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What book sparked your passion for literature again?

>> No.22581891
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>>22581802
I don't have one. Usually, if it's a non-fiction book on a subject I enjoy I'll read it. If it's fiction it tends to be shlock that I enjoy but no more "enlightening", educational, or better for my mind than any other piece of media.

>> No.22581933

>>22581802
When I was in high school, it was Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse 5, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that got me into taking literature seriously and it's been no slowing down since then

>> No.22582178

The books that started my fascination with books as a kid were Poppy by Avi, a series of schoolastic-esque books about Norse and Greek mythology, and SlaughterHouse-Five. What reviltalized it after I took a I break from reading while I was in middle school and high school were Great Expectations, Stoner, and Fredrick Douglas writing

>> No.22582266

>>22581802
Combination of seeing Shakespeare that I liked at a really young age, my dad reading me the Hobbit, and Daulaire's Book of Greek Myths.

>> No.22582274

>>22581802
Less Than Zero
Inherent Vice
Pushkin

Read them in jail, came out, continued reading ever since

>> No.22582293

>>22582274
>didnt read dostoevsky in jail

>> No.22582381

Phillip Marlowe books sparked my interest and Stoner reinforced my love for literature.

>> No.22582382

>>22582293
Didn’t have it in there

>> No.22582851

>>22581802
Camp of the Saints. Stumbled upon it on Wikipedia.

>> No.22582857

>>22581802
The Turner Diaries

>> No.22582867

Youjo Senki, i wanted to know what happened next.

I slowly went down to the classics afterwards since they were free.

>> No.22582996

>>22581802
Ironically /lit/ and the book that cemented my love for books was confederacy of dunces

>> No.22583029

>>22581802
honestly the book that got me into reading as an adult was Fahrenheit 451. Very simple and easy read but it made me enjoy the act of reading again and got me into fiction & literature. I read it around 19 or 20 years old which is late for that kind of book but it did the job regardless.
>>22582274
What put you in jail if you don't mind asking?

>> No.22583057

>>22581802
In middle school it was LotR, then in High School what kept me reading was Confessions and Anna Karenina

>> No.22583398

>>22581802
War and Peace was the first book I ever read that gripped me and wouldn't let go, in my mid 30s. Now I read a lot and mostly like what I read, but the only thing close to as good was Charterhouse of Parma

>> No.22583407

>>22581802
Demons. I'm still amazed how Dostoevsky was able to create such an exquisite parody of a "type" (the S. Verkhovensky) character without a trace of apparent malice.