>"Yeah, so it all takes place over the course of a single day."
>>8080290
>the characters come to life
>>8080290
>events happen
FUCKING DROPPED
>novel I'd written in real time
Fucking dumb gimmick
>>8080296
Is*
>"You have to read it twice to really get it."
>"It deals with time in really complex and interesting ways."
>it's a book
>"Each chapter actually corresponds to a phase of the moon. Among other things..."
>"It's actually a subversion of Joseph Campbell's monomyth."
>Hey it's me! Ishmael!
DROPPED
>"It's actually a critique of the Enlightenment. You see, the monk character..."
>"It's actually meant to be cyclical, the end wraps around to the beginning."
>>8080290
the neoclassical unity of time
>>8080345
Sir, I'm afraid you forgot to use the mandatory meme arrows
>>8080317
What'a wrong with doing this? I've had an idea of making chapters correspond to the Major Arcana of the Tarot.
>>8080290
Under the Volcano
>>8080290
>"The setting is almost a character."
>>8081400
a young british lass already did this I think. Semi recent booker winner
Book has the following gimmicks:
>has references
>has more than 10 characters
>happens in more then one city
>has more than 700 pages
>story is non linear
>has footnotes
You can drop a book as soon as you spot one of this
>"It's in a voice-of-my-generation type register and really truly does capture the internet zeitgeist."
>>8081425
Anyone know the name of the book or author? No young woman has won the booker prize in this decade at least.
>>8081442
The lumineers , eleanor i think catton
>>8081442
Sorry, the new zealand chick. Looks like it's zodiac signs not tarot shit my b
>"The beginning is deliberately tough to discourage you. It gets easier from there."
>>8080290
>>"Yeah, so it all takes place over the course of a single day."
so does ulysses
so superficial
Alright, I've compiled a list of things that I see a lot in really shit books. If you see any of this, drop immediately.
>Book is written "like a diary"
>Book is visibly only an attempt by a semi-known author to get a feature film
>Book was written only with the story in mind
>Book has no discernible theme beyond "triumph" or "love"
>Book was an attempt to "make a bad cliché good"
>Book is gimmicky or "experimental" only for the purpose of achieving notoriety
>Book is the author's attempt to preach their political philosophy
>Book is clearly an attempt to cash in on a current political controversy or debate
>Book is written for some temporary cause
>Book is an "interesting" spin on a classic tale
>Book is an attempt to emulate a dead famous author
>Book is "inspiring"
>Book is "inspirational"
>Book does not involve copious amounts of mouthwatering gay sodomy that makes someone like me squirm with only a suggestion
It makes you rethink concepts such as space and time itself!!
>>8081427
well shit
>>8080299
>what is The Goose of Hermogenes?
Is this even a legitimate thread? Why don't they get mods for these non /b/ boards?
>I'm writing a novel
>>8081427
>has words
it's fucking 2016
>each chapter is titled after a chapter from the odyssey
wew
>>8080290
>"Oh, so it's like Lord of the Rings?"
>>8081493
The diary shit drove me nuts even when I was a kid.
>story about a writer struggling to write a story
It's the only kind of book I won't even pick up anymore when it's recommended to me.
This because of The Tunnel, if you must know.
>>8080290
>"I was inspired to write a supermarket full of monsters because I went to the supermarket and wondered what would it be like full of monsters."
Fuck you, Stephen King.
>>8081493
>>Book is an "interesting" spin on a classic tale
i cannot fucking stand these
>>8083928
If it extends to mythology or allegory you have stuff like Narnia or The book of the new sun.
>it's a first person voice novel
INTO THE RUBBISH WITH YA
>>8080290
what if it's a short book?
>>8084596
Botns is genre shit ( man kids book)
Narnia is a kids book
Neither were made to be taken seriously
>>8081452
fuuuck, i wanted to do zodiac signs
>"I'm trying to capture what it feels like to be alive in our time."
>Blatently testing the waters to get you to validate the gimmick Ive written an entire novel about.
Be honest, its really what's going on here.
>>8081427
Yeah Don Quixote sure is garbage
>>8081427
charles dickens? what the fuck, what book wouldn't you drop?
>>8081493
>>Book was an attempt to "make a bad cliché good"
>>Book is gimmicky or "experimental" only for the purpose of achieving notoriety
good books do these and any dissent arrives from perversions of what quality Should Be
>>8081918
>not liking the Odyssey
>>8081427
>>has more than 10 characters
That's like two words.
>>8080290
you got a problem with Ivan Denisovitch?
>>8081918
The Odyssey doesn't have "chapters", nor titles for the Books
>>8081427
I liked Dune.
Well it was linear at least.
>the novelist takes himself seriously as a thinker
>Book doesn't feature Arthurian camaraderie
Why even bother writing a novel if your list of themes doesn't include "bros being bros"?
>>8081491
>ulysses
yeah, actually, it's funny that you should mention ulysses, because ulysses is actually one of the books that take place over the course of a single day.
>>8080290
>"so there I was"
>>8080290
>my novel features only a protagonist on deathrow and the last nine hours of his life before his execution
>ends with the protagonist hearing footsteps approaching to take him away
I have wasted six years of my life.
that's what happened in psychonauts
