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.

how do we judge the beauty of prose

subjectively of course

You go to goodreads and look up the list of top rated "beautiful prose" books, obviously.

how effectively it engages varying registers of ontology desu

pictures

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.

atmosphere and world building are pretty important

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

i'd "fuck" her

Imagery with some sort of direction

What a neckbeard, sexist, loser, not-gettin'-any, objectifying, shitlord comment.

Me reading it.

Nietzsche was better ;)

Good for him.