Leisurely reads for a high schooler? Pic related, something in that genre, I loved it in high school. inb4 you all suggest difficult novels so anons think you were intelligent in high school

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Anonymous Tue Dec 25 04:45:11 2012 No.3279134 [Reply] [Original]

Leisurely reads for a high schooler?

Pic related, something in that genre, I loved it in high school.

inb4 you all suggest difficult novels so anons think you were intelligent in high school

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 25 04:48:11 2012 No.3279135 Jim Butcher's stuff is fairly good fantasy. I read a bunch of his books in high school. I don't really read Fantasy anymore but a lot of people seem to like Patrick Rothfuss's books, too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 25 04:52:11 2012 No.3279140 >>3279135 I'll look into them, thanks. Also, they don't all have to be fantasy, anything will do. Fantasy is merely a preference.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 25 04:57:11 2012 No.3279144 >implying there aren't high-schoolers already more intelligent than most adults could ever hope to be

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 25 04:59:11 2012 No.3279145 >>3279144 Well the average high schooler probably wouldn't even pick up most books, but for the ones who do..

demiurge Tue Dec 25 05:19:11 2012 No.3279165

>implying i wasn't cruising through aquinas in high school

plebs. here's a bunch of fantasy shit im making into a rec pic
Manchild classics:
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Edgar Rice Burroughs
H.P. Lovecraft
Robert E. Howard
Isaac Asimov (Foundation trilogy, Robot trilogy, selected short stories)
Robert A. Heinlein (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers, selected short stories)
Arthur C. Clarke (2001 series, Rama series, selected short stories)
Frank Herbert (Dune series)

Manchild fantasy:
Patrick Rothfuss
Brandon Sanderson
Joe Abercrombie
R. Scott Bakker
Peter Brett
Jim Butcher

The Bartimaeus Trilogy
His Dark Materials trilogy
Lord of the Rings + Hobbit
Harry Potter
Song of Ice and Fire
Ender's Game
Hunger Games
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Inheritance Cycle
Kingkiller Chronicles
Malazan
Narnia
Discworld

COMPARATIVELY CHILDISH:
-Ranger's Apprentice (first one off my head, perhaps a bit too childish for you, but it's good for an hour read)
-Fablehaven (same as above)
-The Edge Chronicles (weirdass fantasy/steampunk setting)

YOUNG ADULT:
-Eragon
-The Tapestry (dystopian/sci-fi)

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 25 05:22:11 2012 No.3279168 >implying high school isn't the time to get all dat edgy 2deep4u Nietzsche, Bill Hicks, Hunter S Thompson, Bukowski, Harlan Ellison, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Camus, Sartre shit out of the way so you can progress to real lit afterwards

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 25 05:25:11 2012 No.3279171 >>3279168 >deep >HST >Bukowski >Dost >Camus >implying anyone read being and time in high school >implying anyone in high school understands Nietzsche philistine detected

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