Clichés you don't like in literature

>My name is Ishmael.

Also, I would love to smell that girls hair while running my fingers through it. I bet it is so soft.

>book starts with 14 words

>book starts with words

>My name is Ishmael.
>My name is Ishmael.
>MY NAME IS

You've fucked up.

based Ellis

Applemilk1988

>missing the point this hard

faggots who hold mugs with two hands

What if I wanna start my book with "what's your name?"
"My name is x"

>novel has multiple protagonists
>one protagonist is a hardboiled detective investigating another protagonist

How about Murakami thing? Half of the book. Is literally. Song titles.

the point being?

Full force in pussy mouth and ass.

*record scratch
My name is
What?
My name is
Who?
My name is
Slim Shady

dropped

literally

I've literally never seen a show or movie that contains this trope. You people are fucking idiots.

the big short
the wolf of wall street
its big in docudramas

got some examples for me, chap?
If not, I'll assume you're the same sort of person who thinks zombies say 'brains'

No you're just too young to remember the 90s

Not quite. It's just one of those ideas that became a meme for being a cliche without ever actually being a cliche. It's the sort of thing stupid people lap up because it makes them feel like they're finally clued in to an obscure cultural reference, though when asked for specific examples there usually aren't any or at least not as many as they would have you believe.

I've noticed that the record scratch trope is mostly only in trailers and not the actual movies themselves.

Any examples?

the big short
the wolf of wall street
LIKE I FUCKING SAID RETARD

>media res is an overused trope

Right, that's two movies with no specific example of when/where/how this alleged cliche is used.

fucking Fight Club

There's no record scratch, but okay.
In media res is one thing, but the whole [record scratch, freeze frame, "you're probably wondering how I got here"] meme has been fabricated from whole cloth.
Feel free to prove me wrong.

Kys retard.

My name is Ishmael

...

It's not really a cliche if it's just his thing.

In-depth description of Western music (mainly classical), eating and cooking are some of his staples among others.

he doesn't know. he missed the point.

*chicka chicka*

a nerd girl (male)? or a nerd girl (female)?

My name is going to be across the headlines of every major newspaper across the world. Don't go to the airport tomorrow.

>book starts

havent even gotten that far, my friend

>character has a coherent dream that is extremely relevant to their current situation

I hate this so fucking much.

That's half the fun

What did you think of the dream in crime and punishment

unnecessary Shakespeare references

Hey just because you've never had a coherent dream about stuff that actually happened to you during the day doesnt mean nobody does

>genre novel begins with tedious first person description of waking up in an alien environment and then describes the process of figuring out how the narrator got there.

Any book that doesn't start with
"The Wheel of Time turns..."

not a fan of palahniuk i guess

>anachronistic morals for the mc

die

The Emperor's New Groove

Holyshit whatever happend go her? I use to watch her videos alot

There's like 4 of them

Doesn't Blow start like that?

What do you mean you're not going to have X with your X? Been in X too long.

>I am called ishmael