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Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:43:46 2015 No.6402708 [Reply] [Original]

>Plot is centered around Quantum Mechanics

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:45:57 2015 No.6402714 File: 36 KB, 500x274, lb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6402708 >it's a bunch of seemingly disparate stories that end up intertwining together

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:46:34 2015 No.6402719 >a philosopher brings up the observer effect

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:50:13 2015 No.6402728 >they have to solve the mystery, but before time runs out

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:51:09 2015 No.6402731 File: 728 KB, 1280x720, Spec-Ops-The-Line-Art.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Hero's Journey plot

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:53:00 2015 No.6402735 >>6402719 >scientist character tries to "sum up" observer effect and in doing so implies that the observers sentience is somehow what constitutes the "observing" as opposed to the actual measuring process.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:54:21 2015 No.6402737 >the narrator is unreliable >grinning walrus man.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:54:56 2015 No.6402738 >>6402714 this killed me

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:56:41 2015 No.6402743 >the plot of divided equally by the passage of time

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:57:13 2015 No.6402747 File: 85 KB, 622x455, movies_theroom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Protagonist is a handsome young struggling writer

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:00:12 2015 No.6402754 File: 539 KB, 957x710, DFW3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6402708 >author includes math and science in a transparent ploy to be perceived as smart

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:04:51 2015 No.6402759 >>6402714 Well fuck you too. This is the novel I'm working on.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:06:22 2015 No.6402763 File: 36 KB, 165x209, christ.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >poem's meter is based on the Fibonacci sequence

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:07:02 2015 No.6402764 >>6402714 >>6402759 Mine too, but mine are connected only by theme, so I'm good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:09:36 2015 No.6402769 >author frequently and nonsensically juxtaposes scientific terms with stock poetic concepts to force motifs

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:09:56 2015 No.6402770 File: 74 KB, 230x229, hugeguts.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Segue that breaks the theme, tone, and entirely usurps the plot of what was going to seem like an amazing novel

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:10:39 2015 No.6402772 >>6402770 example?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:13:46 2015 No.6402780 >Author writes about a scientific field that you are in

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:15:58 2015 No.6402785 >>6402747 >strong female protag does something tangential to the arts like being an art broker or editor.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:23:20 2015 No.6402807 >>6402772 Armor by John Steakley.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:26:58 2015 No.6402816 >character from western society visits a foreign land >natives question his/her strange ways >completely unable to make a coherent response they really showed us

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:30:33 2015 No.6402830 >Theres a map at the beginning and the ocean is on the left.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:31:54 2015 No.6402839 >>6402830 That's Lord of the Rings! Or any European history book

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:51:23 2015 No.6403441 >>6402737 i laughed heartily

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:37:38 2015 No.6404469 >>6402830 Narnia puts it on the right.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:40:59 2015 No.6404483 the second half of the book is the first half from a different perspective.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:51:34 2015 No.6404511 >>6402807 Oh christ, yes. That book. What the FUCK was the author thinking?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:52:52 2015 No.6404516 File: 8 KB, 200x252, 1390612222422.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >antagonist of the book is a priest-like guy who drives the population to behave in uncanny ways

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:56:34 2015 No.6404529 >>6404516 High Priests, Chancellors, Archmages, Grand Viziers and the like apparently HAVE to be moustache-twirlingly evil, to even be considered for the job.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:57:55 2015 No.6404530 >protagonist is an orphan

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:00:11 2015 No.6404538 >>6402708 > It's used as a shorthand for magic

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:01:01 2015 No.6404541 File: 8 KB, 199x200, 1427934292777.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >the antagonist's right hand man/woman ends up falling in love with the antagonist

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:04:19 2015 No.6404552 File: 18 KB, 250x272, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Book ends

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:12:11 2015 No.6404568 >>6402763 now your just making them up

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:20:36 2015 No.6404600 >>6404568 Not that anon, but you see it sometimes. It's pretty corny every time. Tool even did it and man was it a tool song

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:20:58 2015 No.6404602 File: 904 KB, 2598x3943, pic0504-pynchon001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6402754 say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:56:12 2015 No.6404720 >>6404552 B+

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 20:20:17 2015 No.6404799 >>6404552 >bookends

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 20:23:59 2015 No.6404812 >>6404516 >Main antagonist is a priest who did nothing wrong

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 20:27:01 2015 No.6404816 >>6404812 Sounds like the guy in Pratchett's Pyramids. >dat scene when he goes down to his knees before all the pharaohs going "Oh Kings, I have always only existed to serve"

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 20:33:55 2015 No.6404833 File: 19 KB, 340x299, ibarbourou_juana.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Plot is centered around a religious order that works in the shadow

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 20:35:22 2015 No.6404841 File: 80 KB, 329x306, 1426654037627.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6404602 you live in a world in which Pynchon outlived DFW

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 01:46:08 2015 No.6405782 >>6402714 what would you call this facial expression?

>>	Kisses Wed Apr 15 01:47:29 2015 No.6405785 It probably would be if it was sci-fi. Some people just are interested in different things.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 01:50:06 2015 No.6405790 >>6405782 Supercilious

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 01:56:40 2015 No.6405803 >author is so self aware the work comes across as a series of pathetic justifications for itself

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 02:03:20 2015 No.6405818 File: 977 KB, 500x300, 1360394184935.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >the story of the secret world of cats

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 03:26:28 2015 No.6406003 File: 56 KB, 768x576, disappointmel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >first chapter takes place before later chapters

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 05:26:30 2015 No.6406171 File: 322 KB, 1608x2001, 1322087502296.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mythic history of ancient religion includes deluge generated intentionally by the gods to wash away some form of iniquity

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 06:43:17 2015 No.6406282 File: 23 KB, 307x370, 1428402980020.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Book parallels religious text in some way

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 07:23:35 2015 No.6406368 >>6402747 People keep telling me to write what i know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 07:25:48 2015 No.6406374 >>6404841 That's because DFW was weak and Pynchon is strong.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 07:29:36 2015 No.6406379 >>6405782 Resignation? Its weird how many different things can be conceved through facial muscles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 07:30:49 2015 No.6406382 >>6406379 Conveyed*

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 09:29:27 2015 No.6406592 >>6405782 Disbelief mingled with resignation. Not-this-shit-again made facial.

Anonymous Wed Apr 15 13:32:00 2015 No.6407120

>>6404816
>you want to serve the gods? very well, you shall serve them for all eternity!
That ending always seemed a bit too spiteful for me. I think priest-guy deserved a groundhog-day style novel where he repeats the same loop over and over again and eventually overcomes his delusions.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 13:39:48 2015 No.6407141 >>6402759 KEK

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:13:15 2015 No.6407232 >>6402763 Though, Though, Crow Joe, Moe Roe Toe, Jaw Craw Maw Ta Ta, Babatokotabanama, Takapamabatajakapawafagaha, Tatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatata, mamamamamamamamamamamalalalalakakakananananabababababadadadadadadapa.....

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:30:14 2015 No.6407274 >>6406282 >>6406003 >>6404833 >>6404516 >>6402769 >>6402754 >>6402714 Yesssss

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 15:46:16 2015 No.6407524 >it's a book within a book

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