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Do you think this had literary merit?

It reads like a New Sincerity Catcher in the Rye to me.

>> No.8525742

>>8525715
not really
the writing was severely unpolished, and the story was pretty boring and repetitive

>> No.8525755

>>8525742
Well it's not like the lad had an editor

>> No.8525760
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>>8525715
No. Just reads like some angsty teenage diary. He didn't have any good reason to kill anyone, his life wasn't really that bad. Plenty of people dealt with more severe isolation and social ostracism, while also being poorer than him. He was emotionally immature, his writing style read like something a middle schooler would write, he offered no insights and showed no real deeper understanding of humanity or social dynamics, despite his lifetime of distantanced observation.

And to top it off, he didn't even kill any "chads" or normies". The people he killed were all likely as lonely as he was. They probably would all have related to him on some level. He lived in a wealthy part of California, I'm sure he could have easily just gone to the beach and found legions of actual hyper-normies he hated so much.

The way I see it, Elliot felt inferior to more popular, good looking, socially active people. He always felt like an outsider, and that he was weaker than them. He felt a mixture of disgust and jealousy towards them. He felt an intense desire for attractive white girls, but also an intense hatred for them. Killing them would have completed the arc, and finally given him power over those he felt so inferior to. It would be one final act of revenge and redemption, a final triumph.

Instead, he carried out his rampage the same way he lived life: like a beta failure. He didn't conquer his fears, he didn't triumph, he gave up because the sorority girls didn't even open the door. He was still too scared of them to actually claim control of the situation. Deep down, he viewed them as untouchable, even to the end.

>> No.8525761

No, the Unabomber manifesto and Richard McBeef were better.

>> No.8525768

>>8525760
>3 chinks
So it's correct that he was just a miserable hapa then?

>> No.8525778

>>8525760
All of this

>> No.8525794

>>8525760
Your description actually shows the merit of the work in my opinion to be honest.

>> No.8525798

>>8525760
>women
>white people
>lonely
1/10
Apply yourself

>> No.8525879

>>8525798
Perhaps not the same intensity, but I'm sure they felt lonely at times, perhaps they felt inferior to more attractive and popular girls.

>> No.8525887

He explores the depths of the human condition, something 99% of writers dream of being able to do.

>> No.8526002

>>8525798
Are you saying all whites are normalitos?

>> No.8526031

>>8526002
If they're born in a majority white country, then yes.

>> No.8526054

http://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/87341171254/dont-become-elliot-rodger

>> No.8526152

My Twisted World is basically Notes From Underground 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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8526364

>>8526002
>Try going six months without a single intimate connection with another human being—you will forget why life is worth living
Are there people who really believe this?

>> No.8526483

>>8526364
Yeah yeah, we get that you're real tough and don't need any bitches to prop you up

>> No.8526489

>>8526364
Who are you quoting?

>> No.8526535

>>8526489
Meant to quote >>8526054

>>8526483
It's 6 months, senpai