Can /lit/ recommend me some more books like this? With a cynical and misanthropic main character who you can sorta sympathize with?
>>8045068
bump
OP here, I'd like to add that these characters should be funny, nihilistic with a wicked sense of humour.
>>8045068
Journey to the End of the Night
>>8045068
Notes from the underground.
Pale Fire
>>8045119
>recommending a Doors song
Jim Morrison isn't misanthropic at all
>>8045264
Oh boy
Filth by Irvine Welsh. Really funny as well. Its about a psychopathic, misanthropic cop who basically fucks everybody's life up through manipulation, sex, and abuse. If you can get past the dialect, which is quite toned down for a Welsh novel, then you will surely enjoy it.also really sad.
>>8045068
Do you guys think American Psycho was good?
>>8045068
my diary
>>8045351
Seen the movie, if the book is even half as good, it's gonna be great
Why is the hardcover so fucking expensive? Why is maintaining a cracked-spine-free zone such a monumental feat?
Americana by DeLillo almost feels like a prequel to American Psycho
>>8045068
All of Ellis's books are canon to each other and they all feature shitheads as the protagonists.
The Demon - Hubert Selby
Seven Days of Peter Crumb - Jonny Glynn
Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Georges Simenon
Sheepshagger - Niall Griffiths
Child Of God - Cormac McCarthy
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Crime and punishment - Dostoievsky
The Perfume - Patrick Suskind
>>8045107
Kek, this guy isn't even OP. But w/e i guess
>>8045665
Kek
>>8045922
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>8045068
The Outsider - HP Lovecraft
The Life Of A Stupid Man - Rynosuke Akutagawa
Notes From Underground - Dostoyevsky (but the narrator is also somewhat unsympathetic)
>>8046301
> Rynosuke Akutagawa
That reminds me...
In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami could also be said to be a part of this genre
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
So what's the skinny on American Psycho? I read it and took Bateman's murders and other actions literally but online people seem to think that it was all a figment of his imagination.
Is that true? Just how much was imagined? Also what was 'This is not an exit' all about at the end?
Eye Scream by Henry Rollins.
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>>8045119
This
>>8045068
Notes from the Underground
Against Nature
No Longer Humananything by Nietzsche
Almost anything by Houellebecq.
