/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4474805]

ITT: Books that got you into reading

[Anonymous No.4474824]

[Anonymous No.4474828]

>>4474805

[Anonymous No.4474843]

>>4474805

That's the one for me.

[Anonymous No.4474846]

[Anonymous No.4474859]

War and Peace. I'm a bit ashamed to admit I only started reading it so I could sound smart, before that I had only really read literature in English class and until I discovered Tolstoy I had no idea how powerful it could be.

[Anonymous No.4474865]

[Anonymous No.4474883]

learned reading from my big brother's first Alphabet book before I even hit school myself (must have been 5 back then). First "proper" books must have Pippi Longstocking then if I remember right or Neverending Story.

I've never stopped reading books, there is hardly a day I can remember when I haven't read a chapter of some book or the other

[Anonymous No.4474912]

Jules Verne

[Anonymous No.4475002]

>>4474846
Gotta say this.

My 3rd grade teacher read the first one to the class and I asked my parents to buy it for me so I could read ahead.

[Anonymous No.4475008]

[Anonymous No.4475009]

>>4474912
this

[Anonymous No.4475041]

>>4474883
Same story... can't remember first book.
Maybe Dr Seuss' dictionary? I have fond early memories of reading that.
Or maybe his alphabet book?
"Big A, little A, what begins with A? Aunt Annie's alligator. A, a, a."

[Anonymous No.4475042]

im still not into it ;_;

[Anonymous No.4475050]

as ashamed I am to say it. Darren shan's cirque du freak got me into reading big time. when I realized I could read a book or two a week, my life changed forever. I can't grammar this morning.
>>4474805
>>4474824
>>4474846
>>4474865
my niggaz

[Anonymous No.4475055]

The Wind Singer

[Anonymous No.4475062]

The first BIG book I read (~500 pages) was a vintage fairy tale collection that belonged to my mother. I re-read it all the time. I was 4-5 years old and I had just started reading.

[Anonymous No.4475070]

I thought this book was super deep after we studied it in high school, and got really into writing. Before then I only read the minimum needed to get by on my assignments. Now I'm doing my PhD and it's still pretty similar but at least now I'm into it.

[Anonymous No.4475079]

/v/ here, haven't read many books as I stopped reading after 19. Trying to get back to it but I have been severely disappointed with the last 3 books I've read.

[Anonymous No.4475139]

>>4474805
wizard of oz

[Anonymous No.4475180]

>started reading as a no friends 17 year old
>still reading as a no friends 21 year old but much more patrician

[Anonymous No.4475203]

>started reading as a no friends 18 year old healthy virgin
>still reading as a no friends 24 year old Bi-Polar Schizophrenic virgin with an alcohol problem, but much more patrician

[Anonymous No.4475207]

I've been into reading for as long as I can remember. I could read before I was in kindergarten. I loved this big picture book full of poems about dragons, that was one of the earliest books I can remember reading.

[Fandroid !p6ktXMpsfc No.4475210]

The Ugly Duckling.

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[x No.4475270]

[Bullkowski !!DDFKjfJhPl/ No.4475286]

[Anonymous No.4475303]

[Anonymous No.4475313]

These.
Got so bad I would shout battle cries during games of dodgeball or tag, and I included strawberry cordial in a story I had to write in the fourth grade. Teacher pulled me aside and explained it was alcoholic.

[Anonymous No.4475326]

>>4475313
these covers are fucking my mind

[Anonymous No.4476450]

>>4474824
I own a copy of The Metamorphosis with this cover. It's a shame German doesn't translate well to English.

[Anonymous No.4476467]

I always heard about how this book was "essential reading." I was bracing myself while I bought it as a fifteen-year-old. The world was a different place after I read it.

[Anonymous No.4476473]

>>4474846
Yep

[Anonymous No.4476493]

>>4475313
>>4475326
Oh my god the covers, dude. So much nostalgia

I remember really liking Legend of Luke and Taggerung. Am I pleb? Which ones were the best ones?

[Anonymous No.4476501]

>>4475224
I would probably agree with this. I already read tons before this but the class I was in, the teacher I had, and this book really cemented my passion for reading

[Anonymous No.4476621]

>>4475055
I've got this around but I've never read it.

Would it hold up for you now, do you think?

[Anonymous No.4476636]

It's basically the Yugoslav version of Tom Sawyer.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4476645]

[Anonymous No.4476647]

>>4476645
You too?

[Anonymous No.4476665]

>>4476647
>>4476645
Y-You too?

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[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4476709]

>>4476647
>>4476665
You two and three, yes.

[Anonymous No.4476712]

>>4476709
I still fail to see why people here hate on you. Oh well, I suppose I'll never understand.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4476728]

>>4476712
Some people gets angsty. (and attached to anonymous troll-ery) I hope they're just blowing off steam and learning how to behave better offline.

