What books will you give your son to read? (assume for a second

>>9455819
I will make sure he becomes one of the frogmen on the redpill boards

The Hobbit as a child
Musashi as a teen

Then he can read whatever

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>get married
>wife already has son
>little shit who plays video games and watches dumb cartoons all day
>buy him some beginner classics to spark an interest in literature
>start with childhood favourites like Jack London, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allen Poe
>to my surprise he actually enjoys them quite a bit
>enjoy buying him more books and seeing his bookshelf grow with more great literature
>and not cheap editions, but Everymans and Library of Americas so they will last his lifetime
>finally feel proud that although he might not share my genes I've at least passed on my love for reading
>wife's new boyfriend starts buying him books
>it's fucking pleb YA shit like Harry Potter and other crap I haven't even heard about but can tell they suck
>wife's son says he enjoys them more than all the "old crap" I buy him
>his bookshelf runs out of room so he has to get rid of some of his books
>of course he wants to get rid of everything I buy him
>I end up taking them and put them in my library so at least I can enjoy reading them
>wife's boyfriend keeps buying him more shit and his shelf runs out of room again
>one day come home from work
>see that wife's boyfriend has bought him a whole fucking box full of Stephen King books
>try to tell him he can't take them because there's no room on his bookshelf
>wife says she "made some room" on my shelf
>go to the other room to look at my shelf
>it's practically fucking empty
>ask where my books are and they say they threw them out
>try to stammer out that it was a lifetime of great literature there and it costs a lot of money
>they tell me not to "be a baby about it," and that "they're just books" before telling me to go into the cuckshed again
>tfw it's fucking boring this time because I have nothing good to read to pass the time

>>9455961
This cannot be true

>>9455961
No woman is that stupid. *you, you made me angry.

>>9456013
You're smart :)

If my son doesn't fully comprehend, and write scholarly pieces on Gravity's rainbow by the time he's seven, I'm selling the fag to asian sex slavers. Going to tell him this too.

>>9455819
Harry Potter.

>>9455819
>Hobbit as a child
>LotR as a teen
>Paradise Lost and Divine Comedy as an adult
>Maybe Stephen King during his edgy Teen years
When I'm old and dying, he will get my Star Wars books once I've learned he shares my passion, hopefully he doesn't

ill tell him to get a job

Redwall

Jack London books.

The Chronicles of Narnia
The Bible
Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost (the latter with due warning)

I will raise my son to be a good Christian even if I cannot find God

>implying i won't be raising my son as a little girl in an effort to subvert cis-male hegemony

probably mostly jane austen

>>9456579
>>9456027
>>9456028
These desu, but I'll have him read The Old Man and the Sea the day he turns eighteen. I want to be proud of my son.

suehiro maruo

>>9456031
This.

William Gaddis, William Vollmann, Samuel Beckett, and William Gass

When he gets 18 I'll slam Swann's Way down on his desk so that by the time he's 19 he'll have finished ISOTL: only then will I consider him a real man

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>>9455961
>>get married
>>wife already has son

this is a decent fake story, but it's teachings should be heeded fellas

The Greeks.

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>>9456678
These and the Hobbit have been the best thus far.

Pretty much all of Jules Verne until he turns 10-11, after that greek stuff such as Iliad, Odyssey, Anabasis and Mythology maybe Stephen King, then towards the end of high school he can read Nietzsche, Evola and Savitri Devi

>>9456686
And Hatchet. Divorce, death, plane crashes, and survival are very enticing. Might read alive to her next.

Same books my family members gave me growing up

As a little guy, Where The Wild Things Are, Complete Winnie The Pooh, and Curious George

When he starts wanting to read some more stuff on his own, I'll have My Side of The Mountain, The Hobbit, and Calvin and Hobbes all ready to be read

His middle school years are when he'll find his own interests a bit, but I'll have some Stephen King, The Outsiders, Of Mice and Men, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and take him to a Shakespeare performance, A Midsummer's Night Dream ideally as that was my first.

On the day my son finishes 8th grade and is getting ready for high school, I'll hand my son a copy of The Catcher in the Rye, just like my mom did for me (dead dad so mom had to introduce me to Salinger)

High school he'll do his own shit mostly, but I'll probably still give him some books, stuff that really had an impact on me in high school: Some Pinter plays, Death of a Salesman, Old Man and the Sea...

