>he reads for prose

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>he reads

>>7524028
this
books are so last century
audiobooks are the future

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What's a good novel confronting the reader with their pretentiousness?

>>7524091
What pretense?

>>7524091
my diary desu

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Only did this once, with Suttree. I enjoyed it, but couldn't read big lengths at a time the same way I would with an imaginative plot-driven story. Like the same author's No Country for Old Men. Still, both prose and plot can each be enjoyable.

>>7523997
real patricians like me read for plot

i hate the way this board and its sperglord shit for brain illiterate inhabitants look at literature as a video game. oh, how many pages did it have! that one will award a lot of exp. check its stats! characters? plot? prose? dude, everyone knows leveling prose is a waste of time, don't bother with it. oh my god, you've only read one of joyce's books? you're so underlevelled! fuck all of you. read a fucking somerset maugham story and realize how much of a fucking simpleton you really are. FUCK.

>>7525660

At its core, there is literally no difference in books and video games.

>>7524032
Audiobooks are so next century.

The oral tradition is timeless. ;0

>>7525663
What did you think are the themes of Tetris?

>>7524091
Pretentiousness is when you try to act smarter than what you are. Calling someone pretentious doesn't work If they actually know what they're talking about, no matter how snobby they are about it.

>>7525672
Every block has a place to fill in the gaps that society's other blocks have left behind.

It's rather collectivist considering it was developed by Soviets.

>>7525660
cringy post desu

>>7525672
futility can be fun

>>7525696
This post exemplifies why people hate modern "art."

>>7525660
pls leave my thread

>>7525622

>spotted the virgin

>>7523997
My nigga

I don't give a single fuck how "deep" or "intellectual" the book I am reading is - if the fucking book's prose is God awful, then I just can't get into the story and enjoy it as much. Plus, it just makes the message of the story blur if I have to re-read the same passage 3 times because the prose is God awful.

>>7523997
>redditing for plot

>>7525836
>caring what a bunch plebs think

>>7529120
>redditing

>>7523997
words = vehicle
prose = frame
structure = structural supports
meaning = engine