ITT: Tropes and Trends We Hate

I seriously dislike these and those Barnes and Noble classics hardcovers. They're cheaply made and look like a poor person's idea of something "fancy".

>Prologues. Just them in general.

Im with you. Prologs and epilogs are examples of material that can e worked into the story.

I also hate when they lst the author's other books and it is incomplete. Like mentioning just the 2 most popular.

>the prologue is just a short section from the middle of the book

That is even worse.

Back covers that advertise other books are even worse. My copy of Seekers is just advertising a bunch of Warriors books. What if I didn't like cats or knew who Erin Hunter was?

I love deckle edge.

I hate when the author name is bigger than the title.

hate all of these things

>open book
>blank page
>title page
>table of contents
>another title page
>chapter title page
>another title page just for good measure
>1st page, finally

>climax of story
>"how do I know I can trust you"
>"you can't."

fucking really, Nabakov?

although in many cases you are right, there are a good few examples, my fav has to be the ep. in Crime and Punishment since the main novel ends with such a flashy acceptance and defeat and was the perfect end to the main story, the ep. however was really nice icing on top with how he got along in prison with sonya

the ep. in C&P also makes you want to read notes from a dead house a lot more IMO

>DID

youtu.be/cjemK803l2M

That's right mah friend cause' any Coraline = shit.

>Forewords

>"It's a good book" - New York Times
>on the front cover above the author and title

>it really does
>phony
>I really am
>I know it is
>page after page after page

Author's name being bigger than the title is the only one for me I think.

I don't mind press praise on the cover that much, but it looks awful on the spine.

>action sequence/ character death preceded by "it all happened so fast"

I take it you enjoyed Catcher in the Rye?

Sometimes, especially with former library books and such, it can actually be cheaper than buying in paperback.

Hate these with a passion

why yes, I did

yeah these forced "classics" designs are shit. The major bookseller up in Canada, Chapters/Indigo has a series like this and the cover design sucks really hard.

>deeply felt
>full of heart
Kys, reviewers

As far as movie covers go, Inherent Vice probably has some of the least cancerous because they at least stay in the style of the original.

If I know I'm going to read it more than once, or refer back to it a lot, I prefer hardcover. Paperbacks fall apart after a while.
>tfw I had to throw out my copy of the plague and a volume of ancient chinese poetry because they were falling apart and I couldn't glue them back together anymore

I love how they even have a fancy ass edition of Jurassic Park like oh yes who could forget that hallmark of classic literature.

Heraclitus, Mainlander, Bataille, Korine... It all leads to Jurassic Park.

whaat is even going anymore in this world?

There's like a billion of these books, all regarding something stupid, and invariably the philosophy section of every used book store I go to is full of them. I really can't imagine what their audience is.

This one is my favorite, because a huge amount of discussion is dedicated to the classic line, "My lifestyle determines my deathstyle"

it looks like an attempt to make philosophy accessible beyond its typical audience. i wonder if it's successful

>first ~3 pages
>dark blue highlighting on random sentences and underlines

>rest of book
>not even touched

>The bookstore employee wiped their ass with the introduction and got shit stains all over it

>introduction spoils the content of the book

Come on son

Bryan Magee wrote a Wagner and Philosophy, but I doubt they're related. Probably just an unfortunately similar wording.

A Hungarian publisher released this series not long ago. Kinda flashy, I don't know what to think of the covers.
They're only $3.6 each, though.

>that image
>that post
>>>/reddit/

Last month i attended a talk by one of the authors of these sorts of books, named kevin decker, you can see all this kind of stuff on his amazon profile
>amazon.com/Kevin-S.-Decker/e/B0036LDPPC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1471497770&sr=1-2

he's even an actual philosophy professor
>ewu.edu/cale/programs/philosophy/philosophy-faculty-and-staff/kevin-decker

Not exactly a trope but...
>order secondhand book online
>it turns out to have been stolen from a library and is full of fucking stamps, stickers and labels

>go to book store
>all the books they have I want are translations
>don't know which translation of any book is best
>leave without buying anything

Soft books break easily and feel too soft for me.

