/lit/ - Literature

I don't want my kid trying to be God

>>9074162
Complete Shakespeare or Don Quixote

I already have a kid and I've already read her multiple books. Eat my shorts.

>>9074162
the bible

>>9074162
maps of meaning

>>9074162
meditations of course

This. It's the first full length book I ever read.
I read it over and over and would stare for what felt like hours at the pictures, imagining what it'd be like... A book that really shows a kid what kind of amazing adventures he can have by reading.

>>9074162

>>9074162
Leviticus

Is it even a question?

>>9074696
Is that Obama?

>>9074522
care to enlighten us?

if he is not going to read anything else, it would be "ficciones" by Borges.
if he can still read whatever he likes, it would be Don Quijote for sure, best book i ever read

>>9074592
Stay pleb.

>>9074174
What the fuck why is nietzsche yhe cover of Frankenstein

>>9074162
how old is the kid when i give them the book?

if theyre still a child, probably grimms complete fairy tales

if theyre a bit older, probably either the bible or don quixote

>>9075874
adolescence, when there learning how to be a real human

>>9076096

Owen Meany seems like a good one for that age.

>>9074162
Mein Kampf

>>9074162
wasnt a hard choice at all

>>9075874
>be anon's son
>a little older than a child
>really into all kinds of fiction
>dad says soon he'll give me one book
>not today or this year, but in my lifetime
>one book
>dad's an educated man that reads a lot, wonder what he'll give me
>probably some definitive tolkien edition
>maybe a complete lovecraft, that would be good
>finally the day comes
>i'm excited
>open the wrapping around the book
>it's the bible
T-thanks a lot, dad.

>>9074162
Storm of Steel

Then the next time he complains about something I can say, "you think Ernst Junger would complain about something like that? Of course he wouldn't you candy assed faggot. You're a faggot and a loser and you will never amount to anything. KYS yourself you worthless faggot."

>>9075844
Hitler was his Frankenstein's monater

>>9074162
What you have posted.

>>9074162
The correct answer.

>>9076717
Good point. He'll never have to stop reading.

>>9076717
if you do that im calling social services

>>9075579
But does he get to read the first book or the second?

The Don Quixote of book one is not the Don Quixote at the end of book two.

>>9074162

>>9078115
Apples don't poop.

>>9074174
What does the wanderer above a sea of fog have to do with Frankenstein

>>9076708
pic related- OP

>>9076544
Good bedtime stories

>>9078211
I actually wondered this myself. But i have that edition so i chose it for pic

>>9074162
>>9074635

Planning on reading it. Which edition should I get?

>>9074162

>>9076096
My newly teenaged son just started reading Walden, and is loving it... But if it was only ONE book, goddamn. I don't know.

HG Wells' Outline of History, maybe?

The Hobbit, obv