You're allowed to make one book mandatory reading in all high schools

[Anonymous No.11565809]

What book do you choose

Hard mode: No religious texts

[Anonymous No.11565811]

120 Days of Sodom

[Anonymous No.11565824]

textbook on logic

[Anonymous No.11565833]

The Culture of Critique

[Anonymous No.11565838]

>>11565833
This, but unironically.

[Anonymous No.11565841]

>>11565809
Finnegan's Wake

[Anonymous No.11565845]

>>11565809
Spinoza's Ethics

[Anonymous No.11565848]

>>11565809
Watership Down

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behold a pale horse

[Anonymous No.11565873]

>>11565809
Book of Ecclesiastes

[Anonymous No.11565874]

>>11565809
That one anon's novella about niggers

[Anonymous No.11565903]

The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit by E. Michael Jones.

[Anonymous No.11565910]

>>11565809
>What book do you choose
Erich Fromm, "Escape from Freedom".

Or maybe José Ortega y Gasset "The Revolt of the Masses".

[Anonymous No.11565924]

the motherfucking constitution of whatever country you're from

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Der Waldgang

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[Anonymous No.11565938]

The International Jew

[Anonymous No.11565952]

The Turner Diaries

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Ham And Rye maybe. It's simple and fun, probably pretty relatable to loser kids, and I think it would be a good stepping stone into garnering an interest for literature.
School books are where authors go to die, and unless it's short and sweet you'd probably just end up turning away potential readers.

[Anonymous No.11565972]

>>11565811
Kek, fpbp

Also: /pol/ shitposters go oven yourselves

[Anonymous No.11565992]

>>11565972

Ironic coming from a frogposting faggot.

[Anonymous No.11566006]

the Turner Diaries

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>>11565809
Paradise lost

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Elders of Zion

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my diary desu

[Anonymous No.11566190]

Thus spoke Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.11566263]

A People's History of the United States

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Roadside Geology of Wyoming, Revised 2nd Edition, by David R. Lageson and Darwin R. Spearing

[Anonymous No.11566761]

>>11565809

Leviathan

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Food of the gods

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Infinite jest

[Anonymous No.11567137]

Mein Kampf

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>>11565809
The ego and it's own.

[Anonymous No.11567148]

>>11565824
>not even naming a specific one
Poser identified beyond room for doubt

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>>11566190
This would serve no good purpose

>>11565809
Demian

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>>11567148
you've got me there, friendo

what a surprise that you'd find a poser on /lit/, of all places!

[Anonymous No.11567171]

>>11565809
Naked lunch is now required reading for middle school.

[Anonymous No.11567194]

>>11567171
That's actually great. Disguise him as a homosexual druggie guru and you can get even a social darwinist masculinist fascist like Bill Burroughs into modern schools. I'm currently reading Ernst Jünger's Das abenteuerliche Herz and it constantly reminds me of Naked Lunch.

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>>11565809
The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

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Understanding Human History: An Analysis Including the Effects of Geography and Differential Evolution

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>>11567171
I always preferred the western lands

[Anonymous No.11567275]

>>11567164
Don't try to frame it as if this place is as dumb as you are.

[Anonymous No.11567284]

>mandatory reading

Most students won't read the text anyway

[Anonymous No.11567328]

>>11565809
The Foundation for Exploration

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>>11565809
Basic economy

[Anonymous No.11567382]

>>11565824
Have you ever studied logic? It doesn't teach you critical thinking at all. If anything it's just mathematics and memorizing transformation and substitution rules. My textbook had one miserable chapter on fallacies that was less comprehensive than a Wikipedia article.

>>11565873
We actually had to read this. Horrible teacher though. It's my favorite Bible book but somehow he ruined it - same for my classmates. I also think high schoolers aren't mature enough to actually understand what "everything is dust in the wind" means.

I would probably pick Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Lots of good advice, and babby's first book on Stoicism. Easy to understand and implement. Plus it's written by someone young children can look up to.

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>>11565809
Camp of The Saints

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>>11566190
>thinking high schoolers could read TSZ without any introduction to philosophy and know what the fuck is going on

[Anonymous No.11567394]

>>11567123
What a waste

[Anonymous No.11567402]

>>11567137
This

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Diary of a supreme gentleman

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>>11565809
>mandatory reading in all high schools
so it would be in addition to what is already read in all high schools?

Then I choose:
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

And then I don't want the school to force the student to analyze the book in a certain way like they do with others. I just want it to be read, with a possibility that the student will be hooked into searching and understanding the book themselves.

[Anonymous No.11567418]

>>11565809
Leviticus

[Anonymous No.11567873]

>51 replies
>not a single mention of the spookmaster
>most of nu-lit probably haven't read it anyway

[Anonymous No.11567907]

The Ego and his own

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>>11565809
Madame Bovary, to effectively redpill anyone who cared.

[Anonymous No.11568108]

>>11567392
i read TSZ at the age of 16

[Anonymous No.11568202]

>>11565809
Can I make them read all of of something that's in multiple volumes or do those count as different books?

[Anonymous No.11568384]

>>11565824
In my experience entry level logic textbooks are essentially just intro to discrete mathematics. I mean I guess it would be useful to have kids understand how to write decent proofs if they intend to go into a stem major, but for the rest this seems pretty useless.

[Anonymous No.11568392]

Capital

[Anonymous No.11568413]

>>11565972
Cringe and bluepilled.

[Anonymous No.11568417]

>>11567328
Fuck off Sean.

