post and talk about your favorites from the junior fiction shelf from your library, pic related was this for me. its like my hero academia six years before it was even a thing, but a year after the movie sky high.
wayside school was my shit
>>25205485nice
>>25205485was it as good as the cartoon or even better?
Goosebumps is always the go to kids book back then.
these and michael crichton
>>25205469LOTR 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 fowlBasically everything that Heinlein wrote
>>25207652>Summa TheologicaI don’t think I believe that at all.
>>25205469Eco, Vonnegut, Carlos Ruis ZafonStieg LarssonDouglas AdamsA bunch of YA, fantasy and sci-fi
>>25207655I 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.
>>25207655I 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
>>25207663Oh 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.
>>25205469I was a goosebumps kid. Attack of the graveyard ghouls wad my first and favorite, although it did give me my fetishAlso 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 deathAlso also by the end of middle school I was into Calvino and his our ancestors trilogy
>>25207663>>25207667Well, 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. >>25207664lol, what did you get out of them at that time?
>>25207670Thank you! Yeah it's depressing how much you could get done without a dopamine dispenser in your pocket.
>>25207670Rand? 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.
>>25207670You’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?>>25207674Kek, that first part doesn’t surprise meAnd 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.
>>25207695Funnily 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.
>>25205469i thought molly moon was cute
>>25207663>one time I made myself temporarily schizo by reading Revelations and trying to pattern match it to current eventsPierre Bezukhov-maxxing
