Does something like this exist in Western literature? An amoral main character with no sympathetic qualities, yet whom you're still supposed to root for?All the examples I can think of a "villain protagonist" either are actually an anti-hero, or you're waiting for his downfall.
Bakkers Prince of Nothing
You've been shilling this shit for YEARS now.
you're describing one i read a few months ago... Beyond Redemption. it was alrightit's a common enough trope. you'd probably know this if you actually read.crazy how a MTL'd webseries flipped the world of literature on its head for you though. i wish i were that fucking stupid
>>25176390>i wish i were that fucking stupidwhy? seems like an odd thing to wish for
>>25176393are you fucking kidding me? read flowers for algernon or something
>>25176394you can't just tell me to read a book on /lit/, anon
>>25176367Against Nature
>>25176398ignorance is bliss. do you not remember being a child? this morning? eating the lucky charms your mom bought? fuck you nigger
>>25176402wow, that was uncalled for
>>25176403sorry i was just kidding
>>25176382This, right down to the cultivation arc and abrupt and disappointing ending.
>another innocent youth insta-mindbroken by a Chinese webnovelWe need to ban them.
Western retards are too stupid to separate works of fiction from their social mores. The bad guy is bad and is not to be rooted for under any circumstances. If you root for the bad guy, you are most probably confused and lacking the media literacy necessary to understand that he is meant to be bad. Otherwise, you must be a bad guy yourself.Unless you give the character a sad backstory. Then he dindu nuffin.
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>>25176469You think you're fucking hilarious
>>25176444ccp already did
>>25176367Pop. 1208 by Jim Thompson
>>25176367No. There is nothing like it in Western literature, even in the East, in China it was banned. It's one of a kind.
>>25176402Most of the redditards on here are ignorant.I don't think you want to be like them
>>25176367>Does something like this exist in Western literature?Western... Wuxia? Yeah. Cradle series.
>>25178199neither is wuxia
>Reverend Insanity isn't Wuxia Okay, dipshit.
>>25178513Yeah, it literally isn't. You should really look up the terms you don't know before trying to use them.
>>25178515Is it primarily about daoist cultivation in a fantasy setting?
>>25178517Yes, which isn't what wuxia means. Stop doubling down when a google search just takes 5 seconds, you stupid fucking retard.
>>25178517It's xianxia. Wuxia is just a shitty chinese drama.
>>25178521No one cares about making the distinction between Wuxia and Xianxia here, Chang. No one here gives a shit.
>>25178530>finally realizes he's wrong>"w-well, no one cares"I didn't expect the apology I deserve for wasting my time, but holy shit. Actual fucking nigger behavior.
>>25178530What do you care about then?
>>25178548You're not a chink and you thought you know the term, is it that hard to believe one doesn't need to be a chink to get it right?
>>25178555You do have to be a chink to care about this shit enough to ensure that it gets posted multiple times a day, every day for the rest of time, yes.
>>25178561not your boyfriend, whatever the fuck you're talking about. Take your meds.
>>25178561Fang Yuan is too based. It would be a crime not to post in your cucked western literature threads every day, to remind you just how based he is.
>>25176367The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance. Quite possibly the funniest book I've ever read and I intend to reread it this year. You don't need to read the previous book to get it, the real appeal is Cugel and the situations he gets into, not the setting. The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad also probably counts. The main character is a genocidal maniac but he's worshipped as a hero within the story. It's a very underrated book that was obviously the inspiration behind the Starship Troopers movie adaption but nobody talks about it. I think Michael Moorcock had some explicit villain protagonists in his books but I haven't read enough by him to say. Elric is pretty unlikable but he does save the universe from time to time.
>>25176367My book, when I finish it.
>>25178689When will that be?
>>25178832never o'clock
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>>25176404If I were you I wouldn't be kidding. Anon needed a thrashing.
The greatest work of the 21st century.
>>25178199Cradle is a parody, it's not a serious xianxia novel.
>>25179545I. Don't. Care.
>>25179736Agreed. Cr*dle is a terrible series. We shouldn't even discuss it.
>>25179545So is Reverend Insanity, though that fact is generally lost on western readers.
>>25179990Currently reading it, have not read other chinkshit, and I think it's hilarious.
>>25179990To be honest, reading any translated Chinese text without at least cursory knowledge of random cultural artifacts is difficult. Every other sentence is an idiom or a reference to an obscure (in the west) piece of classical poetry or literature. Every saying, or even word, has multiple readings which are often intentionally baked in. Most languages have these features, but few use them so often.This is made worse by people who see that RI is popular and read it without knowing anything about Xianxia in general.
>>25178600The ending is so fucking funny, I really need to re-read that book.
>>25180151>reading any translated Chinese text without at least cursory knowledge of random cultural artifacts is difficult. Every other sentence is an idiom or a reference to an obscure (in the west) piece of classical poetry or literature. Every saying, or even word, has multiple readings which are often intentionally baked in.Maybe classical Chinese texts are like that, but most modern writing isn't that deep.
