What do you like to read?

Question

I am 24 years old and I have decided to stop watching television because it bores the hell out of me. And I have decided to start reading. But I have no idea what to read. got any ideas for a 24 year old male? What books do you like reading and why?

Answer 1

Think about what really makes you curious. Something in history, science, the arts, politics? Find your areas of interest and start there. You will be much more likely to read what you like. If it is novels, great. If it is non-fiction, that's cool. I love to read. I read about all kinds of things in many different areas and when I get tired, I move to another curious place. It is like detective work and it is really fun. Follow your curiosity.........

Answer 2

Well done for changing to books. If you've never read any Roald Dahl, start there. Also start at classics,I know it sounds dull but it's not. Dickens,Wilkie Collins,Austenetc all help you to understand where literature is coming from.
Also as you are guy I would say try Tony Parsons- Man and Boy. Forget Fever Pitch and horrible bloke-lit like that.
Colin Dexter (Morse) absolutely brilliant intelligent books. Don't go for huge tomes unless you are boffin as will just put you off.
I love reading most genres apart from chick-lit and Stephen King style horror. if you do want horror try James Herbert. Hope this helps, could go on all day really. oooh-read to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. Must!

Answer 3

The classics! I'm 23 and they are what I read. Don't cheat yourself by wasting time on this transient popular fiction. Some of the greatest, most enduring stories have been told by... well, some of the greatest and most enduring storytellers. Begin with someone who will familiarize you with the style and pace of the ninteenth century (because, yes, it's true, most of the great books are within this time frame), someone like Dickens, Wilde, or even Jane Austen. Pay attention to their language and their wit (all three of them have load of it). Then branch out, pick a writer, pick a book, and go. You will be absolutely amazed how quickly your passion will grow. And think, if you get a head start now, at your age, by the time you are 50, 60, 70 years old you will have entertained yourself with the best of the best.

Answer 4

I'm a 24 year-old female but maybe you'll like my selection. Besides the classics and chick lit I love reading travelogues, especially about far away Oriental countries. My fave is Tibet. If you feel uneasy about a foreign country it's great to learn about the culture so your prejudices may disappear. And I also love reading bios or autobios of great Literary persons, painters or stars from the halcyon days of Hollywood. And I love flipping through art albums as well. If you don't really want to go through a thick book on a certain topic but you're still kinda interested check it out on www.wikipedia.org at first.

Answer 5

Hang on you aren't my boyfriend are you? You're last question about sleeplessness sounded like him too?
Well we've just got rid of our television as well (our electricity bill has gone down and it is so much cheaper, but the licence people keep hassling us), and he likes Steven King, (but it's really scary) and David and Lee Eddings, Peter Straub, A.A Attanasio... I'm just taking books out of the bookcase here I don't really know what they're like. Have you tried the Emperor Books? It's a trilogy set in sort of Roman times and I've read a few chapters of it and it sounds pretty good.

Ooh, I agree with the person above, Tony Parson's is good, and To Kill a Mocking Bird is ok.

Answer 6

I recommend looking up one of the many 'top 100 books' lists that you can find online. The one from the BBC done a couple of years ago was quite good.

Borrow a few from the list from the library and see what you like, then use a site like amazon.com or lovereading.co.uk to get recommendations on similar authors you might like.

In terms of actual authors for a twenty something male I suggest Douglas Coupland or Nick Hornby. Both write interesting and intelligent stories that will appeal to most tastes.

I hope you find something.

Answer 7

Sacrilege!


“I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”1

The nattily-dressed young nobleman escorted the comely French prostitute to a rented room on the second floor of a nondescript maison on the outskirts of Paris. The Marquis de Sade had been frequenting such houses during his trip to the capital, a trip he had ostensibly taken for business reasons. The true nature of his business, however, was the pursuit of pleasure, the kind that the nobility of France had enjoyed for generations without repercussion or recrimination. The newly wed Marquis had been staging garden-variety orgies at several maisons he had rented in and around Paris during October of 1763. However, he had a more singular encounter in mind for himself and the young prostitute, Mlle. Jeanne Testard.

Answer 8

Terry pratchett is good for a fantasy getaway

reccomend "Hogfather" for the Christmas season


Bill Bryson writes some good Observational / documentary books, I have just finished "a short history of nearly everything" which was great, The first two chapters are a little trying, but stick with it and you will find that it is a good read.

Answer 9

I like reading a real variety of books -- something more intelligent one week, then more trashy the next.

I'd recommend trying a few different genres to see what you like.

Some of the following are good reads:
horror/thrillers: Stephen King novels
fiction: Nick Hornby's High Fidelity
more intelligent fiction: Catch-22 (it's a classic)
memoir: Gerry Cottle's Confessions of a Showman
non-fiction: The cloud-spotter's guide

Plus lots of guys like Irvine Welsh books (he did Trainspotting, Porno, etc) - although it's not my cup of tea!

Answer 10

Hiya, to not to bore you, I think you should read GHOST GIRL written by Torey Hayden. This book an amazing story...The story is about this little girl called Jadie...Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. Nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. It was a story too painful and too horrific for Hayden's professional colleauges to acknowledge. But Troey Hayden could not close her ears... or her heart. A little girl was trapped in a living hell of unspeakable memories . And it would take every ounce of courage, compassion and love that one remarkable teather possessed to rid the 'GHOST GIRL of the malevolent spirits that haunted her. Now when I have read bits and bits of it, I was actually scared to read on, this story really stook me up but in the end I finally found out more why this little girl is weird. You must read this, it's exciting and nail biting. If you want, i could send this book to you. But other than that this may not be your taste but you will never put this book down, you would want to know more of what was happening to this little girl. let me know if you want this book, my email is [e-mail]