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Any books where the main character is basically this guy?

>> No.11022443

>>11022406
The Idiot by Dostoevsky

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>>11022406

>> No.11022462

my diary sneed

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>>11022443
good answer fren

>> No.11023398

>>11022443
Prince Myshkin is not as pathetic and contemptible as the frog

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>>11023398
You monster

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>>11022406

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>>11023425
Apu is PURE!

>> No.11023466

>>11022406
Pnin
Darconville’s Cat

Chose those just because they’re both campus novels of awkward/pained professors.

>> No.11023474

>>11022406
Notes

>> No.11023549

>>11022406
Confederacy of Dunces

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>>11023474
>>11023549
wrong

>> No.11023687

>>11023591
Confederacy of Dunces is actually a good choice.

>> No.11023707

>>11022406
Holden

>> No.11023713

Stoner
Catcher in the rye

>> No.11023737

>>11022406
The Stranger

>> No.11023739

>>11022406
Mysteries
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

>> No.11023740

>>11023398
Rude

>> No.11023747

>>11023687
No, Ignatius is an asshole. The Helper is a good guy.

>> No.11024646

>>11023747
His name is Apu.

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>>11024646
which means "Help" in Finnish

>> No.11025096

>>11023466
Pnin is a really comfy read

>> No.11026508

>>11022406
Pnin sort of fits, though he's not developmentally disabled, just foreign and good=fy.

>> No.11026617

>>11024774
>translating names

>> No.11026720

>>11022406
12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson

>> No.11026753

>>11023398
APU IS FREN

>> No.11026754

Flowers of Algenon

>> No.11027051

>>11022406

So we need a protagonist who's academically qualified but clueless in the ways of the world?

How about:

>The Graduate (Webb)
or
>Lucky Jim (Amis)
or
>Decline and Fall (Waugh)
or
>Porterhouse Blue (Sharpe)
?

>> No.11027428

>>11022406
Lucky Jim heyoooo I win this thread

>> No.11027437

why does everyone hate the frog?

>> No.11027445

>>11027428

As opposed to the post above yours, which made the same suggestion over an hour ago?

>> No.11027446

Why has pepe lasted so long? Other memes would have gone through their cycle and been abandoned already, but the fucking frog just keeps gaining in power

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>>11027437
Only literal satanists hate Apu. He is a pure and righteous meme.

>> No.11027967

>>11027437
Because its a retard that needs help helper

>> No.11028089

Woyzeck

>> No.11028369

>>11027967
is Apu meant to be a retard, an autist, or both?

>> No.11028500

>>11022406
Portrait of the artist as a young man

>> No.11028506

>>11028089
THIS

definitely THIS

>> No.11028532

>>11022406
So dimwitted but endearing?

Winnie the Pooh.

>> No.11028583

>>11022443
lmao

>> No.11028643

>>11028089
I thought you were trying to say "Wojak" at first

>> No.11028832

>>11028500
thank you

>> No.11029859

>>11028500
this but unironically famalam

>> No.11029987

>>11026753
EXACTLY
OREGANOLI

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confession: I love apu. l sympathize with apu more than l have sympathized with a good 90% of the characters in all the novels l've read
don't know what it is about this particular iteration of the frog meme but l am and will eternally be rooting for the little guy

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>>11030368
o

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>>11030368
I feel the same way. Everytime I see this face it hurts me

>> No.11030650

David foster wallace at Keynon college 2005 graduation speech

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>>11030368
Apu is life

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flowers for algernon

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11030686

The finns are meme making machines.

Its like they have meme's in their DNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38

>> No.11030705

>>11026754
>>11030672
Flowers for Algernon

>> No.11030709

smug? Diogenes and Plato

>> No.11030721

>>11030686
they just draw old memes in a retarded way and then everyone starts posting them.

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>>11030368
me as well

based liberry pepe

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>>11027446
No nose or ears. Exaggerated eyes and mouth which are the emotion expressive features of the face.

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>>11030368
based apu

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>>11028643
what's the difference really

>> No.11031454

how about the other way around? which would apu's favourite books be?

>> No.11031466

Any Dan Brown book.

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>>11031454
also winnie the pooh

i can see him reading a bit about pooh and piglet and then lowering the book and thinking about how it would be to have a friend himself

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>>11030368

>> No.11031894

>>11028089
>Woyzeck
WOOOOOZZECK!!

>> No.11031902

my diary desu

>> No.11031928

>>11023713
>>11023737
???

>> No.11032210

>>11023687
Ignatius is a completely different kind of loser. He's simultaneously a genius and completely retarded & despicable.

The fregg is just retarded

>> No.11032256

>>11032210
but Apu is also a beacon of virtue. Not despicable at all.

>> No.11032358

>>11022406
not lit but Philippe from Achewood