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18925683 No.18925683 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any novels that are "in real time"? And by that i mean the action of the novels spans about the same time it takes to read it.

>> No.18925694

Not a novel but James Cameron movies are famous for doing this - for example in Aliens when the countdown to the nuclear plant exploding starts it says 15 minutes. The plant explodes exactly 15 minutes later.

>> No.18925705

Not a novel but music is famous for doing this - for example in a song when the length of the song says 4 minutes. The song ends exactly 4 minutes later.

>> No.18925709

>>18925683
how is that even possible when it takes different people different amounts of time to read the same text, not counting time for rereading lines and etc.?

>> No.18925714

>>18925705
lol

>> No.18925721

>>18925709
i mean more or less.

>> No.18925775

>>18925683
I've never read Ulysses but it's supposed to take place over 24 hours and based on my reading speed it would probably take me about 28 hours to read it. That's about as close as you'll ever get.

>> No.18925788

>>18925683
Yes, stream of consciousness.

>> No.18925825

>>18925683
Has any XX female ever actually said this?

>> No.18925827

>>18925683
I don't think that's possible, not even in theory
But the 24 series works like that, I think

>> No.18925842

>>18925683
The Mezzanine

>> No.18925847

>>18925825
You should have sex.

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>You should have sex.

>> No.18925911

>>18925901
t. Chud
And I'm a Chud too.

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>>18925911

>> No.18925927

>>18925921
No, I don't care.

>> No.18925951

>>18925775
Yes I just looked up and audio performance and it’s around 28 hours. Taking into consideration that the audio performance also has a lot of bells and whistles to it which elongate the normal reading pace, I think Ulysses is the answer.

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>>18925927

>> No.18925994

>>18925981
Yes, exactly. I don't give a shit to culture, like a true Chud.

>> No.18926006

>>18925683
What about greek theater? It's not the same, but the action and time rules get very close to what you want

>> No.18926011

Any book could be as you so poorly describe if you deliberately take the appropriate amount of time to read it.

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>>18925994

>> No.18926105

>>18925683
why do I have to have sex? isn't more logical that I don't have to have sex because I have bad genes, etc.? That's why I can't have sex, people that don't have sex won't have sex, because that fact alone that don't have sex shows that they have bad genes and saying "have sex" is useless; If I'm incel it's because I CAN'T have sex, not because I don't want to, as the word by itself tells.

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>>18925683
Excluding the first chapter, Under the Volcano is probably close

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>>18925683
Isn't the tv series 24 hours like that? I'm sorry I don't know about any book that does that but figured it'd be worth mentioning it.
>>18925705
fucking kek

>> No.18926206

>>18925683
Who is this woman?

>> No.18926387

>>18925683
Michael Ende's night of wishes had this as its gimmick - the story takes place in just as much time as it takes to read. It also takes place on new years eve, so I think the intention is that you read it at that time.

>> No.18926389

haven't read it yet myself but i think travesty by john hawkes does this

>> No.18926392

>>18926206
>woman

>> No.18926393

>>18925705
I have no idea why this shit made me laugh

>> No.18926424

>>18925775
>>18925951
Ulysses on amphetamines and coffee, and after having done a preliminary pre-read plus note-taking to make sure you can remember most of the important references while you're reading. Unfortunately even if you were a very fast reader with good stamina you could never do a one-to-one correspondence though, because the Telemachiad and first 3 Bloom chapters take place at the same time. But it would definitely be a good Bloomsday challenge anyway, maybe start at 4 or 5am and see if you can get through the whole thing by 3am next day.

>> No.18926451

>>18926053
t: Chud LARPer.

>> No.18926597

>>18926392
GIVE ME A NAME GOD DAMN IT

>> No.18926604

Not a novel but real life is famous for doing this - for example if you spend 8 hours on a somalese child soldier recruiter forum you wasted exactly 8 hours of your life.

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>>18926451

>> No.18927068

>>18925683
malloy by beckett

>> No.18927081

>>18925705
lmao

>> No.18928418
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18928418

post an art hoe, get an art hoe

>> No.18929187

>>18926424
Im doing this

>> No.18929220

>>18926011
you are retarded, mate

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>>18925705

>> No.18929424

Italo Calvinos If on a night, is exactly that OP

>> No.18929497

>>18925705
Kek

>> No.18929505

>>18925901
literally me uwu

>> No.18929550

>>18925705
You're a funny man anon, too funny for the chan

>> No.18929555

>>18925775
Blooms day in Dublin they usually have people reading it on rotation, supposed to take about 24 hours. God Ulysses is just the best isn't it. Time to read again

>> No.18929674

>>18925683
i've thought of this before and attempted it. it doesn't really add anything to the novel so i pretty much scrapped it as just some kind of 'luxury' (to fluff the text) literary technique lol.

