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10752357 No.10752357 [Reply] [Original]

>the books main character doesn't die at the end

>> No.10752371
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>The book's main character dies at the beginning and is replaced by a bunch of assholes

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>the book’s main character was thought dead but he comes back many years later

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>>10752357
>the book has no characters because they all died before the story starts

>> No.10752424

>the book has a plot and characters

*muffled thomas bernhard laugh*

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>>10752357
> main character has a name

>> No.10752503

>>10752435
>main character is referred to as "the stranger"

>> No.10752572

>main characters narrates the story and implies in his last sentence he will kill himself

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>books main character is a metaphor for civilization and humanities' progress as a whole, and is being tutored by the author to advise you how to efficiently rear/tutor a child.

Every time this happens I chuck the fucking book out of the window. There are like fifteen books outside my window on the ground, needless to say.

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>>10752357
>the books' main character exists

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>you are the main character and the novel is told in the 2nd person

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>main character isnt named

>> No.10754765

>>10752572
name one (1) book that does this

>> No.10754772

>>10753500
to be fair that's really goddamn hard to pull off

>> No.10754783
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>main character is male

>> No.10754784 [DELETED] 

>>10752572
I feel like Crime and Punishment gets close...

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>>10754772
true. Calvino *wishes* he was as good as pic related

>> No.10754881

>>10752596
Name five.

>> No.10754927

>>10752572
>main character narrates the story and implies in his last sentence he will kill you

>> No.10754935

>>10754927
Actually read a story like this in a children's horror short story collection.

>> No.10754984

>>10754935
I wasn't thinking about that but it makes sense

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>>10752396
basically

>> No.10755057

>>10754881
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

>> No.10755731

>>10754783
>main character isn't the narrator

>> No.10755865

>>10754765
Withnail & I ends like that.