I can’t listen to them. They’re so bloody slow compared to my normal reading speed that most of the time, I’m bored to tears in minutes, and the other times I fall asleep, lol.

What you’ve done here is the equivalent of deciding you want to start hiking, then heading straight up the tallest mountain in the alps, then deciding you’re bad at hiking.

Pick something short that is written in modern English and try to analyze that. Harrison Bergeron, maybe? It’s a classic, famous, famous author, and is used in high school English classes.

I used to read and reread Fannie Flagg’s books with my Grandma when things got shitty. When she died, the books helped a lot.

Try Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland