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What is a book about a man who is bored of what he is doing,
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What is a book about a man who is bored of what he is doing, and daily routine life, and then fucks his shit up?


Like goes off the grid or something
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>>7416613
Like C&P?
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American Psycho
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Fight club, maybe, kind of
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The Mummy
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Just watch Breaking Bad, American Beauty, Falling Down, God Bless America. Movies and TV are a better medium for those kinds of stories.
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>>7416639
EDIT: Unless you're reading Houellebecq
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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
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I just read The Sorrows of Young Werther, and that's basically what it's about.
Free spirited guy moves out into the country, falls in love, bad things happen.
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>>7416613
The Stranger
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Paradise Lost
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The Ax by Donald Westlake
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City of Glass
Laughter in the Dark
thought I had more but lost my train of thought
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The Dice Man?
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>>7416613
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>>7416613
Rabbit, run. By john updike
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>>7416628
Kind of at best
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Brendon Frasier Biography
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Also Spracht Zarathustra
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>>7416613
Walden - Thoreau
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>>7416613
Does this style have a name?
Suburban Man Loses It.
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Into the Wild
On the Road
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>>7416613
Count of monte cristo, in a way.
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>>7416613
Roadwork - Stephen King
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>>7416613
The Shining in a way
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Frankenstein
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>>7417775
Did you even read Monte Cristo?
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>>7416613
anything by kafka?
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>>7416613

something happened - joseph heller
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>>7416613
la metamorfosis by kafka
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>>7416613
My guess would be around 20 % of all fiction having exactly that theme or a slightly related theme. So just read five random books.
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