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what are some books like pic related. ones with horrible main characters, not in a lolita-esque sense, more just ones where they're just terrible human beings. emphasis on prose preferred. i want a book to really make me hate myself
Less Than Zero
all of jonathan franzen's characters are terrible people
purity is filled with abusive relationships, you'd love it.
>>7828721
Trainspotting
how is the main charakter horrible? he did not seem particularly horrible to me...
or are you operating on le wrong generation degeneracy meme
>>7828899
i just meant something with similar 21st century themes, probably should've been more specific
>>7828738
sounds great, thanks for the recc
>tfw you actually did the shit in this book describes
I know it's consider shit. But I really enjoyed the book tao nailed it on how I spend my pathetic life. but atleast he gets girls frequently for me it's just once a year I get in a intense toxic relationship that just fades away in a month
>>7828721
The Slap by that Greek Australian dude.
all edgy alt lit Boyle, Gonzalez, Butler, Cicero, all the same self-loathing misanthropic over-analyzing cunts...but i love 'em for it
>>7829878
who's the semon demon
>>7828721
All jokes, memes, and insincerity aside, The Tunnel is what you are looking for.
>>7828936
confederacy of dunces
notes from the underground
>>7828721
god damn please ignore everybody in this thread
Leaving the Atocha Station
Madame Bovary
Hunger
Carver's characters
>>7829878
Is this you anon? Are you this strange looking qt?
>>7828721
go to bed tao
>>7830755
it's a dude
>>7830489
Sabato?
>>7831888
though seriously
>>7833036
sent
XD
>>7832965
No, dingleberry--Gass.
>>7828721
Taipei is a modernist novel through and through. If you liked it, consider reading other modernists such as:
Marcel Proust
Ernest Hemingway
Knut Hamsun
Kate Chopin
Chopin I would say is severely underrated. The Awakening is kind of like Taipei exceptthe main character actually commits suicideas opposed to other modernists in which the main character just considers about it.
>>7828721
While it says nothing of his qualities as a human being at several points in the book I got quite a few laughs out of Paul's autistic shenanigans.
