{"id":2014,"date":"2010-07-02T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2013-02-18T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:06:53","slug":"ask-tpr-teenage-literature-wet-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/ask-tpr-teenage-literature-wet-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Literature, Wet Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutz.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutz.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutz-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><em>I need to buy a present for a thirteen-year-old boy. His parents suggested &#8220;a good book.&#8221; This thirteen year-old is not that interested in literature, so I want this book to be a gateway to good, weird literature for him. Suggestions?<\/em> \u2014James in Providence<\/p>\n<p>This is such an excellent\u2014and delicate\u2014question, we decided to call in some experts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/levgrossman.com\/\">Lev Grossman<\/a> is a senior writer and book critic for <em>Time<\/em> magazine. He is also the author of the novels <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Warp-Novel-Lev-Grossman\/dp\/0312170599\/\">Warp<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Codex-Lev-Grossman\/dp\/B002VPEAQW\/\">Codex<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Magicians-Novel-Lev-Grossman\/dp\/0670020559\">The Magicians<\/a><\/em>, the last of which is centrally concerned with teenagers and gateway reading. Lev recommends:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cats-Cradle-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut\/dp\/038533348X\/\">Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/a><\/em>, by Kurt Vonnegut. I read and reread this book constantly from ages thirteen through sixteen. Vonnegut seamlessly merges (sorry for the clich\u00e9) the basic existential challenges of life with that early-adolescent sense of generalized grievance against the world of which thirteen year-olds are the chosen curators. Plus, it&#8217;s impossible to read <em>Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/em> as a grownup, so it&#8217;s now or never. If that doesn&#8217;t work, T.H. White&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Once-Future-International-Collectors-Library\/dp\/0002216019\/\">The Once and Future King<\/a><\/em>. After that I give up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/laura_miller\/index.html\">Laura Miller<\/a> is a staff writer at <em>Salon<\/em>, which she helped found. She is a frequent contributor to<em> The New York Times Book Review<\/em>, the editor of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Salon-com-Readers-Guide-Contemporary-Authors\/dp\/014028088X\/\">The Salon Guide to Contemporary Fiction<\/a><\/em>, and the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Magicians-Book-Skeptics-Adventures-Narnia\/dp\/0316017655\/\">The Magician&#8217;s Book: A Skeptic&#8217;s Adventures in Narnia<\/a><\/em>. Laura writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Maze-Runner-Trilogy-Hardback\/dp\/0385737947\/\">The Maze Runner<\/a><\/em> by James Dashner is not exactly a literary triumph, but it&#8217;s accessible and action-packed (important to many young male nonreaders) yet also features just enough of that good, Vonnegutesque mind-blowing to show him that books can take you to places no other medium can.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><em>As a working girl, I need to use those spare minutes\u2014on the subway, waiting in grocery store lines, heating up canned soup\u2014for my reading pleasure. This often results in a lot of re-reading to get back into the story. Any suggestions for books that just keep on moving?<\/em> \u2014A.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Bernhard wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400077591\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1400077591&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Woodcutters<\/em><\/a> in a state of advanced alcoholism. One gets the distinct impression that the author keeps losing his place and reminding himself, every few pages, what&#8217;s going on. (Not just in a Bernhardian way, in a wet brain way\u2014if that distinction makes any sense.) A similar thing happens in Saul Bellow&#8217;s last novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ravelstein-Penguin-Great-Books-Century\/dp\/0141001763\/\">Ravelstein<\/a><\/em>, which he wrote in extreme old age. 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