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Anonymous Thu Apr 23 01:48:54 2015 No.6442378 [Reply] [Original]

I like stories about loners, rebels, misanthropes, people isolated from society, clearly exceptional and possibly more intelligent than those around them but largely going unnoticed. What are some good books with those kind of characters? I've read basic stuff like The Stranger (it's okay) and know Dostoevsky is good for this sort of thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 01:53:27 2015 No.6442391 >rebels, misanthropes >possibly more intelligent than those around them Confederacy of Dunces.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 02:52:59 2015 No.6442549 The God Delusion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 02:55:19 2015 No.6442557 Bukowski

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 03:24:41 2015 No.6442625 Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf. Gustav Meyrink, The Golem

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>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 03:36:16 2015 No.6442659 I suppose Catcher in the Rye sort of qualifies, though I despised Holden Caulfield the whole time.

Anonymous Thu Apr 23 04:01:38 2015 No.6442711

>>6442378
L'Etranger - Camus
The sailor who feel from grace with the sea - Mishima
Hesse has been mentioned but narcissus and goldmund is my favourite - beneath the wheel is really good too
Also sprach Zarathustra qualifies to an extent as well I guess
Notes from the underground - Dostoevsky
The outsider - Colin Wilson
DH Lawrence wrote some beautiful short stories on this theme.
Jean Jacques Rousseau's confessions counts too (tenuously)

That's all I've got off the top of my head.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 04:04:22 2015 No.6442715 >>6442378 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Scott Furhman

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 06:34:06 2015 No.6442955 Celine

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 11:45:11 2015 No.6443590 The Perks of Being a Wallflower

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 12:28:26 2015 No.6443681 Don't tell me you think you see something of yourself in those characters

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 13:20:19 2015 No.6443880 Heinrich Böll - The Clown

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 13:22:51 2015 No.6443891 Pretty much anything John Hawkes ever wrote.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 13:23:53 2015 No.6443897 >>6442391 that's a good one too

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 19:23:15 2015 No.6445318 >>6442378 Molloy by Samuel Beckett

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 04:18:52 2015 No.6447236 File: 112 KB, 600x893, 0440539811.01.S001.LXXXXXXX.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6442378 There's this guy called Markoff Chaney

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 13:58:40 2015 No.6448906 war and war

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 14:04:17 2015 No.6448922 Suttree The Day of the Locust

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 14:08:34 2015 No.6448935 >>6447236 top book. rereading it now for the third or fourth time. george just got to hagbard's submarine :^)

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 14:14:29 2015 No.6448958

>>6442625
>>6442711
Seconding all the Hesse works
Actually came to post Steppenwolf, it is most like what you are asking for, Narcissus and Goldmund are also very good and basically fit, too. I would also add his Siddhartha to the list.

Also seconding Notes from Underground

Will also add The Professor and the Madman (or The Surgeon of Crowthorne, depending on where you are) by Simon Winchester. Fantastic nonfiction book about a psycho who was one of the people most responsible for publishing the first Oxford English Dictionary

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 14:17:19 2015 No.6448972 >>6448958 By psycho I mean fucking bat-shit crazy to where he is put in an institute for the criminally insane.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 14:21:40 2015 No.6448980 File: 38 KB, 620x387, santabarbraShootin_2921168b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >no my twisted world you guys didn't mention the best fucking one

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 14:30:20 2015 No.6448997 Pee Wee's Big Adventure I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 14:41:40 2015 No.6449030 >>6448997 I fucking love this movie.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:11:02 2015 No.6450014 American Psycho deals pretty powerfully with alienation, though Bateman isn't smarter than his peers.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:13:37 2015 No.6450029 >>6448980 The Supreme Gentleman was sadly borderline-retarded though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:16:43 2015 No.6450044 >>6442715 That movie is actually awesome. Completely forgot about it. Thanks dude.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:18:20 2015 No.6450050 Hunger Trainspotting The Savage Detectives Another Country Confessions of a Mask

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:20:14 2015 No.6450065 >I like these books because I'm a lone wolf special snowflake who's smarter than the rest of these common humans

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:21:30 2015 No.6450073 The Red and the Black A Hero of Our Time

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:23:30 2015 No.6450078 Tropic of Cancer Ask the Dust

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:24:32 2015 No.6450082 >>6450065 >I'm a lone wolf special snowflake who's smarter than the rest of these common humans Fight Club

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:32:06 2015 No.6450108 >>6450065 But it's true anon, 4chan makes you believe otherwise but because of muh inferiority complex. Chances are that you are already above average of people, and maybe above with people you often speak with

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