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Anonymous Tue Jun 29 07:55:10 2021 No.18551177 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books with protagonists who are ruthlessly ambitious?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 07:57:39 2021 No.18551189 File: 26 KB, 288x436, 2666[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18551177

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 07:58:06 2021 No.18551195 >>18551177 Bottom is easily refuted, but that would take effort on my part, so I’ll just keep posting it as the final say in that arena.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 08:03:30 2021 No.18551221 >>18551195 Both the points are dumb sophomoric first-year-philosophy shit. Smartphones are great, libraries are great, and I'm sure the original cartoonist was just having a laugh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 08:11:48 2021 No.18551269 >>18551177 >Mfw I googled all the MUH LIBRARY books and all they have is Tom Clancy novels and Stephen (cocksuc)King

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 08:52:57 2021 No.18551433 File: 145 KB, 1070x1062, nl4f5zzg1re61.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump I am also interested in ruthless and ambitious protagonists.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 09:02:51 2021 No.18551472 honey and clover

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 09:07:18 2021 No.18551491 >>18551177 OP just gave us all enough estrogen to become trans

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 11:51:56 2021 No.18552456 >>18551177 The Red and the Black

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 11:54:49 2021 No.18552473 >>18551177 What horrendous mutilation of the art of memetry have you brought before us

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 11:55:36 2021 No.18552476 Mein Kampf

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 11:57:04 2021 No.18552486 >>18551491 Luckily I'm so fucking racist my insanely high testosterone will balance out the whole thread and give you roid rage because I replied directly to you

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 11:58:05 2021 No.18552495 >>18551221 Nothing in that picture is remotely related to philosophy so your criticism makes no sense. Also the original image was definitely made by a butthurt boomer who thinks if phones went away all of society problems would be solved

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 11:59:20 2021 No.18552503 File: 1.58 MB, 250x220, 1581857092397.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18551221 >Smartphones are great

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 12:52:15 2021 No.18552819 >>18551177 Richard III (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) The Luck of Barry Lyndon (Thackeray) Absalom! Absalom! (Faulkner) What Makes Sammy Run? (Schulberg)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 12:55:10 2021 No.18552844 File: 34 KB, 512x320, 1621345358961.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18551221 >Smartphones are great

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 13:03:00 2021 No.18552890 >>18552844 >>18552503 Stay poor

Anonymous Tue Jun 29 13:47:09 2021 No.18553176
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>>18551177
Prince Jorg in The Prince of Thorns
Anasarimbur Khellus in The Darkness That Comes Before
Maud'Dib in Dune (nicer than the previous two, but he does genocide 60 billion people)
Darrow/Reaper- Red Rising
Griffith - Beserk
The Jackal - Red Rising

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 13:57:00 2021 No.18553236 >>18552890 Stay distracted bugman

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 13:57:28 2021 No.18553237 >>18551177 bel-ami

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 14:24:46 2021 No.18553404 File: 69 KB, 646x687, 1595639691987.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18551177 Lmfao kid got btfo'd

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 14:37:34 2021 No.18553513 >>18553236 You're poor

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:33:03 2021 No.18553866 >>18553236 Distracted from what? A place where nothing really happens? Same difference.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:37:35 2021 No.18553888 >>18551177 Old Goriot, Lost Illusions and Scenes from a Courtesan's Life (the third one not so much but if you read the first two you should read it as it is a sequel of sorts).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:39:12 2021 No.18553895 >>18551177 words words words words this is not how comics work,not gonna read that shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:41:59 2021 No.18553910 >>18551177 why do leftist memes have so many words

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:46:17 2021 No.18553926 >>18553404 Honestly though the kid was right to assume that considering 99% of boomers are like that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:48:03 2021 No.18553938 >>18552486 Thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:48:30 2021 No.18553940 The Red and the Black

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 15:57:32 2021 No.18553992 Moon and Sixpence, kind of. Baron in the Trees, kind of.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 16:04:52 2021 No.18554035 >>18551177 I was so confused about the whole point of this because I read it from right to left as in a manga. Nonetheless, what a shitty comic.

Anonymous Tue Jun 29 16:27:27 2021 No.18554187

>>18552456
>>18553940
came here to post this, can't think of a better example
I can't think of any novel that better fits what you asked for, just a couple of Robert Caro biographies: Means of Ascent (LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign) and The Power Broker (about New York construction mogul Robert Moses)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 16:33:52 2021 No.18554235 >>18553866 The only reason you think that is because you are nothing, bugman.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 16:57:48 2021 No.18554393 >>18554035 cringe

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