Enough of this “ooh let me spend five paragraphs describing the trees,” “let’s have the main character monologue in his head for three pages,” “um let’s devote an entire chapter to an irrelevant essay” bullshit: This thread is about novels that focus on the PLOT. I want novels where the interest lies in what’s happening and how character actions in one chapter have a ripple effect that extends to all subsequent chapters. I want logical consistency and clear cause and effect as well as characters with competing interests vying to accomplish disparate goals.
>>25039190Should’ve known that the people here don’t actually read. Oh well.
>>25037913Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Nothing has a tight, realistic plot like a classic French novel>>25039807Except this one
>>25039809What are some other examples?
>>25039823Sentimental Education, fizzes a little unlike Bovary which goes out with a bang.
>>25039809He decorates his room, adopts a tortoise, decorates his tortoise, plans a holiday to England. That's plot.
>>25037913Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne, unironically. Them shits are PAGE TURNERS.
>>25039872Is this required reading for Tao of Pooh or nah?
>>25037913do they not still sell comic books, OP? Or maybe you'll get lucky and someone will read a "big boy book" and write you the shitty little condensed childrens classic. Seriously though what OP is describing is a short story. To go with his short brain. And I will recommend something. "Koolau the Leper". Action, drama, tense moments. They even made a graphic novel out of it. You know, a fucking comic book version with the short story surrounded by cool illustrations to try to get cretins to read by any means possible.
>>25040983Or plays. Plays may work for him. The stagecraft does the heavy lifting of description, the script does the plot.>>25037913OP start with Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.Actually, The Robbers by Schiller you would like. All Sturm und Drang slapdash plot.
>>25037913First Blood. It's not like the Stallone movie.
>>25040983Reading your post, I finally understand the performative male meme. The insecurity and status-seeking is palpable and repulsive,
>>25037913I just read this the other day. It was very purple for a noir but I enjoyed it.
didn't read yet lol but the book the movie drive is based on has a sick opening i was like hell ya that's a good one
>>25041122>Reading your post, I finally understand the performative male meme. The insecurity and status-seeking is palpable and repulsive,you just paraphrased a famous line in a james bond movie. "Die Another Day", actually. Is that all the skill you have? To restate cool movie quotes. My brother owns a parrot that can do that much. Plus who gives a fuck what you think. Why are you even on a literature site if you don't like real books. If only your mom hadn't been one of those all too typical "I like bad boys, tee hee" types? You might have gotten some genes from a guy with half a brain. My condolences for losing that genetic lottery.
>>25037913Much of the text of The Maltese Falcon is unironically devoted to pointless descriptions.
>>25040983>>25042451what a salty faggot
read agatha christie, there is just stuff happening nonstop
>>25037913My argument against plotfags: If you really enjoyed books it wouldn't matter if you read a summary of the book
>>25042451>Why are you even on a literature site if you don't like real books?Such as?
>>25037913The talented Mr Ripley is a masterpiece.
>>25042576A concern for plot does not preclude a concern for prose.
>>25042451Never seen that movie. Pretty sure they weren’t using the term performative male back then. You write like an insecure faggot though. I don’t think those books are doing you any good.
>>25042451 What slurping on too many cocks does to a fella
>>25041122And you learned that through examining yourself?
