ITT: Books featuring relatable main characters
>>7957724
The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
lolita is a dumb child so i can see how it'd be relateable to retards like you.
Dodo in Middlemarch comes to mind.
>>7957735
lol
The underground man to be honest
>>7957735
>Lolita
>A dumb child
Did you even read the book
All Franzen hate aside, he's quite good at creating believable, empathy-deserving characters.
>>7957751
Came here to post this.
>>7957762
do i have to be a straight white male to read franzen? is there anything of value or does he just write about how difficult it is for suburban straight white males?
>>7957771
>do i have to be a straight white male to read franzen?
Yes.
>does he just write about how difficult it is for suburban straight white males?
Mostly, but (actual spoiler incoming)The Corrections features a bombshell lesbian.
>>7957735
this posr triggers me
Perfectly describes everyone on /lit/, excluding myself.
>>7957910
You won't be laughing any more when I shoot your brains out, cunts..
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
The Trial
The Fountainhead
The Stranger
The Fall
>>7957902
>excluding myself
I get it
catcher in the rye
but i can see how it might only be relatable to me and not the rest of /lit/
>>7957902
Quite cheeky banter old chap.
The Bourne Identity
This Side of Paradise minus the rich and smart ivy league stuff.
Basically Im a drifting romantic that thinks hes better than everyone else, feels entitled and that hes too good to work
Also very attractive
That feel when Stephen Dedalus
>>7959959
that feel when you get pushed into slimy water
>>7957724
I think we can all relate.
Oblomov
>>7959982
this
>>7959949
pics
>>7957771
>he's not a straight white male
>>7960010
Are we talking about Sensei or the narrator?
>>7957724
Not even joking.
>>7959966
Lel. Wells is a b0ss, son. Also I would have peached on him till I turned blue in the face.
>>7957771
God forbid you actually expand your horizons a little.
>>7957902
THISSO THIS
>>7961471
trying to expand one's horizons with the most basic and saturated pov seems like a fool's errand.
>>7961343
You're gay?
>>7961343
>Cuck Palahniuk.
For me it's Patrick Bateman - intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
>>7961878
Operator, please bless Mr. Halbertram here with dubs in all his endeavors.
>>7962479
mein nigor
came to post this
not even joking
>>7959949
>tfw you have actually argued on the point of communism just because others were talking about how it's bad
Had a big smirk when I got to that part in the book t b h f a m
Yeah, you're a multilingual ridiculously handsome scholar who tries to justify his pedophilia by blaming it on some inertia over a dead teenage girl. Faggot.