Entry-level literature

>>9127016
Kundera's life is elsewhere

What are his interests? What other media does he like?

>>9127033
Thanks, I'll look into it.

>>9127052
He's really into outdoorsy stuff. He likes theater too but I don't want to tell him to read Shakespeare. He'd probably rather see it preformed anyway.

>>9127066
I'd give him something like Walden or Desert Solitaire.

>>9127016
ok. ok. wow. just... ok. there are only 5-10 books you actually need to read to officially wipe your hands of the subject, understand it better than 99.999% of the faggots on this board, and get the most pleasure from. Just read these books and keep them on your shelf, any other fiction is not even worth paying for:
>Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer (you can get them as one book)
>Shakespeare's Complete Works (you can get it as one book)
>Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
>The Divine Comedy by Dante
>War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
>The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man & Dubliners by James Joyce (you can get it as 1 book together for $8 at B&N and it's annotated decently)
>Ulysses by James Joyce
>Kafka's Complete Stories
>Madame Bovare by Gustave Flaubert

The tartar Steppe is a good entry level book that's not as well known in the English speaking world If your trying to avoid things like Shakespeare.

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>>9127066
Desert solitaire.

Catcher in the Rye