/lit/ - Literature

I have a 14 year old brother. I've been forcing him to do more intellectual things. I had him play Final Fantasy Stranger of Paradise, a prequel to FF1. He loved it so much he wanted to actually play the orignals, he loved those as well, 4 and 5 being his favorite. Took him maybe a month, he seems reluctant to play 6 or any further because he prefers the Job Class system, I dont like it but atleast he tried something considered boomer trash by zoomcuck standards. We watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I watched it as a late teen and its one of my favorite melancholic films. He really enjoyed the subtle humor and the fact that the romance wasn't obnoxious and in your face. He also appreciated Walter's daydream sequences which he believed represented how he thinks on occasion. I'll show him punch drunk love next.

I started reading the Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem to him adding in the proper vocal tone and inflections for Trurl and Klaupacious. I asked him if he wanted me to stop, he said no. He even turned off the ps4 to hear me finish the second story. I'll be reading two tales from the cyberiad to him per day. Im not claiming that any of these things are super intellectual, but for his age it seems to be getting him into it. Yesterday he asked me how much the Cyberiad was and if I could get it for him. My plan seems to be working. Next up is Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer.