>Main character is a writer

>>9310163
>he doesn't like At Swim-Two-Birds
wew lad

>book ends with introducing a writer character that starts asking one of the main characters about the evens of the story

>protagonist is an author
>it's a "meta work" that tries to be clever and postmodern

kms

>>9310163
>pic
Is that Penn, the magician??

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>main character is the author of the book
>The story is him writing the book
>It devolves into a recursive series of authors writing the book inside the book like a babushka doll

>>9310169
Mmmmm I want to read Niebla now.

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>WRITER IS A WRITER

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>writer is an author

>>9310180

Can't be worse than Infinite Jest...

>author is fat white dude
>main character is a fit white dude who bangs multiple women

>>9310256
>Plebs can only write plebs
Sounds fair.

>>9310163
I was thoroughly displeased when reading 1Q84 because of this.

I generally dislike any works in which the protagonist is doing whatever medium they're fleshed out in.

It just seems fucking tacky and lazy.

i want all authors, cinematographers, painters etc to go fuck themselves if they do this

>main character is a drunk writer

>>9310163
>Novel about a writer struggling to write a novel

>>9312101
Exclude all those Busby Berkeley musicals where the impetus is getting the show together and on right now!

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>coming to a summer near you
>fresh energy for the whole family
>renewable time slot for the wild cats who 'dine' young
>like roman candles. Burn, burn burn zzzzzzp fresh out ink typewriter begins to fume with smoke
>this summer
>I get ideas all the time so I carry the sharpie upon my ear to remind me, here's one now: To life and living
>this summer
>I'll tell you when I've had enough to drink
>this summer
>Alice wants an interview, she loves your book
>this summer
>On The Road (with surprise gay sex that didn't happen in the book)

>main character is an introspective NEET

>Main character's name is a pun within the author's language

Глядя нa вac, Фeдя

>>9310180
David Mitchell (the author) had a bit about this in Bone Clocks. A character named Richard Cheeseman was writing a book about a character named Richard Cheeseman who has writing a book about a character named Richard Cheeseman etc. etc.

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>>9313102
>Фeдя
>a pun

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>>9313145
>Pacкoльникoв
>root is Pacкoлник meaning Split or Schism

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>main character is an alter

>author is remembering a past event and within that past event he remembers an even older event

just stop

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>>9310163
>being this autistic
Good book coming through

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>Author tells the story of how he met a character who starts to tell his story on pov. Then, the second teller does the narration of how he came to see a third character who also tells his own story on pov.

>>9313232
I can understand that, but I'm interested where the "Глядя нa вac, Фeдя" reference comes from.

>>9312137
My diary desu

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>book has words in it

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>Minor Writer character only appears in Xth novel of the series
>Turns out the main characters have to protect him so that he could write their series in the first place

>>9313299
"Looking at you, Fedya (Fyodor)"

>>9313267
>story digresses and changes pov 8 times before getting to the main plot.

>>9310169
Oblomov was pretty damn good actually

>>9313260
nigra the writer appears like twice in this book. he's by no means the main character

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>>9310163
>Main character is a reader