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1537929 No.1537929 [Reply] [Original]

>multiple povs, multiple povs everywhere

I'm starting to hate it. It's like modern authors think their audience is stupid so they have to spoon feed every little thing that happens without the main character present to us.

Give us more single pov books you morons.

>> No.1537932

>>1537929

Basically, you're a moron who can't cope with synthesizing multiple perspectives.

>> No.1537936

>>1537932
But I can.

Single pov worked for so many great authors in the past but in the last years has been completely abandoned. Books like The Sun Also Rises would probably turn to complete shit if we knew what everyone else was thinking.

>> No.1537940

harry potter?

>> No.1537944

>>1537936

I generally agree. It's used way too often as a literary crutch.

>> No.1537945

>>1537936

Yeah, but no one is rewriting old books like The Sun Also Rises. If you just want an endless repetition of the same thing ("why aren't all books like The Sun Also Rises?!?!"), then you're affecting a faux nostalgia. Also, I'm pretty sure that a) there are plenty of books being written from a single perspective today and b) if a book is written from multiple perspectives, there is probably a good reason for it that you're missing. In the end, if a book is good, then it doesn't matter how many perspectives it contains, and if you think that a book being good depends on how many perspectives it contains, you're a shallow faggot. Deal with it.

>> No.1537949

>>1537936
i'm going to marginalize your complaint by only seeing things from my point of view.

>> No.1537962

>ITT: people who didn't understand Naked Lunch and Gravity's Rainbow and try to obscure this fact by making noise about "literary crutches" and how "back in the day..."

>> No.1537976

>>1537975

Back to /mu/, faggot.

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>> No.1537983

lol, pwned so hard you deleted the post and went back to /mu/, eh? Total fag. Fuck off and die.

>> No.1537993

>>1537929
Eh, well, Murakami does a great job when he does it.
But I guess it's because his "multiple POVs" are more like two different stories.

>> No.1537995

>>1537983

I deleted the post because I forgot to quote >>1537962

But again, >implying

>> No.1538004

Wasn't Virginia Woolf doing this in the 20s?

>> No.1538015

>>1537995

>can't even imply correctly

>> No.1538032

Classic Multiple PoV works

Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Pretty much everything by Dumas and Hugo
100 Years of Solitude
The Idiot
Ulysses

You problem is not with the PoV structure. It is a problem of laziness in storytelling in which constant PoV changes don't serve a productive purpose.