When did you "grow up" in tastes? What was the last

>>7816892
I don't think I was ever into YA as a whole. The last YA book I read was this "Fat Vampire" thing I saw in the library a few years ago because it looked amusing. Most of the things I read were genreshit for 5 years before I got bored of reading Stephen King and Nora "JD Robb" Roberts.

>>7816892
I read whatever I want t.b.h. be it literature, a comic or YA pulp

>>7816892
i read ya until i was 12, then i stopped reading until highschool, when i started reading lit

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>>7816892
This was the last YA novel I read, I think it was in 1999 which would have put me in 3rd grade. My parents tried to get me to read after my teachers kept complaining I was faking my book reports. I read all 6 books in this shitty series and was pretty much tired of it, despite not reading I had a high reading level from playing text based games on our windows 95 shitcan PC.

I started reading the Lost Years of Merlin books by T.A. Barron when I was in 4th grade or so. From those I moved deep into genre fiction, tons of star wars novels, all of those garbage R.A. Salvatore books. I read Dune in here but it failed to break me out of the genre fiction trap. I must have read almost 20,000 pages of this shit.

Finally I was 17 or maybe 18 when I started having angst after my holy Ron Paul lost the primaries and started looking for answers. I read maybe a third of the way through Atlas Shrugged before I put it down. I had read the Republic, Protagoras and a few other works. I asked my English teacher for better material and he gave me a beaten up paperback copy of On the Genealogy of Morality and instructed me to not tell anyone, especially not my parents.

The forbidden knowledge angle hooked me and as I read the thing I realized why he'd get in a shitload of trouble for giving this to a student in a school where our science teacher was a open creationist. Granted I had already converted to fedoraism when I was a young teenager but that was what cured me of my obsession with sci-fi and fantasy.

>>7816892
>real literature

>>7816892
>started reading lit when i was 13
>don't remember the last ya novel i read
>only read genre fiction around the ages of 8-11

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>>7816892

When I was 16 I was wasting time on some cracked.com-tier site or it may have been that one and I saw a list about books that had been banned in the past and the description of Naked Lunch made it seem interesting so I ended up reading it. After that I read a newspaper review of The Pale King that mentioned DFW had tried LSD which made me decide to read it. After reading those two from them on it was pretty much /lit/-tier books

>>7816892
i never got into genre fiction.
the last YA novel I read was Harry Potter in 2009.

>>7816967
what are you now, fifteen?

>>7816983
i'm 21.

>>7816892

Why do you have to give up genre fiction to get into real literature?

>>7816986
Me, too.
What was your first lit? How has your taste evolved over time?

>he wasn't raised from birth on Shakespeare and Greek tragedies

>his first words weren't a line from The Iliad

>>7816892
It was the summer between junior and senior year in HS, I was living by myself at my family's shore house working in a kitchen at a restaurant. I read Knut Hamsun's Hunger, the night I finished it I remember just sitting there in the dark mulling it over. This intense feeling, a desire for life and a sort of distressing beauty overtook me.

YA? Actual Young Adult was probably the HP series, but the last scifi/fantasy stuff I was into was Harry Turtledove's books, I think specifically Videssos, and ASOIAF series, thought that was a little earlier come to think of it. I picked up reading a lot around 9-ish so between 9-17, and then a little bit until 18 I read that stuff

>>7816892
As to pic related can we please get the Hindu Occultist Mein Kampf shitposter in

>>7816892
Up until last year at the age of 86 after living on my farm that had been passed down through 18 generations I was a barely literate man but I decided to start reading stuff other than cereal boxes and twilight fan fiction porn online so I was going to the local library 50 miles away.
In my tractor on the way there I read the street signs.
In the library I fell down and nearl died and was brought to hospital where I began to read magazines and so to this day 4 years later I am now an English professor and have written 19 novels

>>7816927

>after my holy Ron Paul lost the primaries

Wait, which election was this?

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>>7817051
everything in this pic is true
this is not a shitpost

>>7816892
I still read things I would otherwise consider pretty bad because they're fun and easy. As much as I love what would pass here, it becomes exhausting to read a slew of 400+ dense pages of Dostoevsky and the like.

What I will say is that I no longer have as much patience for the "bad" stuff as I used to. I picked up the Witcher series, and I've managed to slog to the final book but it's difficult to finish.

I think manga is easily my guilty pleasure but there are at least manga that have a universal appeal outside of horny 13 year olds

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19, kafka on the shore

>>7817059
2008. That was 8 years ago, I was 17 then. I'm 25 now.

>>7816892
I only began reading when I was 19 or so, so I didn't have that trajectory.

>>7816987
You don't --have-- to, but the way it typically happens is you get sick of genreshit after reading a lot of it and realizing most genreshit books are largely indistinguishable from one another.

>>7817103
source on decent manga?

in 7th grade I read ASOIAF which was pretty much the only thing that allowed me to graduate from YA fantasy to serious literature.

>>7817046
>tfw my book club was in awe of Pushkin's growing literary reputation even as a pre pubscent child
>"but like nobody nowadays can write like that when that young"
>exasperatedly try to explain that a public school education consisting of half-hearted attempts to read Harper Lee will fall pathetically short of a true classical education
>tfw your parents didn't make you start with the Greeks