30+ pages of exposition

>more than 1 paragraph of exposition
I find thee lacking

>You can feel the author's opinion through his characters.
>There's no world building or investigation behind the place of objects the characters interact with.
>The lack of knowlege about the thing the author is talking about is replaced by vague descriptions.
>The last chapters of the book has nothing to resemble the first chapters.

Oh, I understand now. Thanks.
I haven't read Crime and Punishment, still, but the same happens in White Nights with the main character.

>The state of the place of the story isn't a metaphor of what is happening inside the main character or characters.
>The author is good seeing the defects of the people he is basing his characters, but he can not see the virtues.
>There is no comparative character to know what would happen if the main character change his actions and attitudes.

>A character is introduced waking up.

True story: Because Veeky Forums has pointed out this trope, I removed it from a key scene in my story, and it made the whole chapter better.
Thanks!

Card Captors Sakura made this well.

It was so goddamn grating and boring, I read the book because I thought it was going to be a fun little action romp in space to kill time on and not think about too much, not a political manifesto

Really? What would you recommend from him?

I like your picture. Must be a powerful book.

read Armor, it's more what you're after and has a subplot that can be completely skipped if you really just want Halo

Not him but The Pelican Brief, The King of Torts and the story about the guy in death row are pretty good

A Time to Kill is probably Grisham's most /lit work though

>The characters are never described because the author thinks that's the readers task.

its a "no person, place, or thing" chapter

>opens up with a pseudo cynical dialogue from the main character about the hardship of the world.

oh boy itsa one of these books

but this can be done to great effect, such as the nondescript Helen of Troy

So is card capture Sakura the best novel?

Phony.

I love those

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>>The state of the place of the story isn't a metaphor of what is happening inside the main character or characters.
>>There is no comparative character to know what would happen if the main character change his actions and attitudes.
Fuck off, not every book has to be the same.

>book has two epilogues

this.
>buy a short book (the kind of Animal farm)
>half of the books is a pedantic introduction by some Iamveryimportantatthis Ph D.

also.
>buy the Lord of the flies
>bullshit introduction. Skip it.
>read the book
>Go back to introduction.
>motherfucker spoils the end at the FIRST-FUCKIN-PAGE

thankis I didn't read it at first, but made me so mad

5+ pages of just describing the scenery

Have you ever wanted to travel around and read books on planes while visiting beautiful scenic countries?

how

We can tell she's cross-eyed from all the fucking glancing she's doing.

>a new hero appears!
>fifty pages of a hero's ancestors
>twenty billion volumes of his descendants
>he dies shortly after
No one cares about your families you SHITTY DUSTY TRIBESMEN REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

A Time To Kill is really good. I also liked the Pelican Brief and the beginning of the Testament. The Innocent Man was also good. The new one is decent, too. Honestly I can't think of a book of his I really didn't like. He's a pretty good writer, not literature but they are fun books. They are plot-shit but you know what fucking deal with it faggots.

As I get older I find it harder to focus on books so he is a good fallback.

It's a great anime, based on a good manga, based on words and draws... so, yeah.

>The state of the place of the story isn't a metaphor of what is happening inside the main character or characters.
You can do that in infinite ways... and it has been done like that.

>There is no comparative character to know what would happen if the main character change his actions and attitudes.
If you had a character with a depressing conclusion, or a happy conclusion... people would end thinking (specially kids) that the world is like that, very depressing or very optimistic. To make things complex, you put characters that take different decisions and get different results to the main character.

I think author does that to make that death important.
Sounds like Togashi's deaths in HxH

Hotline Miami?

HUnchback of Notre Dame

>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward has several chapters about the ancestor of the main character.

Title of the books starts with "the"

>reasonable, smart, and attractive
AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>not having a strong sense of civic duty

>it continues like that throughout the entire novel

but that's a good thing

>25 pages written about man smoking a single tobacco.
Absolute literature.

No, it switches later to some stories about him being autistic with his sort of friends and talking to a hooker, actually read beyond the first fifty pages you faggot.

