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Anonymous Mon Jul 14 10:30:52 2014 No.5135445 [DELETED]

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>character described in a book has bad personality
>yfw you realize its description of you

Have you ever recognized yourself in a book and didnt like what you saw?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 10:33:44 2014 No.5135455 File: 64 KB, 510x680, idiot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5135445 Just abour every time I read something by any Russian author.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:16:49 2014 No.5135673 bump

>>	Charles Bukkake !!dbC6x/DQFYo Mon Jul 14 12:31:00 2014 No.5135709 >>5135455 Pretty much everyone on this board is the Underground Man.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:33:47 2014 No.5135716 File: 50 KB, 461x700, 1405097182514.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Holden

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:39:16 2014 No.5135734 >tfw you've never found a literary character even remotely relatable to yourself

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:40:56 2014 No.5135742 >>5135734 use 5 adjectives to describe yourself. We will find you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:45:10 2014 No.5135753 >>5135445 Good Old Neon by DFW Feels bad, man

Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:51:03 2014 No.5135765

Gregorovious from Hopscotch

Annoying pseudo intellectual fucker who carries around a suitcase full of books and whose big quest is to fuck some chick. He also has an inferiority complex towards the main character and can't get the girl despite his oh so complete knowledge of literature.

You know he's in you, /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:52:23 2014 No.5135770 The main character in Hero of Our Time is exactly like me, if I had at least 300% more balls.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:54:16 2014 No.5135775 >>5135742 Autistic, witty, clever, handsome, self hating.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:54:44 2014 No.5135777 >>5135709 I found the Underground Man's way of thinking completely alien to me. If I had to compare myself to a Russian lit character, it'd be Oblomov. The Idiot also resonated much more strongly with me than the Underground Man.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 12:57:52 2014 No.5135786 Pretty much any character alienated by society

Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:02:26 2014 No.5135802
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Currently in the middle of The Duel by Chekhov. Ivan Andreich Laevsky really sounds like me. Too smart for manual work, too stupid for intellectual work. Indecisive, self-loathing man who realises his own faults and hopes he can fix his character one day etc.

Hope he gets better by the end. I need hope

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:03:15 2014 No.5135808 Benny Profane

Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:06:03 2014 No.5135821

>>5135802
I haven't read that particular story, but I don't think Chekhov ever wrote anything with a happy ending. His hopes and dreams will be smashed on the floor in front of him and by the end of the story he will either die alone or will wish he was dead. Sorry bro, hope and Chekhov don't go together

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:10:12 2014 No.5135839 The lawyer from THE FALL pretty much summed me up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:12:14 2014 No.5135844 >>5135742 >use 5 adjectives to describe yourself. We will find you. plz start this thread i will contribute i just rly dont feel like starting the thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:17:06 2014 No.5135861 >>5135844 >>5135856

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:27:32 2014 No.5135887 >>5135839 He was supposed to

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 13:29:23 2014 No.5135897 >>5135709 personally, yes i am.

>>	Sebastian Cuello Mon Jul 14 13:30:40 2014 No.5135902 Bernard Marx

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 16:12:53 2014 No.5136511 >>5135445 Notes from the Underground. I actually cried reading that first part. Tough times. Never cried while reading a book ever again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 16:14:08 2014 No.5136517 >>5136511 i've been avoiding that 1

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 16:31:07 2014 No.5136604 >>5136517 It is actually a pretty good emotional exercise, there's a point when it eventually becomes a dialogue with yourself, somehow. Fiódor certainly knows how shit goes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 16:37:18 2014 No.5136638 >>5135445 Oblomov and Notes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 16:40:03 2014 No.5136651 >>5135821 Just finished it. It had actually pretty nice ending.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 16:47:58 2014 No.5136698 >>5135445 Not a book, but Evangelion actually. It really opened my eyes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 17:33:54 2014 No.5136920 File: 2 KB, 124x87, ௵.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5135445 >>5135445 >main character of Super Sad True Love Story >desperate loser who like Asians and books >mrw

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 17:37:38 2014 No.5136935 >>5135445 Im basically Zoyd from Vineland.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 17:45:32 2014 No.5136971 File: 267 KB, 403x374, 1370616564613.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5136698 basically /a/´s Holden

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 17:46:54 2014 No.5136978 >>5135775 That's me plus the autism. I recognized myself in plenty of Chekov characters if that can help you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 17:53:11 2014 No.5137005 >Notes from Underground >protag is an autistic retard >it's a feel rollercoaster

