I find hard to read novels. Can someone please help?

Question

I'm currently reading George Orwells 1984, I'm only on the second page and I find so many words I don't know the understand or familiar with. These words are mainly adjectives. I feel like the novels loses its depth and understanding if you don't know what they mean if that makes sense. I know...

Answer 1

As novels go, the vocabulary in "1984" is pretty basic. If you find that you need to consult a dictionary every other paragraph, it's likely because you don't read much, so your vocabulary is far smaller than it ought to be. If you're reading the book for school, you haven't got much of a choice but to muddle through it, but if you're reading for pleasure, I'd recommend putting it aside and finding a book that's more suitable for you. You can always go back to "1984" later, but you're obviously not ready for it at this point.

Answer 2

Start by reading short stories. It's faster, and you can find great shorts by authors who wrote novels, like T.Coraghessian Boyle, Guy deMaupassant, Raymond Carver, Richard Wright, Oscar wilde, Richard Brautigan

The beauty is that you c as n read a story in 10 minutes, and decide whether you like that author.

Answer 3

Sure, point your eyes at the page, process the words, and so on and so on,

Answer 4

If the amount of words you don't understand or don't know are ruining the reading experience, then my suggestion is to read easier books for now, where you only have to look up a word once in a while.

If this is for school or you have to read the book for some other reason, then try to find an ESL version of the book, where they include an explanation of the difficult words at the bottom of the page.

Another method is to skim the page, mark all the words you don't know, look them up, write what they mean in the margin or on top of the word and then start reading for real.

Answer 5

You're never going to learn the meaning of words ifyou don't look them up.

Answer 6

Just read the synopsis. Works a treat.

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/sect...

Answer 7

Reading novels is by far the easiest way to LEARN new words.

Answer 8

Go to the Google search box - or Chrome works, too. Type define:yourword with no spaces and up will pop the definition. Real handy. You can do all sorts of other things like that, too.

Answer 9

Though I agree that buying a Kindle is easier - though more expensive than a dictionary - you need the dictionary when you don't have the book on Kindle.

I'm afraid you will have to use the dictionary and swallow the inconvenience.

Answer 10

You might consider buying a Kindle. They have a feature where you can select words you don't know and look them up. It's much easier than sitting next to a dictionary or having to google unfamiliar words.

Answer 11

Are you a non native English speaker? Many classic books have Cliffs notes, try those.