/lit/ - Literature

>>13737103
>20k
i really do not believe you did that

>>13737103
Based on your image of choice and the text you've provided, you should cease and desist all activity regarding this matter.

Find out her interest. The best thing for preteens is usually Young Adult Fantasy.

>>13737103
Your parents should be beaten and thrown in jail for allowing access to a cellphone at such a young age. Tabletbrain kids grow up retarded and autistic. I have this one relative who let her son play with the tablet and phone all the time and it has irreversibly damaged his brain and attention span. He can't act right. He is awkward. Always reaches for a tablet. Inasmuch as video games helped the coordination of the preceding generation, the the use of tablets and smart phones has hampered the zoomer and post zoomers because of the inherent lag between untacticle screen pressing on a bloated device running software coded by low caste Indian amid an array of other low quality processes. These machines control their lives. They need to check them. Watch something. Respond. They have been conditioned. It's too late for her unless you are willing to follow Christs advice to pluck out the eye that offends thee. Cut it off. Completely. Live in the wilderness. No devices. This is what must be done but you will not listen because you are of the same mold and want and expect and easy fix.

>>13737116
I was searching for the one with the happy apu on the shoulders but this was the only one with a little one

Alice in Wonderland

Make sure you keep the door open when you read it to her

>>13737113
Sorry.

>>13737103
Bump for same problem. Hes 10 and only loves to craft mines. He said he was interested im geography and history so we started reading Wells a short history of the world. He ate those wimpy kid books. I got him some manga I think he liked... I don't really mind if he reads I just wish he would play less games and watch less jewtube...

On a meta level though I don't mind as long as he's happy... what do..?

>>13737141
If i was the one responsable for her i would take her cellphone away, trying to make her stop using it by doing other things.

>>13737129
>Find out her interest. The best thing for preteens is usually Young Adult Fantasy.


Shit like the deltora quests? I didn't mind those when i was a young tacker

>>13737129

Reading trash= not reading at all, or even worse

>>13737322
>>13737103
I never had a younger brother, do you really have a drive in you to change your sibling like yourself?

>>13737103
skulduggery pleasant
sabriel

>>13737322
stig of the dump
adrian mole

>>13737103
Why the fuck do you want to do that to a female?
Women are best at being superficial, concerning with looks, being navie, peaceful and submissive and thats what they should be praised for and been doing during all history.
Stop trying to make her smart and knowledgeable, it will only annoy you even more in the long run. Women in general are more enjoyable when in that naive state of being.

Just give her some YA genre shit.

>>13737322
She can read and be whatever she wants, just trying to push her on something original (idk a word to use without being cringe)

This
>>13737333

Was for

>>13737337

>>13737103
she's still not going to fuck you, white knight

>>13737141
ive known computer devices since i was 5. but unlike most people, from a young age i used it to look up shit on wikipedia and learning in general. i don't know whether its genetics or just parenting, but computers pleb filters, a 10 year old could use it to watch jake paul, but he could also use it to read books. in short, if a child is doing this kind of shit, he'll probably be a mess later on. same thing applies before computers. some kids will be normies and some will be smart.

Wait until she is a teen and give her some light erotica.

>>13737103
What’s her estimated IQ? Under 120 just give up now, preferably she should be 130+. Literature is not for brainlets.

>>13737103
Women are animals. Don't waste your time. The moment she hits puberty your sister will only be thinking about Chad and won't give a shit about any of the lame books her creepy brother gives her.

>>13737774
/lit/erally this.

>>13737774
This hurts, she probally already thinks that about me, it might just be better to sabotage the gas system and end this shit family

>>13737760
If she had a 130iq she probally would be the one doing this thread to help her autistic brother.

>>13737829
relax, you can not enhance your family's IQ or knowledge or fix their hobbies. People choices their destiny. Do whatever you want, but don't dictate anything to people.

