Books/stories I can recommend to my gamer friends to give them a hint that they're wasting their lives playing with overpriced action figures? I think Death of Ivan Illyich would be good, especially since it's a novella and not a longer book. I'm sure Infinite Jest is applicable but it's too long and I'm not trying to intimidate them.Short stories, novellas and novels are all welcome suggestions.
This has literally never worked in the history of man. If your friend suggests reading a book/listening to an album/watching a movie you don't do it, and if you do, you don't like it. That's an unwritten rule. Nothing personal. Best you can do is nudge them here and there, subtly. Let them pick whatever they want to read if the conversation comes to that, and if they make stupid picks let them know without being confrontational.
>>25337412They know I read a lot and have been curious about books in general lately. I've already been giving them stuff, I just want to sneak in other things that will help them wake up and grow up.
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>Books/stories I can recommend to my /lit/bro friends to give them a hint that they're wasting their lives shitposting?You sound insufferable.
Why do you think there would be a one size fits all solution?Each of them has their own interests and will like different books based on those. Plus I'm not sure if you can force someone into a hobby they don't have at least a tiny bit of intrinsic interest in.
>>25337442I recommend you to read Atlas Shrugged.
>>25337383you can lead a man to knowledge, but you cannot make him KNOWhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2K71gtZk4&ra=m
>>25337383>>25337412This. The only way to get your friends into something is organically. For music play the album or artist while hanging out: if they ask what it is, great, they like it. Put a film on while hanging out, if they like it, great. If you want to get them into a game, gift it to them on Steam and ask them to play it with you (only works for co-op or general multi-player; if its single- player, showing it to them and letting them play at your house) hopefully they like it. Books are generally nearly impossible to get a friend to read. It has worked twice in my 27 years of life as far as I remember. I recommended and lent one friend Roadside Picnic and he actually read it within 2 days (this was the first book he'd read in maybe 3 years), the other one was my STEMfag friend which I recommended the Shorter Pepys' Diary, as he had read and enjoyed some pop history book about domestic life in Britain which had glossed over Pepys and he had expressed interest in the period.
>>25337383I'd bet you'd have better luck recommending them something contrary to their expectations; if they really thought books were appealing, they'd be reading them already. Their idea of a book is probably like "someone trying to use big words to convince me of something," which may not apply in earnest to the books you read, but will seem exactly that to someone unacquainted. Something simple, weird, fun, with some hidden depth is more likely to appeal to them than what you have in mind as classics.Throw something like Person by Sam Pink at them. Simple, short, funny at times, and about the type of person they'll likely to see some of themselves in. Will immediately be different from their standard expectations of a novel as well.I'm also a big fan of James Tate, whose later work is more akin to very very short stories, and tends to use a lot of humour. You want your friends to realise books are more than what they thought they were.Beyond that, I agree with >>25337450, though I think you have to work to some extent in the negative framing: what preconception keeps them from reading books? then find them a book that doesn't do that and appeals to their interests.
>>25337383didn't know that was the point of doii, tell me more
>themWhy is it such a secret to know your friend's sex?
>>25337530Shut the fuck up you unfunny retard.
>>25337442You sound insecure.
>>25337450>Why do you think there would be a one size fits all solution?I don't. Not even remotely. That's why I'm looking for multiple suggestions. What a bizarre question.
whole thread of retards not answering the question or providing any recommendations but they comment anyway to sound smart and interesting
>>25337383>they're wasting their lives playing with overpriced action figures?They waste their lives with overpriced action figures, you waste your life with cheap and free books.They are losing more money than you, you're losing more time than them.You're all losers.Reading is a cope.
>>25337951>i'm smart and i belong hereguess what?
>>25337383The Old Man and the Sea feels like gamers would like it
>>25337383Dungeon Crawling Carl
>>25338043Most of my friends have already read that one in fact
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