Let's talk fiction
 

Okay so


1. What is your favourite storytelling cliche/trope? Like, something thematic, or a construct or just type of "thing" you like in a story.

2. What is your least favourite?


Just to get the ball rolling.

Optional third: What's the happiest story you've ever read/watched/played without it becoming cheesy and forced?

I dislike this thread already.

What's your favorite trope? What an absurd question.

Sometimes I don't get complaints about "cheesy", half the time I suspect the people complaining are just trying to be "edgy".

Once upon a time.

And it was all a dream.

It was a dark and stormy night.

My favorite fiction is the bible.

DURR IM SO CLEVUR

Also, I don't read that much. Can you tell?

As for the happiest story, I remember being happy whenever I read something to do with Haruhi Suzumiya. I never considered it cheesy or forced whatsoever.

Ranma was pretty happy, but not cheesy.

I really really like dark magical girls.

Check out TV Tropes sometime, you might like it. Or not, considering how critical you are over pretty much everything. :P

There's no way OANST will like TVTropes.

Even I hate TVTropes. I still go on it every fucking day, but God do I hate it.

Happiest story, I'm not a fan of big happy endings, but something close to that was To Kill a Mockingbird, which also happens to be one of my favourite books of all time.

I just had to read Atonement for university. Having seen the film already spoilt it rather a lot but I still enjoyed it immensely.

Fuck this essay on it I have to write by next Wednesday, though. I have no fucking idea what to do with that.

But we have a thread for reading.

Do you need help with essay structure and all that shit? I can give you some pointers if you'd like. PM me if you do.

But you're not even in university.

I read this thread as "Let's talk friction". That would of been really uninteresting.

It would have been rather grating, wouldn’t it.

All these puns are really starting to rub me up the wrong way.

What a burn.

Stop being so abrasive!

I didn't know that!

It appears to have been pushed off the main page.

That won't do, I absolutely must let you all know I'm reading War and Peace.

I just finished reading In Our Time. I enjoyed it.

Which half did you like more?

They key word here being reading. They haven't gotten to the war yet.

But the title indicates that war comes first!

Actually it was originally Peace and War, but that's just nowhere near snappy enough.

I am also reading War and Peace, about a hundred pages in, the most interesting that that's happened is a policeman got tied to a bear. Still a good book, though.

To be moderatly on topic. I always have love for what TVTropes call the "BFG" in all fiction. Nothing is cooler than some big fucking gun used awesomely in fiction, regardless of what type it is (providing it has some context).

I actually found the whole ball/party/thing at the start pretty fascinating.

But yeah, I couldn't stop giggling with the bear. What a way to kick the plot of the world's greatest novel off.

Don't get me wrong, the ball is intriguing, I love Anna and Pierre. Oh and Vasily. The other characters have yet to leave a lasting impression.

And I agree, I didn't expect Tolstoy to put any humour into the books, so it came as quite a shock to me when I saw it.

I really need to learn to read someday.

Books are really time-consuming. If I'm going to read a book, I need to be certain it'll be worth my time. Speaking of reading, I finished the original script of Romeo and Juliet for school. Everyone complains about it but I don't think it's that bad.

Oh, I'm also reading Cloud Atlas after getting intrigued after watching the movie trailer. The first two narrators were insufferably terrible, but the third one was really awesome and the story is heating up plenty. Very interesting.

Hmm, if you like War and Peace, WoF, you might like to try The Last Cavalier, it's something a tried to read years ago but got stumped on, it follows a similar vain. If I remember correctly.

The only thing remotely like War and Peace I've read before is A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov which is amazing and everyone should read it. One of only two texts I read for my Comparative Literature course in uni that I actually enjoyed (The other being Thus Spoke Zarathustra).

I used to read The Beano.