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Anonymous Mon Jan 9 20:50:11 2017 No.8953806 [Reply] [Original]

Post books no one over 18 should bother reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 20:52:53 2017 No.8953822 File: 1.51 MB, 1422x2159, MobyDickTonyMillionaireCoverPoster.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 20:53:36 2017 No.8953827 >>8953806 >>8953822 you guys first

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 20:56:11 2017 No.8953838 >>8953822 are you fucking kidding me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 20:57:04 2017 No.8953843 >>8953806 all haruki murakami works all george orwell works

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 20:58:44 2017 No.8953847 >>8953822 This is a bad post >>8953843 This is a great post

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 21:04:19 2017 No.8953870 my diary desu >>8953838 >implying children under 18, even the majority of college students, will understand it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 21:06:25 2017 No.8953879 >>8953806 Everything that deals with Gender Studies

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:04:41 2017 No.8954137 Sartre - Nausea

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:12:57 2017 No.8954156 >>8953870 reread the OP, not implying that

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:28:02 2017 No.8954208 >>8953806 The Stranger Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:46:27 2017 No.8954258 Harry Potter There are adults who actually read these books, I can't understand it!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:49:27 2017 No.8954262 The Scarlet Letter Wuthering Heights The Giver Any Ayn Rand

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:49:57 2017 No.8954264 >>8954262 >The Scarlet Letter wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:50:27 2017 No.8954267 >>8954264 Worthless book, waste of time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:51:23 2017 No.8954268 >>8953806 >>8953822 >>8953843 fuck you no face rascals, im a late reader

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:53:03 2017 No.8954270 Catcher in the rye.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:55:41 2017 No.8954277 Great Expectations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:56:35 2017 No.8954279 >>8954277 All Dickens really.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 22:59:58 2017 No.8954287 >>8954262 >Wuthering Heights Why, faggot?

Anonymous Mon Jan 9 23:01:37 2017 No.8954293

>>8953822
no
>>8953843
haven't read them, and don't plan on it, so sure
>>8953879
>post books no one over 18 months should read
>>8954208
eh, vonnegut is enjoyable and slaughter house 5 is a easy read (wouldn't recommend someone reads beyond that), and the stranger is super short.
>>8954258
>post books no one over 8 should read
>>8954262
yeah i can't really disagree with this even though I kind of want to
>>8954270
I think I read it at just the right age (16) and point in my life. Wonder if I'd like it if I read it now for the first time

Anonymous Mon Jan 9 23:05:47 2017 No.8954314

>>8953806
>The Alchemist and other books by Paulo Coelho
>anything by Hemingway
>anything by a woman

>>8954262
this

>>8954287
because women can't competently write beyond the YA level you tremendous pleb, even most women who write YA fiction write absolute trash (eg. Hunger Games, Twilight, every one of LeGuin's books)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 23:06:37 2017 No.8954317 >>8954314 oh

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 23:08:04 2017 No.8954321 File: 127 KB, 484x789, 1462930206379.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8954314 >every one of LeGuin's books agree to DISAGREE there brother

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 23:13:40 2017 No.8954342 File: 997 KB, 3240x3600, start-with-the-greeks2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8954321 I'm sorry about your taste, please consult this guide before posting again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 23:40:55 2017 No.8954419 File: 132 KB, 1024x683, senpailovesyou.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8954342 nice meme there brother

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 23:56:55 2017 No.8954474 magic tree house infinite jest go dog go (jk) the places you go

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 00:10:10 2017 No.8954509 >timeless, classic literature I think I'm 2 smart 4: the thread Disgraceful and pathetic

Anonymous Tue Jan 10 00:13:39 2017 No.8954515

I hesitate to bar someone from reading any books, because even shitty books and authors can have cultural significance, like ayn Rand, Nietzsche, the Bible, etc.

That being said, by the age of eighteen certain things will be far below your skill level and mostly a waste of time

>Any book written by a woman
>Any fiction
>Anything written by a black person (if you think I'm racist, please name one book written by a black person that is not a waste of time compared to a book written by an Asian or white person)
>Anything by Richard Dawkins, bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, etc
>Any pop psychology or self help book, see Malcolm gladwell
>Anything that people read to be pretentious, like DFW, Joyce, pynchon, etc,
>Anything that's a meme on /lit (see above)

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 00:15:23 2017 No.8954520 >>8954515 >Any fiction yeah, nah, you're a retard

Anonymous Tue Jan 10 00:29:56 2017 No.8954562

>>8954520
Sorry, I should distinguish between genre fiction (designed to sell books and almost completely rubbish) and literary fiction, which is still mostly rubbish but includes some good and important works.
(Also note the cultural significance clause: some works of popular fiction, while shitty, are important to read: lord of the rings, earlier science fiction like Asimov, Orwell, etc)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:28:49 2017 No.8954706 >>8954515 Dumas was black

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:31:51 2017 No.8954714 >>8954262 >the giver Fuck you

Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:33:38 2017 No.8954717

>>8954515
>if you think I'm racist, please name one book written by a black person that is not a waste of time compared to a book written by an Asian or white person
I'd love to see an asian guy write Things Fall Apart
>but colonialism-
Is still a topic that could really only be broached in a realistic sense by someone who had experienced it. Conrad's Heart of Darkness tackles the same subject, true, but from a moralist subjective angle.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:35:43 2017 No.8954723 >>8954518 Hey fuck you buddy, All Quiet's general antiwar message is simplistic but Remarque's striking narrative qualifies him as a European Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:36:03 2017 No.8954724 >>8954562 that's one of the biggest distinctions you can make in the library, anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:36:55 2017 No.8954725 >>8954714 But he's right, The Giver is trite OP, add Gatsby to the list as well

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:37:07 2017 No.8954726 >>8954293 14-17 is the perfect range to read it. Unfortunately, i read it at 20. Didn't hated Holden as much as the fact that i spent docientos pesos (10 bucks) and it lasted me two fucking days

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:38:37 2017 No.8954730 >>8954714 you're old enough to process the giver by middle school In a similar vein, how do you guys feel about I am the Cheese

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:41:04 2017 No.8954737 >>8954725 You can't appreciate Gatsby until you have lived through your twenties (and realized you won't get another shot)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:43:34 2017 No.8954747 >>8954725 The giver had a profound effect on me in middle school.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:56:29 2017 No.8954779 the cat in the hat

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 01:56:46 2017 No.8954781 >>8954515 Total neonazi, but Thomas Sowell Joyce, Pynchon etc. are only pretentious because - ahh fuck it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 02:03:48 2017 No.8954793 File: 52 KB, 1212x676, Heywood dumbass.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8954706 More like Dumbass, amirite.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 02:05:39 2017 No.8954795 >>8953806 You serious? Siddharta is probably one of the books you can't fully grasp if you haven't lived a little, therefore be 30 at least to enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 02:10:38 2017 No.8954803 The Perks of Being a Wallflower. like the limit is probably 15. tfw read it at 19. there was some serious cringe INFINITE

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 09:17:39 2017 No.8955525 >>8954258 >18 >not like 10 I knew YA was trash when I was like 8-10 and started reading real shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 11:01:44 2017 No.8955787 Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn Very good books for children, but a waste to read if you're an adult.

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