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Should I read the Tempest? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I am trying to get into reading and I started with Brave New World, I have been reading the book for a year and have about 60 pages remaining. Before anyone mentions I am aware it is a small book that can be finished in a week, I am not used to reading. I normally read short stories, comics, and manga. I finshed the machine stops quickly, but I couldn't get into Brave New World, it has a lot of boring parts.

After finishing Brave New World should I read the Tempest, the main character made me interested in the story. I only read one other shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet the sparksnote version, it was great.

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[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Here's some random sci fi recommendations:

The Foundation trilogy

Pandora's Star (and the sequel Judas Unchained)

Starship Troopers (nothing like the movie, but the movie is great also)

Dune (starts pretty slowly but if you can make it through that, it's amazing)

I, Robot

On Shakespeare, it's REALLY hard to read, because SO much of it is dependent on understanding the politics and context of the time it was written. I think another poster recommended reading a script with footnotes - to me that's a minimum. Shakespeare is AMAZING if you take the time to actually study why it's so amazing. Most people who read it are introduced to it in a language arts class in middle school or sometime, they hate it, and never go back. There's so many freaking hilarious or just plain clever parts of his plays, he was a freaking genius, but it's lost to history unless you seek it out.

It's like people 500 years in the future trying to watch South Park, or Saturday Night Live. It will make no sense to them, like at all.

It's not the same, but have you considered listening to audio books? They're a great way to absorb books at first if you're not a huge reader. You can pair them with the physical book so that if you start to lose motivation you can switch to the audio book in the car or something and keep yourself hooked.