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Are there any books where the narrator suffers from a gradual
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Are there any books where the narrator suffers from a gradual mental deterioration to the point that they're no longer coherent by the end of the book?

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>>7574977
my diary desu
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>>7574977
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick is the perfect example of this. If that's what you're looking for you'll love it
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>>7575007
Isn't Darkly in the third person?
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>>7575007

OP here, thank you I'll check it out!
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>>7575010
Shit I think you're right, scratch that then...even still you see the protagonist through a fucked up lens as gradually goes insane
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>>7575022

I'll still put it on my reading list. Thanks again.
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>>7575025
No problem, if you read it I hope you like it. It's definitely a unique book
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>>7574977
Flowers for Algernon, the novel, the short story.
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Not really what you asked for bit youd probably like House of Leaves and Rats in the Walls by Lovecraft
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>>7575001
first time I've laughed at that joke
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this babes
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>>7574977

Not a book, but The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Actually, part of Infinite Jest, although it's such a small slice of such a huge book that it's probably not what you're looking for.
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>>7575064
came to say this
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>>7574977
The diary of Anne Frank.
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>>7574977
Have you already read As I Lay Dying? Cause it sounds like maybe you just did and you liked Darl's narrative arc.
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>>7575123
which part of IJ? i don't recall anything like that
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>>7575064
Tard's drugs stop working... just ruined it for everyone... now fuck off with that kiddie shit.
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>>7574977

Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss
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>>7575209

Thanks for all the suggestions, friends. Have a (You)

>>7575144
Yes!
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