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Books I liked:
American Psycho
Stoner
Confederacy of Dunces

The rest of the books I read are okay, but I hate getting hit in the face with the author's need to deliver a message to me. All of these books were engaging from beginning to end. Dostoyevsky is similar, but I hate the Christ shit he pulls every time. Any recommendations? I'm purely speaking fiction here. If you want to call me a pleb, go ahead and get it over with.

>> No.15985031

>>15984980
You sound low IQ

>> No.15985804

>>15985031
Ah yes, I circumvented your attempt to call me a pleb, so you called me a retard instead. How typical.

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>>15984980
> Authors shouldn't have opinions. I'm a big boy and have my own!

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>>15986075
What is wrong with you?

>> No.15986245

>>15984980
Flaubert

>> No.15986321

>>15985804
Plebs are also retards you faggot

>> No.15986435

you like Fight Club?

>> No.15986516

>>15984980
If you liked Stoner I recommend Butcher's Crossing, I think it might actually be his best

>> No.15986623

>>15986435
Don't see the point when I have seen the movie. I liked it. Why does everyone pair American Psycho and Fight Club? They arent even sort of similar.
>>15986245
I'll try madame bovary. Thanks.
>>15986516
Thought about it. I hope it is in the same realm of that beautiful book.

>> No.15986633

>>15986623
>They arent even sort of similar.
Wow lmao, is reading a book literally just seeing words to you?

>> No.15986658

>>15986623
violent novels with unreliable narrators made for 20 something males

>> No.15986668

>>15986658
also critical of capitalism

>> No.15986698

>>15984980
It's weird to me that you hate the author's message yet liked American Psycho. Even moreso than the movie, Ellis' "Look how materialistic yuppies are! It's like violence! It's the same! They're ALL the same!" was so relentlessly on-the-nose. That being said, maybe you'd like McCarthy? Genre thrills, great prose, and the messages are usually at least relatively vague. No Country for Old Men and Child of God are good starting spots.

>> No.15986707

>>15986698
OP is one of those brainlets that thinks it's only "pushing an agenda" or "being political" when he disagrees with it.

>> No.15986750

>>15984980
Bernhard, Calvino

>> No.15987169

>>15986698
>look how materialistic yuppies are

Anon, Bret can't make the critiques you are accusing him of. I think you should re-read the book and take it sincerely. Patrick Bateman is simply a stand in for Ellis himself. The clothes, the parties, the food, the meaningless conversation; it is all sincere. Even the music review chapters are literal reviews by Bret easton ellis. Listen to his podcast. Bret reviews movies and music in the same style, was born rich, goes to rich people parties, hangs out with exclusively rich people, has vain and pointless conversations, thinks highly of himself, and is generally exactly like Bateman. If you don't believe me, watch this. I related to Bateman. I didn't see him as a character to observe. His mind matched mine. I grew out of it mostly, but, in a way, that part of me will never completely go away.

https://youtu.be/2hSK3ETc7YI
>>15986707
I don't need to agree with the message at all. I just can't know what the ultimate message will be from page 10 on. I am more than willing to take a recommendation, but it seems you all want to seethe at one sentence.