What are some books that could get a 15 year old into heavy literature? I want to get my 15 year old son into literature, but dont know where to start. so far all ive had him read is animal farm
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tell him that he'll turn into a frogposting 40 year old if he doesnt
>>8144212
jonathan livingston seagull, hatchet, swiss family robinson, monte cristo, vonnegut, heinlein, huxley, kipling...
>>8144212
depend on his character mate
don't pick something that he's also going to end up reading at school
when i was 15 i loved stuff like HG Wells and Jules Verne and the Sherlock Holmes stories
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>>8144212
'heavy' literature?
get him to read the /lit/ starter kit, (maybe with the exception of lolita). don't make him a fucking pretentious cuck like some people here.
also huxley, mccarthy and hemmingway
i read gravity's rainbow when i was 15. Give him that it will change his life. With the internet it'll be easy for him to look uo references and words he doesn't know.
>>8144212
all it really takes is one really good book. something that speaks to him not from authority through you, but rather a dialogue between he and the author, in a secret, private way. something for he and only he. that's why i suggest Finnegans Wake.
In search of lost time.
>>8144212
for your """son""""? just be honest and say you're the 15 year old here and looking for some literature
"oh, wow dad, a book... thanks?"
>>8144212
Just buy that cuck a copy of Lolita, he's a horny teenager, he'll fap to the book a few times and associate reading with something good.
>>8144212
give him options and give it time. Start with hitchiker's guide to the galaxy. I always recommend that to any high schooler or non-reader. He'll blow through all five books in a week and really get a sense of what he can done by devoting solid time to reading. There's the ender series, or palahniuk's stuff, which appeals to 15 year old boys' need for edginess. Or at least it did me. If you must get him on denser literature right now then I just kind of feel sorry for him. The maturity level of his peers and his overall surroundings aren't conductive to that.
>>8144374
And pressuring him to alienate himself from his peers like that might ruin literature for him.
>>8144374
>maturity level
not every 15 year old is some edgy fuck who does stupid shit everyday
>>8144371
i remember in my 15 i was delighted with Henry Miller (particullary Capricorn) as he fucked a pussys and was edgy all the time, and to add to that it was decently wrote
>>8144393
No but every 15 year old is stupid. And every public school is filled with stupid.
>>8144402
>every 15 year old is stupid
Quite a generalization to make. Maybe they lack life experience, but not all of them are stupid. I've known 15 year olds in the past who knew how to articulate themselves well.
A Confederacy of Dunces
>>8144367
if you hit him with it first, then throw it at him while he's reeling he'll be too disoriented to react
>>8144393
You're right. Every 15 year old in public school is totally prepared to enjoy ulysses. And his surroundings and daily interactions don't conflict with that kind of depth at all.
Give him a copy of The Republic and tell him you won't speak to him again until he's worthy of being acknowledged.
>>8144434
nice strawman
>>8144212
15 is the worst age for lit. If he's really mature you could start existentialism or some of the French novelists, but it's difficult to appreciate literature with no life experience. Also 15 year olds tend to not be receptive to things like mythology which can lead adults back to lit later on in life.
>>8144212
>15 year old son
>frogposting dad
holy fucking christ is this bait?
The best way to get a teenager to read is to give them books that have sex scenes. Or hold a gun to their heads.
>>8144374
lol pleb. i was reading the illiad at 14. no need to get him into bad literature. at the age of 14 a boy should have at least a little discerning taste. graham greene perhaps, lord of the flies. waugh, sassoon even. conrad, louis stevensen. god forbid they are reading harry potter.
>>8144212
probably Plato. Something small and easy at first but still something to think about. I couldn't stop after reading the first 4 dialogues
Kafka or Camus
>>8144212
Vonnegut
Camus
Salinger
Hemingway
>>8144837
I can't imagine how it must be like to have a Frogposter Dad
>>8144863
I don't really care enough to argue with you. I just kind of feel bad because i've had sex with women and you're a frustrated loser.
>>8144229
>American Psycho
why would you give your son this book
Give him Vonnegut
>>8144820
>Implying Lolita doesn't do what the writer wanted exceptionally well
Dystopian shit (not YA) seems like a good way to introduce teens to literature. IMO kids have a hard time understanding more nuanced "adult" emotions and ideas. For example, I read V. when I was 16 and all of the ideas about man's relationship to women completely went over my head until I reread it in my mid 20s. Straightforward political and social commentary generally seems like something a kid can wrap their head around more easily
>>8144212
Steinbeck is excellent for getting into /lit/. But if he's that young, maybe Kerouac. The sooner he adores it the sooner he gets over it - at his current age, he'd easily be able to chalk it up as teen faggotry when he grows out of it.
>>8144212
You mean your wife's son, right?
>>8144229
>Brett Easton Edgelord for 15 year olds
For added effect, print out the top Nietzsche quotes from goodreads and give him those too.
my wife's son is a big fan of the Harry Potter books. Maybe that would be a good start for him? ..
>>8145068
What's up with the constant, unsolicited cuck fantasies?
>>8145073
Sick memes my dude
>>8145068
the superior wright book desu senpai. also a better writer than you could ever hope to be you dumb cracker.
>>8144973
T. Pleb
>>8145083
it's 4chan. most people here are obsessed with shit like that. it's fucking tedious
My first lit book when I was 14 was Pale Fire, give him that shit.
>>8145255
Yeah, I've noticed.
As a general PSA to the people this concerns: you can reset your sick sexual fantasies by not watching porn for a few months. Try it out. You'll regain your ability to be aroused by normal women and healthy relations. No more need for trannies and cuckolding. It's healthy for both you and the board.
>>8144845
thinking about getting him to read philosophy in the bedroom
Catcher in the Rye
Huck Finn
Great Expectations
Don Quixote
The Last of the Mohicans
Tom Sawyer
David Copperfield
>>8144229
Not mccarthy
I hated mccarthy when i was in high school
>>8144212
I got into reading through Gogol and Dostoevsky at 16, but I am a Slav so don't know if he'd be as engaged
i would disown my dad if he turned out to be a frogposter but he beat me to the punch anyway
