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Anonymous Thu Apr 25 16:43:49 2013 No.3694483 [DELETED]

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What's a good book for a 18 turning 19 year old?
It can be anything from an adventure, mystery, joke on society, anything is fine.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 16:44:49 2013 No.3694487 >>3694483 120 Days of Sodom

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 16:44:49 2013 No.3694486 The hungry caterpillar

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 16:49:49 2013 No.3694498 >>3694483 Finnegans Wake.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 16:58:49 2013 No.3694533 >>3694498 lel

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 17:01:49 2013 No.3694550 unless he's a neckbeard, in which case just get him book 12 of whatever shitty fantasy trash the plebs are reading nowadays

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 17:02:49 2013 No.3694553 File: 77 KB, 534x800, greatgatsby-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 17:02:49 2013 No.3694555 Venus in Furs

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 17:05:50 2013 No.3694570 The Communist Manifesto

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 17:37:50 2013 No.3694690 >>3694487 Philosophy in the Bedroom. 120 Days of Sodom is shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 17:47:50 2013 No.3694726 Genuinely I think Infinite Jest. It's a book that's inseparable from it's reputation, but I read it at about the same age without really having heard anything about it before hand and it "deeply affected me."

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 18:14:51 2013 No.3694813 >>3694690 Virgin detected

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 18:15:51 2013 No.3694815 honestly, norwegian wood.

>>	Virgin 20/m/UK !VIRGIN/FJM Thu Apr 25 18:18:50 2013 No.3694823 The Bible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 18:21:50 2013 No.3694834 Vanna White's autobiography

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 18:22:50 2013 No.3694838 Book of the New Sun

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 18:23:50 2013 No.3694839 >>3694726 this i think ij is 18-19's catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 18:24:50 2013 No.3694842 Jack London's 'Martin Eden'

>>	Virgin 20/m/UK !VIRGIN/FJM Thu Apr 25 18:29:50 2013 No.3694857 >>3694839 >>3694726 pls don't do this. Infinite Jest is an infinitely overrated book by an infinitely autistic prick.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 18:31:50 2013 No.3694865 >>3694857 >an infinitely autistic prick >dragging gripes with an author's person into a discussion of his work grow up

>>	anonymoose Thu Apr 25 18:32:50 2013 No.3694866 Wind, Sand, and Stars.

>>	Virgin 20/m/UK !VIRGIN/FJM Thu Apr 25 18:38:51 2013 No.3694885 >>3694865 but DFW's work is very personal

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 19:30:51 2013 No.3695030 The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

>>	10DopeBoys !RTzH3qX1nQ Thu Apr 25 19:33:50 2013 No.3695038 >>3694885 shut your whore mouth bitch

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 19:48:51 2013 No.3695083 The Fault in Our Stars

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 20:05:51 2013 No.3695142 Great Expectations

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 25 20:23:51 2013 No.3695213 >>3694813 Far from it, friendo. But I've read all Sade's work relevant to libertinism and 120 Days is truly the least interesting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 05:13:50 2013 No.3696275 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 05:17:50 2013 No.3696278 >>3694483 Cities of the Red Night, WS Burroughs

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 05:19:50 2013 No.3696281 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. Hopefully, this will be enough to turn him into an violent anarchist.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 07:45:51 2013 No.3696442 Fear and Loathing. Or if you'd rather not risk ending up a junkie, Slaughterhouse-Five. If sci-fi is more your speed, go for Ender's Game. They're all perennial favorites of young men (people, whatever), and old bitter drunks, alike.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 07:52:51 2013 No.3696451 >>3696442 F&L isn't junky tier. It's recreational faggot tier.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 08:49:52 2013 No.3696507 File: 18 KB, 194x259, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 08:55:52 2013 No.3696523 >>3694483 try this short story OP http://pastebin.com/VMrC0niP

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 08:58:51 2013 No.3696529 >>3694483 Why do all of those delicious white women have a look on their faces like they want some good afro loving?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 09:15:51 2013 No.3696581 Nirvana's Children. If you can find it. Extremely recommend.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 09:31:51 2013 No.3696619 >>3696529 >women Those are mannequins.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 09:52:51 2013 No.3696669 >>3696529 Jews.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 09:55:51 2013 No.3696675 >>3696442 >>3696451 Either way it's an absolutely terrible book that no one apart from teenagers who think they take a lot more drugs than they actually do. If you think it's a good book past 15 you are probably an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 10:06:51 2013 No.3696699 File: 34 KB, 404x599, Lenin_CL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3694570 The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 10:13:51 2013 No.3696713 >>3696675 >If you think it's a good book past 15 you are probably an idiot. If you still have opinions like this past the age of 15 you are probably an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 11:07:51 2013 No.3696822 >>3696669 So you are telling me that you don't want to stuff their wet juicy cunts? I'm black they are all white to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 11:17:51 2013 No.3696842 >>3696822 >>>/b/lack

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 11:17:51 2013 No.3696845 >categorising books by the age of the reader and not maturity and personal interest How.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 11:20:51 2013 No.3696852 File: 157 KB, 1138x575, Take your pick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3694483 >anything I recommend Black Jewels Trilogy and Abhorsen Trilogy choice w/e else you want.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 11:21:51 2013 No.3696855 Ender's Game

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 11:55:51 2013 No.3696970 File: 180 KB, 404x416, 1366359452376.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The perk of being a wallflower

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