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Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:28:03 2022 No.20936726 [Reply] [Original]

books where the protagonist is a 20-something directionless man

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:29:11 2022 No.20936732 The Outsider, Wilson

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:33:18 2022 No.20936757 >>20936726 Whatever by Houellebecq. Main character is early 30s though. Side character is 28.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:34:32 2022 No.20936761 >>20936726 The Man without Qualities

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:38:05 2022 No.20936774 >>20936761 He’s 32 in the fucking book and you learn that in the first few pages, you retard

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:39:27 2022 No.20936783 Fosse’s Melancholy

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:39:29 2022 No.20936784 >>20936774 based rigid rule follower even when the rules are informal and hardly established

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:41:40 2022 No.20936795 Maybe only tangentially related, but posting /lit/core protagonist novels: Notes from the Underground No Longer Human Stoner A Confederacy of Dunces Steppenwolf

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 21:44:40 2022 No.20936811 >>20936726 Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 22:33:56 2022 No.20937030 On the Road.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 22:35:13 2022 No.20937039 I hate fat people.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 22:39:37 2022 No.20937066 >>20936726 The Sorrows of Young Werther is what happens when such a man falls for a taken woman. Read it well, because if you don't fix yourself now and you get in that situation (and you probably will eventually) you'll end up like Werther.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 22:48:11 2022 No.20937104 >>20936726 Boogie isn't directionless, he's a maverick who swears by cowboy justice

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 23:22:15 2022 No.20937251 >>20936795 >/lit/core protagonist novels What? Stop creating weird consumeristic fetish identities.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 05:49:43 2022 No.20938472 >>20936726 Le Crime and Punishment

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 06:12:44 2022 No.20938520 The Stranger I would suggest The Catcher in the Rye but Holden is a bit younger than 20 years.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 06:14:16 2022 No.20938527 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 06:28:20 2022 No.20938560 >>20936726 Sounds boring as shit, why would anyone read such a thing?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 06:34:35 2022 No.20938575 >>20936726 "Praise" by Andrew McGahan

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 06:44:56 2022 No.20938608 Damian

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 08:02:14 2022 No.20938766 Nausea by Sartre

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 10:26:12 2022 No.20939026 >>20938560 >Why would anyone read most literature aimed at men in their 20's written since the 19th century

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 10:30:32 2022 No.20939040 >>20938766 Sartre was a leftist degenerate

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 11:01:39 2022 No.20939116 Magic Mountain.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 11:03:15 2022 No.20939119 communist manifesto not because communism good but to see why it's so easy to get swept up in retardation when you are directionless. it was the peasants' bible