"A Novel"

[Anonymous No.20948251]

I am overwhelmed with rage when I see a novel with "A Novel" on the cover.

[Anonymous No.20948270]

>>20948251
Why?

[Anonymous No.20948307]

>>20948270
1. I know it is a novel.
2. It comes across as a kind of false modesty that you know is not reflective of either the author or the publisher. It's this kind off off handed "Oh, yes, that. It's a mere novel. Just a novel of mine. A mere work of fiction I wrote" sentiment like they are some wealthy minor noble swanning around their mansion trying their hand different arts when you know for a fact they are salivating at the thought of sales.

[Anonymous No.20948312]

>An Historical Novel

[Anonymous No.20948315]

have you considered having sex?

[Anonymous No.20948325]

>>20948307
Yeah but why get so angry about it? What way did it harm you? Is your life truly this empty that you rage about such trivialities?

[Anonymouṡ No.20948332]

>>20948251
Why don't you write a novel and call it

THE GUILD OF THE TAPIR

A TITLE

[Anonymous No.20948338]

>>20948251
Like bruh like bruh like chillax my dude like it's just words on a bookcover my guy like lol lmao even my brother in christ.

[Anonymous No.20948353]

>>20948325
BECAUSE I HAVE STRONG, POWERFUL EMOTIONS. BECAUSE I AM ALIVE AND I HAVE STANDARDS. BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH AN ABOUNDENT APPRECIATION FOR LIFE THAT I DON'T HAVE TO RATION MY PASSIONS LIKE A WEAKLING.

[Anonymous No.20948357]

>>20948353

[Anonymous No.20948369]

>>20948251
For me it's the "A". If it was just "Novel" it would be okay purely as a descriptor, but the noun phrase in its ubiquity makes it rather ugh.

[Anonymous No.20948372]

>actually, emotional regulation is bad, toddlers have the right idea
huh, who knew

[Anonymous No.20948383]

>>20948353
>abundant appreciation of life
>gets angry about some classic form of book cover design
Yeah sure dude

[Anonymous No.20948400]

>>20948372
>>20948383
no
on a level I'm not even sure he's aware of, he's right

[Anonymous No.20948440]

>swedish novel translated to chinese
>has both the chinese title and the original title on the cover
>also has "a novel" written in english

[Anonymous No.20948445]

>>20948251
>OP Is A Faggot: A Post

[Anonymous No.20948900]

Nigger: A Novel

[Anonymous No.20948912]

Novel: A novel

[Anonymous No.20949082]

>>20948251
I hate it when a historical biography is called "[name]: A Life". Many such cases

[Anonymous No.20949087]

>>20948307
>1. I know it is a novel
It has always been my understanding that that designation is meant to *clarify* that the book is in fact a novel.

[Anonymous No.20949371]

>>20948307
1. Often enough you don't know shit.
2. "Novel" is an adjective. "The novel" makes no sense, unless it's the novelization of a movie. "A novel" is the only viable option that doesn't sound dumb.

[Anonymous No.20949382]

>>20949087
This. It's to eliminate any liability of some mouth drooling retard who buys a book called "The House Builder" thinking it's literally a book about building houses, and will get triggered and angry and write a nasty review on Amazon later because he has been "misled," even though he grabbed the book in the fiction section and it is entirely his own fault for taking zero proactive effort to make an educated choice before buying.

[Anonymous No.20949408]

Why don't other languages do it?

[Anonymous No.20949428]

Jordan Castro does this with his album The Novelist. Book is doodoo

[Anonymous No.20949431]

>>20949382
no one would actually care though. seems like lawyers butting their head in where they're not needed

[Anonymous No.20949446]

>>20949408
They do.

[Anonymous No.20949450]

>>20949087
Why would people be too retarded to understand that without the clarifier? Who looks at a book called
>The day lasts more than a hundred years
and wonders if it contains an academic study on the relativity of time perception?

[Anonymous No.20949454]

>>20949431
The average normie is dumb in ways you can't imagine. Speak to one some time and get redpilled.

[Anonymous No.20950406]

>>20949446
The Chad roman vs. the virgin a novel

[Anonymous No.20950410]

>>20950406
Kek

[Anonymous No.20950416]

>>20948353
B A S E D

[Anonymous No.20951023]

>>20949428
>Book is doodoo
Literally, for about 40 pages.

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[Anonymous No.20951171]

OP is an insufferable faggot: a thread

[Anonymous No.20951337]

>>20948400
explain why he's right?

[Anonymous No.20951343]

Levon A. : A novel

[Anonymous No.20951446]

>>20948307
>2....
kek, I totally agree with this perception. It would be like if I submitted a short story to my writing professor and, under the title, wrote "A sketch".
>>20949371
>often enough you don't know shit
So I'm in the fiction section of the bookstore and 99% of the books in this section are novels. If I'm seeking out fiction, is finding out that a novel-sized book found in the fiction section isn't actually a novel but a short story cycle going to be the thing that dissuades me from choosing it.
>novel is an adjective
"novel" is also a noun and has been for like 300 years

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[Anonymous No.20951478]

>>20948353
King shit

[Anonymous No.20951511]

>>20948251
What do you think about my first novel's title:
> I am overwhelmed with rage. A Novel.

[Anonymous No.20951525]

>>20949382
Cormac McCarthy was apparently concerned about this and very nearly insisted that the cover of his novel The Road contain the warning: "This is not a guidebook to building, traversing, or crossing roads. This is a work of fiction."

[Anonymous No.20951597]

>>20951023
Yeah I hated that. The “intellectualized” poop part in contrast to the crude diarrhea part to show the narrator’s progress from degenerate to serious writer. Book is so fucking dishonest