No whining, no hesitating, quick to take action. Lying, stealing and killing people without any moral restraints. Are there any literary characters that fit the bill?
Basically, I'm looking for well-written edgelord psychopath characters. No emotional bullshit, just doing whatever it takes to save their own skin.
Books with ruthless protagonist
A clockwork Orange
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Bible
I recommend the Bible
American Psycho
The filthiest love story has yet to be written
yep, Bateman is about as ruthless as it gets.
Crime and Punishment.
wrong
The count of montecristo kinda
Survivor by palahniuk
Artemis Fowl, though I'm personally not a fan
Read Maupassant. All of his characters are like that. He's also probably the most underrated author, basically (along with Poe) invented the short story, and has written like 400 short stories. He only has like 3 or 4 novels though, but they're all good. is pic related from the movie version of Bel Ami? that's probly his best novel
american psycho ofcourse.
besides that i have no idea.
battle royale has some ruthless characters in it, pretty cool.
Some other books of bret easton ellis also have some fuckedup characters in it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Elmer Gantry
that one lady in East of Eden
Quran
Wuthering heights
Jesus, what a cover for 19th century novel. (Which I love. But he
kind of doubts himself sometimes).
Nightmare Alley
Probably Henry in Secret History.
Half of that is what OP would describe as emotional bullshit
My diary
Demons
Blood Meridian
What edition would you recomend? I never heard of A Hero Of Our time before, but based on the Wikipedia page it looks promising.
Project gutenberg has it for free
This board will probably insist on spending the money for Nabokov’s translation
Jason Compson, the third narrator of The Sound and The Fury is ruthless (not psychopathic)
I'm a paperback kind of user, but thank you.
Are the books different? In the movie he sounded like an emotionally disturbed guy.
Wuthering Heights
Jules in A Fairly Honorable Defeat by Iris Murdoch fits the bill.
Unfortunately cannot recomend anything, I only read the original.
Is this good?