Besides plot and characters what makes a book good?

Besides plot and characters what makes a book good?

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

The beauty of the prose on a sentence-by-sentence level. That's what separates literature from genre trash.

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

>the book has a plot and characters

A GOOD BOOK.

A good author.

Essential post.