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What is some good literature that an average teenager could appreciate?

>> No.1887789

james joyce

>> No.1887792

gamer girl

>> No.1887800

my immortal

>> No.1887801

Of Mice and Men

>> No.1887848

I liked George Orwell when I was a teenager, and Kerouac. I'd also recommend Cormac McCarthy and William Golding.

>> No.1887864

girl: Twilight
boy: a videogame

>> No.1887885

/lit/ posts

>> No.1887929

dostoyevsky or tolstoy

>> No.1887933

The Catcher in the Rye
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Catch 22
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men

>> No.1887935

Well, if you're 13 years old and want to look sophisticated, try Stephen King's books.

>> No.1887983

>>1887935
reported

>> No.1888089

Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra

>> No.1888093

>average teenager
>average person in general
>appreciate good literature

Nope, not going to happen.

>> No.1888106

House of Leaves

>> No.1888108

>>1887983
reported

>> No.1888129

>>1888093
pretentious cunt

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though really I dont know how you could be on 4chan and not have read this

>> No.1888133

>>1888129
second; the philospher tries hard to understand what most people know instinctually

>> No.1888135

Some of us manage.

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>>1888131
and for good measure

>> No.1888136

>>1888131
because it's shit?

>> No.1888145

>>1888136
YEP, FIGHT CLUB IS SHIT.

WHEN YOU WERE 12, YOU THOUGHT HARRY POTTER WAS SHIT

WHEN YOU WERE 6, YOU THOUGHT PICTURE BOOKS WERE SHIT

YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN AHEAD OF YOUR PEERS, YOU ARE SO GREAT AND SO SPECIAL AND SO UNIQUE.

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>>1888136

>> No.1888162

La Tregua by Mario Benedetti

>> No.1888168

Infinite Jest

>> No.1888196

the bible

>> No.1888218

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
War All the Time by Charles Bukowski
The Stranger by Albert Camus
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

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>>1888136
>mfw /lit/ hates fight club now
>mfw I don't have a face

How is Fight Club bad?

>> No.1888222

>>1888219
It's not bad. Just extremely overrated.

>> No.1888224

My Immortal by Tara Gilespie. The most underrated novel of all time. I believe the average young adult can relate to the harsh yet humorous, satirical format in which it presents its observations of the flaws found in modern youth culture.

>> No.1888230

>>1888219
It is a decent book, but it one of the very rare case in which the movie is better than the book.

>> No.1888235

>>1888222
Really? I thought it deserved the acclaim it got. The prose is pretty fresh, the storyline is cool, and some of the, I dare say, societal commentary you could pull from it as an overanalyzing asshole were pretty nice, too. Got me to respect the working class a bit more. It's not like anybody's calling Palahniuk the Shakespeare of our time. It was still pretty good, though.

>> No.1888252

>>1888235
Here's my reasoning:

-Chuck tries to be deep and edgy

-He comes off as some 13 year old trying to establish himself as an individual

>> No.1888416

>>1888235
Nobody's calling him Shakespeare, but people talk about him WAY too much relative to other writers. And his social commentary is negligible and hardly provocative.

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>>1887782
wow i just turned on marina and the diamonds. went to go see her at a show and as i walked in the door she and her band were bidding their farewell at the exact moment.
>feelsbadman.jpg

>> No.1888473

Ender's Game for any teenage boy.

>> No.1889924

>>1888416
>>1888416
>>1888416
You're looking at it the wrong way. It's not supposed to be brilliant or groundbreaking or provocative, it's just about feeling powerless being part of the working class and dealing with these feelings. It kind of helps you understand why poor inner-city people form gangs and vandalise shit. And it's pretty entertaining. If you go into it thinking it's supposed to be edgy or groundbreaking, you'll be supremely disappointed. It really is a decent book. It's not Lolita or Johnny Got His Gun or any of that shit, but it's decent. Also, I've never seen anybody comparing Palahniuk to any great writers. I'm not sure what kind of psychopath is saying Fight Club needs to be a Penguin Classic.

>> No.1889956

With the exception of super-dense Modern or pomo lit, you can read pretty much anything, although I guarantee you won't understand it as deeply as an adult, experience reader will. But this is okay, you have to start somewhere.
>>1888145
I read it in high school and I thought it was shit. Yes, I've always been smarter than my peers. Go climb a wall of dicks and fall off into a pool of dicks.
>>1889924
So you're saying it's not good, and that's why it's worthwhile? Fuck yourself, kid. If it's shit, it's shit. There are many novels about how shitty modern life is that are far more entertaining than Fight Club.
>I've never seen anybody comparing Palahniuk to any great writers.
I have. And the fact that he *cannot* be compared to these writers is why you shouldn't read him. He's a waste of time.