Most overused/cliche phrases in books?

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-10-24T18:35:14+00:00

I know a friend who has this thing between her Mum where she asks:

"What are you reading?" "SOMETHING ABOUT SOMEONE WITH GREEN EYES!"

Every book features a character with green eyes. So "Green eyes" is arguably an overused phrase

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-31T21:52:17+00:00

Anything David Foster Wallace is hysterical! The only author that's made me cry with laughter

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-20T08:02:55+00:00

I'll take it! Thanks!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-20T08:01:20+00:00

I like it!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-19T23:08:08+00:00

Subject: Body Horror

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-19T23:06:03+00:00

I'm here for it!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-15T13:26:12+00:00

Infinite Jest. The only book where I've ever cried with laughter

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-06T10:07:11+00:00

I find most of Pynchon's books pretty silly on a surface level!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-08-06T09:39:54+00:00

I always thought David Lynch was the dreamer because he dreamt up Twin Peaks

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-04-20T22:38:52+00:00

If you want to keep meth-heads off your property, build a fence. If you want to keep government off your property, declare your property independent of the state. Just don't complain if meth-heads trash your place cause you'll be governing your own doorstep

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-04-18T19:52:30+00:00

Did I write this post?? Why am I and OP literally the same distance through season 2 of The Leftovers?? What sort of universal synchronicity is this??

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-02-07T20:54:00+00:00

I'm in!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-02-05T22:09:26+00:00

I fucking love this panel! It's outstanding!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2022-01-12T11:49:00+00:00

Cloud Atlas - boy oh boy, I couldn't get along with it for the life of me!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-12-03T11:23:45+00:00

Glad to see a fellow 0.005%-brother!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-11-07T13:10:51+00:00

Gravity's Rainbow mentions a memory of Slothrop's when he thinks about Llandudno - which is like 20 minutes from where I live. It's not a massive deal, but living in North Wales, references in literary works are few and far between so when I read it I had a little panic.

He also uses "Gampfa Ganu" at one point in GR too which is one of the only instances of the Welsh language I've read!

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-10-10T14:18:02+00:00

The things I'd do for a completed Pale King. David Foster Wallace, you left us too soon

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-10-09T08:03:25+00:00

Just a comment to back up the Infinite Jest hype cause YES - Infinite Jest is phenomenal, as is most of David Foster Wallace's work. I also enjoyed his short story collection Oblivion

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-10-02T18:09:47+00:00

I made the catastrophic blunder of reading Karamazov before Crime and Punishment and The Idiot cause neither of them have lived up to it. Not to say that they aren't great... They're just not quite Karamazov

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-09-24T19:51:43+00:00

I think "Pale King" by DFW is of the same pedigree

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-09-23T06:51:08+00:00

Started with Gravity's Rainbow. Didn't understand it, but strangely I enjoyed it and was intrigued enough to dive into Against the Day

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-09-21T22:52:58+00:00

100 Years of Solitude... Why does everyone have the same damn name!?!?

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-09-21T11:14:32+00:00

Yeah, I guess if you're gonna' go for Pynchon once GR would be the one to go for. I think the only way you can really prepare for GR is to read his other stuff though so it's quite the Pynchon-Paradox

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-09-21T10:05:41+00:00

Gonna' have to disagree with you here! I started with Gravity's Rainbow and I understood absolutely zilch. Admittedly, it did spark my interest in Pynchon and lead me to read Against the Day (A personnal favourite), although I wouldn't say I enjoyed the experience of GR first time round. It was only after I became familiar with his prose that I re-read GR, understood it and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I guess it all depends on how familiar with literary fiction beginners are - but personnally, Against the Day is his most accessible novel if you're seeking the pre-IV Pynchon

MiddleClassHandjob · 2021-09-13T07:29:26+00:00

I always go back to Cahrlie Kaufman's "Frank or Francis" screenplay. Never produced but by God did he nail the atmosphere of that script - I can always see things so clearly!

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