Name: Anonymous 2009-06-27 21:05
tldr, need book recommendations
Okay. Heres the deal. I just discovered this board and although I am a frequent visitor of /tv/(this particular board might seem blasphemous to you) I was rejoiced I had found /book/. Anyhow, what I came to talk about is book related. When I first learned to read, I loved it and would visit the school library often, reading all sorts of decent/shitty mandatory reading. As I grew into a prepubescent angry young man, I started disliking it more and more, and then for no reason, I stopped. Why? I really can't say specifically because it seems so trite. Now that I have graduated from school with decent grades but nothing to be proud of, I have started reading again and with great joy, I just finished Robert A Heinleins "Starship Troopers" and I read "Notes from Underground" from Fyodor Dostoyevsky which were to say the least awesome.
Now, I've browsed through here for a while and I can get a general view of what you like and dislike, but I'd like to get some really solid classic recommendations of what you guys might think I should start with.
Okay. Heres the deal. I just discovered this board and although I am a frequent visitor of /tv/(this particular board might seem blasphemous to you) I was rejoiced I had found /book/. Anyhow, what I came to talk about is book related. When I first learned to read, I loved it and would visit the school library often, reading all sorts of decent/shitty mandatory reading. As I grew into a prepubescent angry young man, I started disliking it more and more, and then for no reason, I stopped. Why? I really can't say specifically because it seems so trite. Now that I have graduated from school with decent grades but nothing to be proud of, I have started reading again and with great joy, I just finished Robert A Heinleins "Starship Troopers" and I read "Notes from Underground" from Fyodor Dostoyevsky which were to say the least awesome.
Now, I've browsed through here for a while and I can get a general view of what you like and dislike, but I'd like to get some really solid classic recommendations of what you guys might think I should start with.