You must set a young person on the right path, and you may use only one tool

[Anonymous No.15915341]

Books.
Which ones?

[Anonymous No.15915354]

[Anonymous No.15915356]

12 rules for lyfe

[Anonymous No.15915358]

the big book of reddit

[Anonymous No.15915401]

>>15915354
>>15915358

[Anonymous No.15915406]

unironically, the Qu'ran

[Anonymous No.15915431]

>>15915341
Demian by Hermann Hesse

[Anonymous No.15915446]

>>15915406
don't listen to this faggot.
>>15915341
The bible.

[Anonymous No.15915734]

>>15915406
yeah, you're going to have to explain that choice

[Anonymous No.15915745]

>>15915341
The Big Book of Reddit by Kind Stranger

[Anonymous No.15915746]

>>15915341
>dis nigga asking /lit for parenting advice

[Anonymous No.15915753]

[Anonymous No.15915755]

>>15915341
1) Moral Discourses/Enchiridion by Epictetus
2) Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

[Anonymous No.15915761]

>>15915431
>Demian by Hermann Hesse
This is the best-selling Western book in Korea.
Possibly Jordan Peterson's book has sold more now, but Demian is easily the all-time fiction champ.

[Anonymous No.15915765]

>>15915341
The new message and greater community spirituality

[Anonymous No.15915953]

>>15915341
Unironically Crime & Punishment. It brought me into reading classics as a teen and it's concept of the extraordinary and ordinary man stuck with me throughout my young life.

[Anonymous No.15915961]

>>15915755
kino

[Anonymous No.15916074]

>>15915341
What's the best book for beating someone with?

[Anonymous No.15916094]

>>15915341
Undoubtedly Plato’s Republic. I would be a much different person if someone had made me read that in high school

[Anonymous No.15916138]

>>15916074

[Anonymous No.15916158]

>>15916094
>Undoubtedly Plato’s Republic. I would be a much different person if someone had made me read that in high school
different in what way?

[Anonymous No.15916181]

Self Reliance by Emerson

[Anonymous No.15916190]

Republic is not a good start for Plato. The reason why Plato is good for young ppl (imo) is the form that the dialogue takes. It's value is not from what exactly it teaches but it teaches one how to think through the way the dialogue is constructed.

I would say start with shorter dialogues first. Recommend Crito. Then maybe Euthyphro, Phaedo, Meno.

[Anonymous No.15916198]

>>15915341
A question straight from r/askreddit. Please fuck off back. Thanks cunt.

[Anonymous No.15916242]

Thus Spake Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.15916263]

>>15916198
Never been to Reddit, little fella.

[Anonymous No.15916265]

Thrust Shat Zebra

[Anonymous No.15916275]

>>15916158
As >>15916190 says, it would have helped me to think better earlier. But at the same time the moral system is top tier and would have provided me with a compass earlier on

[Anonymous No.15916281]

>>15915761
Could you elabore why? And how do you know that?

[Anonymous No.15916304]

>>15916281
Here's a window into it:
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/koreans-love-herman-hesses-demian-western-novels/

[Anonymous No.15916601]

>>15915341
Critical thinking textbook. Rest are the pivotal books of the world (i.e. classics).

[Anonymous No.15916753]

Lolita

[Anonymous No.15918299]

>>15916601
>Critical thinking textbook.
got a title of one in particular?

[Anonymous No.15918321]

unironically this

[Anonymous No.15918327]

>>15915341

Unless he receives personal interactions with competent, humane people who genuinely care about him, no book will be able to scratch the true issue, the child will only superficially understand the books meaning and won't be able to process is properly because the machinery which should have been built by proper parenting will be irredeemably malfunctioning.
Bring the kid with you while you do things, show him how you do things and listen to him, it is worth 100 books.

[jesus No.15918670]

>>15915341
carlos castaneda. civilization is a mistake. /thread

[Anonymous No.15918684]

Non-fiction: either >>15918321, or, if the young person is somewhat precocious and already well-versed in sociology, Negri & Hardt's Empire.

Fiction: The Stranger, probably.

[Anonymous No.15918697]

>>15915341
Taoteching

[Anonymous No.15918710]

Balshaya kniga reddita

[Anonymous No.15918762]

>>15918710
For you to read? John Holt.

For said young person to read? Anything that will catch his or her interest in reading, obviously it will vary a lot by age and inclination.

[Anonymous No.15918829]

Probably any hesse book but I'm 20 y/o and I don't think I'm "on the right path" despite having read 4 of them.

[Anonymous No.15918890]

>>15915341
𒂅 𒁍 𒊏 𒁍 𒌋 𒊭 𒊑 𒀉 𒁲 𒋾

[Anonymous No.15918893]

>>15915341
Den store bog om reddit

[Anonymous No.15918904]

>>15915341

[Anonymous No.15918916]

>>15916242
this

[Anonymous No.15918924]

>>15918904
That was he first book I ever read at 15. What a fucking book.

