Books that opened your mind to literature...

[Anonymous No.18552825]

What book first made you realise that great literature is more than just telling an amusing story..? That it also can teach us about ourselves?

[Anonymous No.18552831]

Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.18552915]

>>18552825
>woman comics
traaaaash

[Anonymous No.18552953]

>>18552825
Never felt that...ever. At best, the plot/characters/dialogue give me information about the author, their style in that instance and context as to the comparative historicity of their contemporaries. Sadly, all I ever get from fiction is trivia.

[Anonymous No.18552964]

It’s worked in sort of the opposite direction for me. My process of reading books has gone from innocent childhood where I just liked a good story, to basically having it hammered into my brain in American high school that all books are and necessarily must be social commentaries, to a view which is more philosophical and other side of the coin but along those lines, to finally where I’m at now which appreciation of storytelling for what exactly that, story telling.

[Anonymous No.18552979]

this is the shittest comic I’ve ever read

[Anonymous No.18553218]

>>18552825
Probably Auster's New York Trilogy
Not implying that it is that deep, but it did get me to read more serious literature and not just Sci-Fi