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Recommend a book for sister's 14th birthday
I want to introduce her to something classy like Pride and Prejudice.
She is into American Horror Story. Is there something that is both classy and horror?

>> No.7268152

Somethic educational, I want her to be a decent human being

>> No.7268155
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>>7268149
>Is there something that is both classy and horror?
my diary tbh

>> No.7268163

>>7268152
lel 14 y.o.l.d.s. don't read books fam.

and decent human being? A book won't teach her that shit, either your parents dun did a good job and shell be fine, no book ass shit is gonig to help u.

nicomachean ethics maybe???

who knows tbh, give her a hug and tell her you're there for her becuz you're a redpilled gentleman who knows that marxism is a sham faaaaam that shit up

>> No.7268188

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

It's basically an Austen or Bronte novel in a very lightly sci-fi/dystopian world. Exactly what you're looking for.

>> No.7268233

>>7268188
Thanks, it is pretty nice. Will consider it.
Though I'm afraid it might be too serious and heavy for 14yo.

>> No.7268242

pride and prejudice is fucking gay
give her delta of venus, or story of the eye, or something by de sade, cuz you know she probably fingers the shit out of her little pussy every night now right? she probably fingers her ass sometimes too, HA HA

>> No.7268269

why don't you try any of the gothic style classics?

Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, the invisible man, Dracula, Sleepy Hollow
you know

though, probably try something short, since she's just a 14 year old that care for something as durp as AHS

>> No.7268271

>>7268149
Shirly Jackson, The House on Haunted Hill
Joe Hill, Horns
Joe Hill, Heart Shaped Box

Don't try to imprint your shitty tastes on your sister, get her something she'll like. I legitimately recommend Horns.

>> No.7268272

>>7268163
>>7268269
>14 year olds don't read
Way to make sweeping generalizations.

>> No.7268273

>>7268155
underrated

>> No.7268307

>>7268233
It is certainly heavy but it is very readable and does not use a large vocabulary.

Some other ideas:

Coraline by Neil Gaiman
We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson

and personally I don't think the Hunger Games books are so bad, certainly no worse than JK Rowling.

>> No.7268424

>>7268307
She has read Hunger Games. Coraline is a bit childish isn't it?
Never let me go is cool.
>>7268269
That's also cool.

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Pride Prejudice and Zombies

>> No.7268712

>>7268444
/thread

>> No.7268724

>>7268163
Youth
Opining
Learned
Development
Speciously

?

>> No.7268736

>>7268163
>14 year olds don't read books
J O H N G R E E N
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>> No.7268741

>>7268444
Wow, 10/10
Is it good? So 80% of text is from original book.

>> No.7268753

>>7268724
Fuck, I meant Spuriously

>> No.7268764

>>7268741
Most of comments on internet say it is a filth not worth reading.
I think it is a cool idea. Some fresh tone on classic story. Maybe sister will read original book later.

>> No.7268795

>>7268307
I like Harry Potter but Hunger Games is shit fam, it's just fucking weak.

>> No.7269221

>>7268149
Oh fuck off.

>> No.7269429

>>7268149
Can't think of any decent horror outside of Stephen King and Lovecraft. Wuthering Heights might be a good fit though. If not, then perhaps mysteries such as Sherlock Holmes or Murder on the Orient Express.

If she can put up with Hunger Games, she should be fine with Coraline; Gaiman is a much better writer. I personally prefer The Graveyard Book.

It really helps to know what she enjoys though, since that matters more than anything.

>> No.7269442

Joe Hill

>> No.7269457

>>7268741
It's pretty trash, but definitely passable for an into reading novel. Still has a place on my bookcase somehow

>> No.7269654

>>7268163
I was reading Arthur C. Clarke when I was twelve.

>> No.7269666

Eat her out.

>> No.7271131

>>7268149
Turn of the Screw is pretty much exactly what you're looking for.

>> No.7271906

>>7268163
I started reading at age 9, fuckin' Redwall fam.
You hadn't even started by 14? You disgust me, filthy pleb.

>> No.7273732

If she likes AHS, my instinct is to recommend Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1987).

That's the book I would give her, based on your description of her. It's good lit, and it is abso-fucking-lutely-terrifying. It's also quite an intriguing view of India.

>> No.7273750

>>7268149
Wuthering heights nigga

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>> No.7273875 [DELETED] 

Test

>> No.7273888

I have order Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
I have greeted her and said they are going to deliever it next week. I said it will be a surprise.
She was all toxic and said she doesn't need books because she has an iPad.
Teenagers.

>> No.7273889

>>7271906
Aw word, Redwall was the shit. I almost read every single one when I was a kiddo.

>> No.7273924

Maybe giving books as a gift is old-fashioned?

>> No.7273984

>>7268149
is she hot

>> No.7274061

>>7273984
She became cute but insecure and toxic