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Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:14:49 2010 No.1297003 [Reply] [Original]

Books with unreliable narrators?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:15:49 2010 No.1297006 File: 86 KB, 276x450, catcher-in-the-rye-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Catcher in the Rye

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:16:49 2010 No.1297008 File: 35 KB, 278x475, a-separate-peace1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:18:49 2010 No.1297016 File: 65 KB, 392x600, american_psycho.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Sat Nov 20 15:20:49 2010 No.1297019 >implying unreliable

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:22:49 2010 No.1297028 File: 19 KB, 338x500, ulysses.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ololol

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:24:49 2010 No.1297033 File: 179 KB, 500x634, gatsby.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I think Nick is the perfect example of an unreliable narrator. Both the opening and closing passages work well to support him as being an unreliable narrator.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:25:49 2010 No.1297035 >>1297003 dat cover.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:31:49 2010 No.1297054 lol forgot i made this thread moar please

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:35:49 2010 No.1297067 Explain please. I have not heard this before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:38:49 2010 No.1297075 File: 33 KB, 640x236, jfk.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1297067 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:39:49 2010 No.1297080 >>1297003 Nabokov has a habit of this. Pale Fire was the same way

>>	Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ Sat Nov 20 15:39:49 2010 No.1297081 Any text with a narrator who is from a minority or "under-privileged" group; women, spics, darkies etc

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Sat Nov 20 15:43:49 2010 No.1297091 File: 14 KB, 308x350, williams.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1297081 OH GOD!

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 15:45:49 2010 No.1297094 Enduring Love

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 16:00:49 2010 No.1297128 File: 80 KB, 300x453, george_w_bush_decision_points.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 16:02:49 2010 No.1297131 No book has a reliable narrator. Enjoy rethinking all of your favorite books.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 16:03:49 2010 No.1297135 >>1297128 lol'd

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 16:08:49 2010 No.1297145 A Song of Ice and Fire books. Out of all the POV characters iirc there's just one unreliable narrator there, but hey.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 20 16:34:49 2010 No.1297208 >>1297131 but that's wrong, faggot

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