My brother made a promise to read any book that I want him too and I really want him to get into literature.
He's not an idiot (biochem major) however I don't think he sees books the same way I do and I want to get him hooked.
If you could recommend him one book, what would it be? Any topic is fine because hes a pretty open minded guy.
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Zettels Traum
read the fucking sticky
>>7463009
I have but I'm still unsure where to go. My favorite book is naked lunch which is probably too boring for him.
>>7463025
Get him Harry Potter. Harry Potter is nihilistic, brilliant with a wicked sense of humour.
Moby-Dick
>>7463070
Just asked him, hes already read it.
Also asked him about The Bell Jar, Brave New World, and Don Quixote, but he's read all those too.
>>7463025
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/isbn/0586085602
>>7463083
If he's read Moby-Dick and Don Quixote, what makes you think another book is going to change his mind?
>>7463094
I don't know, he likes them but it just hasn't clicked yet if you know what I mean. I can only keep trying.
Thoughts on Siddhartha?
>>7463108
Why is it so important to you that your brother has the same interests as you?
>>7462998
Maybe White Noise by Delillo. Blood meridian by McCarthy. Fictions by Borges. Any of those. If he doesn't like them, well whatever.
>>7462998
>He's not an idiot (biochem major)
I'm afraid that only proves he is a huge idiot.
>>7463094
because there exists books that are actually enjoyable books to read out there?
>>7463156
u know
>>7462998
>biochem major
Has he read any really good SF, like Lem?
Read this with him, I guarantee it will bring you guys closes.
Just don't google it ahead of time, it's one of those books best to read without spoilers.
>>7463171
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8I4jJi_OnI
>>7463185
keked hard. I really should but no.
>>7463083
sounds like he already has an interest in literature
a book every young man must read before venturing forth into the world.
>>7462998
Leave him be faggot, he's the useful kind of nerd at the moment.
Master and Margerita
>>7462998
Something by Dumas
The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo
Gravity's Rainbow
>>7465036
This is a good choice, OP.
Get him Paradise Lost.
>>7463165
/thread
>>7462998
the quran
>>7462998
>My brother made a promise to read any book that I want him too
18+
You don't read
Teen romance doesn't count
>>7462998
The Hot Zone
He'll actually like it
>>7465828
Haha I read this in my 9th grade science class and a girl puked when the sound of a guys asshole tearing was compared to a ripping bed sheet. Thanks for that memory.
Stoner is the correct answer
>>7462998
Make him read The Recognitions.
U L Y S S E S
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SSeriously though, if he's read Don Quixote and Moby Dick, then it wouldn't be too much of a challenge.
>>7466341
Autism and/or bait
>>7462998
Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin.
Thank me later.
Try some of Vonnegut's work
>>7465009
This book is fantastic.
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “How could you have done such a thing?”
She answered, “The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit.”
The Lord God said to the snake,
“Because you did this,
a curse will be put on you.
You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be.
You will crawl on your stomach,
and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
I will make you and the woman
enemies to each other.
Your descendants and her descendants
will be enemies.
One of her descendants will crush your head,
and you will bite his heel.”
Then God said to the woman,
“I will cause you to have much trouble
when you are pregnant,
and when you give birth to children,
you will have great pain.
You will greatly desire your husband,
but he will rule over you.”
Then God said to the man, “You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat.
“So I will put a curse on the ground,
and you will have to work very hard for your food.
In pain you will eat its food
all the days of your life.
The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
You will sweat and work hard for your food.
Later you will return to the ground,
because you were taken from it.
You are dust,
and when you die, you will return to the dust.”
>>7466889
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A13-19&version=NCV
>>7466501
Are you a liberal or something? He should give him the scum manifesto.
>>7466992
>Dworkin
>liberal
>>7467090
Does she think that men should be genocided?
>>7462998
>biochem major
>not an idiot
LMAO
>>7467090
she hasn't written any substantial anarchist criticisms. she might as well the dumb libruls you hate.
>>7465009
What would you say is the most important idea you took from that book?
>>7467503
>Prove it with a quote
You're not good at reading sarcasm, are you?
>>7467559
Well if she doesn't want to kill all men she's obviously a wuss. Better stick to Solanas.
>>7467547
I read it together with my dad (He was diagnosed with late stage cancer), and it helped us bond and find peace, he died shortly after. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
I would say it taught me patience and determination.
Labyrinths by Borges or The Book of the New Sun
>>7465009
This book was awful