[Anonymous No.4476745]

>>4476728
I doubt it to be honest. They either carry their angst into reality which causes them to be irritable towards others or completely antisocial or they just never get off the computer which doesn't help them at all.
The case here also seems that they are threatened by your decision to identify yourself as well as your ability to articulate your thoughts.

[Anonymous No.4476756]

>>4476745
(iktf)

[Anonymous No.4476809]

When I was a kid I read Tom Sawyer. At some point I stopped reading by the time I was a around twelve for some reason. The last thing I remember reading was Sherlock Holmes Study in Scarlet. I started reading again when I decided I wanted to read all of Shakespeare's plays around 3 years ago.

[Anonymous No.4476815]

>>4476712
>>4476745
I realize you probably just took off your name, butterfly, but people don't like you because you're irritating.

That's what it boils down to. Assigning some deep seated psychological problem to everyone who hates on you is idiotic.

You're just sort of annoying. Your "persona" adds nothing to this board. And you definitely abuse your power as a janitor.

[Anonymous No.4476824]

>>4476815
furthermore, continuing to drop your name to criticize yourself is really just a sad attempt at pretending you are able to accept criticism and are aware of your flaws.

[Anonymous No.4476838]

>>4476815
Sorry but she didn't drop her trip. I posted that and you can go fuck yourself. You're more of an issue with this board than she is, calm down.

[Anonymous No.4476845]

I don't remember what I started reading with, I remember I used to read a lot of those old YA thrillers ("I know what you did last summer," etc.) in middle school. I never really learned to appreciate literature as an art form until I read A Room With A View in high school though.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4476844]

>>4476815
I think it might have been Feminister or possibly even Marxian teacher or MarriedOld~whatever

I was speaking in general, please, no offense was intended.
>you definitely abuse your power as a ja
Hahahaha

Please please. Back to the thread's topic.

[Anonymous No.4476864]

>>4474828
I love you. Martin Eden is my favourite book.

[Anonymous No.4476863]

come at me brethren

[Anonymous No.4476881]

>>4476838
I'd be interested to know, oh glorious defender, how a meek anon like myself could be a bigger blight on this board than butterfly.

I may posture, I may shitpost, I may deride, but my sins as a lowly anon are a footnote compared to hers.

I don't delete posts that I find politically disagreeable , I don't derail threads, I don't emit any simpering narcissism, I don't pontificate on things that I have a limited understanding of. And even if I did I wouldn't have the gall to attach a name to it, to think that what I bring to this board is so indispensable that I need to attach an identity to it.

[Anonymous No.4476898]

>>4474805

[Anonymous No.4476908]

>>4476881
You realize I like her right? I'm sure your reasons are valid but eh, whatever I think she's cool. Yeah I know, I'm a faggot.

[Anonymous No.4476912]

>>4476881
Is there seriously any evidence (setting aside the fact that the butterfly isn't even a trip) that butterfly-poster is the janitor? Like, I was away for a while, and people keep saying it, and maybe there's some evidence for it that I've just never seen?

[Anonymous No.4476915]

>>4476881
I'm not that anon, but you have no poetry in your heart and this is why you cannot love her. It shows even in your rhetoric, an invective from an entity which knows no storge rings so hollow. Just because can find no homogamy on this board is no cause to slight our precious psyche.
>>4474805
>pic related

[Anonymous No.4476925]

>>4476915
>I'm not that anon, but you have no poetry in your heart and this is why you cannot love her. It shows even in your rhetoric
I'm always bowled over by what anons can glean from a single post. I just find her vaguely annoying, just on a really basic level. Just something in her cadence.

[Anonymous No.4476930]

>>4476925
>Just something in her cadence.
Well, she can't really help that; she has six legs after all.

[Anonymous No.4476932]

This series got me hooked on reading. I remember checking all of them out at the library when I was three or four, good times.

[Anonymous No.4476933]

>>4476930
You're topping my lels right now bro

[Anonymous No.4476943]

>>4476912
Make a post with /pol/ sympathies and see how long it takes for her to rear her head.

Not that anyone should have /pol/ sympathies, but, you know.

[Anonymous No.4476949]

>>4476943
i agree that /pol/ spamming gets deleted and it does seem that someone posting under the sign of the butterfly disagrees with /pol/'s right-wing views. But I don't see how that means butterfly=janitor.

And where did butterfly say they were a girl?

[Anonymous No.4476961]

>>4476949
You generally see her say something along the lines of "That's enough. Stop it." or something else that she thinks sounds authoritative in a thread shortly before it gets deleted.

A couple days ago people started putting the butterfly in their namefeild and those posts would get deleted.

I thinks it's safe to assume that she's a janitor. She'd probably tell you if you asked her.

