/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15894520]

i'm a new fag here and a brainlet so i want to start with some fantasy reading
Is harry potter good for a brainlet? I see it being shat on a lot here

[Anonymous No.15894529]

Read Hachet. It's insanely short and a good indicator on if you'll actually enjoy reading fiction. If you want fantasy read Narnia.

[Anonymous No.15894544]

Harry Potter is the best fantasy work grounded in high academia since LOTR. Well worth reading at any age. The only thing to note is that the prose matures as the characters do, so the earlier books are a little childish.
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[Anonymous No.15894558]

>>15894520
No. It isn't fit to be read even by a dullard. I would however recommend The Lord of the Rings (if I could read it and comprehend the narrative and plot well at 8 years old, you should be more than capable of that at maturity), Terry Pratchett and Dragonlance.

[Anonymous No.15894601]

>>15894558
Good. Because i started reading lotr and got to the second half yesterday

[Anonymous No.15895847]

>>15894558
I tried reading Pratchett, and fell in love with his prose thanks to Small Gods, but all the other titles feel... dull.
Granted, I bought Wyrd sisters, Pyramids and Moving pictures rather than Guards or Mort, but the disappointment is still real.
Is Small Gods his best work?

[Anonymous No.15895854]

>>15894520
Start with the hobbit

[Anonymous No.15895985]

>>15894520
Don't bother with that, you won't get anything out of that. If you want to start with fiction i recommend Good Soldier Svejk or other ones with a lot more depth than YA.

[Anonymous No.15896521]

>>15894529
both great suggestions

[Anonymous No.15896573]

>>15894520
read the wind in the willows if you want to read a childrens book that's actually good

[Anonymous No.15896614]

>>15894529
>hatchet
read that in elementary school

[Anonymous No.15896635]

>>15894601
>second half
The book is fairly short, its just the author can't write for jack and puts in tons of eating filler with loads of descriptive words for the food to go along to draw those parts out even more.

[Anonymous No.15896737]

>>15894529
Narnia is a baby bedtime book.

[Anonymous No.15896745]

>>15894558
Rowling is bad but read Dragonlance? Rowling writes circles around any Dragonlance book.

[Anonymous No.15896947]

>>15894520
It's extremely transphobic

[Anonymous No.15896968]

>>15895847
I believe 'guards guards' and 'men at arms' are considered top

[Anonymous No.15897010]

>>15894529
Unironically. That book was pretty based if I remember correctly.

[Anonymous No.15897352]

>>15895854
This.

[Anonymous No.15897380]

>>15896947
even better

[Anonymous No.15897446]

>>15896947
Then i guess i'm buying 5 boxed collections

[Anonymous No.15897483]

>>15896947
Kek

[Anonymous No.15897552]

>>15895985
Fuck off with your russian trash.

[Anonymous No.15897560]

>>15895854
i second this. i read it in 6th grade, so im sure any retard could do it.

[Anonymous No.15897572]

>>15894520
Harry Potter's fantastic for a fun, purely escapist read. There isn't really much depth or contemplative subject matter to it, but if you're looking to get a taste of the gratifying sense of whimsy that fantasy has to offer, would definitely recommend it.

[Anonymous No.15897656]

>>15894520
If you don't challenge yourself you will never be a better reader. If you are honestly afraid to go out of your comfort zone I would honestly suggest reading GOOSEBUMPS instead. It's just as easy to read but at least it's humorous and fun.

[Anonymous No.15898344]

>>15895847
Mort was okay, only. One I’ve read so nothing to compare it to.

[Anonymous No.15898371]

>>15894520
Any other good magic school books

[Anonymous No.15898683]

>>15898371

[Anonymous No.15898786]

You may as well start with The Magic Tree House.

[Anonymous No.15899238]

>>15894544
based

[Anonymous No.15899290]

Start with the greeks

[Anonymous No.15899612]

harry potter is a lot of fun, but you really have to be that same age as the protagonists were in sequence with the books' release to truly appreciate them

regards, started reading when harry was eleven and so was I

[Anonymous No.15899630]

I read Harry Potter at age 8 and barely got past chapter 11 before dropping it, no clue how anyone could read that much less 11 more books.

[Anonymous No.15899679]

>>15898683
i read about halfway through this and it was pure cringe

[Anonymous No.15899991]

>>15894520
If you're entirely new to reading, I honestly recommend trying out Orwell, like Animal Farm or 1984. His prose is simple, his themes are clear, his plots are easy to follow, and his works are famous enough to help you understand most lazy political references. It's basically the bottom rung of real literature, so if you can't make it to the end, don't bother with anything else.

[Anonymous No.15900006]

>>15896947
Dammit, you're making this Blairite trash sound cooler than it is

[Anonymous No.15900106]

Try the Discworld series it’s great, accesible and also very funny which is in my opinion the best way to get someone who doesn’t read a lot into reading

[Anonymous No.15900235]

/LIT/ STARTER PACK FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING INTO READING
>Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of a Lot 49
>Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
>Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
>Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
>Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
>Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
>Albert Camus - The Plague
>Irwine Welsh - Trainspotting
>Neil Gaiman - American Gods
>John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
>Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
>Marquis de Sade - The 120 Days of Sodom

[Anonymous No.15901709]

I read all of this series in high school and into college as it finished and really liked it, being probably my favorite YA novels to look back on, but I haven't actually reread them. Anyone here read these and be able to advise on if going back to them will ruin it?

[Anonymous No.15901717]

>>15894520
I think books written for 8 year olds sounds about up your alley OP.

[Anonymous No.15901737]

>>15901709
He kills Will's gf at the end for no reason