wayside school was my shit

>>25205485
nice

>>25205485
was it as good as the cartoon or even better?

Goosebumps is always the go to kids book back then.

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these and michael crichton

>>25205469
LOTR
The summa theologica (barely understood it but loved it, first encounter with philosophy)
A lot of YA dogshit I only read because it was laying around, I only remember eragon and artemis fowl
Basically everything that Heinlein wrote

>>25207652
>Summa Theologica
I don’t think I believe that at all.

>>25205469
Eco, Vonnegut, Carlos Ruis Zafon
Stieg Larsson
Douglas Adams
A bunch of YA, fantasy and sci-fi

>>25207655
I was tradcaths and homeschooled, far weirder stuff happened. Like I said I hardly understood it but I had a copy in my room I'd read sections from and think about. I also read most of Don Quixote in Spanish and thought it was the funniest thing ever.

I was also really into those dogshit Greek myth YAslop novels, don't even remember the name, and one time I made myself temporarily schizo by reading Revelations and trying to pattern match it to current events (this would have been around the time Obama got elected). I can't remember anything else I specifically enjoyed except that I devoured any fantasy and sci fi I could get my hands on (which wasn't much, wasn't allowed to use the Internet or go out much). I read a ton of history too.

Damn I'm getting old, haven't thought about any of this in like a decade.

>>25207655
I read Rand in middle school and I tried reading Kant and Wittgenstein in high school (mostly because of Subahibi). I can believe that he attempted reading Summa

>>25207663
Oh holy shit and I read the taming of the shrew without realizing it was Shakespeare somehow, I recall hearing about the play much later and thinking "ohhh that's what that was". Maybe I read a novelization or something. I thought it was pretty good. It's weird that we had it laying around given that my mom was a misandrist who beat me all the time.

>>25205469
I was a goosebumps kid. Attack of the graveyard ghouls wad my first and favorite, although it did give me my fetish
Also there was this medieval mystery series I only read the first installment of but I remember liking a lot. Looking it up I think it was of dooms and death
Also also by the end of middle school I was into Calvino and his our ancestors trilogy

>>25207663
>>25207667
Well, that’s impressive. A lot of stuff I didn’t read there until my adulthood. Which is why I found your post unbelievable at first. I think internet restriction was probably a good thing for you.
>>25207664
lol, what did you get out of them at that time?

>>25207670
Thank you! Yeah it's depressing how much you could get done without a dopamine dispenser in your pocket.

>>25207670
Rand? I became a lolbertarian/ancap.
Wittgenstein and Kant? Literally fucking nothing, I got filtered hard, but I loved talking about whatever I learned about them from secondary sources.

These days I read fiction almost exclusively, probably because of how bad these two filtered me. If I ever pick up philosophy again, I'll be a good boy and start with the Greeks.

>>25207670
You’re too right, friend. That’s one good thing though about youth, you can pretty much blast through anything without much care to fully understand what you read. I was a bit of a slacker though. I had to study Macbeth in school, and found it to be tedious. I never studied Hamlet though I’d probably feel the same. But as soon as I left school, I thought I’d read it before watching a play and fell in love with Shakespeare’s stuff afterwards. So honestly it depends.
You still ever go back to the stuff you read as a lad?
>>25207674
Kek, that first part doesn’t surprise me
And neither does the second. I didn’t pick up either until my mid 20s, and I struggled myself then. I’m rereading the CPR now though. Wittgenstein I will get back around to at some point eve though I don’t really agree with him.
It’s funny you mention Subahibi. I heard about that because of Wittgenstein, not the other way around. I don’t really indulge in visual novel/anime stuff. Even still I gave it a try and found it really enjoyable but it was quite ghastly and depressing too.

>>25207695
Funnily enough, I didn't even manage to finish Subahibi. I was big on visual novels and I remember everyone hyping it up before release so I prepared as best as I could, but ended up tapping out during Zakuro's chapter. I was too much of a wuss.
It did leave quite an impression on me, and it (alongside Black Souls 2) laid the foundation for me to eventually enjoy Gravity's Rainbow. Whatever gets the kids reading and all.

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>>25205469
i thought molly moon was cute

>>25207663
>one time I made myself temporarily schizo by reading Revelations and trying to pattern match it to current events
Pierre Bezukhov-maxxing

>>25205469
In elementary I read stuff like Goosebumps, Boxcar Children, Wayside, and a bunch of other scholastic slop that got churned out into series. In middle school I remember reading stuff like The Giver, The Outsiders, The Girl Who Owned A City, The King's Shadow, and a bunch of other books that I actually still have somewhere.

