Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain

Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by berberous on Monday November 05, 2018 @08:49PM (#18387699)

What interests you in other mediums? For example, if you like sci-fi movies, try reading some sci-fi books. Some people look down on shitty genre fiction, but it's great for getting you into the habit of reading. And as you read more and more of those guilt pleasures, you will become interested in trying other genres or more literary works.

Here's Reddit's top 200: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/reddit-top-200. Pick one that sounds interesting.

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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by bduerst on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:49PM (#18388454)

Those list dumps aren't particularly useful, as you have everything from Calvin & Hobbes and Tolstoy to Freakanomics and King James Bible.

- If you're looking for easy-entry, entertaining contemporary scifi, start with Red Rising, Hyperion, Old Man's War, Children of Time, or We Are Legion - We Are Bob.

- Classic Scifi is harder since some of it has not aged well. Easy-entry here would be I Robot, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, I am Legend, Dune, or Flowers for Algernon.

- Fantasy genre also suffers from repeated/common tropes, but some of the more inventive or engaging ones are Blood Song, Prince of Thorns (dark), The Blade Itself, or Sabriel (Audiobook by Tim Curry).

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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by jacquesm on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:20AM (#18389257)

I would like to add the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy to that list.

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