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Started by Josephus, January 27, 2021, 04:12:57 PM

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Josephus

January 27, 2021, 04:12:57 PM
Asking for a friend ... see below

Can you suggest a book to read for my son? He is super difficult 😣 and all my suggestions don't work. He is 13 and unlike me doesn't like to read 😭
The book ideally should be:
1. Teenage male main character
2. Not scary/no character death/ no torture or extra suffering / no sick people etc.
3. Better be funny
4. Easy to read
5. Not too long

Plus he will need to write a book report about it...

What not to suggest...
Hobbit (too long)
Harry Potter (already read)
Neil Geiman
Series of Unfortunate Events

If you have any other ideas I will be grateful
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Maladict

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January 27, 2021, 04:14:57 PM
Discworld

Habbaku

#3
January 27, 2021, 04:15:33 PM
Mort, from the Discworld series.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Sheilbh

#4
January 27, 2021, 04:16:08 PM
Northern Lights/His Dark Materials :wub:
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grumbler

#5
January 27, 2021, 04:16:52 PM
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Habbaku

#6
January 27, 2021, 04:17:00 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 27, 2021, 04:16:08 PM
Northern Lights/His Dark Materials :wub:

Yeah, HDM is a laugh riot.  :huh:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Syt

#7
January 27, 2021, 04:18:47 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 27, 2021, 04:12:57 PM
Hobbit (too long)
Harry Potter (already read)

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Admiral Yi

#8
January 27, 2021, 04:20:44 PM
My Side of the Mountain
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Oexmelin

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January 27, 2021, 04:41:37 PM
Because of the Lupin series, they are republishing the books in English. It's good, quick lighthearted, reversed detective stories. The Hollow Needle has a teenage male protagonist.
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Eddie Teach

#10
January 27, 2021, 04:42:24 PM
Catcher in the Rye?

Artemis Fowl
Ender's Game
Lord of the Flies
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Sheilbh

#11
January 27, 2021, 04:42:43 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on January 27, 2021, 04:17:00 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 27, 2021, 04:16:08 PM
Northern Lights/His Dark Materials :wub:

Yeah, HDM is a laugh riot.  :huh:
Already read Harry Potter - it's the natural progression.
Let's bomb Russia!

crazy canuck

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January 27, 2021, 04:44:02 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 27, 2021, 04:16:52 PM
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

This!

It was the first full book my older boy read after learning to manage his disability - and it hooked him into a love of reading.

The Brain

#13
January 27, 2021, 04:53:46 PM
Send him to Reading Gaol?
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Josquius

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January 27, 2021, 05:00:55 PM Last Edit: January 27, 2021, 05:05:25 PM by Tyr
Sounds like comic territory. He tried many of those?
I've heard of kids being weened onto reading via steadily more complex comics.

I'm totally not representative but I remember at that age I was very into Forgotten Realms. Pulpy and nothing complex. Drizzt of course is the best.
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