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Re:The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12 by Der_Einzige on Sunday April 06, 2025 @10:47AM (#43601784)
Infinite jest is a bad book. No, I will not read your fking calculus page alongside the other 1000+ pages of nonsense. The idea of assigning it even to mensa kids is exactly why Mensa has such a poor reputation. Mensa famously has the reputation of its members being extremely autistic. Books like this all but guarantee it if they are read by young, impressionable minds.

Ulysses is only good because Joyce was a coomer.

Candide is actually good and more people need to read it.

The others you listed are post modern neo Marxism or drug abusers which will teach your kids to hate your teacher and the whole idea of education. Why not just throw on “pedagogy of the oppressed” to put the final nail into the coffin of your kid giving a fk about what your teacher teaches (“sorry, I’m not doing your homework you colonizer shitlord, I refuse to participate in the banking model of education”.

Re:The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12 by throwawaylsp on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:22AM (#43602094)
You say "post modern neo marxist drug abuser" like it's a bad thing...
Re:The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12 by spacecadet on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:22PM (#43604160)
Clearly hasn't lived it.
Re:The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12 by MountainMan1312 on Sunday April 06, 2025 @12:55PM (#43602906)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed would unironically be a better suggestion than half the books on the list.
Re:The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12 by spacecadet on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:22PM (#43604158)
I wasn't trying to be exhaustive, but good suggestion!