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10100226 No.10100226 [Reply] [Original]

If you were writing a shitty, deplorable human being for a character that also read books, what would be their favorite book?

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>> No.10100231

Anything by Marx

>> No.10100274

>>10100226
Anything by Rand

>> No.10100276

Anything from my diary desu

>> No.10100280

Dostoyevsky.

>> No.10100312

How smart is the character?

>> No.10100322

>>10100312
IQ 100-150>>10100231

IQ 150-400 >>10100274
(jeb bush is the only documented case of a score of 400)>>10100274

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>>10100280

Take that back

>> No.10100427

Nabokov

>> No.10100445

>>10100226
Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche. And it's actually one of my favorite books.

It's a bit cliché to make a Nietzschean villain though, so I'll throw in another one: The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt. If there's any philosopher that can be called 'dangerous', it's him.

>> No.10100457

Foundations of the Science of Knowledge by Fichte

>> No.10100462

>>10100226
Ender's game.
>'relates' to Ender because they're so smart
>uses Ender as a verb in his internal monologue.
>"g-gotta Ender this"

>> No.10100470

>>10100322
>Jeb bush
>400 iq
What's this meme?