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.