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What book does /lit/ recommend me getting for my 14 year old sister's birthday? She loves Murakami and I got her a copy of Sophie's World a few weeks ago.

>> No.5590753 [DELETED] 

Give her a copy of my diary, faggot.

>> No.5590757

Finnegan's Wake

>> No.5590764

Schopenhauer.

>> No.5590783

>>5590753

>has a diary
>calls others 'faggot'

lmao ayy

>> No.5590785

>>5590757
>Finnegan's
>'s
>'

>> No.5590787 [DELETED] 

>>5590783
say that to my face, pussy

>> No.5590789

>>5590744
Start her with the Greeks.

>> No.5590791 [DELETED] 

>>5590789
SHREKT

>> No.5590793

>>5590744
Whatever is translated into your language by Ernst Jünger

>> No.5590795 [DELETED] 

>>5590793
What else is there besides Storm of Steel?

>> No.5590799

>>5590795
Plenty, most of it has never been translated though.

http://www.juenger.org/bibliography_english.php

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5590803

>>5590799
>fucking based

Thanks, German anon-sama.

Greetings from Zeeburg and his American homeland.

>> No.5590805

>>5590795
The Forest Passage is probably the best thing he ever wrote.
Mishima's earlier stuff is also fantastic.

>> No.5590818

>>5590793
He's a fascinating character, I haven't got around to reading any of his work yet though.

>> No.5590831
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>>5590803
No problemo, Herr Freiheit.
t. Swede

>>5590818
Sadly it's disgustingly hard to find any of his work in languages other than German, but it's worth the search

>> No.5590875

>>5590831
I'm starting German next year, so maybe in three or four years time I'll be able to grind my way through in German.

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5590880

>>5590744

>> No.5592546

Lolita

>> No.5592573

>>5590744
Any Hesse.

>> No.5592628

Slouching Towards Babylon or Lunch Poems

>> No.5592638

>>5590744
Borges

>> No.5592644

Hunger Games

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>>5590744

>> No.5592656

Giver her a book full of your dick picks.

>> No.5594383

>>5590744
The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Has been my favorite book for years, couldn't put it down the first time I read it.

>> No.5594589

Instantly wondered what she thought about the sister scene in Kafka on the Shore. Many faps have been had over those pages

>> No.5594598

>>5592648
Does anyone have an image of the porn account this is based off of?

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5594599

>>5590744
i really liked jellicoe road. it won the printz award.

>> No.5594614

Give her Blood Meridian and Grav'ities' Rainbow

>> No.5594626

14 and she likes murakami wtf

she's prob gna grow up to be a pervert

golden compass trilogy is good for her age

>> No.5594665

>>5594589
>be picking up little sister from school
>"hey"
>"hi"
>"So what's your opinion on Kafka on the Shore?"
>"I like it, I prefer The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles though"
>"Oh okay. What'd you think of the sister scene in Kafka?"
>"..."
No comment.

>> No.5594684

>>5594665
Why did you cut out the sea scene?