What book made you realize you loved literature /lit/?

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In Search of Lost Time. That book is true patrician.

>war and peace
>Using That Pic of Napoleon
Why

Don Quixote, it was the first book I read just because I wanted. I hated reading during all of HS because it was forced and I was a piece of shit. After reading Don Quixote and loving it I started lurking this place to check for other interesting fiction books, only to realize I was a huge pleb, brainlet, degenerate and a pseud.
I will start learning math from the basics in march. Thanks for making me a better person, /lit/.

Moby Dick.

The very hungry caterpillar

>>9127651
How are you learning maths? Something I should also do.

>>9127610
harry potter, prisoner of azkaban

>>9127664
I'm also starting to learn maths, i asked sci and they said Serge Lang's book basic maths is the best for this, gonna start with it see how it goes

>>9127664
I have a personal teacher, Mr.P. He likes reading too, we take little breaks to talk about whatever we are reading and crack some jokes.

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Crime and Punishment. Maybe also some novellas.

>>9127682
Does Mr. P ever grab your thigh?

>>9127693
No, but sometimes he puts bananas inside my butt.

>>9127675
>>9127682
Thanks.
Reckon there are any websites for maths, similar to Duolingo, etc?

>>9127684
that's a damn book to get into at first imo, what age were you when you first read it?

1984 probably.

>>9127720
heard khan academy is good but i hate sitting around watching videos so i didn't really use it

>>9127647
Sure they could use the one of him on a donkey but it takes away from the epic that is the book. I think it gives it a grand look to it. Napoleon was a rare figure, as rare and so great as the book cover it's on.

>>9127722
Why? Because of all the confusing russian names?

>>9127786
because of the subjects it touches, it's not an easy read

>>9127610
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>9127722
I only started getting serious when I was around 23 and had found /lit/. I couldn't believe how good C&P was, with it's religious discussions etc. "Do you believe Lazarus rose from the dead?" Moments like those just made me have such a feeling that I wanted more. Maybe because I was raised in such a religious family.

I've been a huge Dostoyevsky fan ever since, having now read most of his bibliography.

When I was in high school I read everything Vonnegut ever wrote, most of it twice. I loved the way he used writing to do things impossible in any other medium.
I acknowledge that Vonnegut isn't amazing compared to a lot of the other names on /lit/ but I'll always enjoy his books just out of nostalgia now.

>>9127722
>tfw my first dosto was BK at 18
I really loved it but I think I should reread it because I was too retarded (thanks to being young and not treating my fucked up brain) back then.

>>9128138
Is that guy the gringo Cortazar?

>>9127610
harry potter 1

>>9128292
I've never read Cortazar. Should I?

>>9127775
Yeah but drawing attention to how great he is defeats the purpose of the book

A Streetcar Named Desire.

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>>9127610
Franz Kafka

Reading him allowed me to see things that couldn't exist anywhere, save for the chasm between words and the mind's eye. Impossible positions. Losing a sense of reality. Taking things both literally, figuratively, and then at the same time. Forcing yourself to read it again and getting a different understanding.

Reading "Description of a Struggle" made me feel barking mad. "Poseidon" made me view the absurd ubiquity of bureaucracy. Everything he wrote felt... I don't know, human? Like I was reading not his words but his mind. It was something I never experienced before.

I'm re-reading pic related.

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>>9127680
same here, plus pic related.

For me it's Eragon, the best fantasy novel

>>9127722
I read C&P at 18 last summer

>>9129602
xD war and peace was only written as a propaganda piece
Napoleon is viewed as a monumental figure by the characters in the book, even if Tolstoy himself doesn't like the man. Their worship of Napoleon makes the cover legitimate, imo

The Allegory of the Cave

>>9127610
Reading A Tale of Two Cities in highschool, plus shakespeare. I loved my english classes, but my mom forced me into STEM. Now I hate my life