Things you like in a book

> character-driven, not plot-driven
> complex, interesting prose, not boring and simple
> time skips
> lots of zeitgeistal content
> medium length, a few hundred pages
> modern setting, the late 20th century and early 21st century

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Rich imagery of americana between '10-'80, dont know why; the bits and pieces of this I found in Libra I really enjoyed.

Simple and clean orchestration of characters and prose in the vein of ancient myth and epics

>Narcissus was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis noticed this behavior and attracted Narcissus to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus lost his will to live. He stared at his reflection until he died.

When the author seems to reach out through my skull and touch my pineal gland.

comic surrealism
picaresque adventures
characters in over their heads who know it
characters in over their heads who don't know it

>the bits and pieces of this I found in Libra I really enjoyed.
Dude. Yes. Delillo is so good for that shit. Have you read White Noise?

convincing unhappiness

that's some great films here
(three colors trilogy is shit, fuck kieslowski)

>some weird, poetical shit on the middle of a very realistic book
>great incipit
>when the title isn't directly related to anything in the book, but more in a metaphorical kind of way

I like Celine

omg, I loved white noise, americana and petty middle class life just resonate with me so hard, that's why donny d is one of my favorites

>descriptive imagery where you can really see the author researched their setting
>climax of book is a dialogue with a character we meet at the end that crystallizes themes of the book
>we leave the book with all our questions answered but are left asking new questions
>it ends where it started