What is your “Bladerunner Pale Fire”?

[Anonymous No.16148826]

What is that book that describes you so well, and you love so much, that it could be your only book you own and characterize you so well? And why?

Mine might be Kafka’s Metamorphosis because I feel like people view me as just my job or the income I provide them, and whenever I want to deviate from that I am treated like a fucking vermin

[Anonymous No.16148879]

my diary desu

[Anonymous No.16148904]

>>16148826
Regretfully, I am not sure if I have found my own Pale Fire yet. It's a good question to think about, but basically all of my favourite books have at least one glaring factor in them that makes me conclude I can't properly be defined by it.

Siddhartha is the one that comes closest, but it still feels like a bad choice for me given how little of my life actually revolves around anything remotely spiritual.

Good thread.

[Anonymous No.16148908]

infinite jest desu

[Anonymous No.16148916]

>>16148826
>>16148904
More recently I really enjoyed The Trial by Kafka, the first I've read from him. I could relate to Josef K. in so many ways. I feel so confused by how "accepted" the world's bureaucracy is. I feel like a fucking alien for even thinking twice about it.

[Anonymous No.16148955]

>>16148904
I know exactly what you mean and I almost said Siddhartha. I imagine many /lit/izens can relate to a philosophical journey to find wisdom, as people who read literature constantly.

I also almost said In Search of Lost Time but I figured it was unfair because literally every living human being can relate to that book to an absurd degree.

[Anonymous No.16148959]

I don't have one, but I'll pin this thread. Interesting discussion.

[Anonymous No.16148962]

>>16148916
I also almost said Infinite Jest because I find myself doing self destructive behavior to cope with my place in my absurdly commercialized life. Plus the addiction stuff hit really hard but for my junk food binging/semi-addiction.

[Anonymous No.16148974]

Book of Disquiet

[Anonymous No.16148976]

The Time Traveler's Wife

[Anonymous No.16148978]

>>16148916
I feel like a lot of people in today’s society would relate to a Kafka work. His shit hit really hard when I first read it because I was trying to cope with my wageslave life

[Anonymous No.16149081]

>>16148826
It's actually Pale Fire.

[Anonymous No.16149447]

I find a lot of sections of infinite jest discomforting to read because of how strongly they resonate, so maybe that. Maybe skagboys, maybe F451. But I’m a brainlet so don’t listen to me.

[Anonymous No.16149461]

It would be so hot if he put that cigarette out right into her tummy

[Anonymous No.16149579]

Area X by Jeff Vandermeer it's a fucking weird book but I feel like its whole discordant disconnection from nature theme I heavily relate to

[Anonymous No.16149603]

>>16148826
Pic related

[Anonymous No.16150796]

>>16148826
Lolita, except for the bullshit in the beginning of having a lost childhood love that forms his obsession.

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[Anonymous No.16152905]

most things by Dostoyevsky. Probably Brothers Karamazov, or Dream of a Ridiculous Man

[Anonymous No.16152911]

>He's just like me!

[Anonymous No.16152914]

>>16152905
Why

[Anonymous No.16153114]

This is the one for me. Even though it's kind of a Doomer book since he offs himself, I feel like his frustration from the inability to satisfy himself is relatable to me.

[Anonymous No.16153142]

>>16148826
And blood-black nothingness began to spin
A system of cells interlinked within
Cells interlinked within cells interlinked
Within one stem. And dreadfully distinct
Against the dark, a tall white fountain played.

[Anonymous No.16153216]

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

[Anonymous No.16153229]

>>16148826
Henry IV, Part I

[Anonymous No.16153549]

>>16148826
The character Hurstwood from the book Sister Carrie. But, you faggots probably never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.16153772]

>>16148826
Unironically Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.16153938]

[Anonymous No.16153996]

>>16148826
I feel like Mattis.

[Anonymous No.16154390]

For me its the protagonist from extension of the domain of struggle. I think its whatever in english

[Anonymous No.16154595]

>>16151591
Likewise.

[Anonymous No.16154623]

>>16154390
Raphael or main character ?

[Anonymous No.16154742]

>>16148826
In Search of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.16154946]

Notes From The Underground
Except I didn't pay for the whores.

[Anonymous No.16155021]

I havent read enough books more than once.

[Anonymous No.16155699]

>>16153549
People in this thread are midwits not to appreciate Sister Carrie.

[Anonymous No.16155780]

Stoner. I'm sill young but I cannot see my life deviating from that.

