12 year old boy, 13 year old girl. What is a good book for each of them for Christmas /lit/?
are they special snowflakes? ;)
>>7387783
For the boy I'd recommend The Room, by Hubert Selby Jr
For the girl I'd recommend JR, by William Gaddis
>>7387783
Meditations for the lad and a cookbook for the lass
Get him The Lord of The Rings. Even if he doesn't read it now, he'll thank you for it one day.
>>7387834
this for the boy
teenage soup for the girl
thank me later
>>7387834
>uncle Anon, why are you such a pleb? You have no discernible talent!
>>7387840
>i didn't write the book, kid
>>7387783
To enrich their lives? I dunno.
But you can't go wrong by giving the girl one of those "Young adult female with special powers vs a corrupt government" books
Give the boy LoTR
Lolita and Lolito.
Dostoevsky and Austen?
Phenomology of Spirit for the boy and The Ego and Its Own for the girl
You'll know you've done the world good if you've left it with a despooked loli
Blood Meridian for boy
Crime and Punishment for girl
Works of Shakespeare for the boy and the Bible for the girl.
12 year old boy needs a swagged out adventure book, something picaresque maybe?
>>7387828
This, also for the boy:
Dark Spring by Unica Zurn
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Moravagine by Blaise Cendars
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
The society of the spectacle by Guy Debord
The Discourses by Epictetus
For the Girl:
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Principia Discordia by Gregory Hill
Eleven kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Richard Yates by Tao Lin
Extinction by Thomas Bernard
The Instructions by Adam Levin
I'm just going to throw out a bunch of books that I enjoyed around that age:
Cosmicomics
The first three Earthsea books
Sherlock Holmes stories
Dracula
Frankenstein
Miscellaneous Terry Pratchett books
Momo
The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged)
The Three Musketeers (abridged)
>>7387783
Nichomachean Ethics for the girl and The Republic for the boy. Completely unironically. They are at the perfect age to start with the greeks. And with any luck they'll be thankfull for it in the future.
Ada, or Ardor for both of them.
>>7387920
>abridged
kill yourself desu
A hot hentai manga, a porno mag, a packet of cigarettes, a six pack of beers and a $20 bill for the boy.
For the girl, print Hamlet off the internet and stable it together. Give it to her with a second hand Bible.
>>7387783
Watership Down for either, if they haven't read it
>>7387783
Have you met them?
>>7387948
OP here, this is an anonymous donation drive at my church. Idk who the kids are or even if they'll get these.
>>7387959
>church
You should have said so earlier. Give 'em both the Nichomachean Ethics. That'll set them on virtue's path for sure.
Lolita for the girl.
>>7387989
This. Make sure to write your email address on the final page.
Send them each a signed copy of that YA novel you've been working on!
>>7387860
>Lolito
Spit my milk in the cafeteria at that one, lad. Good one mate, cheers.
>>7387860
/thread
>>7387959
get them both Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard or some other theological philosophy
>>7387831
>Meditations for the lad and a cookbook for the lass
top kek
Good god no teenager is ever going to read these suggestions. Don't waste your money, get them something more age appropriate and maybe they'll develop more into reading.
Here, pick something you think is halfway decent:
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=spring_manbrowse_100?ie=UTF8&node=11424451011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-leftnav&pf_rd_r=14YMGFZ9QQ1FQM9TFMSV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=2091480942&pf_rd_i=11415855011
>>7387860
kek'd
I recently read The Explorers Guild, that new book that Kevin Costner co-wrote. It's actually really good for a teen fiction type thing. It will put good thoughts in the boy's head. I got Hemingway vibes, but wrapped in a very much teenager oriented book.
It's current, has potential to be Harry Potter-tier in terms of relevance if they keep releasing them(probably getting a movie soon), and is actually pretty well written, better than HP.
I'd say that one is a no-brainer for the boy.
>>7387783
Industrial society and its future for the boy
Orgy of the will for the girl
They'll thank you later
>>7388433
Why not the girl also? Is it entirely about maintenance of foreskins and scrotums?
>>7388494
It's very masculine. I read it after hearing an NPR interview with the authors, and even they said they felt it was appropriate for anyone who was a man or in the process of becoming one. Not really a girl book, she would get bored and not be able to relate to the ideals presented. It's very bourbon and leather, desire to explore the world stuff.
DESU just get the girl chicken soup for the soul or something. It's difficult to find good stuff to nudge a girl that young into literature. No women are autistic enough to write teen books of value.
>>7388582
Wow, I remember that NPR interview and I listen to NPR maybe once a month. We're soulmates.
Dual copies of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. It's the most Christmassy thing ever.
Jules Verne or H.G. Wells for the boy
>>7387909
This is brilliant list
>tfw no lit son
>>7388494
I see where this is going. Don't start with this shit, buying Christmas presents for underprivileged kids isn't the place to foist your ideas of gender fluid/neutral toys over on them.
>>7388689
This.
>>7388706
But why would it be the place to foist one's ideas of rigid gender roles over them?
>>7388494
Spotted the female who likes to frequent tumblr.
>>7389667
>>7388045
There's actually a guy who wrote this. (but it of course sucks, by all accounts)
>>7387783
Around the World in 80 Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne are good choices for the boy.
Get them the Fagles Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid Box Set. No, they're not too young. A hundred years ago they would be reading this stuff in Latin at age 8.
>>7389715
Nice argument.
>>7389715
>anime reaction image
>thumbnail size
>reddit-tier content
I think you might want to take your own advice into consideration, my man
>>7389705
>Implying that you can derive a person's genetalia from their gender.
>tumblr
Pick one.
>>7387783
infinite jest and gravitys rainbow
>>7388302
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_in_My_Life
This book from that list looks interesting. Anyone know if it's worth any time?
the Wake
>>7387783
Boy - Koran
Girl - Koran
All other books must be discarded. Allahu Ackbar.
>>7390158
this desu
send the girl a hijab too, she's old enough
>>7387939
This OP, great suggestion. I was riveted by that book around that age. I would also recommend the redwall series for the boy.
Little Women to be quite frank
>>7387783
Boy: The Hobbit
Girl: To Kill a Mockingbird
>>7387783
Boy: Lord of the Flies
Girl: Lolita
My dick for the girl if she's cute.
A lesson on not being a fuccboi for the boy.
>>7387939
Yep, this is perfect
>>7387783
When I was around 13, I absolutely loved this book called After. It was by Francine Prose and it was a YA book about this school that, after a nearby school had a shooting, hired a new director and they implemented all of these scary policies and started sending kids away to disciplinary camps.
You might track that down for the boy. I don't know. I really liked it.
