Describe your ideal novel in 15 words or less.

fun, emotional, leaves me thinking about it for a long time after

>>9524194
Funny as fuck. Where some people fall in love and I learn some shit.

It takes place in a 90's, jazzy, multiracial, consumerist, transsexual utopia with lots of LSD.

>stars ryan gosling in the movie adaptation

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New York jew, highly neurotic, highly unlucky.

Does something bizarre or transgression with clear reason and "higher purpose".

>>9524299
So like Crime and Punishment?

Emotional, philosophical, moralistic, character focused.

>>9524303
Sure, that's a fine example.

something involving self-transcendence while still embracing human values
it makes sense, I swear

Moby Dick

>>9524443
Came here to say this

with words

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>>9524444
nice

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>>9524444
Moby Dick is peerless and those quads prove it

Written by Thomas Bernhard.

>>9524194
My ideal novel would be 15 words or less.

The last sane man in an insane world

starts good
ends good
preferably realism

>>9524194
Priests doing wacky shit. It's far out, man...

Fantastic settings with strange but comforting/compassionate relationships. Typically found in: old mythology (eg Greco-Roman myths), sci-fi or fantasy. Doesn't have to be though, those indicators were ticked to me when I read Moby-Dick or Shadow of the Sun

decadence, decay, death, sex, time, gods, silence, petrichor

>>9524194
really high tech, consistent, gadgets, good characterization.
(cross between Stross and Banks)
or

realistic, magic, overpowered hero, good fight scenes, bleak world
(A Land Fit for Heroes is a close one)

gimmicks profit merchandise spin offs sequels fanbase movie adaptation bestseller young adult

>>9524444
>>9524443

not shit

>>9524727
But anon, that's already been written! You may not have heard of it, it's a bit of an obscure book.

It's called 'my diary desu'

>>9525331
WTF is that supposed to mean? What does your diary have to do with it? This is an English website, newfag, we don't speak Japanese here.

Sold enough copies to make the author the richest person in the world.

Young man in a world of shit. Presses on. Endures. Winds up okay. That's it.

>>9524194
A loli falls in love with a loli. They will discover the nature of love.

>>9525399
I remember my first day.

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low-income protag. no sign of pretension. no love interest. all characters are bad people.

>>9525399
lurk moar, faggot

>>9524443
Ditto

>>9524194
Good murder mystery.

>>9524194
Intertextual Post-Modern Encyclopedic Novel about Greek mythology featuring Suicidal Orthodox Russians in Dublin.

Talking cat defeats god in a race through time and space.

Cain slays Able and is cast out of paradise, condemned to wander for the rest of his life

The desire for revenge creating monsters out of people during a violent ethnic conflict

>>9524291
I'm glad they don't write garbage like that.

>>9524428
So, The Bible?

Ulysses by James Joyce

>>9524194
Poo poo. Pee Pee. Nigga.

>>9524194
Milan Kundra meets Malcolm Lowry

>>9524194

noir

supernatural noir

lovecraftian supernatural noir

>>9524194
Oppressive government, plot twists, gangs, dystopia, character development, revelations, philosophical contemplations.

>>9524194
three of everything, about everything, for everyone

being a retard and making the wrong decisions

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>>9524866
Basically this

>>9525517
Harry Potter is a close contender.
Rowling was a billionaire

>>9530363
That sounds more like The Wire

>>9530428
Some themes in the wire would be similar but I think overall that story would be different.

Heartfelt, acute descriptions of the characters and their situations, affects me personally

"You wouldn't think what you're thinking if you thought about what you're thinking."

Series of surreal encounters with outsiders dreamed by a child in an insular mountain village

>>9524194
titties
scotch
feminine penis
psychadellic drugs

Sad, funny, decay.