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Anonymous Thu Feb 8 18:18:15 2018 No.10663805 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books about guys who keep fucking up?

Like 'No Longer Human', where the protagonist won't stop making bad decisions.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:26:30 2018 No.10664137 >>10663805 A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:29:30 2018 No.10664152 >>10663805 Catcher in the Rye is unironically one of the best books that fits this OP

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:29:43 2018 No.10664153 >>10663805 RIP Generico I know people like to say we live in an age where there are no more heroes, but anyone who witnessed this man wrestle in his prime would hastily disagree. What an inspiration

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:30:03 2018 No.10664157 The Idiot

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:32:34 2018 No.10664167 The stranger and kinda notes from the underground

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:38:29 2018 No.10664196 >>10664152 >>10664167 Existentialism =/= bad decisions I think OP is looking for someone who is just plain "self-destructive".

Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:52:29 2018 No.10664250

>>10664196
Under the Volcano is perfect. The guy is steadily killing himself with alcohol, and he knows it, and everyone around him knows it, but he never stops. One of the most tragically beautiful books I've ever read.
I don't think anything could fit this better than when he breaks down in front of a Mary shrine and just begs for help. "Deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self."

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 19:58:01 2018 No.10664279 The great father of this genre and its best example is Notes From Underground. The Underground Man is the quintessential shitposter who just makes himself become more miserable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 20:04:19 2018 No.10664315 My diary desu

Anonymous Thu Feb 8 20:25:32 2018 No.10664424

>>10664279
This but it's a lot deeper, the Underground Man is like a really intelligent 4chan poster who understands that he does these things to himself but doesn't really care and ever goes so far as to revel in his ability to damage himself as a sign of freedom.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 20:36:31 2018 No.10664482 >>10663805 appointment in samarra is a book about a guy destroying his life one bad decision at a time

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 21:04:51 2018 No.10664595 >>10663805 Don Quijote

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 21:08:39 2018 No.10664609 Hunger

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 21:28:57 2018 No.10664705 >>10664196 >>10663805 Notes from the Underground?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 22:39:11 2018 No.10664988 Hunger, Mysteries, and to some extent Pan by Knut Hamsun

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 22:40:13 2018 No.10664993 >>10664988 Also, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

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