[Anonymous No.15918927]

>>15918904
Is this book worth going through? Know dave chapelle mentioned it in his show

[Anonymous No.15918933]

>>15915354
>bitch got her tits hanging out
>dude got his ugy ass hair in the way with his rainbow fag teeth
>>>wanting to be a rapper
>niggers actually buy this book

[Anonymous No.15918938]

>>15915341
Troll Slayer.

[Anonymous No.15918983]

This was a surprising discovery for myself, but most people don't actually read books to learn shit. They don't look at what the characters experience and compare it to their personal lives, to grow. I could give a book about the importance of silence and listening to a person who never knows when to shut up, and while he claimed to have loved it, he took absolutely nothing from it, and didn't change his behavior one bit. To a standard potato, everything written in books is just like vampires and werewolves and completely removed from real life.

[Anonymous No.15919097]

>>15915953
lmao, what is this

[Anonymous No.15919209]

>>15915341
My diary

[Anonymous No.15919250]

Fiction: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Tolkien
Non-fiction: Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, Teddy Roosevelt's biographies, Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.15919255]

>>15919250
Forgot to add Don Quixote to fiction

[Anonymous No.15919541]

>>15915953

[Anonymous No.15919962]

>>15919097
A manga about a literature girl

[Anonymous No.15920144]

>>15919962
So a manga about lit if lit was a cute girl? I kinda wanna read it now.

[Anonymous No.15920255]

>>15920144
It's exactly that

[Anonymous No.15920257]

>>15915341
Rich dad poor dad (unironically)
How to win friends (unironically)
The Mystery method (unironically)
/lit/ tier books are for grown ups imho, good luck handing a 1000something pages Dostoevskij book to your 16yo son/cousin.
>>15915761
The fuck? Never knew it was a classic in Korea.
>>15918904
I've read it in high school and still stands in my bookshelf.
>>15918927
Yes if you are into crime/black culture otherwise don't bother.
>>15919250
Bios are cool.

[Anonymous No.15920567]

>>15916265
based

[Anonymous No.15920845]

dumas

[Anonymous No.15920903]

Beat him to death with Ulysses

[Anonymous No.15920911]

any thick hardcover will do.
beat them with it until they behave like they should

[Anonymous No.15920928]

>>15915341
Force them to read Finnegan’s Wake until they start crying

[Anonymous No.15920993]

>>15920928
The slap him until he stops crying. Repeat several times until the completion of the book and you have birthed a man...the next Great Man.

[Anonymous No.15921050]

unironically >>15915446 and moby dick

[Anonymous No.15921057]

>>15915341
Infinite Jest , L’Etranger, The Brothers Karamazov, Blood Meridian, Lolita, Moby Dick, Gravity’s Rainbow, Don Quixote, The Trial, Journey to the End of the Night, Ficciones, Ulysses, Crime and Punishment, Catch 22, 2666, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Catcher in the Rye, The Sound and The Fury, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Invisible Cities, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Slaughterhouse Five, Mason and Dixon, Notes from the Underground, Siddhartha, Anna Karenina, Dune, V, The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, The Waves, The Master and Margarita, The Plague, War and Peace, White Noise, Stoner, Wuthering Heights, Dubliners, The Book of Disquiet, Heart of Darkness, In Search of Lost Time, A Farewell to Arms, The Crying of Lot 49, As I Lay Dying, The Metamorphosis, American Psycho, The Sun Also Rises, Leaves of Grass, A Clockwork Orange, The Grapes of Wrath, On The Road, The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, Solaris, The Savage Detectives, The Holy Bible, Faust, Lord of the Flies, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Pale King, Light in August, Dead Souls, Hunger, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Suttree, To The Lighthouse, Malone Dies, Dandelion Wine, Valis, Absalom, Absalom, The Wasp Factory, Pale Fire, Animal Farm, East of Eden, Roadside Picnic, Hopscotch, Fight Club, Franny & Zooey, Walden, The Fall, A Tale of Two Cities, Steppenwolf, The Iliad, The Good Earth, The Old Man and The Sea, Paradise Lost, I Am a Cat, The Count of Monte Cristo, Illuminatus, The Book of the New Sun, A Confederacy of Dunces, Les Miserables, If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveler, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Madame Bovary, No Longer Human, The Recognitions, The Idiot, Siren of Titan, Watership Down, Brave New World, Kafka on the Shore, The Magic Mountain, A Hero of our Time, Fahrenheit 451, Cannery Row, The Remains of the Day, The Name of the Rose, Of Mice and Men, The Tropic of Cancer, The Aleph, The Flowers of Evil, Ada, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Scanner Darkly, The Canterbury Tales, Finnegans Wake, Naked Luch, Bottom’s Dream, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shady, The Death of Ivan Ilych, King Lear, The Tunnel, JR, The Man Without Qualities, Middlemarch, Under the Volcano, The Aeneid, Mrs Dalloway, Nausea, Oblomov, The Castle, The Waste Land, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Against Nature, Molloy, The Road, The Gulag Archipelago, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Pan, Rings of Saturn, Candide, Metamorphoses, The Faerie Queene, 60 Stories, Neuromancer, Cryptonomicon, Correction, Essays, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Sometiems a Great Notion, The Glass Bead Game, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Life and Fate, Storm of Steel, The Red & The Black, Atomized, The Leopard, Kokoro, Demons, Growth of the Soil, The Bhagavad Gita, Confessions of a Mask, The Golden Bowl, Frankenstein and The Quran

[Anonymous No.15921079]

>>15921057
You sure do love posting this

[Anonymous No.15921997]

what would you recommend a 16 years old to read?

