/lit/ - Literature

East of Eden is really good and I like the cover. I'd go for that

catcher in the rye. easy digestible book out of everything else there

>>15942113
brothers karamazov

>>15942113
Damn that's a lot of Russian lit for high school. I'd say it depends on what you're interested in first of all, but the best books in there are the Russian ones. The Genealogy of Morals is significant but not all that gripping. East of Eden is fine but Steinbeck is only important on the American scene. I'd Brothers Karamazov or Anna Karenina.

>>15942147
She recommended Brothers Karamazov

>>15942113
woman-tier literature
you get the same knowledge browsing r/eddit
try to beat her a few more times a year

Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace are my two favorite novels.

>>15942113
>The Brothers K
wtf is this?

>>15942147
Also, the person who designed most of the curriculum was Swedish, maybe there is a lot of Russian influence in Sweden?

>>15942214
It received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award; The Brothers K was a New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award from the American Library Association. It seems to have good reviews.

>>15942113
why did your parents love your sister more and send her to a good school op?

>>15942113
She went to a based highschool anon

lmao my education was god awful fml

>>15942872
I went to one of the best public schools in America and we still didn't read shit like this lol, and almost everybody cheated with sparknotes

>>15942137
>>15942173
I'd also recommend Anna Karenina. You have one of the best translations too.

Read them all. The order doesn't matter.

>>15942872

same desu. Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, and some Shakespeare. That's all the assigned reading in HS aside from a few short stories and poems printed and handed around (aside from Blake I remember nothing particularly /lit/ at all).

>>15942267
No, I got kicked out of that school. My dad decided to abuse me but not her so my mental health was much worse and I ruined my chance to go to a prestigious private school like a dumb fuck.

>>15942948
Yeah, it looks like a super cool story. Any suggestions for other actually good books about women?

>>15942958
Really? Even Being Peace, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and The Brothers K?

>>15942975S
I was assigned some Shakespeare and The Fault In Our Stars lmao

>>15942113
Damn they had me in some dumb shit.

>>15942113
those are all shit just read manga

>>15943505
Any recommendations? I don't really read manga, just doujinshi and web comics.

>>15943673
Berserk
Gantz (probably my favorite manga and anime)

>>15942113

Christ the fucking highschool I went to was a shit hole. I just read most of that stuff within the past two years. I'm nearly 26.

Another book that isn't pictured is Street Car Named Desire (I didn't include it because I thought it was some dumb romance novel) is it good?

Fuck you OP.

>>15942217
Certainly more than in the US I'd imagine.

>>15943731
I really liked the Glass Menagerie but haven't read streetcar yet. Tennessee Williams is great though

>>15942113
Do some high schools strictly have literature classes? Mine only had English classes and thus only read strictly English books.

>>15943757
Why?

>>15943384
The story isn't incredibly riveting, but the detail of the characters and the scope of the book is what drew me in. Maybe try Pride and Prejudice as well if you are looking for books with more of a female focus?
>>15943731
It's a good read, I'd also recommend Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.

>>15942975
Are you joking dude? In 4 years of high school English, we watched the Great Gatsby movie (it was optional) and read 1984, "Bless the Beasts and Children" whatever that is, and one of our choice, which was Catcher for me. We otherwise only read excerpts from textbooks.

No Shakespeare, none of the greats. Attended a somewhat rural HS

>>15943905
picture orientation lol

>>15944039
No, she went to an IB high school, maybe that's why?

>>15943718
instantly invalidated your opinion

>>15943718
Based.

>>15942934
Same here, we read stuff like Brave New World, 1984, Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, The Scarlet Letter, Shakespeare's various plays, Homer's works, etc, but nobody read Brothers Karamazov or War and Peace or Anna Karenina.

>>15942113
Could you ask her to post everything she read in high school?

>>15943866
Trying to remember what I read my final two years of high school. I distinctly remember Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ficciones, Things Fall Apart, some Shakespeare, Running in the Family, A Passage to India, I think the Oedipus plays?

>>15944085
That's definitely why. HS in united states suck when teaching literature other than excerpts from textbooks. Nigga, in my senior year i only read brave new world, araby, gulliver's travel, and the rhyme of the ancient mariner.

>>15944963
>>15944979
>>15944085
I also went to a school that had an IB program and this is most definitely why. What we read and what the kids not in the program read was night and day.

>>15945000
Does that matter at the end of the day? I met some kids that were in ib programs in college, and they were not that intelligent.

>>15945008
It doesn’t, there were a lot of idiots in those classes too. I’m just saying that the literature in that program was of a higher quality.

>>15945047
Oh word. Did you go to a prestigious college?

>>15945067
I didn’t. I never took school seriously so I never had the grades to get into anywhere prestigious. Watching all of my peers go on to become lawyers and doctors really stings.

>>15945078
Did they go to prestigious colleges? I ask because i cannot understand why parents would out their kids through that bullshit for them to end up in state colleges where anybody can get in.

>>15945092
They mostly went to UCLA and UC Berkeley. Some middle of the pack “smart kids” went to places like UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC San Diego. We had a few outliers that went to NYU, USC, and military academies.

>>15945145
Hence, my point. Were there a lot of chinks and pajeets at your school?

>>15945163

>>15944382
I also like elfen lied
agel beats
I guess I'd categorize most of those as psychological horror/cynical something like that.
I'm watching Lain and I fucking love it.
I've seen the big name animes too, they're nice to get into, full of action but a bit generic.
My hero academia is like the formula form of gernic when it comes to those genre, I actually dislike it a lot.
I think blue exorcist is a nice transition of the two.
I still need to watch some more OG shit like Akria and fist of the north star.
I also like steins; gate and eva.
I'm not really that much of a weeb, if you like shit I didn't mention go ahead and tell me.
I also want to get more into manga.
But if you're really trying to shit on Gantz we're going to have a problem
n shit
https://youtu.be/mvKN5KxPq4s

>>15945193
Damn, those must be the only overachieving mexicans.

>>15942113
can anyone rec some literature about having sex with your sister?
>inb4 freak
I don't even have a sister or siblings

>>15944936
I can call her and ask. She lives in California so it will be a while. If the thread is still up, I will post.

>>15945285
Ada, by Vladimir Nabokov is about that, right?