What are some prime examples of books that absolutely are not read for plot

What are some prime examples of books that absolutely are not read for plot.

The meme trilogy.

Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Infinite Jest

Most of the postmodern meme books really

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?

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Bataile - Story of the Eye

>implying

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

Every book if you aren't a pleb.

pure quadriplicates confirm

wait, people dont read books for the plot?

every "plot" has been already used by the greeks, why bother

The Unnamable
A lot of Beckett desu

To the Lighthouse

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 and 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.

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 Rainbow desu
The Metamorphosis

Poetry

I love that book too

The Naked Lunch.

It's half garbled allegory, half junk induced hallucination.

The Tunnel, as it has no plot.

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