>> No.18929697

>>18925705
You sound an alien describing human art forms

>> No.18929881

>>18929674
>it doesn't really add anything to the novel
i think it could add realism if done correctly.

>> No.18929994

>>18929881
maybe so, but it was pretty difficult for me to execute successfully when i was attempting to detail a psychedelic experience that distorts time whilst retaining that 'real-time' feeling

>> No.18930366

>>18925683
I recall applying positive reinforcement on a girl I knew from school so that she would adopt that style.
She got that piercing and a haircut that looked a lot like those 2000s emo sasuke-esque cuts.
She's an art director now or something like that

>> No.18930903

>>18926169
Yes was going to post this

>> No.18931249

>>18925683
Who is she OP?

>> No.18931320

>>18931249
Savannah Brown

https://www.youtube.com/user/savanamazing/videos

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>>18925705
Nice one.

>> No.18931414

>>18925694
Another film that famously does this is Before Sunset. It pretty much happens in real time.

>> No.18931494

>He walked from the train station home. Kept walking. Several more steps. And again. Left leg, right leg. Confident stride of a man determined to get home in time for his favourite nightly talk shows and essily accesible pornography. MILF porn, hard and true. Tic tac toc. Weathered shoes beating up hot evening asphalt. Past the convenience store, pivoting round the corner, gracefully maneuvering his way into the crowd of shuffling, tired people, stupified looks, fat ladies with gout, cranky men smeared in sweat and cologne, the whole asteroid belt of slowmotioned targets giving his reflexes no challenge, cutting through the boulevard, a kind of seemingly nervous speedy walk seen in healthy males aged 25-30 who keep their diet in check, abstain from sweets and admonish alcoholic beverages or smoking. Windows playfully flickering back the orange disc of the Sun about to dip past the horizon edge, each of the flicks causing him to squint, noting the little residual spots forming along the retinal surface, obscuring vision - dead cells but easily regenerated. Momma used to tell him to never look at the Sun, but then again Momma was dead and the Sun was warm, warm like her breasts, heaving beacons of his oedipal desires, now lost six feet under. "Maybe...yes...indeed I'd like some tendies", his mind flushed as the recently passed convenience store wringed its way into the forefront of his meditative mind, pushing mommy back into the corners of the repressed darkness. He turned around, like a cat getting ready to snag it's prey.

>> No.18931509

>>18931494
this is kino

>> No.18932236

>>18931494
google doesn't help me. Is this yours?

>> No.18932831

>>18932236
>>18931509
I just shat it out ad hoc to make a funny about OPs request. Come on my man you gotta read more if you're this easily amused but verbal diarrhea.

>> No.18932871

>>18925683
To me it looks like she's saying "you like that?"
Yes.

>> No.18933033

>>18932831
>you gotta read more
i've read 4 digits number of books and i tell you that this is great. It has fantastic rhytm.

>> No.18933044

>>18928418
is that david hogg?

>> No.18933118

>>18925683
Who's this bitch? She cute.

>> No.18933152

>>18925683
>Are there any novels that are "in real time"?
yes
>And by that i mean the action of the novels spans about the same time it takes to read it.
no
Read Genette

>> No.18933188

>>18925705
Lmao

>> No.18933238

>>18925683
i always felt like the catcher in the rye did this p well

>> No.18933243

>>18931320
That's really Savannah? What the fuck. She used to be really cute.

>> No.18933280

>>18929424
Hmm I honestly don't think so, but it's a great book, so good suggestion anyway

>> No.18933290

>>18929697
That's an interesting idea for a plot btw

I remember reading an astronomical description of Earth made by hypothetical aliens who do not postulate any living form, they just take the phenomenons as natural occurences (including ships sailing the oceans, stadiums, etc)

>> No.18933334

>>18933243
I don’t think that’s her

>> No.18933369

>>18933334
I didn't think so either, but I yandexed it and found some posts from like 2016 saying it's her.

>> No.18933596

>>18933369
Savannah used to look like THAT? Where did it go wrong, bros?

>> No.18933658

>>18925705
Brilliant

>> No.18935042

>>18933596
it's not her, sort uploads by oldest, she never had that nose ring
OP girl looks like a boy