/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17876934]

Post your favorite book from when you were in highschool, others rate or guess stuff.

[Anonymous No.17876961]

Didn't read much then, Oryx and Crake is the only book I actually remember reading in high school that wasn't assigned.

[Anonymous No.17877002]

In the last year of high school my favourite book was Ubu roi

[Anonymous No.17877027]

The Magus

[Anonymous No.17877055]

Not strictly speaking a book, but I'm an extreme sadist and this story was basically my whole sexual awakening.

[Anonymous No.17877091]

For me, it was The Great Gatsby. It’s what made me fall in love with literature.

[Anonymous No.17877105]

Rayuela, 1984, Ficciones were my favorites I had to read for highschool.

[Anonymous No.17877131]

>>17876934
You were an incel

[Anonymous No.17877134]

>>17876934
Of Mice and Men. I wanted to give lenny a hug and a smooch

[Anonymous No.17877155]

>>17877134
I'm a retard too, can you give me a smooch?

[Anonymous No.17877548]

>>17876934
based.

[Anonymous No.17877575]

unironically

[Anonymous No.17877577]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in the early/mid 00s

[Anonymous No.17877598]

The Outsiders
Romeo and Juliet

[Anonymous No.17877623]

>>17877577
>read Hitchhiker's Guide to help me cope with my severe depression in hs
>series ends with everyone fucking giving up and dying

[Anonymous No.17877721]

>>17876934
>>17876961
I loved both of these and to this day Oryx and Crake is one of the most terrifying novels I have ever read.
Loved these books but hated the Book of Merlin because it felt like a repeat of the first.

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>>17877577
Same here, that and Discworld were my jams

[Anonymous No.17877988]

>>17876934
I loved this book. More like it?

[Anonymous No.17878029]

The name "Gandalf" comes from a very old book called the poetic Edda.

[Anonymous No.17878064]

>>17877623
>tfw I related to Marvin more than I should

>>17877828
I really need to read Discworld. What's a good starting point?

[Anonymous No.17878168]

>>17877988
My diary

[Anonymous No.17878378]

>>17877792
damn

[Anonymous No.17878391]

A book which was basically a giant compilation of journal entries about the first sexual encounter of highschool kids.

here’s all the journal entries i can recall

1.) a gay kid who was in marching band who recorded gay porn onto a barney vhs tape

2.) a goth girl who wrote about how she wanted to rape her boyfriends little brother. her exact words were “he’s young, young enough to rape”

3.) instructions on how to give a blowjob. she mentioned how you’re supposed to start licking a guy starting at his tits, then to his belly button, and finally to his penis.

4.) poem about a guys friend dying in a car accident

I genuinely cannot remember anything else about this book other than the fact that their was a picture of a girl who looked like pic related.

i think it was circulated in urban outfitters in the early 2000’s if that helps anybody. Also, it’s not the post secrets book.

[Anonymous No.17878395]

I mostly read pulpy scifi and some hard scifi in highschool, but a book tackling questions like the ones pic related tackled just blew me away. I recently reread it and the prose I used to love so much now seems overdone and like it doesn't add anything.

[Anonymous No.17878403]

>>17878395
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.17878443]

class of 2018

>Siddhartha opened his eyes and looked around, a smile
filled his face and a feeling of awakening from long dreams
flowed through him from his head down to his toes. And it
was not long before he walked again, walked quickly like a
man who knows what he has got to do.

[Anonymous No.17878448]

>>17878443
i embarrased myself with this greentext but i will keep my post up with grace, and let it serve as a warning to other lit posters. do not let this be you frens.

[Anonymous No.17878451]

>>17876934
Not even trying to flex. I was a weird kid.

[Anonymous No.17878464]

>>17878451
damn, a man of taste.

[Anonymous No.17878476]

100% this

[Anonymous No.17878485]

>>17878443
Question for you anon:
As a high schooler who read and enjoyed Siddhartha, what in it did you find most salient?
By the time I got around to reading it I was in my mid-20s and past my finding-myself phase. If I’d have read it earlier I would have interpreted Siddhartha’s refusal to follow the enlightened master on the grounds that doctrine didn’t bring him to enlightenment as a blank cheque to disregard conventional wisdom and forge my own path—ignoring the entire section that follows illustrating that this choice of Siddhartha led him to a long middle age of mediocrity and stagnation and spiritual decay.

