Besides plot and characters what makes a book good?

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2016-04-30 23:20:01 Post No. 7983630
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Anonymous 2016-04-30 23:20:01 Post No. 7983630 [Report]

Besides plot and characters what makes a book good?

Anonymous 2016-04-30 23:24:24 Post No.7983647
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Anonymous 2016-04-30 23:24:24 Post No.7983647 [Report]

>>7983630
A hardcover, bright colors, and pseudphilosophical smegma-scented little phrases carefully crafted in order to fit perfectly in jpegs of the sea, or stars, or flowers with said quote on them.

Also, incest sex scenes.

Anonymous 2016-04-30 23:25:49 Post No.7983655
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Anonymous 2016-04-30 23:25:49 Post No.7983655 [Report]

aesthetic

a mostly abstract and subjective characteristic that is the single important thing in all of art

how it makes you 'feel', association potential

Anonymous 2016-04-30 23:28:23 Post No.7983660
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Anonymous 2016-04-30 23:28:23 Post No.7983660 [Report]

>>7983630
The beauty of the prose on a sentence-by-sentence level. That's what separates literature from genre trash.

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:08:39 Post No.7984653
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>>7983630
Prose. Plot and characters are shit. You could write a book about someone taking an actual shit on abstract representations of plot, characters and aesthetic, but if it had the pure and perfect prose of true literature it would matter little.

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:13:39 Post No.7984656
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Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:13:39 Post No.7984656 [Report]

prose

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:14:39 Post No.7984663
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>>7983630
>the book has a plot and characters

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:15:40 Post No.7984666
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>>7983630
A GOOD BOOK.

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:24:35 Post No.7984686
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>>7983630
A good author.

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:27:37 Post No.7984692
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>>7983647
Essential post.

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:35:28 Post No.7984706
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>>7983660
how do we judge the beauty of prose

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:36:46 Post No.7984711
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>>7984706
subjectively of course

Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:37:45 Post No.7984714
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Anonymous 2016-05-01 05:37:45 Post No.7984714 [Report]

>>7984706
You go to goodreads and look up the list of top rated "beautiful prose" books, obviously.

Anonymous 2016-05-01 07:22:09 Post No.7984960
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Anonymous 2016-05-01 07:22:09 Post No.7984960 [Report]

>>7983630
how effectively it engages varying registers of ontology desu

Anonymous 2016-05-01 07:28:19 Post No.7984971
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>>7983630
pictures

Anonymous 2016-05-01 07:31:36 Post No.7984976
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Anonymous 2016-05-01 07:31:36 Post No.7984976 [Report]

>>7983630
All elements of a book -- plot, characters, writing style, philosophical depth, etc. -- all add up to the end result of some kind of inner feeling. It is dependent upon that feeling which all books are judged.

Anonymous 2016-05-01 08:05:13 Post No.7985041
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