Jesus, that's horrible.

Not a trope but a reader thing.

>people who lick their fingers before turning a page

It makes me want to gag. My parents do that and it's so disgusting.

Oh god, especially if they do it for money too.

>tropes

...

But I like those...

Ah, the jewish society that we live in, forces people to whore themselves so that they can live. This is a great example of it. Making just some books just to get money.

How boring. And cancer promoting. Weak.

Elaborate?

Because so much good literature came out of communist states.

>Author is a woman

Good literature comes out of many kinds of societys. You just need a wise unit or unit with a good taste, and some pen&paper and will to write.

Especially if the enviourment is shit, it can be promoting thing to start writing.

>that tiny shitty Times New Roman writing that is just horrible to read.

...

Even worse is when it's all in bold AND teeny tiny. I give up at that point and find another edition.

A bunch of my favourite novels were written under socialist rule

>Forward for a classic
>spoils literally everything

this. For books translated into German I know which publishers to trust, but for books translated into English I can only go for the cheapest. Also deciding between English or Germen translation.

>reads for the plo

And freedom of expression. Every good writer needs freedom of expression.

>reads for the pl

>reads for the p

>reads for the

>reads for th

>reads for t

>reads for

It reminds me of the popular fixation on solitude as a sign of intelligence. Same goes for depression. There's actually a legit study about depression being linked with relatively low intelligence.

empty fucking superlatives

Non-fiction tropes

>the title is "[spin on well-known term/saying]: How [subject] Totally Changed the World"

Someone didn't mess up. They put that there to let you know that someone didn't, in fact, mess up. Conventional printing standards are multiples of a certain even number, and sometimes, pages have to be left blank.

How do I learn your shitty language?

>the ep. however was really nice icing on top with how he got along in prison with sonya
just because it is within the covers of a 'classic' doesn't mean you have to shill it. Everybody knows the epilogue is superfluous and an aesthetically ill-advised attempt to resolve ambiguities that should have been left alone

I always lick the pads of my thumb and index finger, making a quiet slurping sound in preparation for the turning of the page. I do this to annoy those who are annoyed by it.

>Cats and dogs don't mind losing their nuts.

Stop projecting. They don't care at all.

I'll admit that I spent a minute trying to think of the reason for someone being paid to lick their fingers while reading.

did you get a bang out of it though

Fucking this. Drives me crazy when I'm going into some classic blind and the first 20+ page stretch is an essay on the author's life and a dissection of every major plot point and character arc. I mean, who reads that shit BEFORE they've read the book? Put that shit in the back, I don't want it in my face every time I open it up.

>reading for the plot
That might be more your speed

>Footnotes at the end of the chapter

Why? It's so inconvenient, nothing is lost by putting them at the bottom of the page

It's not even about having the plot spoiled, I'd just much rather come to my own interpretation of the material before reading someone else's before I even know what the book's really about.

There's not actually a superlative in there. Your sentiment is the correct one, though.

Penguin books have the best paper, though

Just for giggles, I picked one of the adjectives and checked the cited review.

>Sunday Times
>"Astonishing"

"We are so familiar with those infamous characters, the Cambridge spies — Maclean, Philby, Blunt, Burgess and Cairncross — that we have almost lost the capacity to be shocked by their treachery, or by the authorities’ astonishing complacency in tolerating their activities."

=D.

I actually really like the look of those. Unfortunately all I know how to say in Hungarian is "Excuse me, I don't speak Hungarian. Do you speak English?"

>ex-library book
>stamps everywhere
>stickers everywhere

Soon to be a major motion picture!

Coraline is the only book I've ever read three times. It's good and you're wrong.

>cover is some dumb photo with neon colored text plastered on top

That's my favorite part desu senpai. The stickers and stamps tell a story of their own.

I see that you didn't like the Warrior Cats series too much.