I want to read a book in the pov of a social outcast or an autist, like me. Preferably someone who is a young adult/college age in the modern world.
Any good books you recommend?
do u guys not read books?
The Book of Disquiet
No Longer Human
>>37115157
Crime and Punishment or Notes from Underground are both books that fit the bill.
when you recommend a book, could you give a small synopsis of it?
>>37115157
Additionally, you could also read No Longer Human.
>>37115543
these are very old books!
Try anything by Murakami, usually his protagonists are weird loner types
>>37115527
Normie here, /r9k/ does not read any books at all, they are all retarded and only sit around watching anime/playing videogames and shitting themselves.
>>37115593
any american books? I feel like I need the protagonist to be in a culture I understand
>>37115157
Adam Lanza's (autism personified) archived posts on a forum. Not a book but I think you'll find it pretty interesting.
https://adamlanzasmigglesfiles.wordpress.com
>>37115157
There are 2 you dumb little cocksucker
1. The Mudge Boy
2. Broke Back Mountain
Now both of these are on film and you can easily find it on the net to watch, before you start being the judgemental prick you are give it a chance
>>37115636
Just write a fucking diary entry you picky dweeb
>>37115636
Try this one called Supersize Me. It's about fast food so you will love it :)
>>37115538
>>37115543
Good recommendations, robots.
>>37115593
Murakami is enormously overrated. Other Japanese authors do the misunderstood loner character far better - Osamu Dazai for instance.
>>37115157
recommended this on here before, read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
about a highish functioning autistic kid, narrated from his point of view
I'll always remember it because he has this recurring happy dream (one of the only times he feels happy), where a virus kills all people who can read facial expressions and he is free to be alone with his hobbies.
Also No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai is awesome. About a guy who can fake a personality but at the core can't understand humanity and suffers constantly from the need to fit in and appease other people.
If you're ok with reading about a woman, the Bell Jar is horrifyingly depressing. You can see the whole stacy thing at times, but it's made up for by the fact that sylvia plath was mentally sick af, couldn't feel emotions or write anymore from depression etc.
haven't finished it yet, but the light novel Welcome to the NHK is about a NEET in japan and also gives bad (good) feels
[all books' protagonists are teenage/young adult]
>>37115157
The Mudge Boy go watch that you faggot cuck, its about a kid who lives with a usive dad no friends and wears his dead mothers clothes, he sticks chickens in his mouth sucks his friends cockmeat and then gets beat up by him, he is always bullied and picked on he is a true robot
>>37115677
BrokenBack Mountain they are not robots just hardcore cowboys who are major faggots
>>37115588
They have stood the test of time very well. I've never related to a protagonist more than when reading Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky really gives you a window into the human psyche better than any other author I've read.
>>37115677
Why Broke Back Mountain? I haven't read the book but I've seen the movie. I could empathize and enjoy it, but both characters were in a relationship and had wives/kids. How would that fit OP's description, beyond feeling like they'd be considered outcasts for their sexuality, were they ever actually treated as such since they hid it? Is the book very different?
Excluding the ending.
>>37115707
:c I just want to read a book I can relate to on a personal level!
I am American, slightly autistic and definitely a social outcast.
Brave New World
Origanoo
I really felt like I could relate to the character in The Stranger except for the fact that he was a fucking normie
>>37115874
The book is more long drawn out, it fits bec both the men were betas they had wife and kid but were forced by normies to hide their homosex lust, they were also loners
>>37115869
You should also read The Double, the protagonist is a complete robot. Dostoevsky understood us better than our contemporaries.
Suttree is about a guy in the 50's who lives in a houseboat in Knoxville, TN. He's emotionally detached from everyone around him and all he ever does is just bumble around town and the country. It's good because it communicates the feelings with such depth and authenticity. The prose is very dense though so bring a dictionary. Be prepared for 500 pages of feels.
>>37115157
There was a book I read in high school about a nerd loser kid who was forced into a year of community service for writing graffiti on the school or some shit. It makes him /fit/ and Stacy falls for him or something and he joins the football team. It was a shit book and I don't remember the name of it.
>>37115677
What the fuck is mudge boy?
>>37115157
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>>37115157
The main character of The Raw Youth by Dostoevsky is straight up an r9k poster.
>>37115943
That sounds very similiar to Maid in Manhatten anon
>>37115943
I'm kind of interested. Anyone know the name of this book?
>>37115527
>not just waiting for the movie
>implying if a book is good if its theres no movie of it
i might do an audiobook, but even that is pushing it
>>37115930
I'll look into it. He was the proto-robot for sure. His books are by a robot, for robots.
>>37115157
Just read about Billy the Kid, you are to much of a young faggot to even know about him but he was a robot and used the gun to get revenge
>>37115948
Just google mudge boy its 110% robot kid
>>37115157
"Extension du domaine de la lutte" / "Whatever" by Houellebecq should be interesting to you, OP.
>>37115943
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>>37115986
Somehow I know exactly what you're talking about. The book is called Twisted, it's a young adult novel and I hated it.
Extension of the domain of the struggle by Michel Houellebecq (This is one you want, I've rec'd it to a few robots and have heard back about how much they dug it)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Voyage to the End of the Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine
>>37115157
It's not modern (1920s) and I'm sure you've probably read it, but Catcher in the Rye sort of fits.
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle fits better. The main character isn't a young adult and he's terribly disfigured, but there are long stretches talking about his teenage experiences where I knew that feel.
>>37116018
I can't find the mudge boy book
>>37115157
A Confederacy of Dunces. Best robotcore book
>>37116072
The Stranger is not a fucking social outcast or robot. The guy in the book was a fucking normie who got laid regularly
>>37116110
Same here, it appears to be exclusivity a movie
>>37116124
Stranger is one of my favorites.
I think it counts because he was an emotional outcast, but sort of still normie because he had friends and had sex.
>>37116124
Here, Anon. I drew this for you.
>>37116060
Yep, that's it. The way it's written feels like it's specifically for a failed normie, so some of you here might enjoy it I guess.
>>37116079
'Catcher In The Rye'
and Ayn Rand's novel 'Anthem'
>>37116110
>>37116166
Thought it was a book watch the movie though I'm sure he killed himself cant remember the ending not the anon that posted it
>>37115157
Try some Kafka.
Metamorphosis or Amerika are good for starters.
>>37115854
Ok The Mudge Boy is a weird movie about a autistic kid, pretty sure its notna book my mom made me watch it with her when Inwas 17 and I wonder if she was trying to say I'm gay and "come out" but I am straight it fucked me up for sure
>>37116110
I think the mudge boy was a movie only thing it came out early 2000s?
>>37115854
>>37115948
>>37116018
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>>37116110
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>>37116388
"Ignored by his father, Edgar (Richard Jenkins), ostracized by the local children and torn apart by the recent death of his mother, young teen Duncan Mudge (Emile Hirsch) begins behaving strangely. At first, he seeks comfort in the company of his pet chicken, and later he begins dressing in his late mother's clothing. When Mudge finds himself attracted to a local boy named Perry (Thomas Guiry), he has no one to help him understand his burgeoning homosexuality."
This sounds gay as fuck
>>37115157
Just In Case wasn't so bad. the protagonist is some kid that becomes an outcast and deals with depression and shit. He goes fucking mental at one point. Read that shit.
>>37116442
Seems like half of all robots have homosex issues
>>37116442
Maybe OP needs to watch this movie find out who he is (she)