I'm an 18 y.o. guy, fresh out of highschool. I am looking to raise my knowledge of good narrative as I hope to, in the future, go out into the world and start writing, myself. The only novels readily available to me are either a) stupid teen fiction (b) things I've already read and comprehend or (c) cookbooks.
Can you guys help me out by posting some good classics as well as not calling me names please? Thanks it helps a lot.
>in this thread post novels that are higher than 1000 on the lexile scale, yet still worth my time.
Pic semi-related, another young mind with a desire to learn.
Heart of Darkness
Obligatory.
>>7685496
Read the sticky damn it.
>>7685496
The Fault in Our Stars.
>>7685508
You and John Green have something in common
You are both faggots
>>7685560
The funny thing is that Green knows he's a fag but doesn't want to admit it. From Paper Towns:
>In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.
>>7685496
>lexile scale
>>7685496
fuck off
>>7685560
Considering your writing skills (or lack thereof), I think John Green is right up your alley.
>>7685586
holy shit does this passage actually exist in that book. christ
>>7685496
>lexile scale
Stop that.
You want to challenge yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
And 1 book from the last 50 nobel winners, and one book from all of the meme authors.
Thats around 200ish books, which can be read in two years. That will make you well read, and hopefully break you of your bad habits picked up by being forced to read books judged on qualitative methodology.
>>7685586
Holy shit. How do you even justify PC shit like this in a book?
>>7685496
What country do you want?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_Boom
muh favorite movement
>>7685652
I personally thought that it was a great poem.
>>7685496
Wow. OP really was a faggot this time around!
