Some of those are too heavy for someone easing into real literature.
I agree on that point.
Aurelius - Meditations
If you want to get into the Greeks you need to start properly
Roman, but I didn't recommend it because of its context. It contains better life advice than the "just do it" self help books of today.
Again this is too heavy for someone starting out. I know a lot of people read it in their teens but those lengthy songs are offputting. He should start with The Hobbit instead.
Perhaps.
Why would you recommend a final book in a trilogy?
Because it stands on its own well enough and is the most important of the three.
Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Way too heavy.
True. I just love it.
For Russian literature start with something like The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov. I like the Michael Glenny translation myself.
I hate the light satanism and Christ the doormat approach of that book.
Hobbes - Victoria
You want to start him off with fucking Hobbes?
It's a very different Hobbes. We're not talking about the Leviathan guy. The book is from 2015 IIRC and gives a family man's scenario of 4th generation warfare in a US context.
Heinlein - Starship Troopers
>Its okay but not much different from what >>13066942 suggests.
If promotes healthy relations between sexes and one's duties. I consider it essential reading for young men of today.
Good start. Lots of classics. Consider branching out into nonfiction, biographies, and history.
Ulysses
James Joyce is a /lit/ meme people use to flex about the books they've read. 2deep4u ramblings that don't add value to your life aside from illusory feelings of intellectual superiority. Would not recommend to anyone focused on actually bettering themselves. You might as well be reading Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning.
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Some of those are too heavy for someone easing into real literature.
If you want to get into the Greeks you need to start properly
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Again this is too heavy for someone starting out. I know a lot of people read it in their teens but those lengthy songs are offputting. He should start with The Hobbit instead.
Why would you recommend a final book in a trilogy?
Agree. Good jumping off point.
Way too heavy.
For Russian literature start with something like The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov. I like the Michael Glenny translation myself.
You want to start him off with fucking Hobbes? Do you want him to never pick up a book again ever?
Its okay but not much different from what >>13066942 suggests.
>>13062965
Ease into it.
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (Glenny translation). Russians are God tier when it comes to literature.
If you are thirsty for more start browsing /lit/. Half chans version is still good.