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Anonymous Sat Dec 14 20:56:01 2019 No.14351042 [Reply] [Original]

What is the first book you'd recommend to someone who doesn't read regularly but is in his late 20s and wanting to start.
I'd like something interesting to read that sort of sucks you into its world but also teaches you something after having read it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 20:57:20 2019 No.14351048 the very hungry caterpillar

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:01:11 2019 No.14351071 >>14351042 1984, Anything by John Fowles, Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Master and Commander by O'Brian, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Hiroshima by John Hersey.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:09:46 2019 No.14351111 >>14351042 Kafka on the Shore was pretty good at that for me a couple of years ago, even though I don't think it's so good right now. If you have any weeb tendencies it's a solid choice.

Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:18:01 2019 No.14351157
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>>14351042
Jack London is easy to read and makes some clean and clear statements about man in relationship with nature. You can purchase “Call of the Wild” and “White Fang” in one volume at most bookstores, but I prefer the Barnes and Noble classic edition because it’s cheap and reliable (with a good introduction if you want to be introduced to the context of London’s life and times).

The plots move fast and the rare moments that he lingers on a particular scene or image stand out as powerful and gripping.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:21:08 2019 No.14351172 Crime and Punishment

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:21:10 2019 No.14351173 >>14351042 neuromancer

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:29:37 2019 No.14351228 >>14351111 wind up bird chronicle is good too

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:34:45 2019 No.14351257 >>14351042 Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is one of the best fantasy series to exist. Starts slow but goes on to deal with daoist beliefs and the nature of fate and free will.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:35:39 2019 No.14351265 Raymond Chandler Or Murakami

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:38:04 2019 No.14351275 >>14351265 What the fuck are you going to learn from Raymond Chandler or Murakami?

Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:41:14 2019 No.14351288

>>14351042
Read Animal Farm – nuanced and based enough in serious ideas that majorly affected the real world to be considered "adult literature," but short and simple enough to be comprehended by high schoolers. Don't read Nineteen Eighty-Four until you've read Animal Farm.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:42:16 2019 No.14351292 The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:45:47 2019 No.14351309 >>14351042 Read Schopenhauer's Essays and Aphorisms

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 21:55:01 2019 No.14351356 >>14351042 Start with the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 22:52:39 2019 No.14351663 >>14351042 Read the sticky, you fucking idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 14 23:28:17 2019 No.14351809 >>14351042 Empire of lies was a good read

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