[Anonymous No.15922822]

>>15915341
Silmarillion

[Anonymous No.15922829]

>>15921057
This guy reads!

[Anonymous No.15922830]

>>15915354
/thread

[Anonymous No.15922952]

>>15921057
NIgger1

[Anonymous No.15923902]

>>15915341
The Berserk manga to get them into existentialism. Then Crime and Punishment, The Birth of Tragedy, BGE, Twilight of The Idols, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

[Anonymous No.15923914]

>>15915341
I thought this was supposed to be one of those pictures where you could see multiple things

[Anonymous No.15924965]

Stirner

[Anonymous No.15925001]

>>15915341
12 rules for life.

[Anonymous No.15925036]

>>15915341
The ego and its own
There's a chance he might become a ruthless and succesful businessman or a lawyer
i'll take the chance

[Anonymous No.15925042]

>>15918983
Unironically what’s the name of the silence book

[Anonymous No.15925048]

>>15915358
sauce?

[Anonymous No.15925061]

>>15916138
fischer was lucky man only reason he win against russian

[Anonymous No.15925091]

>>15918321
>IT'S

[Anonymous No.15925104]

>>15915341
I HOPE ALL THE YOUNG FOLKS GO STRAIGHT TO HELL!

[Anonymous No.15925110]

>>15915341
The book of Ecclesiastes.

[Anonymous No.15925267]

>>15915761
I knew worst korea was shit but what the fuck

[Anonymous No.15925329]

[Anonymous No.15925414]

>>15925036
>95% larping anarcho-commie
>5% ruthless businessman
you gotta be careful with first reccs anon, kid won't know what to do with post-Hegelian shit

[Anonymous No.15926208]

Bump

[Anonymous No.15926397]

>>15915341
Laughter in the Dark

[Anonymous No.15926540]

>>15925329

[Anonymous No.15926660]

>>15915341
Unnironically Nietzsche and various stoics.

[Anonymous No.15926986]

>>15925061
>t. ESL russian

[Anonymous No.15927735]

>>15915341
Critique of Pure Reason

[Anonymous No.15928786]

>>15920257
Self-help books are definitely good for children, but imo Seven Habits is a better one to use for kids. Most kids are going to get off track because they blame others, take things too seriously, don't take things seriously enough, or have no plan. Covey at least addresses that.

[Anonymous No.15929336]

>>15916094
seriously this
a friend, whom i met on here, recommended it to me when i was 15
really set me on the right path, i dread to think what would have happened otherwise desu

[Anonymous No.15929396]

>>15925061
>>15916138
Fun fact: In the film "Pawn Sacrifice" (((they))) cast an austrian actor to play the jew Bobby Fischer, and a jewish actor to play the Russian Boris Spassky.

[Anonymous No.15929719]

>>15929336
What happened after you read it? What were you like before?

[Anonymous No.15929802]

>>15929719
i guess it just generally put things in perspective for me, particularly the division between appearance and actuality, the importance of a just life (and how one goes about living it), and the constitution of the soul
before reading i was your typical mindless teenage boy, didn't really care for anything desu

[Anonymous No.15929880]

>>15929802
Yeah right. I know plenty of people who are now in their early 20s who still carry that mindless teenage boy lifestyle, to the point they would downright refuse to pick up a book and would probably finish the book and then ask "what was the point of that." I sometimes wonder if they'll ever grow out of it.

[Anonymous No.15930451]

>>15929802
Did you read any other dialogue before the Republic?

[Anonymous No.15930492]

>>15929396
who care

[Anonymous No.15930545]

>>15919250
What's good about Teddys Bios? What would they get out of them?

[Anonymous No.15931111]

>>15929880
yeah i know people like that personally, it's rather depressing
>>15930451
no, it was my first book in general lol
though i intend to buy his complete works at some point in the near future to brush up on his philosophy

[Anonymous No.15931600]

>>15915341
Crime and Punishment or Bible

[Anonymous No.15931618]

>>15915753
>epic tities

[Anonymous No.15931633]

>>15916074
War and Peace (not divided into 2 separate physical books)

[Anonymous No.15931655]

>>15918829
What's the point of making this reply then?

[Anonymous No.15931665]

The Fight Club

[Anonymous No.15931930]

>>15930545
Teddy was an admirably stoic man who did a lot of good despite going through a lot of shit. One of my favorite "celebrities" and I'm not even american.

[Anonymous No.15931952]

i'm bored of incels replies here

only GREEKS and ROMANS are true way

[Anonymous No.15932444]

rilke

[Anonymous No.15933690]

bump

[Anonymous No.15933916]

>>15915341
Probably atlas shrugged, It is very heavy handed and very independence and goal oriented. Not my fave book at all but its a good counter to the commie stuff that is infecting American schools