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Any other books like No Country that have two characters after one another, outwitting each other step by step?

>> No.12103535

>>12103533
Nope, none. It's a completely original idea.

>> No.12103540

>>12103535
somehow I feel you're being facetious

>> No.12103544

>>12103533
Harry Potter

>> No.12103563

>>12103533
Frankenstein

>> No.12103572

>>12103563
>Frankenstein

That's actually closer to Death Note in terms of it being "two apparently smart beings who end up doing the dumbest things imaginable and screwing themselves over in the process"

>> No.12103576

>>12103533
If that's all your interested in then unironically Death Note.

>> No.12103583

>>12103572
>>12103576
Well this is awkward

>> No.12103597

>>12103572
>>12103583
DN was okay. Up until a certain girl comes arrives I'd call it a pretty intelligent show/manga.

>> No.12103676

>>12103576
Death Note lacks a lot of the gritty realism. Frankenstein too, but it's better than DN. This is the shit I want more of -- when he went and bought a tent for the poles so he could reach the bag in the vent that he stashed from the adjacent room. that level of autistic realism.

>> No.12103794

>>12103540
>>12103535
He's referring to the fact that an entire subgenre exists with this premise, it's called cat-and-mouse.

>> No.12104723

>>12103533
Schismatrix, by Bruce Sterling. Although Lindsay tended to outsmart Constantine more often than the other way around.

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>>12103533
Not quite a book but I hope this helps:^)

>> No.12104797

>>12104734
epic xdd

>> No.12105170

>>12103533
Unironically Sherlock Holmes and Batman.

>> No.12105503

The Duel by Guimarães Rosa

>> No.12105512

>>12103533
The Double by Dostoyevski is pretty close but not that much. It's probably his worst novel(still not bad though)

>> No.12105524

>>12103676
well cheers, you've sold me on reading NCFOM
t. another lover of autistic attention to those sorts of details

>> No.12105687

>>12103533
I didnt care for No Country for Old Men.

>> No.12106805

>>12103572
What did L do that was dumb

>> No.12106972

>>12104734
i love spy vs spy

>> No.12107427

>>12103533
Siege by James Mason.
Oh wait no, I was thinking of Les Miserables.

>> No.12107448

arent the sherlock holmes books just this?

>> No.12107748

>>12103533
my diary desu

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>>12103533
That's not the plot structure of No Country

>> No.12108220

>>12103572
In a weird way it has a huge resemblance to Breaking Bad.

>Protagonist makes choice to be involved in illegal/immoral act
>Justifies it by saying it's for a noble cause
>Is in incredibly close proximity to those who are trying to catch him
>Becomes increasingly power hungry and callous
>Nothing left of the protagonist we knew at the beginning by the end

>> No.12108320
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I know a hidden gem along those lines.

But I'm not telling anyone what it is called.

>> No.12108326

>>12107814
sure it is. Llwellyn is constantly doing things to keep himself one step ahead of Chigurh and the gang. Chigurh ends up giving up on chasing him and finds his wife instead.
>>12108320
baka