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my gf is 18 years old and has never read a book besides what she had to read in school. Recently she said she wants to start reading and asked me to recommend a good book. Since i have read a lot in my life the shit i'm reading will probably be boring or too hard for her, so I'm asking you faggots. Whats a good book i can get her that will get her into literature?

>> No.15997266

>>15997263
your diary desu

>> No.15997272

Possibly lord of the rings?

>> No.15997277

>>15997272
I doubt starting with a fatass multivolume opus is the best idea. If you wanted to start her off with Tolkien The Hobbit would be a better choice.

>> No.15997279

>>15997263
The hobbit

>> No.15997283

>>15997272
>t. autist who never touched a woman

>> No.15997291

What books did she read in high school?

>> No.15997294

>>15997283
You understand normies love lord of the rings?

>> No.15997302

>>15997263
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

>>15997294
That doesn't make it approachable

>> No.15997305

>>15997263
The Neverending Story

>> No.15997310

>>15997294
Wrong, it's a book for turbo-nerds. Normies love sports and shopping. Get out of your internet bubble some time.

>> No.15997315

Sup OP. I'm a pedomancer. Post her feet and I will divine what book she should read.

>> No.15997320

>>15997263
The Iliad, she starts with the Greeks.

>> No.15997336

>>15997302
>Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Good pick. Also within the mystery genre, there's Josephine Tey and Dorothy Sayers.

>> No.15997343

Don't make her read, instead tell her to do the dishes and make the dinner already.

>> No.15997344

>>15997263
If you had actually read a lot you'd know what to recommend.

>> No.15997350

>>15997302
its an easy book mate, the least accessible bit is the autistic meltdown around Tom Bombadil, and that's what? 50 pages?

>> No.15997354

>>15997343
this guy gets it

>> No.15997356

>>15997263
If she has any interest in (soft) science fiction, try "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin.

>> No.15997367

>>15997350
I wish I had such faith in the reading abilities of Joe Average

>> No.15997371

>>15997263
what's her ifunny account?

>> No.15997385

>>15997350
The whole thing is rather autistic. Hence its appeal to friendless pubescent boys.

>> No.15997406

Unironically Harry Potter. Start with something easy.

>> No.15997415

>>15997406
If she's willing to read at all she almost certainly WILL like Harry Potter. Harry Potter has an obsessive female fanbase.
Although you are running the risk of turning your gf into an insufferable HP fangirl

>> No.15997420

>>15997263
how old are you

>> No.15997461

>>15997263
A John Green book seeks like a pretty safe bet

>> No.15997486

Jane Austen, obviously. There is a reason young women have been reading the same books for nearly 200 years

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>> No.15997530

>>15997486
We're assuming the girl has received a high school education and was not a feral child raised by wolves.

>> No.15997537

>>15997530
That seems like a strange assumption considering she's willing to date a 4chan poster

>> No.15997575

>>15997537
Fair enough. She should also read Jane Eyre in that case.

>> No.15998021

Stoner.

>> No.15998039

>>15997406
Get out

>> No.15998050

>>15997530
The latter sounds like a much more interesting gf and I hope this is the case for OP.

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15998078

>>15997415
This. It's DANGEROUS to recommend Harry Potter to some people, the books have ruined almost an entire generation of women.

OP, what about having her read some poetry? The English Romantics are usually a big hit with young women.

>> No.15998082

>>15997294
They love the movies, which are old enough now that most people turning eighteen missed them. Might as well start arguing normies love the Matrix and Kill Bill. They did, like ten years ago, but those normies are in their late twenties and early thirties. People in their teens and early twenties who like that stuff are nerds.

Get her into reading first. Start with easy shit written by women like Anne McAffrey(Harper Hall of Pern trilogy and The Ship Who Sang specifically), and once she actually starts enjoying reading you can challenge her with some of the canon after she's burned her way through some genre fiction

>> No.15998130

>>15997263
lolita

>> No.15998150

>>15998078
>your tits look like mountain peaks

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>>15997315
>Post her feet and I will divine what book she should read.
BASED

(Also, it's podomancer*. Pedomancer is for CP.)

>> No.15998328

>>15998078

Who can you recommend?

Thank you for the great suggestions so far, she's a rather intelligent girl and also not into fantasy, so harry potter is irrelevant though.
Also Lord of the rings is wonderful but a bit autistic to give it to an 18 year old zoomer girl.

>> No.15998363

>>15998328
what do. you see in her

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This is probably a good start.

>> No.15998383

>>15997263
Holes

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>>15998383
holes for holes!

>> No.15998403

>>15997263
Wuthering Heights, I didn't like it in High School, but the girls did.

>> No.15998407

>>15998363
Diamond in the rough. Very intelligent, but apparently her parents never gave a shit about introducing her to literature so she to broaden her horizon and give her the opportunity to learn about the world