I read it at 18 and it hit me just as hard.

I have a "minimum" stack and my "maximum" stack. I'll explain.

The minimum stack is the bare minimum of books I want to complete this year. This is usually around 20 books, esteemed classics or books I'm desperate to read that no matter what, this year, will be read.

The maximum stack is books I'm interested in, happen to own, or are tangentially related to the minimum stack. This usually expands the tbr to around 50. Books come, books go, if I take one off the maximum stack its no big deal. It usually gets replaced in a week by something else that piques my interest.

Annotate books that you think are going to be meaningful to your life.

There are so many books that I wish were movies, but not a lot of movies I wish were books. I was thinking earlier bored at work, JR by William Gaddis would make a fantastic film if one could condense 770 pages of dialogue into a 2.5 hour flick.

I see a lot of people love Something Happened also. Some people even saying it's better than Catch-22.

It's a good idea but you might find that you can't absorb the plot as easily, or forgetting key details. If you read slowly like this, you might want to also annotate / take notes on what's going on.

To be "easy to read" you shouldn't need a guide...

Lolita??? Easy to read???

Siddhartha.