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A friend of mine hasn't read a single classic work of literature, so what would be some babby's first, easy to get into works of literature?

>> No.12313172

Crime and Punishment

>> No.12313173

He won't like anything you give him and you're just going to end up embarrassing yourself.

Stop.

>> No.12313181

your not supposed to have friends

>> No.12313182

>>12313164
Just give him something short that you liked.

>> No.12313202

Is Hemingway considered classic here?

I read A Farewell To Arms when I was a retarded 21 year old and it kind of changed my life.

>> No.12313218

i'd tell him to read the sticky and i'll tell you to stop making stupid threads

>> No.12313223

>>12313164
>A friend of mine
Sure thing brainlet.
Poe is an easy read. Get (him) a tale collection.

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>>12313223
*Her

>> No.12313359

>>12313235
whatever, braindead roastie. Get a Poe tale collection.

>> No.12313382

>>12313164
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

>> No.12313968

>>12313164
get him fanged noumena for the lulz

>> No.12313996

>>12313164
>if they like fantasy/science fiction
Gulliver's Travels
Frankenstein
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
>if they don't like fantasy/science fiction
Catcher in the Rye
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Farewell to Arms

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>>12313359
Putting roasties to their place, I see.
How can one anon be so based?

>> No.12314060

Brandon Sanderson if he likes fantasy but not the hardcore ones

>> No.12314068

>>12313164
Call off the friendship until they have read Cicero (it's not really worth it to be friends with a person who has not read Cicero). Then postpone the reconciliation until they have read Plato, since it doesn't really make sense to have read Cicero if you have not also read Plato. Then, perhaps you will resume semi-regular communication with them, but you will make it clear that you think it is a bit silly to have read Plato without knowing anything about other philosophers, let alone Plato's contemporaries. They may begin to seek locution with you to discuss basic questions of philosophy, betraying the naivety of someone who has just discovered there is a world outside of the present, and you will encourage them as you would a child, yet you could never consider them a true peer at this point, since they are but babes nursing off a babe's milk. Perhaps, slowly, they will begin to mature; their childish enthusiasm will have diminished somewhat. You will say that this newfound solemnity suits them and your respect for them is growing, and you hope they continue their pursuit of erudition and then maybe a true friendship will blossom naturally, spectacularly like the gentle bud of springtime, sweetly nursed to fruition.

>> No.12314069

>>12314040
I wish I had the stones to make such posts.