>>13737861
>People choices their destiny

>>13737841
Sorry, then it’s over. Let her be chad’s housewife with a degree in marketing or nursing or something as insignificant. Hopefully you’ll end up with non-brainlet nieces and nephews, but judging on your sister, it’s going to be completely based on your brother-in-law chad.

>>13737861
Both, she choosed but also our parents fucked up her education. If she was treated better she would be great or at least better. It's sad to see her strugling with the same things as i did when i was at her age. When i started actually doing something things got better, i am trying to help her to do the same.

Ok, guys, I don't really want to create a new thread, so I gonna ask you here. My sister is 16, what books should I buy for her birthday? She does not really read that much and when she does it's mostly King and other shit like that. How could I help her grow more interest in reading? Recommend me some books, preferably not YA, fantasy/SciFi would be fine I guess. I really love my sister and I'd like if she grew up to be fine woman in the future, so maybe some books which would make her more interested in being feminine. I don't know guys, please help me.

>>13737103
It's hard enough as an adult for most people to not just fuck around online all day, kids have almost no impulse control, they must all be getting their brains ruined.

>>13738000
We don't know anything about your sister so there is no way to make a decent recommendation. Try talking to her about what she enjoys

>>13737299
Underrated post kek

>>13737103
beat her

>>13737356
please stop it's been three years since 2016

>>13737103
Find books that fit her age and interests. Maybe some young adults like John Green books or Harry Potter. Once she figures out that books can be more entertaining than filler youtube videos it will open her up to the idea of reading.

>>13737103
>>13738000
Lolita

>>13737129
>>13737103
You should absolutely give her YA books and shit, she's not going to learn to love reading by reading books that she won't like. Just make sure she grows out of them at some point.

>>13737103
GREEKS, NIGGER
Also, get her something like The Joy Of Reading by Doren and New Lifetime Reading Plan by Fadiman
Also, what is she interested in?

>>13737103
Contrary to what people are saying here you should get her YA fantasy novels to start her off reading, starting off with literature is a bad idea if she doesn’t read very much, do not get her Harry Potter but there are plenty of other options, his dark materials (although I understand if the fedora levels are too high), maybe discworld, I’m sure other anons could recommend some stuff. then once she enjoys the simpler stuff start her reading real literature

>>13737141
redpilled

>>13737322
My brother is turning 13 and he just watches YouTube all day, I want to get him into programming. I'm kind of disappointed in myself but it's hard to change myself and him at the same time.

>>13738842
Isn't it better to tell her to read philosophy instead? Something useful instead of something worthless for fun

>>13738041
The childhood is the time when the vices create root, guide then to a virtuous life and it won't be a shit adult.

>>13738276
I'm afraid that she won't make the transition from harry poter to something greater. I think i will maybe gave her the alice trough the mirror after she finish. She likes fables, might gave aesop to her, she already know him and likes it.

Op here.She's studying greek mitholgy on school, she realy likes the miths, i though about giving her something related, maybe an adapted version, anyone knows one great that isn't too massive to a 10 years old ?

>>13740021
Ask her what’s God’s she likes then read their myths in Hamilton’s mythology to her.

>>13739304
I would try to make him do anything good other than jewtube, programming will be realy good if he's some kind amused by video games. Doesn't matter exactly what he is going to do, he probally likes something that he doesn't do because of the vicious cicle he is in with the internet, try to estimulate him to get better on something he truly likes.

>>13740052
Thanks, this is a great one anon.

>>13739316
Agreed, but where to start with it? She's ten and never had contact with a real book.

>>13740057
Kids like nothing but YouTube these days

read them some evola and explain that what they are doing is making them sick, then read then dome nietchze and tell them what they must to to become ubermensch this will always kill the jewtub
>t. made my younger siblings into trad warriors who call out degeneracy when they see it

>>13740263
Teens have a natural attraction to nieszche, it's a good idea.

>>13737141
Now this is what I call based.

>>13737324
You are responsible for everything and everyone you interact with. Any fault is purely yours. You had the chance to intervene and stop your parents from further harm. You did not. You are a coward and you will effectuate nothing good no matter how good your intention is.

