Post books no one over 18 should bother reading

The Stranger
Vonnegut

Harry Potter

There are adults who actually read these books, I can't understand it!

The Scarlet Letter
Wuthering Heights
The Giver
Any Ayn Rand

>The Scarlet Letter
wrong

Worthless book, waste of time.

fuck you no face rascals, im a late reader

Catcher in the rye.

Great Expectations.

All Dickens really.

>Wuthering Heights
Why, faggot?

no
haven't read them, and don't plan on it, so sure
>post books no one over 18 months should read
eh, vonnegut is enjoyable and slaughter house 5 is a easy read (wouldn't recommend someone reads beyond that), and the stranger is super short.
>post books no one over 8 should read
yeah i can't really disagree with this even though I kind of want to
I think I read it at just the right age (16) and point in my life. Wonder if I'd like it if I read it now for the first time

>The Alchemist and other books by Paulo Coelho
>anything by Hemingway
>anything by a woman

this

because women can't competently write beyond the YA level you tremendous pleb, even most women who write YA fiction write absolute trash (eg. Hunger Games, Twilight, every one of LeGuin's books)

oh

>every one of LeGuin's books
agree to DISAGREE there brother

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nice meme there brother

magic tree house
infinite jest
go dog go (jk)
the places you go

>timeless, classic literature I think I'm 2 smart 4: the thread

Disgraceful and pathetic

I hesitate to bar someone from reading any books, because even shitty books and authors can have cultural significance, like ayn Rand, Nietzsche, the Bible, etc.

That being said, by the age of eighteen certain things will be far below your skill level and mostly a waste of time

>Any book written by a woman
>Any fiction
>Anything written by a black person (if you think I'm racist, please name one book written by a black person that is not a waste of time compared to a book written by an Asian or white person)
>Anything by Richard Dawkins, bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, etc
>Any pop psychology or self help book, see Malcolm gladwell
>Anything that people read to be pretentious, like DFW, Joyce, pynchon, etc,
>Anything that's a meme on /lit (see above)

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>Any fiction

yeah, nah, you're a retard

Sorry, I should distinguish between genre fiction (designed to sell books and almost completely rubbish) and literary fiction, which is still mostly rubbish but includes some good and important works.
(Also note the cultural significance clause: some works of popular fiction, while shitty, are important to read: lord of the rings, earlier science fiction like Asimov, Orwell, etc)

Dumas was black

>the giver
Fuck you

>if you think I'm racist, please name one book written by a black person that is not a waste of time compared to a book written by an Asian or white person
I'd love to see an asian guy write Things Fall Apart
>but colonialism-
Is still a topic that could really only be broached in a realistic sense by someone who had experienced it. Conrad's Heart of Darkness tackles the same subject, true, but from a moralist subjective angle.

Hey fuck you buddy, All Quiet's general antiwar message is simplistic but Remarque's striking narrative qualifies him as a European Hemingway

that's one of the biggest distinctions you can make in the library, user

But he's right, The Giver is trite

OP, add Gatsby to the list as well

14-17 is the perfect range to read it. Unfortunately, i read it at 20. Didn't hated Holden as much as the fact that i spent docientos pesos (10 bucks) and it lasted me two fucking days

you're old enough to process the giver by middle school

In a similar vein, how do you guys feel about I am the Cheese

You can't appreciate Gatsby until you have lived through your twenties (and realized you won't get another shot)

The giver had a profound effect on me in middle school.

the cat in the hat

Total neonazi, but Thomas Sowell

Joyce, Pynchon etc. are only pretentious because - ahh fuck it

More like Dumbass, amirite.

You serious? Siddharta is probably one of the books you can't fully grasp if you haven't lived a little, therefore be 30 at least to enjoy it.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower. like the limit is probably 15.

tfw read it at 19. there was some serious cringe
INFINITE

>18
>not like 10

I knew YA was trash when I was like 8-10 and started reading real shit.

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn

Very good books for children, but a waste to read if you're an adult.