[Anonymous No.17878492]

>>17878451
The most basic-ass book for high school tryhards, maybe second only to Infinite Jest.

Not hating on the book, by the way. Nabokov was a genius, but nobody seems to remember he wrote loads of better novels; much less that Lolita has nothing to do with diddling adolescent girls, than with Nabokov’s love/hate relationship with the US and its culture.

[Anonymous No.17878524]

>>17876934
At the age of 12 I stumbled upon a cheapie $1 edition of The Nose at a mall bookshop. Two years later I discovered this book. The first time I was totally confused. The hell did I just read? It took me 3 reads to start understanding it. But even when it didn’t make sense, the novel still exerted this strange pull on me. It was just there in my head all the time. Couldn’t stop thinking about it. I wore out my copy from so much reading back then. There’s a lot of books I loved as a teen, but can’t fathom what the fuss was all about now. But Dead Souls has remained a favorite my whole life long.

[Anonymous No.17878549]

>>17876934
dracula

[Anonymous No.17878569]

>>17878492
I wasn't a tryhard though. I never spoke about it because I was afraid people would find me creepy for liking a book about a pedophile.
Which is ironic because I was, during the same time, very vocal about my love for Thomas Harris' books which are about a cannibal.

[Anonymous No.17878631]

helped me understand myself

[Anonymous No.17878652]

If context helps at all in explaining why, I grew up quite wealthy, but my Grandfather is an illiterate peasant (I don't say this disparagingly).

>>17878631
Enjoyed this as well. It frustrated me how much it was hated by all my classmates, though at least they didn't whine as much as when we read Frankenstein. We would have got along anon.

[Anonymous No.17878717]

something about the part in this the jump-rope suicide really got to me

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>>17878652
My classmates were the same. Not many of them were able to appreciate it. What saddens me most about it is that Heart of Darkness was the final reading in my high school. Most people just glanced over it as a short read that we had to do. Wish we could have known each other and enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.17878854]

Picture of Dorian Gray. Yeah, i didn't read much back then outside of what we were given in class. I don't know if it's popular in american schools

[Anonymous No.17878883]

>>17878524
Did you read it in the original russian?

[Anonymous No.17878961]

>>17878883
Never, sadly. I’ve only begun learning Russian the last three weeks. At the moment the only languages I can read literary works are English, Spanish, and French. (I know a bit of Japanese, Basque, and Armenian, but not enough to read the good shit in.)

[Anonymous No.17878969]

>>17878631
I love heart of darkness, but literally how did it help you understand yourself?

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>>17876934

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>>17876934
The Horse and His boy, then, now sbd forever.

[Anonymous No.17880103]

S-kicked

[Anonymous No.17880125]

The 3 people who should have known better destroying the life of a literal midwit for their own questionable gains really appealed to high school edgelord me

[Anonymous No.17880256]

HONDA SUPA MOTO

CLIMBINÑ

[Anonymous No.17880726]

>>17876934
Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It's still one of my favorite books.

[Anonymous No.17880743]

>>17878717
yah

[Anonymous No.17880842]

Highly recommend "beneath the wheel". It seems like it goes under the radar when (non-German) people talk about Hesse.
I guess you could say it's like a school boy version of Stoner. It was mandatory reading for my German class and I loved it.

[Anonymous No.17880999]

>>17876934
A school for fools

[Anonymous No.17881112]

FATHER SPODO KOMODO

[Anonymous No.17881129]

Herren Brown got the books!

Hep, Hep!

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[Anonymous No.17881371]

which I with d.sword shall open

[Anonymous No.17881399]

B3
500mg
Parking meters

[Anonymous No.17881433]

>>17876934
>>17877548
based dramatic teens

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[Anonymous No.17881509]

NICKA

[Anonymous No.17881524]

Journey to the Centre of the Earth.