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[Anonymous No.15262997]

10 books that you will advise your son

[Anonymous No.15263008]

>>15262997
Don't get cucked into having kids. And if you fuck up and have them sure as hell don't raise them. Childcare is for women

[Anonymous No.15263018]

>>15263008
Begone, accursed scoundrel.

[Anonymous No.15263036]

>>15263008
I want a big family. At least 5 children.

[Anonymous No.15263039]

>>15263018
Look at how many major philosophers had children. Raising a child drags you down to their level and destroys you intellectually

[Anonymous No.15263049]

Having children is the highest calling. Book to advise my son? The Pilgrim's Progress

[Anonymous No.15263060]

>>15263008
>>15263039
Stop it, bwoy.

[Anonymous No.15263086]

>>15263060
I'm always kind of suspicious of men who talk about how much they want children. Only women have an urge to raise children and any man who says that is probably a latent pedo

[Anonymous No.15263104]

>>15263086
The desire to leave offspring is a natural tendency that is common to all men.

The search for latent homosexuals is already an unhealthy situation.

[Anonymous No.15264212]

>>1526299
just a general sketch for fiction:
before 9:
The Wind in the Willows
Massive collections of fairy tales
The Hobbit
Railroad Children
some Shahnameh tales
Ronald Dahl's books
Little Men

9-15:
Lord of the Rings
The Once and Future King
Conan the Cimmerian tales
Lord Dunsany's tales
Clarck Ashton Smith's tales
Worm Ouroboros
Siddhartha
Magister Ludi
Shahnameh
Sherlock Holmes
some Dan Brown books

15-21:
Beowulf
Shahnameh
Silmarillion
Children of Hurin
Schild's Ladder
Permutation City
The Three Body Problem
Lovecraft's tales
Storm of Steel
Eumeswil
On Marble Cliffs
Book of the New Sun
Wizard-Knight
Voyage to Arcturus

After 21:
Shahnameh
Iliad
Odyssey
Melville and Faulkner

[Anonymous No.15264250]

>>15264212
>Schild's Ladder
>Permutation City

Lol at Greg Egan on the My Little Stormer's list. Read Distress and autistically screech at the main character tranny

[Anonymous No.15264439]

>>15264212
Everything I recognize is based, except Dan Brown. You should move the Odyssey up to the latter years of 9-15, since so many stories share its DNA. A simple translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses should come early in 9-15, preferably after D'Aulaires and Bulfinch. Also, I know you said "fiction," but so many stories take their skeletons from Herodotus (who contains many fictions himself). BotNS wouldn't be as good without an appreciation of Borges, who in turn depends upon an appreciation of Lovecraft, who (in another turn) is enhanced by an understanding of Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic.

My 5y/o daughter loves the OWC edition of the Mabinogion and Greek myths. I sometimes tell stories from BotNS, especially the one about the cock and the angel. Winnie the Pooh is as hilarious as I remember it being, and is a good chance to practice different voices. Romantic poetry (esp. Wordsworth's more pastoral stuff, but also the Rime of the Ancient Mariner) has a great sing-songy rhythm to it with beautiful imagery—plus, they were mostly Platonists.

There was a hardcover that I had as a child (mid-to-late 90s) of Biblical tales that were both accessible and faithfully rendered, with beautifully soft illustrations. I can't remember what it is now, but that would be a great book also. I disagree with my priestess MIL that young children should be exposed to the higher mysteries of religion; I believe it arrests their spiritual development too much. But stories are what young kids love the most.

[Anonymous No.15264461]

>>15263008
ok kike

[Anonymous No.15264933]

Five Proofs by Edward Feser
Seneca's letters
On Duties by Cicero
For My Legionaries by Codreanu
Bhagavad Gita
What is Art? by Tolstoy
The History of Rome by Livy
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Hard Sayings by Trent Horn
Bearing False Witness by Rodney Stark

If collections count then obviously Plato and Aristotle would take priority but I would also add the essays Michel de Montaigne and the complete works of Cicero.

[Anonymous No.15264958]

>>15262997
Hungry Caterpillar
I also plan on reading my future son The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.15265345]

>>15263086
No, only women have the urge to care for a baby. Most good men want children of their own. You're not speaking out of realism, you're talking from a point of suffocating bitterness.

[Anonymous No.15265361]

>>15264212
Why would you wait so long to read the Iliad?

[Anonymous No.15265375]

>>15263086
>wanting to have children is pedophilia
bravo /lit/

[Anonymous No.15265408]

>>15263039
who wants to be a major philosopher?

[Anonymous No.15265444]

Don Quijote
Canterbury Tales
Conquest of new Spain
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
the gallic wars
metamorphoses
Arabian nights

[Anonymous No.15265971]

>>15264933
why would you give tiring nonsense to your child

[Anonymous No.15265990]

>>15263008
>Don't get cucked into having kids goyim

[Anonymous No.15266051]

>>15264933
>What is Art? by Tolstoy
I'm Russian and I just now learned about the existence of such a text.

[Anonymous No.15266079]

>>15266051
There's a whole chapter dedicated to shitting on Wagner and I remember having so much fun reading it. Tolstoy just details his experience going to the opera and that alone makes it worth reading.

[Anonymous No.15266142]

>>15265375
Kek

[Anonymous No.15266146]

>>15265971
I wouldn't be interested in entertaining my kid but cultivating him.

[Anonymous No.15266439]

>>15263008
>Meanwhile

[Anonymous No.15266863]

>>15266146
You're just gonna make him hate reading

[Anonymous No.15266905]

>>15266863
The idea that challenging your kids or forcing them to read "boring" books will make them hate reading is taken as a truism but there's really no reason behind it. I was forced to read books and I don't hate them. I was forced to do a lot of things that I hated at the time but now I look back and appreciate what my parents were doing for me. This sort of wisdom is lost these days but virtue needs to be cultivated and that involves a little bit of imposition.

[Anonymous No.15267034]

>>15263039
Augustine, Hegel, Deluze, Socrates, Aristotle, Marx, Husserl, Rousseau, and many more don't count?