/lit/ - Literature

we live in Spain, so Spanish lit is welcome.

>>14403237
Doctor Zhivago could be good, especially given the fact he likes the Russian Revolution.

>>14403237
Notes from the underground.

That'll fuck him up.

At that age I also loved history and I enjoyed pretty much Hobsbawm's books

>>14403245
wow, not the first time I get suggested this for this particular person. Very nice. Any more thoughts?

>>14403237
Of you want a non-fiction book, A People’s Tragedy is a great one

>>14403253
Also if he likes russian history in general Voltaire wrote a pretty entertaining book about Peter the great and the foundations of modern Russia

>>14403237
City of Thieves.

>>14403237
Did he already read John Reed's book Ten days that shook the world?

>>14403253
what did he write about?
>>14403256
>>14403259
What is it about, and how could he like it?
>>14403257
I don't think a teen will be into Voltaire. Maybe leave that for the future.
>>14403267
no. Plot?

I think I am gonna go with Lenin's "What Is To Be Done?"

>>14403237
Mein kampf

>>14403687
kek. I got a 10 euros budget, and he doesn't browse /pol/.

>>14403401
Based and LITERALLY Red-pilled

>>14403237
unironically the catcher in the rye

>>14404269
He tried it once. He couldn't finish it, and ended up hating it. I know, it's weird.

>>14403401
incredibly based
>>14404269
do you have to be male to understand that book? whenever i tell someone i hate that book they just tell me i can't understand it really because i'm a girl.

>>14403237
Dune, Ender's Game, Hamlet or a shakespeare collection with Halmet bookmarked, The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Slaughterhouse Five, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are all good options

>>14404291
slaughtehouse five was a very good book when i was in high school. it was edgy enough to entertain me and good enough for me to appreciate it.

>>14404285
depends on how well-adjusted she is. the more well-adjusted the less she will enjoy it. That's also why it's impossible to read past the age of 16
i've known plenty of men who hated it, and the reason why is they had their shit together
all that being said it's still worth it and if she is even a tiny bit depressed, socially inept, or overly self-reflective there's a chance she will enjoy it

>>14404285
show timestamped tits or gtfo

>>14404299
i'm depressed and i still hated it
why would you write such a terrible book
i read it at 17 though for an english class, so maybe that's it.....

>>14404304
that's degenerate anon!

>>14404307
it's really not that bad. it's the internal monologue of a very immature and judgmental person, and as such its only plausible approving audience is immature and judgmental people
i find it unreadable but i would never describe it as 'bad' because i remember reading it sophomore year of high school and it hit the spot exactly right

>>14404285
>do you have to be male to understand that book? whenever i tell someone i hate that book they just tell me i can't understand it really because i'm a girl.
You mostly need to have been a particular type of whiny, depressed cynical adolescent. The book speaks to a fair number of guys who fit that description as teenagers, but most grow out of The Catcher in the Rye around the same time they grow out of The Wall by Pink Floyd. If you meet anyone over 25 who still gushes about either one you are probably talking to someone who smokes a lot of weed and has a very pedestrian job.

>>14404311
this is still 4chan

>>14404317
i think the immaturity was what turned me off from it. that whole class sucked though. we read only three things that were worthwhile. fucking ap literature...

>>14404327
my body is only for my boyfriend (hopefully future husband)
>>14404326
i really like Dazai Osamu's No Longer Human, but that speaks much more to hopelessness than anything else.

>>14404307
You're not meant to empathize or self-insert with every main character in a novel BTW just because you didn't like Holden doesn't mean you can't like the bigger themes of book such as adolescence and innocence

>>14404336
based

>>14404336
you may post them with a bra on.

>>14403237
Hermann Hesse. It will be sitting there for when he goes through a phase.

>>14404349
that's also degenerate anon
the only body parts i'll show online are what anyone could see if they just met me on the street. anything else is fucking degenerate.
>>14404347
to which part?
>>14404344
i know but i just fucking hate everyone in the book. it would be better if it included the violence of Blood Meridian so i could just watch them die.
>>14404359
this is an incredibly good answer desu. (i'm biased though because i speak german and love german lit)

>>14404386
Why are you still stuck so much to the characters? Does everyone have to be an angel or a attractive bachelor to you in order to for you to enjoy a work of literature? Characters are only a means to an end and that end is the theme or message an author has in mind. If your only critique of the book goes as deep as "I didn't like the characters" without any regard for anything else going on in the book then you are literally a brainlet and should consider picking up some other hobby less brain intensive than reading. You will never understand the point of literature if you don't grow out of that mindset you used to critique the shitty YA novels you read in high school.

>>14404386
keeping yourself covered up, very important

>>14404426
no it's not that "i don't like the characters", it's that i don't find them compelling in that they're completely boring and don't really have anything interesting about them in the depiction of their banality. there are plenty of great works of literature which i adore where i don't relate to the characters or dislike them, but at least they aren't fucking boring. the american ideal is just endlessly uninteresting.

>>14404285
>>14404299
>>14404326
Absolute faggot takes. How do you have such trouble sympathizing with a traumatized boy whose absent parents shipped him away to succession of boarding schools rather than help him deal with the loss of a brother at a young age?

>>14403240
what provincia maricón

>>14404487
hey homo here's that (You) you wanted

>>14403237
Metro 2033 is russian post-nuclear war fiction with supernatural elements. Well written too, at least in English.

>>14403237
only the russian revolution? if he is interested in the russian revolution then he's prob interested in most of the 20th century so maybe some stalingrad or berlin book? Would recommend Beevor

>>14404487
Because he deals with his situation like a fucking loser

>>14404487
>>14404815
Him being a loser is exactly the point. He is trying to find his way.

>>14403237
october by china mievelle