Are there any slice of life novels that are actually good?
MiddlemarchAnna KareninaBuddennbrooks
Sword Art Online
>>24086382Read biographies about people you like
>>24086382mrs dalloway
In Search of Lost Time
>>24086382>slice of lifeYou mean, no overall progression, just a bunch of random episodes conveying the flavour of a certain existence?Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)Ulysses (James Joyce)Three Men In A Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)Suttree (Cormac McCarthy)Something Happened (Joseph Heller)In most of these the world at the end is basically the same as the world at the beginning, which is one definition of "slice of life" I guess. (In the last two, things change a bit at the end.)
>>24086987>Tom SawyerEr….
The stranger
>>24086414>read teddy roosevelts first biography>hundred pages of boring college life>then he becomes a cowboy>tricked you here's 50 pages of politics>and then he goes to war lol>nah back to politicking
>>24086382no it's similar to the visual mediums
>>24087047Ocean waves is good
>>24086382I really like The Brittle Age by Donatella di Pietrantonio.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219332974-the-brittle-ageYou'll have to wait for the translation if you are an american.
>>24086410Only the abridged version
>>24087047>>24086410Anons, the term means a completely different thing when it comes to literature...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life
>>24086382Stoner
Drifting by Huysmans. A Parisian bachelor's quest for a decent meal.
>>24086382yup
>>24087368The slice of life parts in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle mogged the main story so hard it's not even funny. I had more fun with Okada walking around his neighborhood looking for his cat than him looking for his wife.
Suttree
>>24088288care to sell me on suttree
>>24086382Illiad
>>24088292It feels like a mature Huck Finn, and I don't mean in the sense that like it's about more "adult" things, it just feels like a natural progressionIt chronicles and very specific part of America, shows it bare, but it also comes from a place of love and sincerityIf you're looking for a slice of life style book it's a great pick because while it just follows a guy through his day to day life and doesn't have a strong plot it really evokes some powerful emotions just by depicting such a man as Suttree
>>24088307thank you! i appreciate you. i think i will check this out next.
My diary desu
>>24088292>care to sell me on suttreeBoth rapes are excellent and it is a series of pathetic short stories that shouldn't have been published, so it lacks the strong-through-line argument that Cormac normally does.Also dead children.
