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ITT: Books featuring relatable main characters

>> No.7957730

>>7957724
The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson

>> No.7957735

lolita is a dumb child so i can see how it'd be relateable to retards like you.

>> No.7957742

Dodo in Middlemarch comes to mind.

>> No.7957747

>>7957735
lol

>> No.7957751
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The underground man to be honest

>> No.7957753

>>7957735
>Lolita
>A dumb child

Did you even read the book

>> No.7957756

>>7957735
>>>>>/r9k/

Baiter male

>> No.7957762
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All Franzen hate aside, he's quite good at creating believable, empathy-deserving characters.

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>>7957751
Came here to post this.

>> No.7957771

>>7957762
do i have to be a straight white male to read franzen? is there anything of value or does he just write about how difficult it is for suburban straight white males?

>> No.7957777

>>7957771
>do i have to be a straight white male to read franzen?
Yes.

>does he just write about how difficult it is for suburban straight white males?
Mostly, but (actual spoiler incoming) The Corrections features a bombshell lesbian.

>> No.7957833

>>7957735
this posr triggers me

>> No.7957902
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Perfectly describes everyone on /lit/, excluding myself.

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>> No.7957958

>>7957910
You won't be laughing any more when I shoot your brains out, cunts..

>> No.7958461

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Great Gatsby

The Trial

The Fountainhead

The Stranger

The Fall

>> No.7959771

>>7957902
>excluding myself
I get it

>> No.7959791

catcher in the rye

but i can see how it might only be relatable to me and not the rest of /lit/

>> No.7959922

>>7957902
Quite cheeky banter old chap.

>> No.7959926

The Bourne Identity

>> No.7959949

This Side of Paradise minus the rich and smart ivy league stuff.
Basically Im a drifting romantic that thinks hes better than everyone else, feels entitled and that hes too good to work
Also very attractive

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That feel when Stephen Dedalus

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>> No.7959966

>>7959959
that feel when you get pushed into slimy water

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>>7957724
I think we can all relate.

>> No.7959982

Oblomov

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>> No.7960510

>>7959982
this

>> No.7960686

>>7959949
pics

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>>7957771
>he's not a straight white male

>> No.7961312

>>7960010
Are we talking about Sensei or the narrator?

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>>7957724
Not even joking.

>> No.7961413

>>7959966
Lel. Wells is a b0ss, son. Also I would have peached on him till I turned blue in the face.

>> No.7961471

>>7957771
God forbid you actually expand your horizons a little.

>> No.7961479

>>7957902
THIS SO THIS

>> No.7961616

>>7961471
trying to expand one's horizons with the most basic and saturated pov seems like a fool's errand.

>> No.7961628

>>7961343
You're gay?

>> No.7961820

>>7961343
>Cuck Palahniuk.

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For me it's Patrick Bateman - intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

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>>7961878
Operator, please bless Mr. Halbertram here with dubs in all his endeavors.

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>> No.7962504

>>7962479
mein nigor
came to post this
not even joking

>> No.7962508

>>7959949
>tfw you have actually argued on the point of communism just because others were talking about how it's bad
Had a big smirk when I got to that part in the book t b h f a m

>> No.7962958

Yeah, you're a multilingual ridiculously handsome scholar who tries to justify his pedophilia by blaming it on some inertia over a dead teenage girl. Faggot.