War and Peace is one off the top of my head, I forget if Anna Karenina had two as well

REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

which of his videos is that from? did he really cry?

w&p? don't be such a baby baka desu senpai

>a single tobacco
kek, what? is this camus?

Actually I remembered wrong - it was 70 PAGES about smoking a single pipe of tobacco. 70 pages about man walking to other side of the room, and picking a pipe.

70. pages.

No but my family takes 12 hour roadtrips to lower Florida almost yearly and we usually pop in a Grisham audiobook

>several hundred pages of groundbreaking literary theory
>filled with tobacco and used for cigarette paper

>feeling duty towards the rotting corpse of a society
Heinlein hit the nail on the head talking about undisciplined children and the moral busybodies enabling them. I feel like Starship Troopers is going to eventually complete the political scifi trifecta with 1984 and BNW

Yes and its an incredible video. I almost cried with him.

youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o&t=18s

>Anna Mikhailovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess was also weeping. They wept because they were friends; and because they were kind; and because they, who had been friends since childhood, were concerned with such a mean subject-- money; and because their youth was gone . . . But for both of them they were pleasant tears .
GOD WOW TOLSTOY IS SUCH A FUCKING HACK JESUS CHRIST LEARN TO SHOW AND NOT TELL YOU IDIOT

oh I've heard some user talk about this, it's a pretty famous passage.

They see me rollin'

>book has no table of contents

>Spoilers
>Reading for plot
>>/tv/

To be honest as I read through this it's hard to relate or view some of the characters as people they seem to laugh and cry at the drop of a hat , men and women, though maybe it's just a different time

But it's all written from the perspective of his diary, which is pseudo-cynical and focuses on the hardship of the world.

haha

Yeah, this is pretty frustrating on e-readers.

i had that problem with animal farm many years ago, but after some time i stopped reading prefaces, even when they are made by the own writer (like LOTR)
i'm more interested in afterwords, i think they're usually richer

The original preface to Animal Farm is GOAT though.

Please, get on my level
>300 pages of exposition

>Still no main plot after half the book

I seriously feel like dropping this one...

>Stephen King
Should have dropped it before you even picked it up

>Literally 900 pages of walking

Is there a list of King books that don't end in "And then he defeated the demon with the power of love(courage)(friendship)"

He's not wrong.

This is how every homosexual starts a song "woke up in the morning"

I distinctly remember there was a great deal of sitting in rooms and riding horses.

How do I know you're not a shill as well

>Literally 900 pages of words

Hahaha I actually like books with super cynical dialogue from the MC. Out of curiosity since you don't like cynicism what do you prefer?

I don't want to be inflammatory but to me the books that are the opposite of that, seem to be for entertainment and not actually taking an analytical view of things.

John Steinbeck East of Eden?
You have to learn all the ins and outs of the valley!

I dunno, I usually find his books to be enjoyable up until the end, he can't write an ending for shit. But The Dead Zone is going nowhere.

Most of them don't end like that. Many of them have bad endings, but they aren't anime. The only one I can think of that fits that is It.

>fascists
>civic duty
Only in speech, my friend.

The Stand literally ends with the hand of god setting of a nuke in Las Vegas, killing all the post-apocalyptic bad people that were drawn there by a devil.

>never read moby dick before, know barely anything about it, especially about how the story goes beyond Ahab killing himself to try and get the whale
>introduction tells me the whole crew dies as well

>reading for plot

be nice to know everyone encountered by Ishmael in the book isn't going to die by the end anyway and have that in the back of your head as you read though

I'm not enlightened enough by my own intelligence to solely appreciate the prose style

>Not reading for plot

>never read moby dick before, know barely anything about it, especially about how the story goes beyond Ahab killing himself to try and get the whale
>This post tells me the whole crew dies as well

>literally 450 pages of paper

sorry lad should've spoiler'd in retrospect

youtube.com/watch?v=IxoBbpmMxKo

But idk if ke$ha is a homo

1. Stop being a pleb
2. This also means stop reading for plot
3. Stop touching yourself

>3 plus pages of one unbroken sentence describing the environment
PINECONEEEEEEEEEEEEE

if i don't read for the plot should i read for what nigger

I'm pretty sure it's the bible