Besides plot and characters what makes a book good?
>>7983630
A hardcover, bright colors, and pseudphilosophical smegma-scented little phrases carefully crafted in order to fit perfectly in jpegs of the sea, or stars, or flowers with said quote on them.
Also, incest sex scenes.
aesthetic
a mostly abstract and subjective characteristic that is the single important thing in all of art
how it makes you 'feel', association potential
>>7983630
The beauty of the prose on a sentence-by-sentence level. That's what separates literature from genre trash.
>>7983630
Prose. Plot and characters are shit. You could write a book about someone taking an actual shit on abstract representations of plot, characters and aesthetic, but if it had the pure and perfect prose of true literature it would matter little.
prose
>>7983630
>the book has a plot and characters
>>7983630
A GOOD BOOK.
>>7983630
A good author.
>>7983647
Essential post.
>>7983660
how do we judge the beauty of prose
>>7984706
subjectively of course
>>7984706
You go to goodreads and look up the list of top rated "beautiful prose" books, obviously.
>>7983630
how effectively it engages varying registers of ontology desu
>>7983630
pictures
>>7983630
All elements of a book -- plot, characters, writing style, philosophical depth, etc. -- all add up to the end result of some kind of inner feeling. It is dependent upon that feeling which all books are judged.
>>7983630
atmosphere and world building are pretty important
>>7983630
The idea it presents
the smell of the pages and the size and durability of the book in terms of how it can be used as a weapon
>>7983630
i'd "fuck" her
>>7983630
Imagery with some sort of direction
>>7985542
What a neckbeard, sexist, loser, not-gettin'-any, objectifying, shitlord comment.
Me reading it.
>>7985949
Nietzsche was better ;)
>>7985960
Good for him.
