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Anonymous Fri Sep 16 03:14:12 2016 No.8514427 [Reply] [Original]

>unreliable narrators

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 03:15:41 2016 No.8514430 File: 7 KB, 231x218, peperain.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >unreliable readers

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 03:16:56 2016 No.8514434 File: 6 KB, 250x250, CEIUgZEUIAE-jGt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >unreliable writers

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 04:03:17 2016 No.8514485 unreliable shitposters

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 04:40:00 2016 No.8514511 >unreliable frog arrows

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 04:43:45 2016 No.8514517 File: 121 KB, 340x374, acc1edf338995912ed885a6e2731e190.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >reliable fellater

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 05:26:43 2016 No.8514569 Isn't the fact that author makes the narrator "unreliable" make him more reliable than any other? How can we know any narrator is to be trusted, in any work? If anything, unreliable narrators let us know that they are not to be trusted.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 12:37:19 2016 No.8515563 >>8514569 But if he's narrating how do you know he's lying?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 12:45:02 2016 No.8515588 >>8515563 By not being a total idiot. >>8514569 This is the whole "chaotic evil is the most predicable alignment cause they are always evil" faggotry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 13:37:07 2016 No.8515809 >>8514427 >>8514430 >>8514434 Okay I laughed

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 13:53:11 2016 No.8515876 >>8514569 this is stupid. I wish I could force all writers to write from 3rd person limited omniscient perspective. Then they might actually develop some sense of plot, narrative and story structure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 14:22:30 2016 No.8515962 >>8514427 >>8514430 >>8514434 >posting the white nationalist frog Racism isn't allowed here, kids. >>>/pol/

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 14:55:52 2016 No.8516062 >>8514569 wew lad >>8514427 >The whole story is being told to some random fag in a bar it kills all suspense and I have only seen it subverted once

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 14:57:58 2016 No.8516072 File: 336 KB, 483x569, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8515962 you should be more open minded

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 16:54:30 2016 No.8516477 >>8515962 We don't take kindly to jewr kind around here. Nor anywhere else

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 17:00:57 2016 No.8516502 File: 372 KB, 918x1000, Huckleberry_Finn_book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Post examples of unreliable narrators done right

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 19:06:45 2016 No.8516879 >>8516502 Holden Caulfield

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 19:15:32 2016 No.8516918 >unreliable boards when it comes to thread quality

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 19:19:29 2016 No.8516924 File: 71 KB, 761x750, DFW2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >First-person narration

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 01:36:25 2016 No.8517817 >>8516502 Umineko

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 01:39:31 2016 No.8517821 >>8516918 >unreliable broads when it comes to thread quality I didn't marry a seamstress for shoddy woollens like these

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 01:41:06 2016 No.8517823 >"non-linear storyline" when the author clearly made everything up as they went along

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 01:43:29 2016 No.8517828 >>8516502 Kinbote.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 01:44:48 2016 No.8517833 Wittgenstein's Mistress did it right

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 12:26:18 2016 No.8518841 >>8517821 Underrated

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:10:16 2016 No.8519193 >>8517823 or it would have been ultra dull in linear form so they had it by moving shit around