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>book starts with characters talking over a black background

>> No.4161916

>>4161911
>the protagonist is perfect

>> No.4161917

>book has dialogue

>> No.4161921

>a black background

Hunh? Do you mean to say that if a setting isn't mentioned, you just imagine two dorks standing out in black space, talking?

Is your brain broken, for mercy's sake?

>> No.4161918

>book starts off with characters who aren't the main characters

>> No.4161928

>book starts with a narrator describing the world through unsubtle means

>> No.4161931

>>4161921
It's being spammed on the other boards, just changing the medium.

>> No.4161936

>>4161931
do you feel any pride?

>> No.4161938

>>4161911

>book told from a third person or first person perspective

>> No.4161943

>>4161931
I'm really glad I have no interest in the other boards, some times. Too bad they like to inject a little of that wasteland in, every so often.

>> No.4161944

>story is told through language

>> No.4161945

like what? i can only think of Endgame or something. examples?

>> No.4161949

>>4161943
Yeah...

>> No.4161951

>>4161943
as if this one board wasnt a wasteland...

>> No.4161964

>>4161943
>only ever using one board on 4chan

Fucking loser.

>> No.4161968

>>4161964
you just more than one board? wow dude, I admire you already. you're a winner

>> No.4161976
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4161976

>book starts in the middle of something, not bothering to tell you what this book is going to be about, and who these characters are
It's like the writer is cocky about you reading it, if i don't know what this world is and what are the rules, how can i know if you're not bullshitting me?

>> No.4161975

>>4161968
Yeah. Not to brag or anything, but I regularly visit no fewer than 26 of the boards. In my head, I hold an extensive catalog of all not only all the board-specific tripfags, I've also have done hours and hours of work toward moving board-specific memes to other boards for a more universal, applicable meme.

Needless to say, I don't have a job nor girlfriend. But, really, in light of all my 4chan accomplishments, who the fuck needs that crap?

>> No.4161980

>>4161976
you sound like an aspie LotR adorer

>> No.4161979

>>4161975
if you write creatively i really hope your fiction isn't similar to this post

>> No.4161984

>>4161980
Never read the books, enjoyed the movies(lotr movies, hobbit wasn't good for me).

>> No.4161986

>>4161976
in medias res has a long and proud history

>> No.4161989

>>4161984
I think telling what the book will be about and who the characters are from the very start can go wrong really easily. simply because it's something unnatural to do in most situations unless the narrator assumes you out of the universe from the very start (which hinders imersion)

>> No.4161990

>book is in an identifiable language

>> No.4161993

>book is not a statement against patriarchy

>> No.4161996

>book has woman characters while author is a cis male

>> No.4161997

>Author has no discernible talent

>> No.4161999

>book starts with black characters on a white background

>> No.4162000

>>4161989
No, i don't mean giving you a complete description of everything, but setting you in a place where you can have an idea of what's going on.
For example, dark tower series, i'm reading the first one and there's this part where the guy "creates a cigarrete" in any other book i would take that as taking a paper, putting whatever it is that he's gonna use in the middle of it, and rolling, but in this specific universe where someone is playing hey jude and there's undead people all over the place, i took that as he literally made the cigarrete, out of thin air, magic, my problem is with this kind of narrative, where you have nothing to give you a logical path through this universe, where anything might happen and you will have to accept it because you don't know what is and isn't possible in this world.

>> No.4162001

>book starts with action in a shallow attempt to pique your interest

fuck you author you won't trick me

>> No.4162003

>book starts with author addressing the reader

>> No.4162005

>the book has ever been copywrited

>> No.4162007

>book starts

>> No.4162009

>>4162003
that's over the line for me, the book shouldn't talk to me, this is the safe line, i'm here, he's there, if i can't cross, he shouldn't cross.

Unless it's a psychological/philosophical book and he's using my experiences as an example for something else.

>> No.4162025

>>4162009
for me the only problem is justification. if there's a justification for the narrator addressing you then it's ok. (if the section when he's addressing you is from a document that was meant to be found, for example)

>> No.4162031

>>4162009
I mean, it's already one-way communication in that your ideas aren't reaching the author. That line is basically illusory.

>> No.4162048

>>4161918
>has never seen any Shakespeare

>> No.4162051

>>4162005
Copyright establishes itself naturally, retard, you don't copyright something. You can register, but that's redundant.

>> No.4162066
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4162066

>book starts with letters that form words, and the words form sentences, and the sentences form paragraphs.

>> No.4162069

>>4162051
>reading books written in a society which believes in copyright

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4162070

>>4162069
>being so edgy as to think the law doesn't apply to you

>> No.4162073

>>4162070
There weren't copyright laws back in Ancient Greece which was basically responsible for the Golden Age of Everything.

>tfw born in the wrong era

>> No.4162076

>>4162073
It was also way more difficult to copy things. The difference in ease of copying is exponential. It is a completely different world. Of course there wasn't copyright in ancient Greece.

>> No.4162088

>>4162073
>born in the wrong era
fuck u back them you probably would have died when you were ten or be eating the shit of some rich guy

>> No.4162093

>book has a title
Where does it end?

>> No.4162102

>There are books right now that exist
>Book ends exactly where the pages stop
>74% of percentages are numbers

Pig disgusting

>> No.4162104

>>4162073

The vast majority of people were incapable of copying a work because they were illiterate, and only a handful of people were capable of actually writing anything substantial because they were lucky enough to have a rich patron or were rich themselves.

You, like the vast majority of people in the ancient world, would have probably wound up being a dirt farmer, a soldier, a labourer, or a servant of some kind.

>> No.4162116

>>4161976
That's the best kind.
I open up books randomly and start from there, just for that effect.

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4162125

>the book is by David Foster Wallace

>> No.4162134

>>4162000
Depending on the plan of the author both can be applied with maestry.

>> No.4162136

>>4161997
the opera

>> No.4162170

Are book?

>> No.4162221

>Book involves tea parties & dances.

>> No.4162236

>>4161911

how can you read the letters if the background is black?

>> No.4162237

>not composed of table napkins stapled together

>> No.4162266

>>4162236
white writing?

>> No.4162271

>>4161911
>having this pet peeve with a book
holy shit

>> No.4162277

>book ends
What lazy retard decided that books should have endings? If a story is good, it should keep going until the author dies, and then that author's friends or family should continue the book in their spirit, and their friends or family should continue the book when they die, and so on.

>> No.4162581

>>4161944
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4353
http://www.thisisart.eu/Xu-Bing

I actually read it, it was pretty awesome.

>> No.4162587

>>4162116
If you want to make up your own lttle stories that much you might as well play tabletop RPGs

>> No.4162630

>>4162009
So you have the Brothers Karamasow just because of that little pet peeve?

>> No.4162631

>>4162630
*hate

>> No.4162649

>>4162003
What do you have against Huckleberry Finn?

>> No.4162679

>>4162587
What, have you never played RPG?
Because it's awesome.

>> No.4162720

>oben book n thers words

>> No.4162724

>>4161943
>Implying /lit/ isn't already a wasteland.

>> No.4162735

>>4162724
>implying /lit/ isn't the less wastelandish of all the boards

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>>4162735