/lit/ - Literature

>>14707808
Can you teach children that authority should be questioned in a setting where the authority tells them what to do? I don't think so.

Give them a good novel for a change. All those shitty"young adult" novels like the giver are books I've never read outside of school. Perhaps tip them off to something such as kafka..

>>14707808
Dickens
Jack London
Lloyd Alexander
T.H. White
etc
Don't make kids read kid lit/YA fiction. It's fucking garbage and makes kids stupid.

>>14707829
will you faggots shut up about kafka already?

>>14707829
>>14707853
who?

>>14707808
Kafka

>>14707829

Hold the phone. This is a young adult novel? I read it this summer and thought it was great, but I was under the impression that the target audience was 11-12 year olds.

>>14707948
12-18 is YA imo
i read the giver when i was 13

>>14707948
yes i read this back in elementary school

>>14707808
What age?

>>14707957
Imagine being 13-18 and reading YA fiction. As a teenager you should be working through the western canon of great literature, not reading about faggot wizards and stronk wimmen

>>14707996
>western
stopped reading there

>>14708009
i wonder why
>>14707996
this is still cringe too though

Series of Unfortunate Events
The Wind in the Willows
Flatland
Wonderland/Looking Glass
The Phantom Tollbooth
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
The Twits
Tale of Despereaux
His Dark Materials

>>14707808
kipling. puck of pook's hill is an extremely charming novel that kids tend to love. ignore lib hatred.

>>14707948
Read it in 6th grade in the gifted class. Whatever age that is

>>14707996
What the hell is YA fiction?
Also I agree. A teenager is a fine time to start reading and unfortunately misinterpreting Western literature while still thinking you "really got it."

>>14708009
I guess you can read your weeb lit too. I discovered Haruki Murakami, Mishima, Oe, etc, at 14.

Nietzsche "Will to Power"
10 year olds will love this shit man trust me.

>>14708036
Retard shit like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, those John Green cancergirl books.
From Wikipedia:
>Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age.[1][2] While the genre is targeted to teenagers, approximately half of YA readers are adults.[3]

>The subject matter and genres of YA correlate with the age and experience of the protagonist. The genres available in YA are expansive and include most of those found in adult fiction. Common themes related to YA include friendship, first love, relationships, and identity.[4] Stories that focus on the specific challenges of youth are sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming-of-age novels.[5]

>Young adult fiction was developed to soften the transition between children's novels and adult literature.[6]

>>14708068
I see. Thank you

>>14708111
It's the equivalent of watching capeshit as a 30 year old instead of kino from the 40s/50s/60s/70s

>>14708122
>40s/50s
shut the fuck up

>>14708207
>he doesn't like Ford, Huston, Hitchcock, Ozu, Kurosawa, Welles, De Sica, Dassin, Truffaut, Fellini

I have a list of novels I think would be good for boys as they grow older, but I don't think I would put any of them in the general curriculum. It's one thing to give my son Kim by Rudyard Kipling when he's 14, and another thing to expect every 14 year old boy to read the entirety of Kim for a highschool english assignment. Anyways, some books I would recommend to my theoretical future son, generally going from younger (14) to older (18-20):

The Hobbit, Tolkien
The Odyssey, Homer
Idylls of the King, Tennyson
Lord Jim, Conrad
Kim, Kipling
Dubliners, Joyce
Any Dostoevsky
Pnin, Nabokov
Storm of Steel, Junger
Journey to the End of the Night, Celine

>>14708271
Your future son is a 'tard if he's reading The Hobbit instead of LOTR at 14 and he's a double retard if any of those are beyond him at 14.

>>14708023
>captain bluebear
fucking based