/lit/ - Literature

Are "Lord of The World" and/or "We" worth reading if I already read 1984 and Brave New World and liked them quite a bit? How did your journey with these novels compare? Also, thoughts on pic-related for an easy-reading Science Fiction novel?

>you’re telling me that the simulation of blowing up a planet and committing genocide… was training me to blow up a planet and commit genocide??
>oh no I’m going insaaaaaane!

YA has always been trash

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The Ender's Game quadrilogy helped me think of outgroups in less black and white terms, I think it's a good series to help a young mind understand this.

>Ender commits xenocide by accident because he was tricked by his higher ups into thinking that he was carrying out simulations not real battles
>"I'm gonna tell everybody I'm a horrible monster in this book instead of talking about how I was tricked by my superiors, it's all my fault"
>Formic kill 40 Million humans because they didn't understand that humans aren't mindless drones controlled by a few sapient individual queens
>It was just an accident bro, we need to have a good reputation of innocence despite that, we are the real victims here
Bravo Orson

Why am I more profoundly affected by books like pic related than by serious literature? I can recognize, in the abstract sense, that the Brothers Karamazov is superior to something like Ender’s Game or His Dark Materials. Dostoevsky is more philosophically profound, the characters have greater psychological depth, the prose is just better...But something like Speaker for the Dead absolutely rips my heart out, while something like Brothers K just leaves me in a state of reflection. Am I just a midwit?

Also post classic lit that affected you emotionally. Sea of Fertility is probably the most serious literature that actually touched my heart so far.