/lit/ - Literature

>>22330177
Leave him alone you fat stalker freak

threaten to fuck his dad

>>22330177
genuinely you’d find better answers for this quandary on Reddit than here

>>22330177
Try audiobook of short scary stories or really good comic books or manga

>>22330213
I guess I was hoping the /pol/tards would find other threads more entertaining

>>22330235
Pretty good idea! Will try the audiobook idea first -- any suggestions for scary stories?
(Or comic books or manga ---- he also likes soccer and French and is prob about to "like girls")

>>22330177
What is he interested in? Surely there must be something that interests him.
Also, define "classics". I hope you haven't suggested him to start reading with Crime and Punishment, right?
>I had a gf who screamed one day because a character in Toni Morrison's Beloved died.
>I want him to have a reaction like that.
He is NOT your son, and you are NOT his dad. Try being the cool uncle with cool stories instead of trying to make him feel emotional about books, which is much harder and for some people impossible compared to simply enjoying reading.
Perhaps a few stories by O. Henry

>>22330177
How to Train Your Dragon series. It gradually gets a little more difficult with each book.

>>22330265
is it emotionally engrossing?

>>22330177
jebus cripes fuck you to hell you retarded piece of shit
why are you trying to force your hobbies onto an unwilling vulnerable person?
try comic books
if that doesnt work
try physical activity
maybe that little kid wants to be an athlete

>>22330177

Books that boys like to read would be stuff like My Side of the Mountain.

The fact that they liked some of the books you recommended means you're making progress so what are you frustrated about?

Find something else to worry about.

Here's a kid's book that's literally about him.

>>22330177
Men don’t have the same reactions to literature the way women do. Ask him what his interests are, look for books based on those interests. I grew up kind of like him but when I found something I was interested in, I was hooked.

>>22330177
That child isn't your responsibility, why are you bothering?
Also, the kid might have a chip on his shoulder from the older sibling's reading habits.
Leave the kid alone.

Perhaps a classic science fiction tale of rape

Have you tried getting them to read any gladiator books?

>>22330177
give him A.C. Doyle's Sherlock novels. The main four.
along with that, Leblanc's Lupin stuff. the latter would be a better option if you have to pick.

>>22330177
Start him with Catcher in the Rye, its totally fit inside kids. For kids.

>>22330177
Give him R.L Stine bro. Let the kid feel the goosebumps on his arms.

Introduce him to the works of F Gardner.

>>22330177
bring him to a bookstore and have him pick his book, or you two can buy/rent the same book so you can talk about

>throw Fight Club at his head
>read 50 pages today or your mother dies in her sleep tonight, faggot

>>22330177
Give him this, I promise you it will work

>>22330177
Is there a book you would want him not to read, that you would try to stop him reading if you caught him reading it? I guarantee he'd be interested in reading it. Tell him not to read that book.

>>22330177
You should explain why this kid has to become a reader because everything you're doing just sounds like you're a dick trying to impose your interest on him.

>>22331481
Kant is the greatest but with the proliferation of CPR throughout /lit/ as of late I worry it may join the ranks of "cringeworthy meme tomes" in next years mass photoshop meme.

>>22331299
>That child isn't your responsibility, why are you bothering?
>>22331014
>why are you trying to force your hobbies onto an unwilling vulnerable person?

My bad.
I should have explained that my sister and her husband had been telling me abou this reluctance to read.
I majored in Lit so they wondered if I might have some ideas about how to get him interested in reading.

Sorry I gave the wrong impression, I def understand why you thought the way you did.

>>22330177
Give him the Lord of the Rings and if he doesnt finish it within a month you threaten to make him gay

Have you tried talking to him and asking him questions