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The Week of Capsule Book Reviews Continues With Another Day of Predictably Good Books
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger – Catcher In The Rye is another of those books that I hated in high school (where, due to a change in schools, I had to read it in both 9th and 10th grades), but loooved when I re-read it in college. I also really liked Franny and Zooey and…
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Are comedic novels supposed to be funny in the same way that stand-up comics are funny?
I like funny things. Well, not videos of cats. Actually, I avoid humorous Youtube videos of any sort. But I am generally capable of appreciating all other forms of funny media: musicals, jokes (even puns), stand-up comedies, sit-coms, etc. But I’ve always been a little mystified by comedic novels. I mean, I’ve read and enjoyed…
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I would like to read a dull plotless novel, because all the plotless novels I’ve read have been too awesome
I don’t think that any novel is really “plotless”. As long as you’ve got a character who moves around and performs actions, then there’s a plot. Normally, the term “plotless” is used in a pejorative sense, to refer to novels or films in which the action doesn’t increase in intensity…