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Sirens of Titan is another great one. Definitely in my top 3.
I really need to restart reading, I feel like I'm losing my vocab and grip on English in general. It's been a break from books and literature since Covid erupted. My previous job was an administrative one that made me lazier and uninterested in reading.
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does reading feel like effort?
No it doesn't. It never did. It was just that I've been away from some good English Literature. Been reading Newspapers, some odd magazine or like that. Most of the times, those have been in my native language.
If you read in the comments, I was particularly talking about English which isn't my native language.
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actually harder for me to read native than in English.
It had been the same for me. It was just that my life went through some major transformations. Some of them are marrying, discarding my job, having a kid, started living with a combined (big) family. I don't blame anything/anyone but may be these transformations just kept me away even from those books that I love the most.
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In my own journey to getting married and a few years beyond (the first time, kinda broke my own principles hard on that one) I also read less often. However, because I was madly in love with a girl whose only common language with me was English despite us both speaking 4 languages (though covering 7 between a couple is awesome), mine didn't deteriorate much besides picking up on what we could call balkanized grammar, close to Runglish, which is probably still recognizable even when I write today.
I have much more problems with languages I didn't get to use in practice a lot for many years, like French. I can reasonably read it, have real trouble writing it unassisted, and found out recently what a silly dude I am when I try to speak back, because my friends that do speak French perfectly are also painfully honest to the maximum extent. Not even sure if I need to give that up; getting old.
I started reading again, once I finished grad school. It's been very refreshing.
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I feel like I've done enough of rest after working and only working for about 25 years since I was 9 years old. Now the comfort itself has started to feel like boredom. I want something more than refreshing because...
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
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