>>13740946
I do say in the way that i could not decide how she would be created, i grew up with the same shitty education and how could i do something if i was already trying to fix myself and i had only 10 when she was born. Now that i have a little education i will try to help her to become someone.

>>13737103
The answer to your problem anon.

>Start with lolita.
>Read it with her every night.
>goodluck

>>13741000
WHat do you think this will achieve?

>>13740021
Buy her Percy Jackson books. I understand why people are so against adults reading YA, but why do you pseuds think a 10 year old will want or be able to really enjoy musty old translations? Let kids be kids for fucks sake.

>>13741711
It's better to not read at all instead of this.

>>13738000
Frankenstein.
>>13740263
> explain that what they are doing is making them sick

Not a bad idea. When I've told my ten y/o bro its killing his attention span he kinda looks concerned like he doesn't want that to happen.

>then read then dome nietchze and tell them what they must to to become ubermensch

Why does every reading of Nietzsche I see on the Internet make me cringe? Maybe I'll just read him the greatest weight. I'm sure he'd still just keep "mining away".

>>13742834
its cringe because untermensch themselves fail to understand the works and think it applies to them in thee total opposite way it does. Basically his philosophy is known by many but understood by few, making it cringe, like a 35 year old feminist spreading memes that originated here

>>13741000
>lolita
that could funny if his dad is into findom

>>13737103
The Edge Chronicles
The Edge Chronicles
The Edge Chronicles
The Edge Chronicles

>>13737103
Start her off with easy fun reads like camus and rand when she is older, like about 13, and branch off from there. She doesnt need to be a patrician from the start.

Like some said, find one thing she is interested in, REALLY interested in, and give her a book on it.

She may not even get to the end of it, but it's important that she at least likes it.

I have a younger brother to which I gave a book on Minecraft. He was so enthusiastic when he got it out of the giftwrap he couldn't believe it, and he never thought he could find interest in any book before that.

He didn't finish it, but he read a third of it, and considering it was a 200 page long book and he's 9 years old, I consider it an accomplishment.

>>13743266
>findom
absolutely fuck you for making me look up and know what that is, this entire thing needs to be burned to the ground

>>13743237
They seem to elevate him into a nee christ its fucking pathetic

>>13737103
>>13737322
Introduce them to anime and teach them to pirate. Thank me later.

>>13738000
whichever Pride and Prejudice book you choose, take one in a really nice flashy jacket, maybe she'll want to collect books and at the same time inevitably read them

>>13742292
Hell of a sentence Mr. Ivory Tower, I bet you were into some really heavy shit as a kid.

>>13737337
I do.
Probably partially out of sympathy for my mother, but I want what's best for my brother and am willing to put effort into helping him get there. Age difference is probably also a factor.
My dad died in an accident just after he(little brother, of course) was born, and my mother took it hard. I was twelve at the time so I was, perhaps not capable of really helping, but at least capable of doing my best to lighten the load.
I'm twenty now, he's eight, and I'm very emotionally invested in his wellbeing. I worry about him, about how he's doing at school, about whether he's having a hard time not having a father, about whether I could be doing more, whether I should be doing more, et cetera.

Why even bother introducing your slibings to literature lmao

>>13737103
Get her a nice collection of fairy tales if she likes fables. I remember loving Hans Christian Anderson at that age.

>>13744599
You're an exemplary person, anon. I thought I had it bad with my sister, 10 years younger than me, having to deal with our parents' divorce when she was 7 but I can't imagine the death of a parent at a developmental age. Feels like if you can just help them along a little at a time you're somehow rectifying the wrongs you've already made. Just last night I sent my sister a text letting her know I love her and I'm proud of her. You've got to be there along the way for the small things and they'll remember you when the big things come up.

Man, someone should write a book about this stuff.

