Describe your ideal novel in 15 words or less.
Describe your ideal novel in 15 words or less
fun, emotional, leaves me thinking about it for a long time after
Funny as fuck. Where some people fall in love and I learn some shit.
It takes place in a 90's, jazzy, multiracial, consumerist, transsexual utopia with lots of LSD.
>stars ryan gosling in the movie adaptation
New York jew, highly neurotic, highly unlucky.
Does something bizarre or transgression with clear reason and "higher purpose".
So like Crime and Punishment?
Emotional, philosophical, moralistic, character focused.
Sure, that's a fine example.
something involving self-transcendence while still embracing human values
it makes sense, I swear
Moby Dick
Came here to say this
with words
nice
Moby Dick is peerless and those quads prove it
Written by Thomas Bernhard.
My ideal novel would be 15 words or less.
The last sane man in an insane world
starts good
ends good
preferably realism
Priests doing wacky shit. It's far out, man...
Fantastic settings with strange but comforting/compassionate relationships. Typically found in: old mythology (eg Greco-Roman myths), sci-fi or fantasy. Doesn't have to be though, those indicators were ticked to me when I read Moby-Dick or Shadow of the Sun
decadence, decay, death, sex, time, gods, silence, petrichor
really high tech, consistent, gadgets, good characterization.
(cross between Stross and Banks)
or
realistic, magic, overpowered hero, good fight scenes, bleak world
(A Land Fit for Heroes is a close one)
gimmicks profit merchandise spin offs sequels fanbase movie adaptation bestseller young adult
...
not shit
But user, that's already been written! You may not have heard of it, it's a bit of an obscure book.
It's called 'my diary desu'
WTF is that supposed to mean? What does your diary have to do with it? This is an English website, newfag, we don't speak Japanese here.
Sold enough copies to make the author the richest person in the world.
Young man in a world of shit. Presses on. Endures. Winds up okay. That's it.
A loli falls in love with a loli. They will discover the nature of love.
I remember my first day.
low-income protag. no sign of pretension. no love interest. all characters are bad people.
lurk moar, faggot
Ditto
Good murder mystery.
Intertextual Post-Modern Encyclopedic Novel about Greek mythology featuring Suicidal Orthodox Russians in Dublin.
Talking cat defeats god in a race through time and space.
Cain slays Able and is cast out of paradise, condemned to wander for the rest of his life
The desire for revenge creating monsters out of people during a violent ethnic conflict
I'm glad they don't write garbage like that.
So, The Bible?
Ulysses by James Joyce
Poo poo. Pee Pee. Nigga.
Milan Kundra meets Malcolm Lowry
noir
supernatural noir
lovecraftian supernatural noir
Oppressive government, plot twists, gangs, dystopia, character development, revelations, philosophical contemplations.
three of everything, about everything, for everyone
being a retard and making the wrong decisions
Basically this
Harry Potter is a close contender.
Rowling was a billionaire
That sounds more like The Wire
Some themes in the wire would be similar but I think overall that story would be different.
Heartfelt, acute descriptions of the characters and their situations, affects me personally
"You wouldn't think what you're thinking if you thought about what you're thinking."
Series of surreal encounters with outsiders dreamed by a child in an insular mountain village
titties
scotch
feminine penis
psychadellic drugs
Sad, funny, decay.