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18704062 No.18704062 [Reply] [Original]

>author's books are all variations on the same basic setting/plot

>> No.18704066 [DELETED] 

Journey
War
Romance
Tragedy
Comedy
Biography
Mystery
Science fiction

>> No.18704074

>>18704062
Jeff Shaara

>> No.18704080
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>>18704062
I agree: when reading Bernhard I feel like I'm talking to some variation of myself who just has more to hate. And when reading Proust, it's like I'm visiting a rich friend and his family.

>> No.18704083

>>18704062
John Green

>> No.18704138

>>18704062
wellbeck

>> No.18704343

usually the authors that do this shit are pretty well-known, but nobody cares that their work is self-derivative so long as it keeps their lizard brains occupied

with that said, the fact that a lot of self-derivative writers are so successful can't be good for up-and-coming writers

>> No.18704345

Pynchon

>> No.18704347

>>18704343
you are talking like being self-derivative is bad. i don't think it is, in itself.

>> No.18704361

>>18704347
nah ofc it's not inherently a bad thing, but I'd rather a writer try a new formula once in awhile than ride a safe wave, unless they're past their prime and just want to make stories just cause

>> No.18704393

>>18704062
Banville

>> No.18704434

Cormac

>> No.18704486

>>18704062
Joyce

>> No.18704498

>>18704062
Borges snd Ligotti
They are masters

>> No.18704504

>>18704062
Hesse

>> No.18704521

Any writer worth reading desu