What book shoud I read if I don't like reading?

Question

Honestly, I really don't mind reading, heck I do it all the time with the video games I play and the subtitles from foreign films, but I want to know more and read a good story. I know my ability to read sucks but I want change that and I want to be able to read without going to sleep. Being a college student I think that it's a neccessary ability.

Oh and any tips for keeping me awake while I read would be great. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Find books that you enjoy reading, preferably ones with a quick-paced plot, or maybe one with a character that you can relate to.

Some books you might possibly enjoy...

The Outsider by Albert Camus
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Ulysses by James Joyce
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Answer 2

First, find a book on a subject that you're interested in. Go to a bookstore or library and just wandering the isles for a bit to get the feel of things, helps some too. Do you love Star Trek? There's a whole section based on the various shows. Do you like politics? Pirates? Knights and dragons? Flower growing? My husband and I are both reading Southern comedians right now, (Foxworthy, Larry and Ron White) and we received a couple of those general, miscellaneous knowledge type books for Christmas. One is "Uncle John's Bathroom Book" and the other is "Why Do Men Have Nipples?". Those are easy to read in short amounts of time. Whatever you read, enjoy it! Good luck.

Answer 3

Don't read as a last option for entertaining yourself.It should be a bit tough I guess,because I have been a reading addict since I was 5.It might be difficult to change the habits that have grown already.But just make a conscious effort.
You should start with something very interesting-you might like Agatha Christie,old-fashioned detective stories with psychological twists.Try 'Lord Edgware Dies'.
Alistair Maclean should be good if you like thrillers.Harry Potter should also keep you engrossed,especially the first parts,the fourth and fifth drag a bit.
Hope I helped!

Answer 4

Once you discover reading it is really great. Darren Shan usually gets everyone reading but that is for a teens sort of audience. It depends what you want to get into but The Curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime is quite different from lots of other books and grabbed my attention.

Answer 5

Hmm. I have read all of the Harry Potter books. Good series. Also, The Artemis Fowl series is very good and new books are still being released in it. Maybe try the Shadow Children series? Super good. Any of those three are amazing. I would recommend you read all of them! The Harry Potter books are written by J.K. Rowling The Artemis Fowl books are written by Eion Colfer (I think thats how you spell Eion) And the Shadow Children series is by Margaret Peterson Haddix. :)

Answer 6

First get your eyes checked. You may need glasses and that's why your getting drowsy. Next get a list of the world's or America's greatest literature. There is a reason they are classic, they stand the test of time and are engrossing. Good luck.
P.S. once you start you won't want to stop, and wonder how you'll read them all in your lifetime.

Answer 7

This will sound weird, but get a book on speedreading, or take a course on it. Many people hate reading because their minds go so much faster than they are able to read, so they get bored. (And fall asleep.)

Most people read fewer words per minute than they can speak, but think many more thoughts per minute (or second) than they can speak. Imagine...if...a...person...
spoke...so...slowly...
you...would...get...bored...

That is what happens when active minds read a book. Up your reading speed, and this will not be a problem.

Speedreading is really not hard, and just think of all the time that it will save you, on top of everything else!

Answer 8

Read Ray Bradbury. He is the father of science fiction. You will love it!
The Illustrated Man
The Martian Chronicles
Dandelion Wine
Farenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Answer 9

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad past.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the Tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the Mars series beginning with 'A princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

You can get free e-books by edgar rice burroughs,O.Henry and rafael sabatini from Project Gutenberg.
http://promo.net/pg/

Savage and Ascension by Kelley Armstrong.Both are available free from the author's website.They tell the story of Clayton,how he was made a werewolf,how Jeremy rescued the feral child wolf and earned Clayton's undying gratitude,and how Clayton became someone to reckon with in his Pack.Told in 1st person from Clayton's view,it is poignant and touching at times and humorous.We understand how his childhood influenced his later life.

Answer 10

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Anything by Niel Gaiman, he writes for a lot of comic books and graphic novels, so he keeps the "MTV generation" kind of thinker entertained. And drink some coffee.