/lit/ - Literature

>>22952103

>>22841655
Flashman

>>21037013

How can one man be so based?

>>16266200
Unironically give him Flashman. Covers are a bit of a joke, but there was seriously impressive historic research put into these books. They tell about Flashman’s adventures in the British Empire across the 19th century. I am sure they would be very fun to read for a young man. Flashman himself may not be your first idea of a role model has he often acts incredibly immoral, however he is definitely very masculine, and explains the world as it is without some bullshit maoralistic perception distorting it. As well it’s told as like a memoir of Flashman retelling his adventures in his retirement during the early 20th century, and remarks on where his failures were and when he was led astray.

I think it’s an excellent series to lead a boy into manhood.

I'm coming close to my 52nd book of the year, and I'm trying to decide what the most based book I could read as my 52nd. This will be the first year that I have made it to 52 so I want it to be special. I'm thinking picrel, any other ideas?
>>xxxxxx69 picks

What the fuck was his problem?

>>9198658
I think you mean The Flashman

>>6984087

ITT: The pleb-tier assumption that thrillers or adventure stories are devoid of literary merit.

OP, I recommend:

John Buchan's work.
Ian Rankin's Rebus series.
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe
CS Forester's Hornblower series, and novels Death to the French and The Gun
VM Yeates's Winged Victory
George MacDonald Fraser's "Flashman"
Walter Scott's "Waverley"
Dumas's "The Three Musketeers"
Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
Lovecraft
Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone"
Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
Jules Verne
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island"
H. Rider Haggard's Quartemain series
Arthur Conan Doyle's "The White Company" and, of course, Sherlock Holmes
Jack London's "The Seawolf"
Fantômas
William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land"

And many other worthy books besides!

And if you want some real mindless action and adventure, grab a Commando comics annual.