[Anonymous No.16155799]

>>16155780
Do you have a psycho wife who you rape?

[Anonymous No.16155800]

>>16148826
Mein Kampf
t. Here from /pol

[Anonymous No.16155874]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas unironically just cause it's funny and well written and it makes me laugh. Have come to grips with society being nightmarish and all the heavy stuff and just would pick something that reflects the world so cartoonishly that every detail is funny. Don't care if it's a pleb choice, shit makes me smile.

[Anonymous No.16156675]

Richard III hits the target now. I have been frustrated by life for as long as I can remember. I understand the illusion of other people's happiness, but even still that doesn't balance the scales. Other people in my life are touched by a silent grace I have never seen in myself. It is deeper than my parents or money.
I have felt luckier in my adulthood. Life is still a deep mess. I need to fill my days with constant tasks to feel alive. I have to trudge.
I have adopted this revenge-success-resentment stance in adulthood. Scheming gets me off, so does taking risks. I see little young man victories in my life. Going out in the world and taking risks, succeeding under pressure, makes me more than a worm but less than a lion.

[Anonymous No.16156693]

>>16155874
Nothing too cartoonish about that. Mine is a cross between Leaving Las Vegas and Sideways, because I fell in love with a girl from Buellton but am a horrible drunk who is probably going to end his life by drinking himself to death.

[Anonymous No.16156897]

>>16154623
The main guy (narrator) not the incel. I just felt the his thought process was similar to my own

[Anonymous No.16157058]

Of Mice and Men really nails down the sense of loneliness that permeates my life, as well as my desire to overall escape the hustle of drone-like work in society; I just want to carve myself a little plot of dirt to call my own so I can live out the rest of my days peacefully.

[Anonymous No.16157068]

>>16153772
Could you expand on that?

[Anonymous No.16157166]

well I don't love it but A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the correct answer.

[Anonymous No.16157413]

a clockwork orange

[Anonymous No.16157420]

>>16148826
Confederacy of Dunces, unironically.

[Anonymous No.16157837]

I was going to say In search of Lost Time too, I have NEVER read a book so clearly about me as when I read that.

[Anonymous No.16157861]

>>16148826
Portrait of the Artist maybe? I'm probably projecting a little bit but being from Ireland, having a family financial situation somewhat like Joyce's and a desire to become an artist, I related to Stephen Dedalus to a huge degree. Also thinking of fucking off and emigrating when I finish my degree

[Anonymous No.16158454]

I don't love the book, but it would be 'Beneath the Wheel' by Hesse.
Young man goes to an academic institution with high prestige due to the pressure of his teachers and father. He had to learn a lot and spend his leisure time learning. There it made him hate learning and miss his rare leisure time, his happy childhood.
He drops out due to bad grades, starts an apprenticeship with less prestige. He kills himself in the end, lacking the will and good things in life.

[Anonymous No.16158580]

bump

[Anonymous No.16158846]

Steppenwolf

[Anonymous No.16158870]

>>16153772
Same. Fucking love Finnegans Wake. I could read it forever

[Anonymous No.16159281]

>>16148826
The Cossacks by Tolstoy. I feel like a visitor observing the villagers, blessed to take part in their observances, cursed to never be one of them.

[Anonymous No.16159329]

>>16148826
I never laughed so hard at the end of a story
>turns out his family never really liked or agreed with any of the decisions he made
>thought his job was nonsensical/useless
>disliked the apartment he chose for them
>would much rather just leave that (and him) all behind and focus on their daughter and how she is beautiful and full of life, full of promise.
Fucking hilarious. And the ending of the Trial got me too
>”Like a dog!”

[Anonymous No.16159503]

>>16159329
Hard to believe he wrote that book entirely out of spite after someone called him a "loutish Jew" at a bank once

[Anonymous No.16159536]

>>16159503
>I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
It’s not hard at all. Gass said hate was the best part of him, that he often wrote to get even.

[Anonymous No.16159552]

>>16148826
Oblomov
Incredibly lazy and a bit of a coward but content

[Anonymous No.16159773]

>>16148826
Nice post, anon. Maybe you should embrace your inner vermin.

[Anonymous No.16159836]

>>16157058
What's the style of art on the cover? I hate it.

[Anonymous No.16160593]

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

[Anonymous No.16161375]

Up

[Anonymous No.16161735]

>>16148826
>I feel like people view me as just my job or the income I provide them
that's all any man is worth

[Anonymous No.16162235]

Pic related
Basically how I feel my life to be