Books where the protagonist says, "fuck it" and breaks the normality of the societal grind to live free? Similar to pic related or something in the vein of Breaking Bad (but with less of an edginess maybe?).
Thanks in advance family
Jumanji the book
>>7419092
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
what a faggy post
you could read walt whitman i guess
probably on the road and junky
>>7419092
Everything Hesse wrote, just not as "edgy" for the most part. Though in Narcissus and Goldmund, Goldmund fucks around a bit.
>>7419092
The Dice Man
>>7419092
I was about to recommend you the entirety of the genre of transgressive fiction but you want something not edgy so I'd go with...Into the Wild.
>>7419092
Steppenwolf.
Krakauer is a fucking faggot, so be wary when someone inevitably recommends you Into the Wild.
Into the Wild
>>7419099
Did you just recommend me a 32 page long picture book
>>7419100
Sounds pleasant.
>>7419106
What's faggy is that I've already read your recommendations.
>>7419107
>>7419131
I've only read Siddhartha, so I will check these out for sure. Steppenwolf gets discussed a lot I've noticed.
>>7419110
Well there we go. I knew there was a name for it. I am looking more along the lines of what I described in the OP though, the entire genre covers quite a bit more. Thanks. Haven't read Into the Wild yet either. >>7419144 Why
>>7419108
The synopsis sounds sort of iffy, but the praise for this looks to be high. I might check it out.
Been looking for the same thing OP. The only things I can slightly recommend is
Lolita (basically says fuck it I'm fucking my step daughter on a cross country road trip)
Peace like a river (a family basically drops out of life to follow and find their son/brother who breaks free from jail after he is wrongly convicted for murder)
Catcher in the rye
Again not exactly what you asked for but their semi close enough.
P.s. I think the electric kool aid acid test might be worth the read
>>7419092
Mein Kampf
Vineland
Walden is the philosophy of that.
>>7419193
I would have been at least ambivalent about the subject of the book if Krakauer didn't try to shove his opinions down my throat while waxing romantic about his own adventures, like some sort of old man talking about how he used to be young too for the second half of the book. The story is thought provoking, but holy shit I can't stand the writing.
