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>book starts with character waking up

>> No.5132116

It's okay, OP, it was all just a dream.

>> No.5132135

>book starts

>
>>

>> No.5132140

>>5132135
book commences?

>> No.5132158

>>5132105
>books that have characters

>> No.5132168

>book is not a lipogram

>> No.5132193

Our hero Glfhinirja is from the land of Tesjtaskn. His father Golfihnja conquered the seven kingdoms of Astasdlkz. One day the kingdom will be his. The kingdom lasted from 123 BCB to 0634 BCE and has an army of 600000 soldiers.

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5132197

>excruciatingly boring self-insert

>> No.5132212

>book starts with exposition of the fantasy world

>> No.5132218

>book starts with a huge battle going on

>> No.5132227
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5132227

>Book starts with main character masturbating

>> No.5132230

>>5132227
don't give GRRM any more ideas

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5132241

>book starts with the main character looking in a mirror to give the writer an excuse for appearance description

>> No.5132249

Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dream these had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in their wings, he could ever quite get to in time. He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost surely connected with the letter that had come along with his latest mental-disability check, reminding him that unless he did something publicly crazy before a date now less than a week away, he would no longer qualify for benefits. He groaned out of bed. Somewhere down the hill hammers and saws were busy and country music was playing out of somebody’s truck radio. Zoyd was out of smokes.


>implying not fantastic opener

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5132255

>book starts on page 1

>> No.5132258
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5132258

>book starts with main villain complaining about literary cliches on anonymous imageboards

>> No.5132262

>Book starts with lengthy description of an insect

>> No.5132264
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5132264

>book has parts
>book has chapters
>book has sections
>book has sentences
>book has words
>book has letters

>> No.5132279

>>5132116
I used to that so much that my teacher had to make a class announcement not to do it

>> No.5132281
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5132281

>book starts with any character other than the titular character

>> No.5132284

>The rain was hitting the window

>> No.5132296

>book

>> No.5132297

>book features several dream sequences, designed to justify purple prose and surrealism

>> No.5132298
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5132298

>book begins by describing daily routine of main character

>> No.5132304

>title
>"A Novel"

>> No.5132310

>>5132281
Gravity's Rainbow will kick your ass. Actually, does the book open with Pirate waking up? I can't remember.

>> No.5132311

>book is told from the perspective of the main characters dog

>> No.5132323

>oh snap it's a first edition!
>flip a few pages
>Book Club Edition
>nuts!
book collector feels

>> No.5132326

>>5132310
w-was the main character of Gravity's Rainbow named Gravity's Rainbow?

>> No.5132418
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5132418

>Linear narrative

>> No.5132428

>>5132326
Yes, the paranolic arc is indisputably the main character. Only a bonafied pleb would believe it's Slothrop.

>> No.5132449

>book starts with a sentence less than 6 words long

>> No.5132500

> book starts with explaining the setting and characters for 2/3 of the book

>> No.5132513

>book is about a hundred brothers

>> No.5132530

>stream of consciousness

>> No.5132541
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>>5132105
the most creative way to start a story

>> No.5132548

>>5132249

go to bed pynchon

>> No.5132557
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5132557

>book starts with character falling asleep

>> No.5132564

>>5132557
dat search of lost time

>> No.5132613
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5132613

>book starts centered around a side character

>> No.5132625

>>5132262
>Book starts with lengthy description of an incest

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5132647

>book starts at the end

>> No.5132648

>>5132625
:3

>> No.5132657

>>5132241

>needing an excuse for character description

>> No.5132671
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5132671

>entire book is in media res, forcing you to derive context from inference

>> No.5132710

>book is only about white people

>> No.5132715

>>5132710
>Book contains a single non-white character

PUT IT IN THE FUCKING TRASH BIN

>> No.5132741

>main character is black
>book is now about muh blackness

>> No.5132761

>>5132741
Basketball Diaries

>> No.5132782

>>5132715
>>5132741

zadie smith

>> No.5132809

>>5132761
huh? Jim Carroll is white.

>> No.5132872

A book which starts with a character waking up, literally, better end with a character waking up, figuratively.

Otherwise the author needs to be taken out back and shot, or beaten over the head with Mickey Pulitzer Finn.

>> No.5133337
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5133337

>book opens with a description of the deep valleys and the dense woods of New England

>> No.5133367

>>5132298
>not enjoying status quo before everything goes to hell

>> No.5133373

>>5132872
But couldn't you argue that most works involve the protagonist waking up figuratively in some way?