[Anonymous No.4476966]

[Anonymous No.4476971]

>>4476961
Hell, I do that sometimes, and I'm sure as shit not a janitor. And what were these people posting when their posts got deleted?

I mean, it's pretty slim evidence.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4476976]

>>4476971
Well, let's have us a little experiment.

Put the butterfly in your namefield, and post as you normally would. Let's see if anything gets deleted.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4476982]

>>4476976
I like the way you think.

Of course, even if these do get deleted, it could just be that we have a janitor with a sense of humor.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4476987]

>>4476966
Oh shit, I loved that book. So many great characters, and I felt so clever when I 'got' what was going on at the end. Turtle was rad.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4477001]

>>4476863
I remember the TV show being top-notch, a latter day Twilight Zone.

[Anonymous No.4477062]

>>4475313
Hell yes. Mmm. I AM THAT IS!

[Anonymous No.4477064]

>>4475313
>>4477062
So many childhood memories ITT

[Anonymous No.4477074]

>>4475224
>>4476645
These
Calvin & Hobbes essentially taught me how to read, and then Fahrenheit 451 introduced me to actual novels.
I read it when I was 11 or something and it really blew my mind, I must've read it twice in one week or something.

I still like to read it every year or so

[Anonymous No.4477122]

The last time I've read any real literature was To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, etc. back in high school, and now after hearing about this on /lit/ and reading the wikipedia article on it and James Joyce I bought the book and plan to start it, probably right this moment.

Did I make the right choice?

[Anonymous No.4477128]

>>4477126
Why wouldn't I like it?

[Anonymous No.4477126]

>>4477122
You're not going to like it, also why do I feel like you're a troll?

[Anonymous No.4477135]

>>4477122

Read Joyce in publication order, i.e., Dubliners first. Also, Dubliners was published in 1914 so it's a good year to read it.

[Anonymous No.4477138]

>>4477135
That's what I've been told too, although I was going to go back and read Dubliners and Portrait after Ulysses. It's not like I'm going to miss out on anything, right?

[Anonymous No.4477144]

[Anonymous No.4477149]

Cat Burgalar was my first novel ever
I read a lot in elementary but fell prey to peer pressure telling me it was uncool to read
when harry potter came out, 3 movies in, I realized I wanted to read it after a friend read me the first chapter of the fourth book.
I bought the book the next day, well, my mom bought it lol

anyways
I think HP really got me back into reading
but my grandmother is really the one who gets the credit for reading to me every night I was there

[Anonymous No.4477160]

>>4477138

Reading Ulysses first would be like attempting tightrope walking before crawling or walking, or something to that effect. (Finnegans Wake would be tightrope walking on your lips.) Maybe someone else has a better analogy. The point is you'd have a hard time understanding it and would likely not finish it out of disgust, especially given your lit background.

[Anonymous No.4477245]

>>4477126

Looks like you were right about the troll thing.

[Anonymous No.4477257]

>>4477245
Most of the trolls here have a tendency to start their shitposting with I've never read before or I haven't read seriously since high school or what's a book. Then they go on to ask about a book they know will get a rise out of /lit/. Also, this is usually done in a random thread.

[Anonymous No.4477269]

>>4477257

I feel so used.

[Anonymous No.4477271]

>>4477257
>>4477245
I'll admit it was a cover up. I'm actually an 18 year old finishing high school and I've never ventured into literature beyond what I've been obligated to read, and I had seen Ulysses hailed as a masterpiece from many sources so I decided to go with it.

I could stop reading it now and finish Dubliners and Portrait first, I just wasn't entirely sure. You don't need to bully me.

[Anonymous No.4477277]

>>4477271
I am a lonely, pathetic person who is going exactly nowhere with his life and knows his ambitions are reckless and will lead to nothing...of course I need to bully you. Otherwise I'll end up crying myself to sleep.

[Anonymous No.4477281]

>>4474912
This, and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

[Anonymous No.4477289]

>>4477277
You sound both like my dad and the man I, and most others, are destined to become

[Anonymous No.4477298]

This

[Anonymous No.4477300]

>>4477289
Pretty much, anon. At least we have each other to kick around.

[Anonymous No.4477301]

I've finished reading two novels in my entire life

read thousands of books though

[Anonymous No.4477370]

[Anonymous No.4477381]

>>4476645
Hell yeah bitch. I've been meaning to pick up that "complete" Calvin and Hobbes hardcover book one of these days.

[Anonymous No.4477417]

>>4477370

You playin my tune, son. Divine providence for the lil white cracka.

[Anonymous No.4477457]

>>4477370
I use to read and reread this book all the time. I felt the same desire to live alone in the woods throughout all of my teenage years. Thanks for reminding me about this book, I completely forgot about it.

[Anonymous No.4477637]

Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.4477691]

>>4476863
YES.