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So what is the book version of this? I'm trying to look for some good Western literature.

>> No.12025714

>>12025711
Look for any book covered in praises from media personalities as a revolutionary and defining work of art but when you read it it's the same shit as other contempory fiction but written in convoluted prose

>> No.12025717

>>12025714
>SEETHING

>> No.12025718

Blood Meridian

I don't think it's particularly good, rather pretentious and needlessly focused on violence as it is, but that's what people will tell you. But I don't have any alternatives for you.

>> No.12025723

>>12025717
Instead of changing the open world formula by rebuilding the architecture they just doubled down of the intricacy of the facade. It's literally 'baroque' the video game. It's still the same shitty, old, drafty building on the inside but this time they got a hack artist to paint some frescoes over the cracking plaster

>> No.12025724

>>12025723
Are you going to recommend a good Western book or are you just gonna post autism?

>> No.12025733

>>12025724
He doesn't read, how could he? Too busy posting autism.

>> No.12025736

>>12025718
Literally the only similarity is the setting and even that is fairly tenuous.

>> No.12025738

>>12025724
>Western books
There are tons of books taking place in the time period depicted by western cinema but nothing the recreates the 'western' formula. It's a genre that only exists in the film medium

>> No.12025750

>>12025738
I kinda figured. The only recommendation I keep getting is Blood Meridian. A little bit disappointed honestly.

>> No.12025753

>>12025750
What makes something 'western' is purely a visual language, it's why it can be translated successfully into a medium like video games because of how heavily it relies on visual arts. There's nothing inherently different about the plot or story of the movies. Idk maybe I'm wrong, im not an expert or even a big fan of western films

>> No.12025754

>>12025711
This has walking dead tier writing

>> No.12025787

Blood Meridian is perfect.
Bloom called it the *ultimate* Western.

>> No.12025837

Start with the Western Trilogy
Blood Meridian
Butcher's Crossing
Warlock

>> No.12025844

>>12025738
Read Butcher's Crossing and see how wrong you are
A perfect example of a Western

>> No.12025854

>>12025837
>>12025844
Thanks anons. This is what I was looking for.

>> No.12025857

East of Eden

>> No.12025864

>>12025711
the book equivalent to Rockstar games would need to have terrible dialogue compounded by the characters never shutting up

>> No.12025866

>>12025711

Normie tier but I found Lonesome Dove entertaining.

>> No.12025907

>>12025864
>t. Pleb

>> No.12025918

Have you finished reading the greeks?

>> No.12025930

Butcher's Crossing

Shane

>> No.12025943

>>12025738
>a genre that only exists in the film medium
wut. I used to work in a library and there were hundreds of western books. They had their own genre sticker. And everything. Never read any, but if they weren't much like western films it was a serious case of false advertising.

>> No.12025949

>>12025854
Larry McMurty's books (Lonesome Dove etc) are well-respected within the genre.

The reason you don't get many recommendations is that /lit/ only talks about a very limited range of books that already have a critical stamp of approval, and it talks about those books more than it reads them.

>> No.12025953

>>12025864
This is what puts me off the game. I want to be a cowboy riding around robbing trains and shooting people, but I don't want to sit through hours of bad dialogue between characters I'm not interested in. And the reviews make me think this game is full of that.

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>>12025711
GR

>> No.12026011

>>12025711
My Brother Sam is Dead

>> No.12026018

>>12025724
>>12025733

Shut the fuck up, this is interesting autism.

>>12025723
I am curious about what games do you like, also how you would translate this comparison into books - what books would you call baroque in comparison to RDR2 and what books worthy.

>> No.12026027

>>12025711
Absalom

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>>12025711
Right here op

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>>12026063

>> No.12026069

>>12026064
Feminine males and masculine females.

>> No.12026282

Lemoyne/Rhodes sections of the book: Absalom, Absalom

Hunting Legendary bison in Ambarino: Butcher’s Crossing

9 year old kid fucking around in open world mode and killing every NPC he comes across: Blood Meridian

>> No.12026294

>>12025753
Against the Day should work fine for you.

>> No.12026298

>>12026064
It's ok that the top right does it 'cause he's hot.

>> No.12026334

>>12026064
What's with guys making such goofy expressions in pictures nowadays? Like why make that cringing side-eyed face?

>> No.12026524

>>12025711
Louis L'amour novels are classic westerns.
Not really similar to red dead clunky motion 2.

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>>12025714
oh ok so this

>> No.12026655

>>12025907
>rockstar shill
>calls other people plebs
Jeeeez