/lit/ - Literature

>>3774945
wheel of time
game of thrones
dune
ringworld

>>3774945

Jules Verne!

Get him something that will make him edgy.

>>3774964

Jesus Christ, no.

Only if you want to poison your son's mind.

>>3774945
harry potter
twilight
hunger games

>>3774945
isn't this board 18+? like all 4chan boards?

S/Z.

>>3774979
He can still ask for books suitable for his son, even if that son is under 18.

>>3774979
Yes and we sometimes read the whole post from OP and not just one sentence of it. Stupid fuck.

>>3774970
Pic related?

>>3774989
my brain skipped the son part sorry

>>3774945
maximum ride
sherlock holmes
edgar allan poe

>>3774982
Seconded.

Animal Farm

Treasure Island
White Fang

The Last Wish
The Mistborn Series
1984

>>3774945
Brian Jacques
i remember when i was 13 i loved everything he wrote

>>3774945
Artemis fowl
is the best series i can remember that made me wanna read more books i definitely suggest this all the time i was making other suggestions i was trying to remember Artemis Fowl

also i just read murder mysteries my mom read so if u read something he might find it more interesting

>>3775037
top lel trolling skillz broself

+1

Give him Kidnapped, Call of the Wild, The White Company or maybe Michael Strogoff.

Classic adventure novels are the shit.

The catcher in the rye

A Clockwork Orange

>>3775737
Jesus Christ no. This will not get your son into literature.

Fahrenheit 451

I recommend 50 Shades of Grey.

How smart is he? If he's linguistically gifted, you should give him some of Plato's stuff. If not, give him Sophie's World. Either way, he should be introduced to philosophy.

>>3775789
OP said 14 year old son, not 43 year old spinster

If he doesn't like to read, then don't give him anything too strenuous. Something mainstream like the Hunger Games might be a safe bet. Or those Alex Ryder books. Quality can come in later, right now it's just getting him reading that's the main thing.

>>3775919

Though personally, Lord of the Flies was a favourite of mine around that age (but i was a bit of a book worm ;) )

And I second Animal Farm.

freedom by jonathan franzen. it's a real breezy read, acceptable literature, and has relatable adolescent characters.

The Wind Singer trilogy and His Dark Materials trilogy, too.

Infinite Jest or something by Pynchon.

Op here, thanks. I'll look into some of these books when I get back from work

>>3774945
Lord of the Flies, definitely

>>3774945
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Ligotti

Give him some Hitchens and Nietzsche, let him live out his edgy period before people expect any better of him.

Get him thrown around in existentialism before he's 18, Kierkegaard for example is best read when a teen.

If he hasn't read at least one Dickens novel by now then he's a lost cause, sorry OP.

If you want to make him mediocre (which he'll achieve if he works hard) start him off with Atlus Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and then the pre-Socratics.

Sorry you didn't start sooner OP, his loss

>>3777168

>Atlus Shrugged
>Atlus
>Ayn Rand
>encouraging a kid to be an objectivist

It ends now.

The Story of Civilization by Durant

This will keep him busy in his room. Masturbating with grand ideas of times past.

>>3777168

Holy fuck I don't think I could be more of an asshole than you if I tried with every fiber of my being

>>3775792
Recommend any of Plato's stuff to someone who just looked into /lit/ please.

>>3777206
animal farm and lord of the flies seem like good recs to me.

I can only go by what I liked at that age, which was stuff that, just like 14 yo me, questioned or satirized the established order: Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five is his best, Cat's Cradle also a good start,) Heller's Catch 22, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (though I wouldn't rec it to an adult.)

But like the other anon said, you might have better success getting a non-reader interested with something more modern and visceral (or dumber)

>>3777298
whoops, didn't mean to quote that other guy