/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6610954]

>final chapter's name is the book's title

[Anonymous No.6610960]

>chapters have names other than 'chapter'

[Anonymous No.6610994]

There isn't a single book that does this.

[Anonymous No.6611120]

>>6610954
>Chapter has a excerpt of a in-fiction book or encyclopedia or a picture before the chapter starts

[Anonymous No.6611129]

Mmmm
Like when a poetry collection's title poem is the last one. That build up feels better than BDSM.

[Anonymous No.6611143]

>each first letter of every chapter reveals the plot twist

[Anonymous No.6611155]

>>6611143
NICOLE IS DEAD

[Anonymous No.6611160]

>tfw the book has pictures

[Anonymous No.6611164]

>>6610994

Moby-Dick does this.

[Anonymous No.6611167]

>book has no chapters or page numbers

[Anonymous No.6611176]

>>6610954
>book has no chapters
Fuck you too, frank.

[Anonymous No.6611177]

>chapter 1 starts on page 16

[Anonymous No.6611192]

>each chapter has dot points summarising what happens before you read the main text

[Anonymous No.6611194]

>>6611177
>the foreword, preface, editor's note, translators note, afterword, appendix make up more content of the book than the book itself.

[Anonymous No.6611199]

>>6611194
>book is a translation

[Anonymous No.6611204]

>>6610954
>reading books with chapter names

[Anonymous No.6611207]

>>6611192
What book does this?

[Anonymous No.6611213]

>>6611176
This shit annoyed me too

[Anonymous No.6611215]

>>6611192
>tfw want to do this in my novel but people will think it's either childish or a Blood Meridian ripoff
jdimsa

[Anonymous No.6611216]

>later chapter is a retelling of a previous chapter from another characters pov

[I Does the Police in Different(...) No.6611217]

>>6611207
books published before 1880

Also Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.6611218]

>the book starts in the end of the story
>the rest of the book explains how you got there

[Anonymous No.6611228]

>>6611207
some dickens
blood meridian

[Anonymous No.6611231]

>character appears in another novel by the author

>character appears in another novel by another author

[Anonymous No.6611233]

>>6611217
>>6611207
And the Eddie Dickens Trilogy

[Anonymous No.6611235]

>>6611143
which book

[Anonymous No.6611236]

>>6611176
>genre fiction

[Anonymous No.6611246]

>hill #218: 4 pages
>battle against agents of Mordor: 1/2 page

[Anonymous No.6611255]

>>6611167
>>6611176
>book has no pages

[Anonymous No.6611259]

>characters have long russian names
>characters have multiple terms of address used interchangably

[Anonymous No.6611290]

>author uses no quotation marks when writing dialogue
There's something about this that makes it look and feel so damn good. It's aesthetically pleasing to look at and it's a pleasure to read once you (very quickly) get the hang of it.

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.6611304]

>>6611207
The King James Bible in its original format does this. I think that's where Blood Meridian got it.

[Anonymous No.6611311]

>>6611290
What book?

[Anonymous No.6611380]

>>6611311
A few authors do this. Cormac McCarthy, Jose Saramago, Cynan Jones, etc. It's a woefully underused literary device, imo.

>A quarter mile down the road he stopped and looked back. We're not thinking, he said. We have to go back. He pushed the cart off the road and tilted it over where it could not be seen and they left their packs and went back to the station. In the service bay he dragged out the steel trashdrum and tipped it over and pawed out all the quart plastic oilbottles. Then they sat in the floor decanting them of their dregs one by one, leaving the bottles to stand upside down draining into a pan until at the end they had almost a half quart of motor oil. He screwed down the plastic cap and wiped the bottle off with a rag and hefted it in his hand. Oil for their little slutlamp to light the long gray dusks, the long gray dawns. You can read me a story, the boy said. Cant you, Papa? Yes, he said. I can.

[Anonymous No.6611474]

>>6611311
>What book?
Every book ever in French or Russian, for example.

[Anonymous No.6613179]

>>6611311

Cormac McCarthy is well known for it, so is Tim Winton (in Australia at least) and Cynan Jones as well.

Personally, I love it. In most books I've read which use the device I've found it greatly added to the atmosphere and tone of the work.

Not saying it can't be done badly, but I enjoy seeing it done well.

[Anonymous No.6613201]

>>6610954
>chapters and book pages count in reverse

I love Chuck Palahniuk.

[Anonymous No.6613236]

>>6611380
Absolutely fucking disgusting.

I'm here for a story, not to be forced to do your formatting for you in my head as I read. Stop being lazy and set out your work legibly you fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.6613254]

>>6613236
If dubs I write this comment on a postcard and mail it to Tim Winton.

[Anonymous No.6613271]

>>6613254
Reroll

[Anonymous No.6613274]

>>6613254
rerolling for justice.

[Anonymous No.6613287]

>>6611207
Gulliver's Travels.

[Anonymous No.6613293]

>>6613254
Dubs get

[Anonymous No.6613303]

>>6613299

GET

[Anonymous No.6613387]

>>6611167
>book has no capitalization or punctuation.
>/lit/ eats it up because "muh art"

[Anonymous No.6613391]

>>6613387
The salt is real

[Anonymous No.6613396]

>>6613387
What book?

[Anonymous No.6613786]

Book is chronologically out of order for no good reason.

[Anonymous No.6613799]

>>6613786
>le sierpinsky gasket

[Anonymous No.6613850]

>>6613786
It was a critique of determinism.

[Anonymous No.6613853]

>>6611259
>dmitry (mitya) fyodorovich karamazov

[Anonymous No.6613861]

>The book is a diary as an excuse for being a written story