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Can you think of any good books with a protagonist you legitimately admire? Not just books whose writers you admire, or whose philosophical points you admire, but where the actual protagonist you consider truly admirable.

If so, please recommend them to me.

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2953253

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

>> No.2953255

Captain Nemo. Maybe he's more an antagonist though, and certainly flawed, but I can't help but admire the hell out of him.

>> No.2953279

Chief from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy is fun as hell, but there are certain Mary Sue issues, in my opinion.

But Chief, well, Chief is weak and infantile, but what eventually happends in the book made me so proud of him I almost cried.

>> No.2953293

Has to be Jake Barnes.

>> No.2953324

>>2953293
I liked the part when he went to the cafe.

>> No.2953339

shit man i could really go a dogimoes

>> No.2953371

Henry Chinaski

My favorite books with him are Ham on Rye, Post Office and Women by Charles Bukowski.

>> No.2953383

>>2953371
"Hank" Chinaski is a hero for the working man. Truly admirable.

>> No.2953384

Holden Caulfield

>> No.2953389

>>2953371
This.

>> No.2953421

>>2953279
This, and both Alyosha from Brothers Karamazov. I admire Ivan, even though he isn't supposed to be admired, because he is a well thought-out intellectual who stands by his opinions. I also think if he could have grown older or had lived in a different time period, he wouldn't have been a nihilist.

>> No.2953428

Dean Moriarty

>> No.2953430

Quentin Compson.

Because like, Have you ever even had a sister man?

>> No.2953441

Atticus Finch

>> No.2953444

>>2953430
>>2953384

These.

Also,

Alexei Karamazov
Jesus Christ
Charlie Gordon

>> No.2953449

The prince Mychkine from the Idiot (to add to this thread Dostoievskian flavour).
Joseph Knetch from the Game of the Pearl Beads by Hesse.
Don Rodrigue de Bivar, aka Le Cid in Corneille eponymous play.
Tom and Mum Joad in Grapes of Wrath.
Brutus in Shakespeare 's Jules Cesar.

>> No.2953460

>>2953428
god i hate him. in every account i've read, neal cassady just comes across as a cunt.

>> No.2953469

Emil from Demian. Maybe Maskull from Voyage to Arcturus although he's a bit of a nut.

>> No.2953499

Henry Chinaski the alter ego of writer Charles Bukowski.

A legend.

>> No.2953545

Yossarian
Atticus Finch
Tom Joad
Billy Pilgrim (almost any vonnegut book ever)
et cetera