Thread 24614547

If you had a son, what books would you give to him to read?

>>24614547 (OP)
Death in Venice

The entire Western canon
The Eastern classics
Guru Granth Sahib
Fundamental philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Lucretius, Aurelius, Mill, Kant, etc.)
Smith & Marx
From there, he can read as he sees fit
I'd make sure he is hopepilled, not a neet cynic like you lot

>>24614547 (OP)
Books?? I want grandkids, dude

>>24614547 (OP)
Captain underpants, super sons, Harry potter, the hobbit.

>>24614553
Based
I'd follow that with Demian and Woyzeck.
Jokes aside, the first chapter of Demian is a great read for a kid.

On the Jews and Their Lies

>>24614547 (OP)
required reading for all future readers

>>24614547 (OP)
I'd start off with the Iliad and the Odyssey. If he can't read that, maybe some pulp westerns like Louis L'amour or Larry McMurty.

>>24614644
Your son will be a convenience store drudge in a deserted town in a flyover state for his entire adult life.

Bunch of dudes who couldn’t read until they were 22 in this thread acting like a hypothetical 7 year old can comprehend philosophy that most adults can’t understand.
Son starting off with the Hobbit and other entry-level literature like Dostoevsky or Hawthorne

>>24614547 (OP)
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
The Complete Brothers Grim Fairy Tales
The Complete H.P Lovecraft

I wouldn't.
He can pick and read what he wants off the shelf. The only thing I'd gift him is an axe so that I can teach him woodworking as soon as possible.

>>24614547 (OP)

The Bible ONLY.

>>24614547 (OP)
the bhagavad-gita and a sanskrit dictionary

>>24615497

>A book of demonic fairytales and a book for interpreting those demonic incantations

Do you WANT your son to stray from Jesus Christ?

>>24614547 (OP)

classics+textbooks.Mix of everything ,poetry/theater/novels.Probably mixing everything so his little mind could catch up and compare between different periods. (except for history ,i will make it chronologicalso it doesn't end mixing up epoch/characters like retards )
I would feel he could read whatever he wants after 13/14yo.

>>24615501
yes.

european folk/fairy tales, horatio hornblower novels, george mcdonald, stuff like those i'd try to find more accessible 19th century or early 20th century fiction. maybe some shonen manga.

maybe try to find some collections of those old "fantastic mysteries/scifice fiction" magazines and stories from those

I would make him watch BasedTube kids on loop

>>24614547 (OP)
A Clockwork Orange
Walden
1984
Animal Farm
Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on the Method
Spinoza's Ethics
Leibniz - The Monadology and Metaphysics

>>24615032
Based

>>24614547 (OP)
Pornhub

>>24614547 (OP)
Propaganda by Bernays
How To Win Friends And Influence People
Any book on Semiotics
Prince By Machiavelli
A Bunch Of US Military Protocol Manuals
I dunno, probably something like Nudge by Cass Sunstein.

>>24615735
Decent list

>>24614547 (OP)
I'll just keep my library of books available to him to choose from
it's what my dad did. I got to read all kinds of books and bond over the pulp novels he read as a uni student

>>24614547 (OP)
Wheelocks + LLPSI

>>24614547 (OP)
if you dont read your son plutarch your ngmi

>>24617100
Do you think he will grow up to be a redpilled /pol/jak chudder? Or will the opposite effect take place, and he'll become a bluepilled troon?

>>24614636
Based
>>24615032
Ultra based

>>24615032
Only respectable answer in this thread.

Probably just fun masculine heroic war stuff, like Storm of Steel and Conan the Barbarian. Anything to steer him away from jaded cynicism.

>>24617118
Based lol

>>24614560
>The entire Western canon
>The Eastern classics

Are you a social eunuch or are you just a pseud?

>>24617153
That kid looks jewish so either is a possibility

I'd start with some of my favorite books from when I was a kid, since I have those on hand and it would be great if he had the same taste as me, but if he didn't like those I'd take him to the library or the book store and help him find something he wants to read. You can't force your taste on somebody.

>>24614553
>>24614560
>>24615125
Your kids will never be readers if you do thi… what am I saying? you will never have kids.

>>24617489
If your kids aren't reading the Iliad and the Odyssey by age 9 at the absolute latest, you have failed as a parent.

>>24617494
Well, no-one in this thread will ever procreate, which I regard as a parenting success of sorts.

>>24614547 (OP)
TinTin books, a rite of manhood. Hopefully he will not end up like Captain Haddock like I have.

>>24615032
That's a Jewish kid isn't it

>>24615032
Crazy seeing such an obvious future child molester as a kid.

>>24614547 (OP)
Frankenstein and the entirety of the Fall of the Roman Empire

>>24617222
Neither.
>>24617489
False.

>>24614547 (OP)
I would never have a kid.

>>24615441
>The only thing I'd gift him is an axe so that I can teach him woodworking as soon as possible.
I am curious. Why do you think that would help your son?

>>24617134
>pulp novels he read as a uni student
Recommend some?

>I want my son to shoot up the school: The thread
Good thing that 95% of the people here are genetic dead-ends

>>24617885
Not with that attitude!

