/lit/ - Literature

This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It's me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me. This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you'd see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say "Yup, that's me". I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I'm assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I've found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It's really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it's almost like we're identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?

>>23376504
Pic related of course

perhaps one of the best books i’ve ever read. don’t know how this isn’t considered one of the Great American novels.

any more lesser-known (yes I am aware many people have read it) mid-century American kino like A Confederacy of Dunces?

Obligatory

couldn't finish this shit because how relatable the book was. It felt like reading a diary. Jesus Christ is that how I really am?

Loser NEETs make the best protagonist

Is it worth a read?

>>22166320
Most famous one. Neon Bible doesn't count.

is it worth reading or is it a meme?

>>22029594
This dude would be posting on /pol/ 10 hours a day and beating it to hentai for 3 if he were real

what's the modern version of this?

>>21817645
do they have to be living authors?

Hello /lit/.
I only read non-fiction for many years but I am trying to get some fiction into my literary diet again.
I have a copy of pic-related and a copy of The Satanic Verses, which should I read first?
The last book I read was Blood Meridian, the first fiction book I have read in approximately 7 years.

Is this book funny?

This is the definitive lolcow novel

>>21288468
Daily reminder that the suicidal John Kennedy Toole predicted the existence of the typical anon over 50 years ago.

A story about a NEET and pre-internet autistic 4channer being forced against his will to get a job.

Was he autistic? This book was hilarious but I also recoiled at the similarities I have with him. I’m not a total loser like him but in social situations with normies I can be insufferable sometimes and have to catch myself from being judgmental, pretentious, etc. Is being a dickhead and caring more about being right an autistic trait?

>Start reading a confederacy of dunces
>Realize in a flash of insight by chapter 6 that I am, and indeed we all are, as moderns, the diluted essence of this Ignatius
How is it possible that I've wasted so much time being this man?

>predicts the rise of the "tradright" incels
How did he do it?

It's kinda funny finding out 4chan NEET types always existed.