>9-10 years old Fairy tales (Grimm brothers, Bible, Japanese stuff) and science books (mostly about space). Also Dickens, Twain and Ballsack.
>12 years old Same as above plus some Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Melville and a tiny bit Dumas.
>14 years old Harry Potter.
>16 years old The Hobbit, LotR, more Freddy, Nabokov, Das Kapital, Goethe and some Kant.
>18 year old Joyce, Nietzsche, GRRMartin, Cervantes, Wilde and some books about writing (How Not to Write a Novel is pretty fun). Oh and fell for memes like Coelho or DFW.
>20 years old Was too busy writing and studying movies.
>22 years old Same as above but managed to squeeze in Hugo and popular stuff like Larsson.
>24 years old Ain't got no time for reading anymore.
Brayden Murphy
The Three Investigators was the Alfred Hitchcock connected kids books. I was into the Hardy Boys too
Cooper Wright
3: read Dr. Seuss aloud to mom. Family has audiotapes of this I think. 9-10: Hobbit, LOTR (lots of the language flew over my head but I understood the basic beats of the adventure story, they're traveling east and getting in trouble, yep) 12-13: Absolutely everything by John Bellairs I could get my hands on. The Edward Gorey covers enticed me. Great alternative to the Goosebumps meme. 14: Our Dumb Century (still the funniest book I've ever read) 15: You Are Worthless per the above, edgy kid phase, still a funny book though. 16: dunno lol, started liking math/science "again" at this age like I did when I was a little kid (the people around me mostly hated math) Also a shit ton of manga trash but Gun Smith Cats is legit good pulp fiction 17: Thurber Carnival for a class project. 18: Crime and Punishment, of my own volition, for HS lit capstone project (long essay I banged out mostly the night before, still got a good mark). Brothers Karamazov in summer before college on personal time, must have read Notes from Underground in here somewhere. 18-23: undergrad-tier instruction in math (major), history and philosophy (minors). Don't actually read that much philosophy but I become acquainted with the basic memes, history and thought experiments. 24-30-ish: work long wagecuck hours and completely fall off. Go years without completing a book I think I read the Postmodern Condition somwhere in the midste of this just to say I'd completed a book. Start picking it back up around age 30 when I went elevated NEET for a while and rediscovered what I like.
Over the past few years I've read Wittgenstein's PI and Tractatus, large art books on the Book of Kells, Bayeux Tapestry and Mark Rothko (in their entirety), the two Invisible Committee books because short+easy+memes, Society of the Spectacle, the whole Space Odyssey series (light fiction), a Cioran book of aphorisms (reminds me of the above You Are Worthless tbqh) and other bits and bobs related to math. I've also been on a tear of buying or receiving as gifts way more books than I've read. Eventually it got so I realized I had pile related and I had not read a single bit of it. The sight disgusted me so at least I've read PI and I'm a good bit through the Federalist at the moment - kinda want to do Meme Kampf despite its being a chore due to the recent Wittgenstein reading and Veeky Forums memes on same.
I had occasion to look up a quotation in Aristotle recently in connection with reading some Euclid. Feels good to "use the books together" in this way, even if only as reference at this point.
Jack Gutierrez
The bible, The Mahabharata Ulysses Finnagins wake Spot the dog
Jason Watson
>Percy Jackson >The Hobbit >Stopped reading >The Master and Margarita >The Divine Comedy >Beckett's Trilogy >J R
More of a list of my favorite books at their respective times in my life. I have yet to read Ulysses and Proust and Infinite Jest, so who knows
Leo Scott
9-10 Bible, Connecticut Yankee, David Macaulay illustrated books, Choose your own adventure, Goosebumps, Captain Underpants 12 Harry Potter, Terry Goodkind, Piers Anthony, Michael Crichton 14 Didn't read. 16 Confederacy of Dunces, Murakami, Don Quixote, Dark Tower, Divine Comedy 18 Didn't read. 20 H-Doujin, World War Z
Isaac Morales
9-10: 4.Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying (#4) 12: Marvel Zombies 14: 2010: Odyssey Two (Never read the other one.) 16: William Gibson's Idoru. 18: Infinite Jest 20: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Lafcadio Hearn)
Pretty accurate, I'd say.
Jayden Ward
9-10: Whatever garbage i was given, but i had for some reason a native aversion to anything of any merit 12: lord of the rings, comic books, random garbage 14: Wheel of Time, Malazan 16: Hemingway, Virgil, James, Dumas, Shakes 18: Faulkner, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Whitman 20: Mann, Goethe, Wilde, Proust
Do you major in some humanities? I'm thinking phil or polsci Hard to tell how patrician you are but maybe you are You must feel really fuckin special Sad to see really, you're not going anywhere Please tell me that Hyperion belongs to Holderlin You must be a real pleb Who is gonna read all that shit make it simple no offense but nobody's as interested in your life as you want them to be How did you get here Respecatble gains, read Proust and Joyce pls Well.
Joseph Rivera
You clearly gleaned it, and replied accordingly, thus validating me in spite of your wish to invalidate me. Above all, the most important person in the whole world is supremely interested in what I think, and that's what really counts.
But there's a third point that really needs to be made. Reading 2-3000 characters is no hardship as long as it is decently constructed, which is true of the above. Thus, for the real Veeky Forums user, the "tl;dr" complaint vanishes unless you can somehow banish me as a total bore, which is irrelevant at this point in your case since you totally read my whole thing and you'll never get those seconds back. :^)))
Justin Carter
>criticize a guy for writing too much >responds by writing too much again man i just try to help a guy but he doesn't seem to learn. Disappointing. Idk if lit changed, or I did
