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>family member wants book recommendations

>> No.10491540

>>10491534
Tell them to read Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow :^)

>> No.10491542

>>10491534
>being so inept at interacting with a family member that you don't have even a basic understanding of what kind of book they won't immediately throw out the nearest window
goddamn that's sad

>> No.10491548
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10491548

> lolita

>> No.10491558

>>10491534

>at work on break
>hey anon what are you reading
>Omensetter's Luck
>oh I've never heard of that what's it about
>rambling autistic explanation of the mastery of prose and wordplay and fail to even mention any notion of plot
>oh

>> No.10491562

I gifted my 11yo halfbrother a copy of fanged noumena since it has been reprinted.

>> No.10491564

>>10491534
Devil in the White City

>> No.10491812

>>10491542
You're not giving OP enough credit (sympathy?). Book recommendations are extraordinarily intimate things. If you stop to think about all the implications of giving a book to another person, particularly one you should already be close to, the prospect of giving a recommendation is pants-shittingly terrifying.

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I gave my fucking mother a copy of a sport and a pastime for her birthday because I had accidentally bought myself 2 copies and never realised my mistake until reading the book much later

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>>10491534
>"Well what kind of books do you like?"
>>"I liked Harry Potter... and John Green's books were really good."

>> No.10491944

>>10491922
well that means they like fantasy settings. You can work with that.

>> No.10491957

>>10491944
How will Green every recover

>> No.10491977

>>10491922
>I love books about success.

>> No.10491990

>>10491812
???
Yeah, I understand, but you're also wildly overestimating how intimate is has to be, and wildly underestimating how many different kinds of books there are.
You don't have to give them Story of the Eye.
You cross-reference what you like, and what they like and you pick a book.
I swear to christ, it's honestly no wonder everyone on here acts autistic, you're all completely overthinking every interaction.

>> No.10492034

>>10491540
I unironically do this

>> No.10492037

>>10491922
>Harry Potter
abhorsen, golden compass, the magicians, Mathilda, howl's moving castle, piers anthony, etc, etc, etc.
you're a dipshit. stop being a smug asshole long enough to make a fucking attempt

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>>10491540
>go home for Christmas
>parents are devout Christians
>mom is actually reading Gravity's Rainbow which has just recently been translated to Finnish

MISSILE DICKS FOR MOMMY

>> No.10492272

My girlfriend asked me this, and I just let her borrow simple books that I enjoyed: The Road and Wind-up Bird Chronicle. It’s not very difficult, I mean she only read twenty pages of Wind up bird and gave up reading like two months after I lent them