Would this book be appropriate for a child?

There's a lot of prostitutes and bad language so look out if you're giving it to you're puritan sister's kid or something. Also it isn't all lighthearted with chapters like McWatt towards the end. Other than that I'd say a lot of kids would enjoy it if they're able to keep focused.

the book is pretty grim, even though it's a comedy. i'd recommend that the kid waits a few years with it

it's only appropriate for a child :^]}

>>8862037
No way
>fragmented narrative
>grim, black humour
>explicit gory descriptions

>>8862047
>>8862078
Should be fine for a child of 14, as long as there isn't any pornographically detailed sex or malicious torture.

>>8862100
>sex is worse than ww2

>>8862100
Why does sex matter. The kids probably already watching porn that when I started. Just give him the book if he doesn't read it at first he'll go back and read it in the future. That's what I did with a lot of books that I got as a teenager.

>>8862103
>things nobody said

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>>8862037
>appropriate for a child
>that scene when Snowden's guts fall out

>>8862100
When I hear kid I think like age 7-12 range. Yeah 14 is obviously fine

I guess I won't get it for her then, thanks /lit/.

>>8862125
No get it for her you fucking sped. It's not going to kill her or melt her brain. 14 is a teenager. By 8th grade and 9th grade kids know about sex and violence. If she doesn't like teenagers one thing but if she likes books then she'll probably be thankfuk

>>8862125
You should have just made a thread asking for rec's for children's books anon :^)

I read A Clockwork Orange at 14

>>8862125
>her

This is just a statistical guess but I doubt most 14 year old girls would enjoy catch very much

>>8862161
This tbqh, if I wasn't in the military I would probably miss half the jokes.

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>>8862037
Start with the greeks.

>>8862037
How old is the kid in question? A 4-11 year old might just get bored by it, someone older should be fine.

>>8862078
Pretty much any fairy tale has more gory and grim stuff. School kids in soviet countries read all the shit /lit/ considers classics without any issues.

I really don't understand the overwhelming love for this book.

I thought it was an enjoyable read, sure - but the gimmick just got tired after 100 pages or so.

Basically 300(+-?) pages of "Look how whacky war is!! Don't you get it?? It's all whacky and stuff is backwards??"

There were hardly any characters I gave a shit about outside of Yossarian, McWatt, Orr and the Chaplain (4 characters may seem like a lot to care about, but there's 25+ in the novel who I couldn't care less about)

I did get a kick of Ex PF Wintergreen, and there were some funny bits, but I don't know I just didn't love it.

Again, I'm not trashing this book, I just really don't understand why its hailed as one of the greatest pieces of american lit.

IMO even something like Slaughterhouse is superior.

Maybe if I re-read it I'd like it, but I'd have to like it to re-read it.

>>8862420
Idk I kind of felt that way after like 150 pages too but the end I feel really starts to pick back up again. McWatt and his plane crash chapter is great

>>8862431
Yeah the ~20% is definitely superior to the front portion, I just don't feel like it fully redeemed the book for me.

As soon as deaths felt real the book hit home a little more, obviously that was the idea, it just didn't resonate with me as much as other war novels.

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>>8862420
>Maybe if I re-read it I'd like it, but I'd have to like it to re-read it.

>>8862143
I did a while back and got 0 replies.

A lot of it would go over the heads of readers under, say, 16, and with its choppy structure it would really test their patience. I'd say no, it wouldn't be appropriate.

>>8862112
Except a significant portion of gravitys rainbow was about this point

>>8862156
and look how great you turned out

>>8862125
Look, I am not a smart or well read guy and I could read 11 years of solitude at 7 just fine. Don't underestimate a fucking 14yo.

>>8862420
While I did like it and had lots of fun with the book, I agree. It didn't strike me as high literature.
I wanna reread it, though.

>>8862420
If you think it's just about the absurdity of war, you might want to give it a reread. Consider Milo's chapters, for instance.

>>8862420
<even slaughterhouse
You mean the other seminal satirical piece of literature from the postwar era?

>>8862125
Does she really like to read? Does she enjoy reading different genres (as opposed to just sticking with YA lit or whatever)? If so, she may like it.

>>8862947
You shouldn't read it when a nipper.

>>8862989
yeah 'cause they were only 11, imagine if you had to read the full 100!

I wish I had read this in high-school maybe would have made me like books more...

>>8864946
Take one step down. HS usually makes you hate books, even the ones you'd like. It's parenting that decides your attitude towards reading more often than not.

>>8865166
I never really thought of it like that, since my mum really enjoyed/ still enjoys reading but I was just so uninterested until I left HS.

>>8865176
How much of her enjoyment did she transfer on you though? Mine always read to me and encouraged me to learn it as soon as possible, since I annoyed her with constantly wanting to hear stories. Often got books as presents and random buys too, and had many at home from her own childhood too.

>>8862420
Were you ever in the army?