re: A few questions from a new reader

From Buckey06:

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My biggest problem with books to movies is that once I see a movie, i never can see the characters as I saw them in the book originally. Perfect example is the dwarf in GOT. I imagined him much more hideous than he was in the show but now I can't unsee him

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Great point. I'm the same. I read The Stand before the original mini-series came out and I had a picture in my mind for all of the characters. Now I can only envision Gary Sinese as Stu, Laura San Giacomo as Nadine, etc. I can't even remember how I had originally pictured them (except for some reason I pictured Larry as Tony Danza).

From ev247:

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I don't know about a genre, but I'm leaning towards something where the characters are poor or just from a different time period where they'd seem poor by any 2023 American's standards. Preferably without vulgar language. Cheers!

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Try something like The Old Man and the Sea. It's short, well written, about a poor old fisherman and set probably in the 50's or earlier. Another possibility is try out some short stories. A "Clean Well-Lighted Place" is very good but most major authors who wrote novels also wrote short stories. There used to be an annual compilation called something like "The Best Short Stories of (insert year)" I don't know if they still publish that but that could give you a start. Another good novel to start with might be "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.