start reading it, and in reality I could by lending one from my family, however I wish to give this approach a chance as I am sure this situation must be faced by other people and someone could have a written a book to directly address these kind of people. I need a stepping stone to start my habit of reading books and I feel like starting from something I am already familiar with would greatly assist me.

I am not interested in any particular genre as of now apart from what I have expressed in the post so far. I could even go as far as to read an encyclopedia or an academic paper if the humor is engaging enough.

I feel that this topic of discussion is general, subjective and of help to others on the internet, which is why I decided to post it here instead of the dedicated books community.

  • Trizza Tethis
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    9 months ago

    Try books by Dril. Yes, the Twitter personality. I hear his newest book, The Get Rich and Become God Method, is his finest work so far.

    It’s part of a series called the DRIL Collection, though, so it may have quite a few of his tweets. The other books in the series are just his tweets collected in a book.

    I also see he has a book called How to Cheat at Casino Games by Being a Bitch, and the sample pages are quite hilarious, so that could be up your alley as well.

    …only problem is they’re not available digitally, at least not on any storefront I can find.

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        9 months ago

        But only of two of them: TGRaBGM and the 10 year anniversary tweet compilation. And if you go on the Gumroad page there’s an additional massive tweet compilation with extras for huge fans and data hoarders.

        So no Casino Games.