[Anonymous No.11568460]

>>11565809
Brothers Karamazov.
Abriding the trial part tho. That was looog and boooring.

[Anonymous No.11568472]

>>11565824
A textbook on rhetoric would be better, if there are any good ones that actually exist.

[Anonymous No.11568474]

>>11565809
I think reading SUCKS

[Anonymous No.11568478]

>>11565809
The Art of the Deal.

[Anonymous No.11568507]

>>11565809
Gender Trouble.
Let's just fuck it all up.

[Anonymous No.11568550]

>>11565860
I see that you're a man a taste.

[Anonymous No.11568562]

>>11568108
And most of it went over your head.

[Anonymous No.11568571]

>>11567275
you're right. i spoke out of turn, and gave a recommendation which wasn't great. i'll endeavor to do better in the future

[Anonymous No.11568591]

>>11565824
Math does a good enough job teaching logics. But I sense you think that "logic" is in some way le secret to the universe. Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.11568639]

>>11568562
fuck off

[Anonymous No.11568680]

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

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Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard

[Anonymous No.11568770]

>>11565845
this. so many of our problems would be solved.

[Anonymous No.11568820]

The ego and his own or the world's history, children now days lack a real role figure.

[Anonymous No.11569026]

>>11568460
I'm 333 pages in and almost nothing has actually happened yet

[Anonymous No.11569082]

>>11565809
Speak, Memory.

They are going to insert stupid reasoning about “author's intents” into analysis of any fiction anyway, so let them have some non-fiction you can at least reason about.

[Anonymous No.11569288]

this one

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I'm french, so Vaugelas' Remarques sur la langue Françoise, that way people will actually learn french

[Anonymous No.11571029]

>>11565841
Here we see the most average /lit/ lurker

[Anonymous No.11571036]

>>11565809
Antigone and the other bits of the trilogy (Oedipus Rex and ' at Colonus)

[Anonymous No.11571770]

>>11565924
everybody already reads that, faggot

[Anonymous No.11571813]

>>11567382
>just mathematics
That's how i know you have two digit IQ

[Anonymous No.11571859]

>>11568680
This

[Anonymous No.11572057]

>>11565809
Das Kapital

[Anonymous No.11572088]

>>11566128
This or a book on the Founding Fathers of the US, something comprehensive and well researched.

[Anonymous No.11572099]

>>11565928
At first I thought it was a book about the future without white people.

[Anonymous No.11572119]

Unabridged, turns are taken where students stand up and read paragraph, and teachers are instructed to shut the fuck up and listen.

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>>11571859
>one size fits all

yeah, that plan always works

op fail

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>>11572099
no meme pls

[Anonymous No.11572157]

>>11565809
Industrial Society and its Future

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Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

[Anonymous No.11572185]

>>11565809
what;'s with all the fredposting?

[Anonymous No.11572186]

This

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>>11572175
I've only read about a quarter of it. Is it really that good?

[Anonymous No.11572192]

>>11567284
Parially this

But I would do Invisible Man. Should be something everyone has read and experienced

[Anonymous No.11572222]

El Túnel by Ernesto Sábato
The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom
Socrates Apology

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Don Quixote

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brave new world

[Anonymous No.11572339]

>>11572185
Fred is a hot meme

[Anonymous No.11572361]

>>11572339
Fred was the pinnacle of american comedy

[Anonymous No.11572373]

>>11572222
all these digits but still can't count

[Anonymous No.11572387]

>>11572099
what's the difference?

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>>11572361
>the pinnacle of american comedy
C'mon, nigga

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>>11572387
That thought crossed my mind.

[Anonymous No.11573332]

>>11565809
What's the best book on humility and ego-reduction because fuck self-esteem?

[Anonymous No.11573337]

>>11572390
>Patrice O'Neal
F

[Anonymous No.11573380]

>>11568108
this is the most /lit/ post ever

[Anonymous No.11573434]

>>11572390
I get why people call Pryor the GOAT,
but Patrice was a god.

[Anonymous No.11573448]

Definitely Infinite Jest. That book is a masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.11573454]

>>11565809

Das Kapital.

[Anonymous No.11573459]

>>11567136
Based

[Anonymous No.11573465]

>>11565809
Nicomachean Ethics

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Plato's Republic

Make passing Senior English dependent on actually comprehending it

[Anonymous No.11573603]

>>11568562
so? it is a book to be read multiple times in many stages of development both mental and physical, for it has multiple layers of meaning within

[Anonymous No.11573761]

>>11565873
this

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>>11565809
De Officiis

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>>11573914
good pick

[Anonymous No.11574051]

>>11565809
What is the purpose of requiring reading in high school when everybody uses sparknotes?

[Anonymous No.11574431]

>>11574051
As a matter of fact when my brother was dating an english lit major all she did was go on sparknotes too.

[Anonymous No.11574572]

>>11567136
This, but unironically

[Anonymous No.11574579]

>>11565841
>'

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

[Anonymous No.11574794]

>>11565809
The fucking sticky.

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>>11565809
I would choose an essay. The Ethics of Elfland by GK Chesterton

[Anonymous No.11575358]

Fanged Noumena

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>>11571770
You assume too much.

[Anonymous No.11575919]

>>11572186
This. (I haven't read it yet lol)

[Anonymous No.11575930]

>>11565809
Spengler, decline of the west.

Also, nice pic OP. I will forever love scooby doo for exposing me to images of abandoned buildings, ultimately leading to my passion for urbex.

[Anonymous No.11576595]

>>11572157
blackpilled