• Welcome to BookAndReader!

    We LOVE books and hope you'll join us in sharing your favorites and experiences along with your love of reading with our community. Registering for our site is free and easy, just CLICK HERE!

    Already a member and forgot your password? Click here.

Short Chapter Books?

B

bigtymer_km14

New Member
Hey I was wondering if any of you know of any adult author who writes books with short chapters. Anyone who reads James Patterson knows what i mean, books with chapters about 3 to 6 pages long. I have a hard time reading some books and really getting into them because of my ADD. I can read Pattersons short chapter style books a whole lot easier. :)
 
About half of all Dean Koontz books use chapters roughly 1 to 3 pages. Sometimes Patterson really pisses me off with some of his chapters... sometimes barely a page, sometimes a page and a half... although, it makes for great reading while watching television.
 
Thanks for the authors and book, i picked up a Koontz book once and scanned through it but the chapters weren't short. I'll guess i should have picked up a couple more.
 
Robert Crais (which is also crime) has pretty short chapters int he novel im reading at the moment. (The Forgotten Man is pretty good)
lani
 
What about short stories? They're usually a bit longer, but the whole story is wrapped up in, say, 12 pages. I don't know much about ADD, and I appologise for my ignorance in advance, but would knowing that the entire tale is contained within 12 pages help?
 
At perhaps the other end of the scale, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco has 100 chapters in 600 pages, so you, as they say, do the math. Not sure it's an ADD-er's delight though.
 
Shade said:
At perhaps the other end of the scale, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco has 100 chapters in 600 pages
Click to expand...

Even better; it has 120, a number that Eco was no doubt aware of due to its mystical quality.
 
Shade said:
Not sure it's an ADD-er's delight though.
Click to expand...
It's not. Although the chapters are short, the writing is dense and at times slow moving. I found that putting it down too often made it hard to remember what was happening.

Perhaps you should talk to your therapist or PCP about your trouble reading. Difficulty reading is one of the things they really work hard to help you deal with, especially for school aged people.
 
the sadness of sex..short dreamlike vignettes..some of the stories are only one page long,and you can skim around



http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=85468


also, SOME of kafka. ( i am sure people will tell me i am crazy, and that books like the castle and the trial plod on endlessly, and they do..in his collected works, however there are some very short, snappy stories, notes, etc..lots of things that are only half a page in length even, and still brilliant

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=189111&x1=Y
 
Maya said:
I'm reading "Silk" by Baricco.
It has 65 chapters divided on 127 pages.
Click to expand...
I'm currently stuggling through The Tommyknockers, which is six hundred-something pages with about twenty chapters, each divided into 10-50 sub-chapters.
 
sirmyk said:
I'm currently stuggling through The Tommyknockers, which is six hundred-something pages with about twenty chapters, each divided into 10-50 sub-chapters.
Click to expand...
Ouch!
98ewba.gif


(I'm sorry, just had to :D)
 
I also like books with short chapters. I'm currently reading "Life of Pi" which has exactly 100 chapters divided over 401 pages. Another author who uses lots of breaks within chapters is Nora Roberts, if you like that kind of stuff.
 
Jonathon Nasaw writes some gripping psychological thrillers - The Girls He Adored/Fear Itself/27 Bones. His chapters are short and subdivided.
 
If you're ever in the mood for fantasy, or for something funny, try the Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin. Another Fine Myth is his first, and it has really nice short chapters and lots of snappy dialogue, with hardly any long descriptive passages. It's a very fun, quick read.
 
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Although short chapters is the least of what makes this book interesting!
 
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby had really short chapters. Fight Club has pretty short chapters as well.

i do prefer short chapters as opposed to long. long chapters tend to seem like they're just dragging on anyhow. it really depends tho - carrie had really 3-4 specfic chapters and it didnt bother me.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top