>>24617576
That was the first thing that came to mind to me as well

>>24617605
Oy vey very antisemitic

>>24615032
breed more sons sir!

>>24618512
I wouldn't be doing it to help him but for sheer practical reasons as I spend a lot of time woodworking. I'd be doing the same if I had a daughter instead of a son too.
My child would be surrounded by books at home anyway and in Europe books play a relevant role in school too, which is the next point: children already spend too much of their time sitting flat on their buttocks instead of outside in nature. Don't misunderstand, I wouldn't discourage my child from reading but instead just put more emphasis on the areas I can competently teach and hopefully encourage to take an interest in.
On top of that, woodworking does actually help with a number of things in your overall development, even when you pick it up late in your life. It requires calmness, precision in operating, planning instead of rushing head-first into something, observation of (minute) details and the use of your head on how to make use of what you have and thus encourages creative thought and problem solving. Not to mention, if you stick to it you build your body proper like, without any weird gymplay or "performance-enhancers".

>if
i have 2 sons
>what books
we taught our older kid to read with a phonics-based system so that, no matter what school looks like, he can read. he's reading 3 grades above his current age.
when he's old enough to do proper chapter books, i just want him to pick things that he likes and we can read them together. as long as he has a positive relationship with reading, he will have a significantly better chance at being a good student and avoiding the terrible situation that HS/Uni students are in right now
his favorite books right now are moomin books

>>24614547 (OP)
A history of central banking, mein Kampf and 1984.

>>24614560
>Kant and Marx
Fucking entitled fag shit.

>>24618577
>we taught our older kid to read with a phonics-based system
Can you explain the system in details so that I can also use that for my kid? What books did your kid go through throughout this system?

>>24618580
Odd stuff

Realistically a bunch of trashy light novels full of sex and violence because I would rather him get into the habit of reading instead of making him think it's boring as fuck.

I would avoid giving him any books with christian slave morality themes though, that's mindflayer material.

>>24618593
my wife did this with our kid at home
it requires very little teaching skill on the part of the parent, you can read the lesson verbatim and walk the child through each lesson.
it might be too much to work through in 100 days, we ended up taking about 5 months to get through all the lessons. he was able to start reading entire sentences of books that we read with him when we were towards the end of the lessons.
we will use the same method when our second son is old enough, which will be about a year or so.
it focuses on what sounds letters can make, it has specific marks to show what sounds vowels make as well—macrons to show a long vowel, for example, and also uses a smaller (almost subscript) [e] when it is silent.
i highly recommend it. it is helpful that our kid was motivated to read on his own, so when there was a day that he didn't want to do it, we would remind him that he is learning to read whatever book he likes all on his own. now, he is reading a lot all on his own, although he does still like stories read to him, too.

>>24614547 (OP)
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques
David Gemmel once he hits highschool
Harry Potter
The Horus Heresy Series, or at least the highlights
Animorphs while in elementary school
Everything out of Arda (that’s Tolkien)
Berserker Series by Fred Saberhagen
Sharpe Series and anything by Bernard Cornwall
Leon Uris books
A whack of Greco-Roman shit, both fiction and nonfiction history stuff
Vimy by Pierre Burton so he knows who his ancestors are.
Pre-stroke Heinlein plus Clarke and Asimov
Kipling and Service
Wheel of Time
Clavell so he knows why Japs and Asians are evil, and to balance out the anime
Napoleonic Wars nonfiction
Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Machiavelli
My grandfathers A History of Canada Textbook from the 1930’s before the commies ruined the place and stole our pride.
A History of Central Banking, 200 Years Together, the Jews and Their Lies, the International Jew, The Wretched of the Earth, Gulag Archipelago are all books I’d hope he’d read but wouldn’t force him.

>>24614547 (OP)
Well if he's anything like me, he'd probably just look around my library and pick things for himself.

>>24615501
Hindus are aryan

>>24614547 (OP)
Unironically my sole genuine desire in life is to give a boy the happy childhood I never had.

Unfortunately I’m not capable of that. Like a curse the privations of my own boyhood will forever prevent me from being able to properly raise or teach a son.

>>24614547 (OP)
greek mythology books
greek philosophy books
norse mythology books
celtic mythology books
the bible

shit like this

>>24614547 (OP)
I would just replicate my childhood and throw in a bunch of believe it or not books and fun fact books to install the thirst for knowledge before slowly sneaking in more and more complex books and a few fictions books as well. Then I would trick him into reading Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by by Patton Oswalt because I thought it was going to be a cool sci-fi fantasy book and it was just Patton Oswalt talking about his life experience and random shit. No idea if it's quality or not and I probably shouldn't have been reading it in the first place but reading the cynical humorous ramblings of that guy at such a young age really impacted me for some reason.

>>24614547 (OP)
Aesop's Fables
48 Laws of Power
Plato's Dialogues

>>24617143
>Wheelocks
He'll ngmi by translating

Redwall, Alex Rider, The Hobbit, and CHERUB.

>>24614547 (OP)
I would give him a ball and kick his ass out of the house so he can make friends and have a happy normie life

>>24614547 (OP)
>RIGHT WING BASICS
this collection offline for awhile tho