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 17:54:56 2014 No.5137016 File: 859 KB, 900x1165, Untitled-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yep.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 17:59:00 2014 No.5137033 Define "bad personality" for me, cause I freely admit that I am an asshole. But I'm a fucking awesome asshole. >Have you ever recognized yourself in a book and didnt like what you saw? No.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 18:00:32 2014 No.5137044 >>5135445 Holden.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 18:06:30 2014 No.5137081 >>5137033 >But I'm a fucking awesome asshole. You sound like delusional kid who has yet to learn his lesson in life. No offense of course, that is what your words are making me picture.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 18:43:50 2014 No.5137261 >>5135753 I know this too well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:13:39 2014 No.5137375 The Damnation of Theron Ware

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:19:01 2014 No.5137393 >>5135802 the story rules it fucking owns. it owns

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:24:18 2014 No.5137424 File: 478 KB, 140x105, 1319751165516.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw I'm Sensei from Kokoro when I'm going through one of my bouts of depression he dies at the end

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:26:01 2014 No.5137434 Wyatt Gwyon or Max von Sydow's character in Hannah and Her Sisters, if I were more intelligent

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:28:26 2014 No.5137445 Enitharmon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:30:01 2014 No.5137453 flannery o'connor based her whole career on this technique

Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:30:20 2014 No.5137457

>>5137434
He has some of the best lines in the film.

>If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up!

His personality is totally overbearing, so I can see why what's-her-face would leave him, but for the short duration of a film, he was interesting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:51:44 2014 No.5137573 I am basically Hal from Infinite Jest. A little eerie how similar.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:57:21 2014 No.5137593 >>5135445 Not a book but I saw myself in Death of a Salesman.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 20:10:28 2014 No.5137639 I strongly resemble Alyosha Karamazov, for better or for worse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 20:35:20 2014 No.5137722 Crime and Punishment, although I haven't killed anybody yet

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 20:49:25 2014 No.5137776 >>5137573 Everyone on this board feels as if they are Hal, just as everyone in high school who read Catcher in the Rye felt like they were Holden. SPIN THE WHEEL.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 20:52:59 2014 No.5137790 >>5137776 >Everyone on this board feels as if they are Hal Nah.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 20:54:06 2014 No.5137795 >>5137722 Lewis - The Monk Lord Dunsany Melmoth the Wanderer McKenzie - Sinister Street

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 20:57:05 2014 No.5137807 >>5137776 Nah I feel like a mixture between Ulrich from Man Without Quality and Oba Yozo from No Longer Human but I know that in reality am Robert Cohn from Fiesta.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 21:48:13 2014 No.5138004 Not book, but Louis CK in Louie.

Anonymous Mon Jul 14 22:01:35 2014 No.5138075

>>5135445
The main character of L'Adversaire by Emmanuel Carrère. Who is actually a real person. He reminded me only of my personality, of course. I don't intend to marry, then kill my wife and all my kids, burn the house down and intentionally fail my own suicide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Romand

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 22:11:39 2014 No.5138128 >>5138004 you should off yourself

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:32:32 2014 No.5139713 File: 47 KB, 322x347, Jimmy-Savile-photographed-in-2007d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] light of my life, fire of my loins.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:37:16 2014 No.5139723 The Misanthrope by Molière

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:40:51 2014 No.5139736 >>5135445 Unfortunately I can relate a surprising lot to that guy in IJ who's anxiously waiting for his dope

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:47:05 2014 No.5139745 >>5135445 Dmitri Olénin in The Cossacks. Peter Keating in The Fountainhead (parts of his character. not all of it) And pretty much every character in The Waves has relateable characteristics for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:50:28 2014 No.5139756 >>5139723 Interesting. For me it must be Philinte.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:53:09 2014 No.5139757 >>5135445 When I was younger I felt exactly like Shinji. Probably because my circumstances were similar.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:54:23 2014 No.5139760 >>5139757 you fight monsters in a giant robot?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:55:35 2014 No.5139762 karl marx from the manifesto of communism

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:56:51 2014 No.5139764 >>5139760 Not at all. I'm talking about absent parents (strong violence included), bad relation with family, socially retarded...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:57:37 2014 No.5139765 >>5139760 You didn't?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 08:35:44 2014 No.5139849 >>5135445 I know a billion other plebs feel this way, but I do think I'm a lot like Camus' Mersault, and it's kinda weird because I know I'd totally hate having to hang around a guy like him. At least its better than being like Sartre's Roquentin, eh?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 08:39:24 2014 No.5139863 >>5137393 What?

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