>>25207743
Yeah, as I say, there’s nothing else I can say I’ve checked out in that field, Black Souls 2? Never actually heard of it. I definitely see Gravity’s Rainbow in subahibi though.
>Zakuro's chapter.
I’ve read a lot of depressing, cruel stuff. But this chapter from this game was especially evil.

>>25208618
>But this chapter from this game was especially evil.
It was frustrating because the bullies were weirdly efficient. Imagine pissing off the wrong kids and they come at you with drugs and a white panel van. That's a lot of dedication to spite the wall flower.

Also:
>inb4 all of /lit/ a subahibi

>>25208954
I think Japanese teenagers just like to find the craziest ways to torture people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

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>>25205469
When I was 13, I was very depressed. Suicidally depressed. I even attempted suicide. My mind was in a perpetual existential crisis and I was a loner. Games, lit, anime, manga etc were my main escapes. I ended up reading Crime and Punishment during this period, and I remember thinking "Raskolnikov is literally me" lol. I even tried to redeem myself by adopting Christianity briefly... Ironically, I don't like Dostoyevsky anymore. I regret not reading something more life affirming then, like anything by Nietzsche or Kazantsakis. That would have changed my entire mindset then. I played so many single player games during that period, I remember beating 120 or so games within a year. Out of the animes I watched, Welcome to the NHK was the one which stuck in my mind the most.

>>25209492
That’s all really gay and cringe anon.
I’m glad you’re doing better these days

Cormac McCarthy

i was doing dumas and phillip roth in middle school, it was a light-reading era compared to elementary school was more into sports

I read American psycho when I was about 13 because I was a stupid fucking edgelord.

>>25209499
That spoiler is really gay and cringe, but thanks anon. I'm still alone, but no longer does loneliness upset me.

Shivers.

>>25205469
Dune and its sequels. I also remember at some point I went to the library and took out Whipping Star purely on the basis of it also being written by Herbert but finding it completely incomprehensible.
Starship Troopers and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Read Stranger at around the same time too but hated it.
The Myst novels, though I grew to suspect Gehn was being unfairly maligned.
Had a big omnibus collection of PK Dick novels. IIRC it had High Castle, Electric Sheep, Ubik, Three Stigmata, Flow My Tears, and Valis. Loved Three Stigmata and Valis, still reread both periodically.

A few I definitely read and liked from grades 6-8:
>The Shadow Children Sequence
>The Giver
>Chasing Spirit Bear (this was the shit)
>Frindle (this was quite abit before grade 6 though but I'll give it a pass)
>The Day My Butt Went Psycho (this was my favourite book throughout most of elementary school)
>The Egypt Game
>those Horrible Histories books
>Left Behind
>Ted Dekker
>Redwall (I was late to the party on ths series but I love them anyways (read the first in grade 7 -- I'll always believe the initial volume was the best one))
>CHERUB was fucking awesome but I didn't finish the series unfortunately
>Harry Potter fuckin obviously right duh
>Alex Rider but I stopped after reading book #6
>bit of Stephen King and Lovecraft too
>>25209514
Me I read it at age 17-18.

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Chronicles of nick and dark hunters (really only acheron and Styx)
It was my first encounter with erotic lit with the later. Think I picked up corruption of champions later too.

Back then, I mostly read stuff in my native language. The only English book I really enjoyed was Alex Rider and Darren Shan. Everything else was a blur, including Harry Potter had it not been for the movies.
Alex Rider - I just recently learned the series continued after Scorpia Rising. Rereading them now to catch up with the new material.
Artemis Fowl - Meh.
Septimus Heap - I can’t remember a single thing about this series aside from something, something seventh son, something, something swapped at birth. Soulful covers though.
Tunnels - Don’t remember a thing about this one either, except it felt super claustrophobic.
Darren Shan - The hell sequence fucked me up.
Harry Potter - I used to read a chapter a night before going to bed. Book 5 forward was a drag to read.
The Queen's Thief - My introduction to Milf romance. Did anything even happen after Book 1? I remember a lot of talking, but not a lot of happenings.
Robert Langdon - Literally spent a year per book. They were so dull. And even as a kid, I knew that cutting to a flashback lecture hall sequence for exposition is terrible writing.

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>>25205469
>Ned Vizzini
>Carl Hiaasen
>David Lubar
>Alex Rider
>Artemis Fowl
>Percy Jackson
pic rel was my favorite