Fifty billion pages

Alright friends, the whole premise of my blog (which, by the way, is a made-up premise; I had a blog long before I had a to-read list with 50,000 pages on it) is that I’m reading books and telling you about them. Except, quite honestly, the last book I read was in March. For me, that is a very. Long. Time. to go without reading anything new.

So I need your help. I’m not too keen on going to the public library to pick up a book, since I’m pretty sure I have some fines due; what I need is for you to recommend a book that I can find at a used bookstore for fairly cheap. Extra requirements: I don’t have the mental energy for a non-fiction book right now, and I need something that’s at least 250 pages. Anything shorter than that will probably go too quickly.

Ready…set…recommend a book!

Please!

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

It’s true, I made it through almost 20 years of my reading life without picking up Fahrenheit 451. But at least I’ve read it now, right? And I actually loved it.

Like Speak, it was a book that I knew would be a favorite before I was even halfway through. I think I only made it a few pages in before I realized that this was good writing, and that I’d want to read it again. After I finished, I found out that Bradbury did not write this book about censorship (although you could certainly interpret it that way) — he said that he was thinking of how television decreases interest in reading books. The same could be said of the internet, the Romgi adds.

Now I just need to buy my own copy so I can digest it slowly.

The bonus: now I know how to spell Fahrenheit.

The BFG

by Roald Dahl

Cute, short, fun, but without much depth. Then again, it was written by a giant, so what can you really ask for?