Hopefully if I have a son, he'll like books much like I did. I really want to be the dad I never had. I probably wouldn't be such a fuckup if I had a guy to look up to growing up showing me how to be a good guy.

Playboy so he doesn't grow up sexually repressed like his old man and so his introduction to sexuality isn't hentai and shemales he discovered while perusing through the web.

>>9455819
Honestly I'd probably just give them as many fun books as I can. Building a positive relationship with reading at a young age is a lot more important than having them read the "right" things right away. That tends to come around on its own and generally if you want somebody to do something it's better if they think it's their own idea

wow that sounds manipulative

>>9456694

>Hopefully if I have a son, he'll like books much like I did. I really want to be the dad I never had. I probably wouldn't be such a fuckup if I had a guy to look up to growing up showing me how to be a good guy.

I'm pretty sure most kids grow up to be the opposite of their parents so pretend to be a pleb and you'll probably do just fine.

>all the pleb shit ITT
Don't you even want your children to fare just a little better than you?

>>9456705
Playboy isn't going to be around anymore in thirty or so years when you first have sex

>>9456715
Penthouse then? Or a compilation book of old porno shoots/articles, I'm sure slmeone will publish something like that if it hasn't already been done.

>>9456708
Ive tried to get around this by instilling in my kid pride and disgust in the untermenschen

>>9456708
I don't know. My mom always says I'm just like my father and I didn't even know the guy. I suppose I don't really need to pretend to be a pleb, I just have to follow through with my plans for him to get good taste with your logic

Thoughts like these actually scare me. I'm afraid I'll ruin my kid if I ever have one.

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Kipling.

>>9456708
>I'm pretty sure most kids grow up to be the opposite of their parents
Yes, but only in the lower classes where they are at first repulsed by what their parents are ; since our society runs on contempt for the lower class, it's clear that any kid having watched enough TV would want to be the exact opposite of his parents if they're lower class.

If you're already from a good background, and you give your child a good education, rooted in privilege and superiority, there is no risk that your child would rather side with everything he's grown to consider as base and sickly. The idea is simply that you child will identify with something ; give him something good to identify with, else of course he will "rebel" against what you are. He's better off growing up to be your opposite if you're a mediocre person. But if you're not, it won't happen.

A child wants a role model. If you're too weak to be that, then of course the child will look for another one.

I'll just give him free rein on my bookshelf for whatever grabs his attention. There will be no pleb literature in the house.

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Ages 8-12:

>Rudyard Kipling
>R.L. Stevenson
>Jack London
>Daniel Defoe
>C.S. Lewis

Ages 12-16:

>Tolkien
>Dumas
>Walter Scott
>Herman Hesse
>Andpzej Sapkowski

Of course this is just a general outline, there will obviously also be plenty of different individual works.

Will I make a good dad?

>not reading what the current popular YA titles are at the time you're a teenager
YOU'RE ALL BLOODY PHONEYS

The Greeks, duh

>>9456591
kek

children's encyclopedias and stuff

books on planets, dinosaurs, robots and shit

not gonna let the little fucker make the same mistakes in life as i by going into finance and not into something like engineering later on in life

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>>9456708
>most kids grow up to be the opposite of their parents so pretend to be a pleb and you'll probably do just fine.

>>9455961
Wife's boyfriend? Are you American?

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i yet to read it myself but it seems a reasonable choice

>>9455819
Steve Biddulph's "Manhood"

Seems like good supplemental reading to the course of becoming a man.

Of course I wouldn't make them read it. I'd just leave it lying around in places that might make him curious. No pressure. Because otherwise that would be fucking lame and no one would read it.

>>9455819
I'd introduce him to William Shakespeare's works
and Greek mythology

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>>9457933
Excellent bait my friend.

>>9457933
I laughed out loud when I expanded the image.

Me and my son (6yo) have read:
Most of Roald Dahl's childrens books
Robinson Crusoe (abridged version, and I read "tribe" or "wild people" instead of "niggers" to avoid an awkard meeting with his teacher)
The Hobbit
First Narnia book
The Jungle Book (+ other Kipling short stories)
20, 000 leagues under the sea
The Little Prince
+various traditional fairy tales and such
Currently doing Gulliver's Travels

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>>9456686

Holy shit I had that book about the Iliad!

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>>9455819
I'm glad my nigga Rudyard is getting worthy mentions in this thread.