/lit/ - Literature

>>10942456
On the Road. You really should read it at 15-16, but at the very least, definitely finish it while you are still a teenager.

Read the Bell Jar, it's a coming of age story for people your age. It's written by a woman though, if you have a problem with that or don't think you'll relate, try Stoner by John William.

Journey to the end of the night by Céline

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>>10942519
these are all semi-autobiographical. Can you recommend something else?

Critique of Pure Reason

>>10942766
I've read it, it's bullshit.
>waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh the world is just an illusion lmao and perfect selflessness is basicaly fully moral lmao!
>let me just assume nothing and hence say nothing exists and then push in my brand of morality!

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>>10942878
Another boring reductionist criticism

>>10942878
What? That doesnt even come close to being a correct summary of Kant...

>>10942878
Fucking retard
Did you read it in Vietnamese or some shit
How could you possibly have drawn those conclusions

>>10942878
fucking lol that's not what he said at all hahahaha

>it's an anon asks for recommendations with the sole intention of shitting on all suggestions episode

How very damn trite

>I'm turning 20 in a few months.

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>>10942878


nice bait :)))))))))))))))

>>10943115
not bait
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>>10942959
But he says that. If he doesn't, then what is his view?
Protip: It should be notably different from my interpretation which you are so assurably criticising
>>10943073
nope
>>10943107
wut

>>10943188
Used the wrong image m8
I'm 30 this year

>>10942456
You should read Borges collected fiction. If you're not a Borges fan by age 22 you're failing at life.

>>10943397
>If you're not a Borges fan by age 22 you're failing at life.
why?

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>>10943381
How stupid do you have to be to waste all that time?

>>10943460
Nothing he doesn't know how to express himself without colloquial hyperbolisms

2666 by Roberto Bolaño
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Parallel Stories by Pétér Nadas
Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
In Search of Lost Time by Proust
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Tunnel by William H. Gass

Get going, OP. You only have a few months.

>>10943711
>Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
lol

>>10942456
48 Laws of Power
The Magic Mountain
should set you straight

>>10943735
>Robert Greene
No.

"origins of totalitarianism"

Industrial Society and its Future

>>10943711
I have read about half of those.
>>10943703
and why would I want them?
>>10943735
"no"
>>10943770
fuck no
>>10943782
You forgot mcveigh's manifesto, breikvik's statement and elliott's video

>>10943703
what?

>>10943826
ignore faggot # >>10943703 and read fucking borges

>>10943836

don't listen to anons above, anon. listen to me. there's only one book you to read before turning 20, and that's Into The Wild.

>>10942456
the defining decade

I'd say it's a good time to check Kerouac. If you're cool with On the Road you can jump to Big Sur and get a general view of what he did with his life.

It's inspiring when you're young and you have the chance to do dumb shit and think about it later. It's not a literal life guru guide.

>>10942456
Genealogy of Morals or Mulamadhyakakakarika

>>10942519
15-16 is too young for On the Road. 19-22 is the perfect age for reading it because the transition to taking control of your life can be daunting and Kerouac does a perfect job of showing the true potential of having that freedom.

>>10942456
Read every single book Kurt Vonnegut wrote before he died.
Reading Kurt after you turn 20 can be embarrassing.

>>10944077
you're right, I read slughterhouse-five at age 22 lol

>>10944077
>>10944100
Vonnegut is great stuff for someone in their early 20's. Just remember he isn't the end all of literature and that you shouldn't get a tattoo about it or readers will mock you.
I once almost reject a cute girl because she had a "so it goes" tattoo.

>>10944111
>almost
You were so close to making it, anon. Then you thought with your dick.
checked

>>10944170
She was cool. You wouldn't judge someone because they happen to be a bass player or like dogs over cats. No one is great all the time.

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>>10943955
all white trash, discarded
>>10943953
"no"
>>10943976
>Neitzsche
I've read that already
>le religious text
"no"


Is everyone here a hipster or something? I'm 19 and I know enough to know that if you consider kerouac or vonnegut's books as something proper to read for life experience you're setting yourself up to expect nothing but a life of living in a trailer, eating canned sardines and hoping for food to rain from the sky so you can finally use your food money to up your weekly allowance of weed and maybe afford to buy crack every other weekend

It doesn't matter what specifically you read, as long as it's good. There aren't any books that you *need* to read at or before certain ages.

At your age what's important is making sure you're doing as much as possible to bang 18-19 year old girls, because in a couple years you'll be too old to do it and realize how much more attractive they are than women in their mid-20s, and deeply despair if you were never able to be with any.

damn what's with people on this board and posting big fucking canon books like finnegans wake and proust when they are 19. Fucking tryhards. Do you really think you'll get anything out of reading finnegan's wake at 19? Read salinger or some shit.

>>10944769
ooh look everybody a real 19 year old lets all lean in and hold our breath to hear his sagely advice

>>10944860
>waaaaahhhhh womennn
>>10944880
k

>>10942456
Mein Kampf
unless you are a neger or a jew

>>10945164
I'm not a lefty, so I won't be reading that pseudo-communist trash.
And yes, nazism is very very very similar to communism.

>>10943397
I have the Hurley translation sitting on my shelf, haven't read it yet. Is it really still worth it to read borges not in the native spanish?

bumping

>>10945206
>he only reads books that agree with his ideology
A sure sign of low confidence in your beliefs

>>10944860
This but unironically

>>10944860
t. didn't get any girls in his teens and is fantasizing what it would be like

teen girls are fucking annoying. so much drama and high-maintenance and bad at sex. women in their 20s are much better and their bodies look the same if not better.

>>10947334
>bothering to read trash when my beliefs are true and when I have a finite amount of time that can be spent on doing other more useful things
Plus, everyone from /pol/ is mentally retarded. If I was ever going to read a maniac's brainwashing book I might have been more inclined to do so had the tragedy named /pol/ was unfamiliar to me.

>>10947964
>my beliefs are true
the absolute state of ideology

>>10947985
nice meme there. Pity it won't last.

>>10942456
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

>>10942456
It’s time to read Bible friend.
Start with Gospel of Mark - he had written it for young Romans. Bless you.

>>10942456
Into the Wild by John Krakauer. You'll want to go adventure and probably die and you should adventure when you're young.

>>10944769
get the fuck out. how is into the wild leading anyone to a life in a trailer.

>>10948077
already read it
>>10948122
>You'll want to go adventure
nope
>>10948234
I've seen the movie
>>10948093
>Bible
never ever

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>>10948896
>Bible
>Never Ever

Not so fast bucko.

The communist manifesto, it's short and you can probably squeeze in more books.

>>10942456
If you are reading instead of doing at this exact time in your life you are wrong.

>>10943992
>19-22 is the perfect age for reading it because the transition to taking control of your life can be daunting
Who said you're in control over your life when you're 22? I'm about to turn 24 and besides some exceptional people I know (I went to a top20 uni) most are still trying to figure their shit out.

>>10948896
>never ever
yeah you need to read the bible

The Winds of Winter

cease posting recommendations in this thread. the OP is a truly reprehensible individual. go and get some life experience before you do any sort of reading.