"Yeah, so it all takes place over the course of a single day."

>"Yeah, so it all takes place over the course of a single day."

>the characters come to life

>events happen
FUCKING DROPPED

>novel I'd written in real time
Fucking dumb gimmick

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."

the neoclassical unity of time

Sir, I'm afraid you forgot to use the mandatory meme arrows

What'a wrong with doing this? I've had an idea of making chapters correspond to the Major Arcana of the Tarot.

Under the Volcano

>"The setting is almost a character."

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."

Anyone know the name of the book or author? No young woman has won the booker prize in this decade at least.

The lumineers , eleanor i think catton

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."

Italo Calvino did something similar in The Castle of Crossed Destinies.

Go read it, very good and short read for when you need something comfy

>>"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!!

well shit

>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

>has words
it's fucking 2016

>each chapter is titled after a chapter from the odyssey

wew

>"Oh, so it's like Lord of the Rings?"

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.

>"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.

>>Book is an "interesting" spin on a classic tale
i cannot fucking stand these

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

what if it's a short book?

Botns is genre shit ( man kids book)
Narnia is a kids book

Neither were made to be taken seriously

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.

Yeah Don Quixote sure is garbage

charles dickens? what the fuck, what book wouldn't you drop?

>>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

>not liking the Odyssey

>>has more than 10 characters
That's like two words.

you got a problem with Ivan Denisovitch?

The Odyssey doesn't have "chapters", nor titles for the Books

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"?

>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.

>"so there I was"

>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