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5133427

>tittle appears in the book

>> No.5133428
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5133428

>one of the characters in a book is a writer/poet
>basically an excuse for an author to namedrop every fucking thing he read in his life

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5133434

>Book starts with the main character stoking the scullery fire

>> No.5133446
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5133446

>book written in third person past tense

>> No.5133455

>>5133428
>mfw Stephenie Meyer has apparently only read Jane Austen novels
Bella really likes reading and that's like all she reads

>> No.5133460
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5133460

>unreliable narrator

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5133464

>literary device/trope/cliche that is used far too often or is personally unappealing to me

>> No.5133470
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5133470

>First person

>> No.5133471

>self-insert by someone who isn't Leo Tolstoy or Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>> No.5133486
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5133486

>an interesting female character

>> No.5133496

>book begins with the main character falling asleep

>> No.5133498

>>5133486
>a 'depressed, intelligent' female character who has sex with the protagonist
>smokes
>reads books
>nobody understands her, not even the protagonist
Jesus Christ, I've seen this shit too many times

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5133499

>book starts with a big guy

>> No.5133504

>author attempts to capture modern-day ennui

>> No.5133506

>>5133498
I know I'm speaking from a misogynistic perspective. But the more women I get to know, and the more I date, the more I feel like the interesting woman who opens their mouth and says insightful things is a purely male fantasy.

>> No.5133511

>>5133506
Nah, I hate women, but I just notice a lot of male authors do that.

>> No.5133518

>>5133511
Well, yeah, I think men dream of having sexual companions that aren't completely vacuous.

>> No.5133529

> book starts with someone calling the protagonist and asking to speak with the author

>> No.5133533
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5133533

>author literally self-inserts

>> No.5133537

>>5133533
He did it well you fat cunt

>> No.5133591

>>5133537
He did it cunt, you fat well.

>> No.5133975
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5133975

>Book is by a black person and it's about the struggles of black people in 19th and early 20th century America
Never gets old.

>> No.5134064

>>5133427
This is why King Lear is better than Hamlet

>> No.5134744

>>5132281
Stately,

>> No.5134762

>>5132310
Unless the main characters name was a screaming then no

>> No.5134764

>>5134762
The screaming is a rockets parabolic arc which is what virtualli everything in the entire book is about

>> No.5134766

>book is written in second-person omnipotent
Why

>> No.5134768

>>5134766
literally what book

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5134773

>>5134766
I will fight you.

>> No.5134811

>>5132671
please tell me this has happened
please provide evidence

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>>5132227
>implying that is not the best start to anything

>> No.5134822

>memoir about your grandparents' experiences
Why do people do this? What insight do they have about Manzanar or Auschwitz that hasn't already been said by someone who was actually there?

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5134841

>book was written by a woman

>> No.5134847

>>5134841
There isn't such a thing as 'woman'

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5134851

>fullstops

>> No.5134857

>>5134811
infinite jest

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5134865

>>5132105
>this faggot hasn't even read the trial

>> No.5134871

>>5134865
or Metamorphosis

>> No.5134895

>>5132564
Swann's Way starts with him waking up
In fact why has no-one pointed this out as a counter-example yet.
Also
>As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect
>implying this is not one of the best openings ever

>> No.5134905

>>5134895
No what are you talking about, Swann's Way's first 20 pages are about how Proust falls asleep in his routine

>> No.5134929

>>5134905
Oh fu
I forgot about that bit

>> No.5134940

>>5132227
>>5132105
Funny you mention those since the first thing I've written creatively since high school was this
>>5126351

>> No.5134995

>>5133428
>main character is an author
>fucks any girl he wants to
>everyone wants to be his friend
im sure your real life is a lot like this stephen king :)

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5135062

>>5133498

>> No.5135484

>>5133486
>katniss wasnt interesting

>> No.5135555

>>5134766
>omnipotent
mate it's omniscient

>> No.5135668
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5135668

>Book about the holocaust written by a non-holocaust victim
>the only place you can find it in the bookstore is in the required reading shelf

>> No.5136515

>>5135668

Hey now, the NAZIs gets to have their say too.

>> No.5136611

>>5134766
But that would be interesting. Barely any book does that.

>> No.5136624

>>5134895
>gigantic insect
shit translation bro

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>>5132105
ChildishJRPG-tier

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5138404

>>5132105
>book

>> No.5138446

>>5135555
>not making your narrators omnipotent

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5138457

>it's a fantasy book
>it comes with a map

>> No.5138495

>>5133427
>>tittle appears in the book
>Tittle
>No dotted i-s allowed

>> No.5138701

>>5138457
related
>it's a fantasy book
>each chapter starts with a vague quote or excerpt from some inceptionbook

>> No.5138722

>Female author
>Tries to write from the male perspective

It's so cute.

>> No.5138735

>>5133518
>date an interesting, intelligent girl who challenges your opinions
>m-muh masculinity!
there's a reason women have learned to play dumb

>> No.5138738

>>5133537
Oh dear me no. No he did not.

>> No.5138741

>>5138722
Probably shouldn't even mention this, but the worst example of this I've experienced is Stephenie Meyer. She tries to write like Jacob (the Taylor Lautner werewolf) for one section in the fourth book and it is just so laughably bad.

>> No.5138763

>>5138741
I hope your life is a living hell.

>> No.5139014

>protagonist introduces himself to the reader in the first sentence

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>>5132105
>book concludes with character waking up

>> No.5139054

>>5139027
I used to subscribe to jason alexander's twitter, no longer though


(inn reall liffe...)

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5139284

>Tfw book is about a sad frog with a 300 word essay due in two weeks
>Tfw he still hasn't started

>> No.5139290

>>5139284
>Tfw have shitpost due immediately
>I don't even have an image