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Books focused on interesting dialogue. I don't care about descriptions and train of thoughts - even though they are inevitable. Give me people talking in interesting scenarios.

>> No.19728707

>>19728631
Dostoyevsky.

>> No.19729493

thought that pic was a dick

>> No.19729554

>>19728631
Gaddis JR, it is almost completely told through dialog which is interesting in of itself considering he pulls it off and manages to keep it reading like a novel and not a script for a play or movie.

>> No.19729558

>>19728631
Start with the Greeks

>> No.19729934

>>19728631
If you want dialogue, the obvious thing to do is to read plays.

If you don't want to read plays, the next port of call is short stories. Two obvious names are Hemingway (Hills Like White Elephants is 99% dialogue) and Raymond Carver (Cathedral is particularly dialogue-intensive because one of the characters is blind.)
But there are many others. For example The Hitch-hiker by Roald Dahl is almost completely a conversation between the author and the hitch-hiker he's picked up.

If you want novels, Elmore Leonard said he tried to write books which omit all the boring stuff readers usually skip. That means there's more dialogue.

>> No.19730935

>>19728631
The Lord of the Rings.

>> No.19732447

>>19728631
what's interesting to you? Try Equus.

>> No.19732460

>>19728707
Dialogue is a bit stiff/phoned in desu. Might be different in Russian.