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Hey /lit/. I'm a freshman in high school, and I just wanted to know what you would recommend for me.

>> No.3712481

Plato
Aristotle
Xenophon
Epicurus
Lucretius
Cicero
Sextus Empiricus
Plotinus

To name a few

>> No.3712483

Norton Anthology. Maybe a basic modern poetry anthology.

>> No.3712485

reported.

>> No.3712482

>>3712481

>muh greeks

Just read condensed Marx, Lacan, Foucault and Derrida.

>> No.3712486

>>3712481
>Sextus Empiricus

Ahahaha, sounds made-up. Why not just put Biggus Dickus.

>> No.3712488

>>3712486
Are you dumb as a brick?

>> No.3712496

>>3712488
It has been suggested before.

>> No.3712499

>>3712476
>Hey /lit/. I'm a freshman in high school, and I just wanted to know what you would recommend for me.

GETTIN' BANNED, BITCH

>> No.3712504

lord of the flies, catcher in the rye, twelfth night, diary of Anne frank

>> No.3712507

>>3712476
Read the accessible, simple style 20th century classics.

Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Great Gatsby
1984
Brave New World
A Farewell to Arms
Slaughterhouse Five
A Separate Peace
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men

Many or most of these will be assigned reading but it sucks to be told what to read and when. Obviously if you encounter one you particularly like you can read the other works the author wrote too.

I would not recommend jumping into the greeks when you're 14 years old unless you have patience and attention well beyond your years.

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>>3712488
>>3712485
>>3712499
>being pricks

op listen to this
http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/

i also seriously recommend making sure you avoid getting crushes on girls and keeping your emotions in check and stuff being a teenager is horrible

>> No.3712515

>>3712508
I couldn't disagree more man. Having crushes and constantly stirring up drama was so much fun.

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>>3712515
eh i guess you're lucky to have had a way better high school experience than mine in that case. mine was spent heartbroken lonely beta as shit and constantly thinking i was on the verge of buddhist enlightenment like some kind of creepy faggot. i'd take it back but it's not like it couldve stopped him anyways

lel this captcha

>> No.3712549

>>3712515
freshman/sophomore year at least i mean everything after that is a different story entirely

>> No.3712621

>>3712476
A lot of people will tell you to read only classics here which is fine if you can do that. But I think that would turn off a young reader. To read any books at all will put you far ahead of the curve. Just read things that are interesting and challenging to you.