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Huckleberry Finn
And an autobiography by Malcolm X

Are these good choices for my literary adventure?

>> No.5114591

>>5114585
>>>highschool

But in all seriousness, yes.

>> No.5114599

>>5114591
You gotta start somewhere. I'm not in high school but I'm sure my choices are high school picks

>> No.5114602

>>5114585
Yes.

Also, The Old Man And The Sea.

>> No.5114614

>>5114585
Cool! I just bought your <pic related>, my <pic related>, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist..., and Six Easy Pieces.

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>>5114614
forgot pic!

>> No.5114682

>>5114614
Good choices! Tell us later if you like them

>> No.5114703

>>5114585
I liked Catch-22 a lot. I was supposed to read huck finn in high school but I never read back then. By the time I started reading when I was 20 and went back and read most the books I was assigned in high school I had lost my copy of that one.

>> No.5114718

>>5114585
Those are all good choices to start with.

Also re: highschool, I'm probably one of the younger people on this board (recently turned 20), and we didn't get assigned any of those in my highschool. We didn't even get assigned 1984. Instead we got Life of Pi and Kite Runner. Thanks America

>> No.5114869

>>5114718
19 here. Life of Pu, Kite Runner, The Things they Carried, The Curious Case of the Dog in the night with autistic children or some shit ..

Yeah. Why were we given nothing but b-list shit senior, but freshman year I swear we were assigned the best shit. The Odyssey, Shakespeare, Frankenstein.

>> No.5114895

>>5114869
I think the schools try to get the required ones out of the way then just let teachers do whatever, which usually means books for middle schoolers or Safeway-checkout-line-tier shit. We also had to analyze Bob Dylan, Beatles, and Cake lyrics.

>> No.5114943

>>5114703
read it, it's surprisingly funny for such an old book