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15328729 No.15328729 [Reply] [Original]

Because interesting characters are what makes or breaks a book imo

>> No.15328759

Stephen King - The Dark Tower series
Ask for pleb shit and get pleb shit in return

>> No.15328795

>>15328729
Guts was based off of Mad Max and Arnold Schwarznegger movies. Can't really think of a book with a guy like him though. Maybe some Greek heroes with the barely contained rage thing?

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Give me a nice book that'll remind me of my waifu, /lit/.

>> No.15328837

>>15328729
If you want a strong dude going on adventures and swinging a sword try the Conan books.

>> No.15328849

>>15328804
The Monogatari novels

>> No.15328879

>>15328849
Thanks.

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>> No.15329331

>>15328729
>Because interesting characters are what makes or breaks a book imo
pleb feminine take

>> No.15329338

>>15329331
>>15329330
>>15329321
>>15328879
>>15328849
>>15328837
>>15328804
>>15328795
>>15328759
>>15328729
my diary desu

>> No.15329451

>>15329321
The Prince - Machiavelli

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>>15329616
Alternatively

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>>15328729

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>>15330909
Ted's manifesto
>>15329321
The Prince as well

>> No.15331053

>>15331009
>Ted's manifesto
i need MORE i have become obsessed with this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssa_np-fTSk

>> No.15331766

>>15331002
The Republic

>> No.15331837

>>15331002
On War by von Clausewitz

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>>15330897

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>> No.15331964
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>>15328804
War and Peace
>>15329321
The Darkness that Comes Before
>>15330900
Book of the New Sun
>>15331916
The Idiot

>> No.15332058

>>15330906
Brothers Karamazov

>> No.15332197

>>15330906
>>15332058
I'd say Demons. But Johan and Monster are pretty Dosto in general.

>> No.15332593

>>15328729
STONER

>> No.15332634

>>15330897
The Book of Monelle

>> No.15332639
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>> No.15332643

>>15328729
Blood Meridian
Same hopeless vibe as Berserk with a supernatural (?) element.

>> No.15332649

>>15330958
Beyond Good and Evil

>> No.15332651

>>15329451
I'm reading that right now.
Pretty gud desu

>> No.15332733

>>15330877
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

>> No.15333206

Idk why I keep being surprised by the amount of weebs in this board anymore

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>>15328729
Give me an old man in it for the material gain, but whose heart is softened by a son figure

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>> No.15333695

>>15333206
it's ok anon, let them have their insipid circlejerks.

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>tfw no hl3
>tfw if they make it, will be full of shit and liberal propaganda
a book like that

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>>15328729

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>> No.15333773

>>15328729
Hyperion, referencing The Shrike to guts

>> No.15333800

>>15330940
That's the main character in my diary.

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>> No.15334918

Bump

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>> No.15334952

>>15329616
Oblomov

>> No.15334960

>>15333766
Lyonesse

>> No.15335052

>>15329330
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson.

>> No.15336568

dump

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>> No.15336873

>>15328729
Bruno - the elementary particles

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>>15328729
She is literally me
Not memeing

>> No.15336915

>>15336878
Pee on me please

>> No.15337071

>>15333751
>>15333758
>>15333763
>>15333768

???

>> No.15337109

>>15336878
Discord?

>> No.15337419
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What book?

>> No.15337465
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>> No.15337920

>>15337419
Orgy of the Will

>> No.15337962

Armageddon the book?

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>>15331964
Clive Barker's stuff kinda (spesifically Book of Blood vol 1-3)

>>15337465
Ryu Murakami's stuff

>> No.15338221

>>15329616
Flowers for Algernon

>> No.15338224
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>> No.15338267

>>15330909
The Possessed.

>> No.15338334

>>15333763
The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)

Sacrament (Clive Barker)

The Book of Acts in the Bible (the chapters on Paul's story of redemption)

>> No.15338584

>>15338224
Atlas Shrugged

>> No.15338872
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>> No.15338919

>>15330940
Fight club

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>>15338334

>The Book of Acts in the Bible (the chapters on Paul's story of redemption)

>> No.15340601

>>15330958
Fight club

>> No.15340641

>>15329321

Angelology, Trusonni

>> No.15341217

>>15329331
Hard agree.
Plot-driven >>> Character-driven

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?

>> No.15341304

>>15338992
I really like this picture.

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>> No.15341324

>>15341304
save it friend, it's all yours

>> No.15341341

>>15341217
thats like swimming over a lake without a boat. Just like a purely character driven book is a boat standing still. Both are important

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>> No.15341471

>>15330877
>Zibaldone, Leopardi

>>15332639
>Hans Von Luck memoirs

>>15337419
>Known And Unknown: a memoir, Donald Rumsfeld

>>15338872
>A Frolic of His Own, Gaddis

>>15341320
>Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Night, Ryu Mitsuse
The expanse before the Tannhauser Gates awaits

>> No.15341563

>>15338134
On Women
>>15338992
The Hobbit
>>15341240
Beyond Good and Evil

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>> No.15341865

>>15336819
someone do wolfwood

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>> No.15342046

>>15333758
Living in a Bubble: A Guide to being diagnosed with High Functioning Asperger’s as an Adult.

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>>15328729

>> No.15342125

>>15341891
Bel-ami

>> No.15342979

>>15333222
to have and have not you wouldnt happen to be THAT anon, would you?

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>> No.15343893

>>15328729
the saga of the volsungs

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>>15328729
book of the new sun

>>15342101
erwin von salomon - the outsider

>>15341382
Clarke Asthon Smith - Hyperborean Cycle

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>> No.15346389

>>15341320
>>15345077
gilgamesh

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I expect good recs

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>>15328729

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What's he reading, /lit/?

>> No.15348264

>>15329331
pleb masculine take

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>> No.15348370

>>15345050
Only thing I can think of is Notes From the Underground
>>15341897
Half-Blood Prince
>>15344089
Neuromancer
>>15337419
Civil Disobedience
>>15334171
Xenocide and Children of the Mind
>>15329321
The Ego and His Own

>> No.15348378

Q

>> No.15348399

>>15348258
he looks like a grindr fag

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>> No.15348453

>>15328729
Is Guts an interesting character?
It's just unrealistic hyperviolent grimdark bullshit.
>i'm so edgy I was literally born out of my mother's dead hanging body
Please explain to me how this is an actual character and not just anime power fantasy emo bullshit

>> No.15348486

>>15348151
dis who

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PLEASE

>> No.15348934
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What do you recommend?

>> No.15348945

>>15338167
I second this.

>> No.15349042

>>15348453
There's a lot more to him than that, you gotta look beyond the grimness. He is one of the most painfully, bittersweetly beautiful characters I have encountered in any fiction:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIzU6KAGj5Y
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Kqa_KJd3g

Berserk is /lit/ you should give it a look if you haven't already

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Elliot Galois

>> No.15349319

>>15348453
he's really not though, he's a very nuanced character that can't be classified under one trope, literally just read berserk, pretty much the entire story is focused around how guts works on a psychological level and how he changes throughout the course of his life

>> No.15349333

>>15349054
how to kill yourself 101

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>>15349112
was looking for this, would like to know as well

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>>15328729
>>15328804
>>15329321
>>15329330
>>15329616
>>15330858
>>15330877
>>15330879
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>>15349283
Mein Twisted World

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>> No.15349879

>>15349652
nice one

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.

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but not braindead

>> No.15351326

>>15348453
t. never actually read Berserk