Basically title. Mental illness, plain stupidity, all that good stuff.
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Books with retarded protagonists?
Basically title. Mental illness, plain stupidity, all that good stuff.
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confederacy of dunces, infinite jest has a couple moronic people in it
Catcher in the Rye is a famous one.
Hunger by Hamsun
Pan by Knut Hamsun. Actually every Knut Hamsun book.
he could fold you up and put you into his pocket
The Bible
moronic? i don't know about moronic but The Idiot has a heavily autistic protagonist
uhh, I guess?
The homie in Dostojevskis the double was so moronic I genuinely couldn't finish it
That's just your average government worker in 19th century Russia
I realized this when I stated crime and punishment and got to the prostitute daughter part.
Depressed alcoholics are everywhere, not just in Russia.
My diary
50 shades of grey
The Sound and The Fury
this is the crowning israeliteel of moronlit, good choice anon
Flowers for Algernon.
He's literally me. Also, he rapes his sister, not Phoebe
>Flowers for Algernon.
i always wondered, is this related to Algernon and the Loaded Gun by Hillaire Belloc
Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
any politician biography
Sounds miserable
I would add any personal growth book with biography
i had to read The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime for 9th grade english class its written from the perspective of an autistic child
should be familiar ground for this board
based satan and me too, do you live in tennessee?
Colin Wilson, The Outsider
it's a promising theme. I think a lot of my short stories are entirely about mentally moronic people. Isn't that every book, really? The reader is the protagonist and is dumb, then vicariously learns lessons through the book.
But I know what you mean, it's funny.
Blood meridian
Whats that palaniuk story about all the kids in this school turning themselves moronic to skip out on their misery
Anyone remember the chapter in moby dick that described the blacksmith? Its the exactly perfect description of an NPC
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
One review with spoilers summarizes the protagonist's stupidity. Despite her flaws it's an enjoyable read.
> The real villain of the story is Caroline, who killed trillions of people just because she was feeling moody, even when she knew she could just get rid of her sense of ennui and meaninglessness by simply asking Prime Intellect, but her intense pride wouldn’t let her. The book never once shows that others are as depressed as Caroline. Most people seem to have adapted quite well, and most seem happy, as they should! It takes impressive feats of mental gymnastics to conclude that absolute freedom from hunger, anxiety, and pain would make people less happy. Caroline didn’t adapt because she is old and proud, not because she is a smarter, deeper philosopher. She is a hypocritical genocidal bastard.
The book was very well written and in many ways very interesting and thought provoking, but I just couldn’t get through the moronic ethics and stupid primitivism moral. This whole book is a 200 word example of the naturalistic fallacy. The world created by Prime Intellect was perfect, and it was ruined by two egomaniacal genocidal bastards, who doomed the human species to millennia of incestuous, primitive savagery.
It's been years but I don't think this is an unintended reading
Maybe not. But it would be strange to condemn both caroline and the culture that created the prime intellect.
I don't remember if it did that but that wouldn't be strange either
The protagonist in Of Mice and Men has a moron companion who he murders at the end
>what pussy does to a mf
?????
Winston's romance with Julia doomed both of them
Stoner
The Sound and the Fury
Mein Kampf
Disrespecting my lord and savior will not be tolerated!
what are u goin to do about it m8?
Letters from Underground
Glamorama has a protagonist that I think is genuinely meant to be moronic, or at least autistic
Forrest Gump
The main protagonist is quite autistic.
Adrian Mole
>Books with moronic protagonists?
The Bible
Don Quixote
Alonso Quijano was literate in an era in which most of his countrymen couldn't read.
Candide
——— BASED moronS IN LITERATURE — FIRST-PERSON NARRATIVE
>Benjy Compson (The Sound and the Fury — Faulkner)
Maybe he's only one of several protagonists, but he's centre stage for 75 pages. And Benjy knows what's important in life, viz. Caddy smells like YES BENJY WE KNOW
>Charley Gordon (Flowers for Algernon — Keyes)
"I dont think I passd the RAW SHOCK TEST"
>Jack Isidore (Confessions of a Crap Artist — P.K.Dick)
A rare non-sci-fi PKD novel. Jack is a lame conspiracy theorist & amusingly clueless about all the conspiracies right under his nose (spoiler alert: his sister is a psycho b***h, like all PKD women).
>Forest Gump (Forest Gump — Groom)
I haven't read this, but it might not be terrible, I suppose.
>Chief Bromden (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest — Kesey)
I guess technically he should be in the "based morons who aren't really morons at all" category, but we don't have that category, so here he is. Also you could claim he isn't the protagonist. Never mind. Book > film.
——— BASED moronS IN LITERATURE — THIRD-PERSON NARRATIVE
>Barnaby (Barnaby Rudge — Dickens)
You're not going to read this, but if you did, you'd get a happy ending plus based Grip the raven as a bonus. Eric Clapton chose it on Desert Island Discs, for some reason.
>Lok (The Inheritors — Golding)
Maybe not technically a moron, but he's not the sharpest Neanderthal in the box. So there's plenty of dramatic irony, which is the essence of the moron protagonist experience.
>Chance (Being There — Kosinski)
If you haven't seen the film, he's a simpleton who gets seized upon by the smart circuit as a fountain of deep wisdom.
——— BASED moronS — SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
>Sancho Panza (Don Quixote — Cervantes)
Not sure he's strictly moronic. Sometimes he even shows flashes of low cunning. But he unironically venerates DQ's wisdom, so you have to wonder.
>Stevie (The Secret Agent — Conrad)
moron spends all day drawing circles on bits of paper; it doesn't end well.
>Lenny (Of Mice and Men — Steinbeck)
Everyone's favourite thot-patroller.
>The White Knight (Alice Through The Looking Glass — Carroll)
'...He was dressed in tin armour, which seemed to fit him very badly, and he had a queer-shaped little deal box fastened across his shoulder, upside-down, and with the lid hanging open. Alice looked at it with great curiosity.
“I see you’re admiring my little box.” the Knight said in a friendly tone. “It’s my own invention — to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain can’t get in.”
“But the things can get out,” Alice gently remarked. “Do you know the lid’s open?” '