Pretty much what the title says. I(27M) have never been into reading. I haven't read/finished a book in almost a decade since high school. A issue I have is its hard to me to imagine the setting and characters in books. I have a good imagination I believe, but for some reason never clicked for reading. I've read whatever we had to for homework(1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, etc) but I would skip pages or just SparkNotes. There was a couple times I could pick out my own book for a project, and I picked Stephen King's Misery and The Shining(Shining became my favorite book).
Video gaming is my main source of at home entertainment because its engaging. When I'm bored of playing games, I watch TV but I'd like to add reading into my at home entertainment. I've tried to get into reading numerous times and I just cant find a book that grasp my attention and makes me want to keep reading after a few chapters. I'll go to the book store and I'll become very picky. The cover art of the book doesnt interest me or the inside flap or back summary of the book doesn't sell it to me. If a book was turned into a movie, I'd watch that instead of reading (Harry Potter, Dune, LoTR). I love Star Wars and I tried to get into the books, but it just wasnt the same for me.
If this helps for suggestions, I enjoy Science Fiction, fantasy, and adventure. I like horror but I've only read Stephen King(It, Misery, The Shining, and Carrie). I'm interested in Historical/War, even if its a fiction. I really enjoy comedy/humor, I read a book by John Swartzwelder(The greatest The Simpsons writer lmao), and thought it was pretty good. I'm trying to think of more but thats all I can think of right now. I appreciate all suggestions in advance and thank you to everyone who took the chance to give me a suggestion.
EDIT: I also grew up reading comic books and some graphic novels. But fell off the Marval/Super hero movies & books. Still enjoy them time from time.
by Mr_Plow97
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Matthew Reilly Ice Station (1st in the Scarecrow series)
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GLOBE,
Anarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself…IN THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH, A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else…THE HEAT IS ON…
First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge into a drowning pool filled with killer whales. Next comes the hard part, as a handful of survivors begin an electrifying, red-hot, non-stop battle of survival across the continent and against wave after wave of elite military assassins-who’ve all come for one thing: a secret buried deep beneath the ice…
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
The Chinese government has been keeping a secret for forty years: they have found a species of animal no one believed even existed that will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr Cassandra Jane ‘CJ’ Cameron, a writer for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will marvel at these beasts, that they are perfectly safe, that nothing can go wrong . . .
Leviathan James Byron Huggins
On an Icelandic Island, an illegal experiment intended to create the perfect biological weapon has transformed a once-innocent creature into the biblical Leviathan that once terrorized the world. Able to shatter steel and granite as easily as it can melt the strongest containment shields, Leviathan escapes from its pen and is loose in a vast underground chamber harboring soldiers and scientists.
The installation cannot allow Leviathan to reach the surface. For if Leviathan reaches the world, it could well be the end of the Earth. They must hold the line, here, and destroy it… even if they must detonate a last-chance nuclear failsafe built into the chamber itself. But, first, they must fight with every weapon at their disposal to discover if the beast can be killed at all.
It is a battle many will not survive.
As soldiers and scientists are vaporized by Leviathan’s hellish flame, or ripped apart by the dragon’s claws and fangs, a lone electrical engineer is forced to join the fight. And in the midst of what might well be the last battle for Mankind, Connor must find a way – any way – to save his family and kill this powerful, bloodthirsty Beast of Legend that has never been killed before.
Before it feasts upon the world.
Hunter by James Byron Huggins
Hunter is the ultimate tracker, the world’s best. If you’re lost, Hunter can find you — whether you want him to or not. Still, Hunter is particular about the searches he takes on. So when the military men seeking his help are very secretive about the mission they’re recruiting him for, Hunter’s instincts tell him to refuse. But there is a beast loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle and it’s already charged through a secret research facility, wiping out the elite military squad that had been guarding it. And this raging superhuman monster is headed south for civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation. It’s a job that Hunter can’t turn down, but what he discovers here in the wilderness is that terror has a form, that a renegade agency has let a half-human abomination escape into the wild. This almost invulnerable creature was created through a series of outlawed genetic experiments that have left it with a hunger for human blood. And may have made it immortal.
You might like the Gaunt’s Ghost series by Dan Abnett. It takes place in the Warhammer universe. Lots of action and really fun to read. If you want historical fiction, Bernard Cornwall has some really good medieval ones as well as some that take place in the Napoleonic wars (Sharpe’s rifles, which has Sean Bean in the television version).