Thread: New large novel compared favorably to Proust - Anyone read this?
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Old 06-12-2014, 06:19 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Hey. Now he can say that he has the largest currently selling book on the smallest currently selling e-reader. (That I know of.)

For some reason, I don't think this is for me.... a 3,5K fantasy series that is essentially one novel: why not? But a novel about the guy writing that novel...?
It may be counterintuitive, but fantasy (and most fiction in general) tends to be quite formulaic. Real life can be chaotic and strange, and anything goes. After you've read enough fiction, you get familiar with the formulas, and then it's the depictions of real events that offer the most surprises and new lessons on what it means to be human. Maybe those novels are not what you're looking for today, but who knows, down the road they may be just the thing for you.
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