What are some prime examples of books that absolutely are not read for plot.
>>8204362
The meme trilogy.
>>8204362
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Most of the postmodern meme books really
>>8204362
Cookbooks.
>reading anything for the plot
if its prose is shit just drop and move on
The Atrocity Exhibition
Trout Fishing in America
Edouard Leve
most poetry
Invisible Cities
What does it mean to not read a book for it's plot? I can see reading for the message behind a book or something, but doesn't that sort of play into a good plot?
>>8204406
plebe pls go
>>8204362
Bataile - Story of the Eye
>>8204412
>implying
>>8204362
Throwing plot out the window is kind of a hallmark of post-modernism and even lots of modernism
I think my favorite "plotless" book is Beckett's The Unnameable
>>8204362
Every book if you aren't a pleb.
>>8204444
pure quadriplicates confirm
wait, people dont read books for the plot?
>>8204511
every "plot" has been already used by the greeks, why bother
>>8204362
The Unnamable
A lot of Beckett desu
To the Lighthouse
>>8204511
>>8204406
plot is just one element of literature/fiction. you also have language, character, symbolism, setting, theme. you combine these elements in varying permutations and then you have a book.
so it's possible to have a book driven entirely by one character's thoughts, but nothing "happens" over the course of the story. this is what beckett is doing as >>8204524 and >>8204439 point out.
Or another example, nothing really "happens" in Ulysses. There's a story, but if you look at just the story, it's pretty boring. Dude whose wife is cheating on him wanders around Dublin all day, feeling varying emotions, as one does each day, meets this kid, they sort of make each other feel better but not really, then he goes to sleep.
>>8204362
Textbooks
Well, DOGBOYS. There's that whole scene about ordering biscuits from Bojangles.
Catch 22
Some of Lovecraft's stuff like Pickman's Model where it's all about the atmosphere
Gravity's Rainbowdesu
The Metamorphosis
Poetry
>>8204978
I love that book too
>>8204362
The Naked Lunch.
It's half garbled allegory, half junk induced hallucination.
>>8204362
The Tunnel, as it has no plot.
>>8205004
I love you too
>>8204362
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