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• paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hadn’t even heard of it until your comment.

  I respect going all in on breaking convention a lot more than leaving out punctuation as a style.

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  • supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I agree- which is the way I believe most Cormac McCarthy fans view his writing style. I have never read his books, they aren’t for me- but I feel that bucking trends is the way art is meant to evolve. Some trends getting bucked are more annoying than others, though.

    Do you have any authors that you suggest to others?

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    • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I tend to read books about religion and history, so there isn’t really a lot of breaking the mold there unfortunately.

      Gormenghast and Neuromancer are the kind of heavy atmospheric and descriptive fiction I like, but they don’t really deviate from standard punctuation or presentation in any way.

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      • BasedMaquisEddington@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Doesn’t Gormenghast have that dinner scene that’s a massive stream of consciousness curveball?

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      • supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fair enough- I had never heard of either of those before. However, I know Mervyn Peake has been a heavy inspiration of modern fiction. I may have to give the Gormenghast series a try- just super daunting.

        Anyways, thanks for indulging my curiosity. Just had time to kill. Have a good one!

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      • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gormenghast… I read a translation si I wouldn’t know about grammar rules, but it definitely broke storytelling rules. The style of the descriptions, how description and action blend into one another, how decay becomes almost a tangible presence through the pages… a unique book by any means

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• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I thought House of Leaves dragged on, but I think the confusion was kind of the story too, you know? You have this scenario going on in the book, and the book itself has you looking left right up down here and there for the context.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jumping in.

  I tried ‘House’ and noped out about fifty pages in.

  Too much work and not much payout.

  imho it was a gimmick book.

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• Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “House of Leaves” challenges what is a book! Forget grammar, this is an identify crisis of narrative. Or is it even narrative at this point? Work of art, absolutely.

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