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i just read Notes from Underground, and i related so much to the narrator that it hurt. Anyone else had the same feelings about main characters in books?

>> No.1368384

Notes from Underground is pretty much targeted at 4chan, so you'll find lots here who'd react that way.

Grendel was the one that really knocked me for a loop. I was 18 and simultaneously depressed and narcissistic, and that book messed me up for a good year or two.

>> No.1368392

Under The Volcano...


hurr durr

>> No.1368393

Lol when I picked it up I could only read for like 20 pages before I felt incredibly ill over how uncanny the resemblance was between the narrator and my 16-year old self.

>> No.1368394

Howard Roark.

>> No.1368397

>>1368368
Had the same effect on me, OP. Put me in a terrible place.

I also related a lot to the guy from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

>> No.1368403

I read catcher in the rye, it was like looking in a mirror, a mirror of deep insightful insight.

>> No.1368405

Might sound like faggotry but honestly I related a lot to Harry Haller from Steppenwolf.

>> No.1368408

>>1368397
so you were a pretentious douche realising how much of a douche he actually is and yet continuing with his douchebaggery?
(inb4 troll, thats exactly what that book is about... except for the douche-part)

>> No.1368409

>>1368393
wow did you have an existential crisis at 16 d&e, i dont even think i've had 1 yet.

>> No.1368416

>>1368393
This, I read it, and it's literally like reading the catcher in the rye, dudes just a whiny baby.
Steppenwolf is the real shit, dude hates society but isnt a whiny baby.
also quentin compson because im a sensitive baby. >>1368397
this aswell, as i was raised catholic and then gave up the faith especially.

>> No.1368417

The dude from Hunger by Knut Hamsun and Gogol from The Namesake.

>> No.1368419 [DELETED] 

>>1368384
simultaneously depressed and narcissistic

that's a dangeraous combination dude.
lethal, sometimes.

>> No.1368422

>>1368416
>whiny baby
The guy's kid brother died from cancer.

>> No.1368423

>>1368419
Yeah, but fortunately I wasn't really suicidal. I just ended up losing my virginity to my AP English teacher.

>> No.1368425

>>1368416
Steppenwolf is scrate whiny in the beginning breh. Only later does he achieve bro status then goes and fucks it up

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1368427

i tried to read ulysses the other day but it was just too angsty as shit. the main character was just too emo. a whiny baby. he almost reminds me of that beta ivan, from the brothers karamazov.

excuse me while i return to best literature.

>> No.1368433

>>1368403
same but i still dont know the moral of the stories other than that people are phonies & they make it stressful not to be phony.

>> No.1368441

Not a main character, but the Erdedy sequence from Infinite Jest pretty much sums up my relationship with drugs/alcohol. I'm certainly no crippled addict, but the way he thinks about the progression of degeneracy makes me squirm.

>> No.1368467

>>1368368
The narrator's a butthurt douche baby. Dostoevsky sucked till he did time.

>> No.1368479

Well, this isn't a really a book, but deal with it litfags. There's an Icelandic movie called Noi Albinoi (Noi the Albino) and I related to the protagonist perfectly. It made me cry. :(

>> No.1368484

It's not that bad OP. Just aim for a state where you will be able to look at this character and laugh at how pathetic and ill his mind is. Just remember that it's absurd to over-rationalise everything and that it is often better to express your will no matter how many doubts you have about it.

>>1368393
I think I had gotten over much of my angst by the time I had read the book (which was when I was about 16). So I wasn't really repulsed but more amused and intrigued. An excellent read.
Although I have an excuse for my angst. I had a brain tumor on my frontal lobe that was very likely fucking with my dopamine regulation. I even had manic episodes, which lead me to believe I was manic-depressive before I found the tumor. Those few days of bliss in mania were worth all the suffering that came with having a brain tumor.

>> No.1368492

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
I related so much that I cried

and goddamn, that man had an awesome writing
had he been from the US instead of Canada, people would be hailing him as a god

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1368497

The bible

>> No.1368506

>>1368492
Yup... the whole trilogy, of course

>> No.1368699

"A" from Either/Or, esp. Diapsalmata.

I was in a pretty shitty place in my life at the time. It's a little embarrassing actually, but I'll easily admit it.

>> No.1368799

>>1368384
>targeted at 4chan
>published in 1864

>>1368467
Yeah except Notes from Underground came out roughly 10 years after he was released from prison, you dumb cock.

>> No.1368909

It is funny, most of these books were not written with teenagers in mind. Why do they resonate with angsty teens and why are there so many of them? Are middle aged people who hate society the same as teens who hate society?

>> No.1368918

>>1368699
I can relate to him too.

>> No.1369375

bump

>> No.1369393

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh bored me more than I thought possible for a book I found kind of unnervingly relatable

>> No.1369410

I was about to call out everyone in this thread as self-absorbed dramafellows, when I remembered my visceral reaction to the "theft" of Leonard Bast's umbrella in Howard's End. There are things about his character that hit way too close to home. Ouch!