Gift her Lolita by nabokov

Start her on some young adult books like Redwall or Little house on the prairie. Just short books that are easy to read and are in series to keep her reading. Just don't give her shit tier books like fucking Harry Potter okay op?

best books are ones that feel like they shouldn’t be reading them
i loved reading clockwork orange when i was 15, because i felt like it was for adults
give them shorter, cool works like that, makes them think about what the story is and has a fun writing style
>on the road
>great gatsby
>slaughterhouse 5
>crying of lot 49
>1984
also, try some greek works that are bomb as hell:
oedipus rex
bacchae
cupid and psyche
theogony
iliad/odyssey

>>13745141
It's being there for the small stuff that I'm struggling with the most though - I'm studying at a university a few hours from where I lived, so I've moved out.
I can only be around for him during the weekends and sometimes monday, but even then I'm also working so I'm only marginally in debt when I'm finished, rather than hopelessly in debt

I'm not sure if the age we lost my father at makes a difference - on the one hand, my brother was too young to remember anything of him, which is sad, but on the other that means he doesn't actually miss him like my mother and I do. He's curious about him, but it's more an abstract concept than something that's really missing from his life, I think.

I can't imagine having to explain why dad's not coming back to someone who's old enough to be upset about it but not old enough to really understand it either.

I suppose in the end all you can do is your best, the real problem is working out what that is. My mother was always upset at the thought of me growing up too quickly or putting my life on hold on her account, so not going to the best university that accepted me was out of the question, but at the same time I worry about what happens while I'm away, is mum doing well with the stress, is my brother doing his best at school, is he having issues with the other kids, is this, is that...
Sometimes I just wish it was all less complicated.
That I didn't have to pick between a good university and being near family, that there was some sort of unequivocal guide on how to raise kids to be the best they can be.
Everything I do just feels like it's based on guesswork and conjecture, and all I hear from people is that all I can do is my best.

I do like the idea of just sending little messages like I love you and I'm proud of you on occassion. It'll have to wait two or three years because I argued with my mum that he shouldn't have a phone until he's going into secondary school (about eleven), but it'll be nice to stay in contact more than 2 days out of 7.

Well that drifted a fair distance from book recommendations,
>>13737103
I'd suggest starting off light, not necesserily literature, but just get her enjoying books first. You might already be doing it, but it might also be worth reading where and when she can see it, preferably books that elicit some sort of reaction from you (if you snort or laugh occasionally, she might ask what about, for example) so she can see that people do actually read for fun.

>>13745769
She finished alice and really enjoyed it, i offered her the alice trough the mirror, aesop or mythology, also said if she wants something other than those options. She chosed mythology as she already read some myths and i think she will enjoy it.
I have respect for you anon, it's a really hard situation for you and your family but you kept strong for they. They are lucky to have you.

>>13745461
She already read cupid and psych. I have the complete trilogy of oedipus rex but i think it maybe be too much for a 10 years old. Maybe i could gave her an adapted version of those myths, an anon up here suggested the hamilton myths, but since i don't have read it i will look if it's on her level

>>13740021
Prose translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

>>13741029
Roald Dahl is based

>>13741000
The Ice Palace is not for kids.

>>13737141
I didn't get a cellphone til 8th grade. If it was any earlier it would have been bad.

>>13744599
>>13745769
you slightly teared me up anon

>>13744599
>>13745769
also, I'm interested to know how your father was. If you return to this thread, tell me about him.

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You have no hope, OP. Her time in the public miseducation system will kill her love of reading. IIRC there was a study that said high school grads never pick up a book again in their lives, something to that effect. That's what will happen to your sister, assuming she's real and not just a figment of your imagination as with most sister-figures in Redditchan stories.

>>13737103

In order to educate your dear sister in literature, you must first seduce and copulate with her. Only then can her literary education begin

>>13749444 the man with three corresponding letters doesn’t lie

>>13738000
>>13737103
Friendly reminder that your sisters will be pounded by black bulls in collage if you live in 'murica

>>13749444
based

>>13737900
I have a bachelor's in nursing it's not insignificant