Anonymous #2 6w

Have you ever read any McCarthy? Feel like it’d be a nightmare trying to determine what was dialogue and what wasn’t with his style if you just skim for it.

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Anonymous #3 6w

I’ve read most McCarthy and my strategy works out just fine.

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Anonymous #2 6w

But what if the character is lying? What if they’re unreliable? What if their main conflict is self vs self? How would you grasp all of that from just the dialogue?

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Anonymous OP 6w

Trust me, I can tell just fine. It’s self-evident.

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Anonymous #2 6w

I think we can agree to disagree lol

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Anonymous OP 6w

Nah I know myself, you don’t know me unfortunately

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Anonymous #2 6w

Yeah that’s what I’m saying? We disagree on this matter and that’s fine bc I don’t know you

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Anonymous OP 6w

No I’m saying I won’t agree to disagree because you’re wrong as evidenced by you making claims about me despite never having met me besides through about 200 words on an online forum. Good day ma’am

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Anonymous #2 6w

lol okay

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Anonymous OP 6w

that’s what I thought.

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Anonymous #2 6w

What kind of books do you read? I feel like they would have to be very dialogue heavy

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Anonymous #4 6w

david foster wallape.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Damn if that’s how you read just read scripts instead. I understand skipping a bit of purple prose, but… don’t you want to read the book? Not to read 20% of it??? Like what’s the point if you skip every description, action scene, physical movement, or internal thought

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Anonymous #5 6w

Most of what you just said is covered in dialogue.

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Anonymous #2 6w

You haven’t read McCarthy if you think you can just skim through dialogue lmao

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Anonymous #6 6w

No one said I’m skimming through dialogue, I am very thorough. Lol

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Anonymous #2 6w

You’re skimming through the book by just reading dialogue, which is literally impossible with McCarthy btw

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Anonymous #6 6w

It’s too late for your argument, I already did.

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Anonymous #2 6w

You clearly didn’t

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Anonymous #6 6w

I have at least 2 times.

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Anonymous #2 6w

No you didn’t. you can’t “just read the dialogue” of McCarthy, he doesn’t use quotation marks, so there’s no marker telling you where dialogue starts or stops. You’d have to already be reading closely enough to identify it as dialogue, at which point you’re not skimming, you’re just reading the book. Stop lying lmao

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Anonymous #6 6w

No, I read closely enough to identify the dialogue, then skip the rest.

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Anonymous #6 6w

No response. Surprise surprise. No one can deny my methods, lol.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Right, you just sense when the dialogue’s over. Just admit you didn’t read McCarthy dude, this works for literally any author but him 😭

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Anonymous #6 6w

I literally just sense when the dialogue is over and continue scanning.

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Anonymous #2 6w

🤣🤣

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Anonymous #2 6w

The larp would’ve worked if you chose any author but McCarthy, nice try tho bud

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Anonymous #6 6w

That’s why I’m so advanced — I can dialogue read the one author most people wouldn’t dare to try it on. Luckily for me, my balls are big.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Truly the bravest reading strategy known to man. History will remember this. A beacon of intelligence.

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Anonymous #6 6w

I applaud you for recognizing greatness when you see it, unlike these bickering half-wits who refuse to bow down to me despite my fantasmatic ways.

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Anonymous #2 6w

I regret to inform you, in the same fantasmatic spirit you’ve so graciously bestowed upon us, that you remain, despite your skimming prowess, a little bitch.

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Anonymous #6 6w

Once again, I’ve never skimmed, I selectively read thoroughly. I’m used to being hated for speaking the truth, however, I know my day will come. Let freedom ring.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Dress it up in whatever finery you please, the diagnosis is clear as day: you are unequivocally, a consummate, delusional, quintessential little bitch boy. Let freedom ring indeed.

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Anonymous #6 6w

Hating someone out of jealousy is completely natural, but it does, in fact, make you what you are accusing me of being, unfortunately. Hate to drop too many truth nuked on you but it appears you’ve been roasted.

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Anonymous #2 6w

What exactly do you define as filler? I know it’s not the case with every book, but if you consider very artistically written books, then like—the non-dialogue is quite important to the experience as well? I’d be curious how you’d read Tolkien

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Anonymous #7 6w

I read Tolkien’s dialogue.

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Anonymous #2 6w

So, let’s say during the chapter where the rohirrim ride to Gondor’s aid, the only part of that you read was Theoden’s speech?

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Anonymous #7 6w

Haven’t gotten there yet.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Do you ever read any non-dialogue, or is it a strict adherence?

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Anonymous #7 6w

Strict.

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Anonymous #2 6w

God help you if you ever read a book that’s mostly exposition

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Anonymous #7 6w

If anything you’re the one getting exposed right now.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Huh? I paid for the whole book so I’m gonna read the whole book, and if the author put it in there, I want to know why, and experience it in that way. I can understand reading only the dialogue as an interesting alternative for a second read, but a dogmatic devotion to it is foreign

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Anonymous #7 6w

then why watch a movie?

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Anonymous #2 6w

…do you think the only thing going on in a movie is the dialogue? Camera angle alone will determine the difference between a film nerd getting wet or throwing a brick at the screen

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Anonymous #7 6w

Who said I want to see a film nerd get wet? And who brings a brick to a theater?

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Anonymous #2 6w

Okay, you have no interest in an honest conversation. You’re picking apart semantic comparisons and trying to bait me with annoyance into continuing this. Good day.

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Anonymous #7 6w

Saying you want to read the whole book because you paid for it is like saying you want to eat the whole cherry because you paid for it. You’re gonna have a bad time chewing on the pit.

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Anonymous #7 6w

You’re honestly gonna bait me & not reply? loser.

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Anonymous #2 6w

A cherry was made for the pit to be spit out. Something like an apple? You can eat the whole thing. Authors make books to be read in their entirety, otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered to write all of it.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Oh no, I am doing other things than arguing online, how insufferable

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Anonymous #7 6w

You’re literally not lmao holy shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Anonymous #2 6w

I’m tired of this, book club doesn’t need negativity, peace

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Anonymous #7 6w

You’re the one being negative, i was positively describing my abilities and hear you are trying to bring me down and doubt my ways. Good riddence.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Okay, then how exactly was I “exposing” myself previously? How am I a loser for taking 3 minutes to reply to a comment on Yikyak? It is my view that you’re disrespecting authors, but I don’t believe I’ve called you any unfriendly name in this conversation. I am tired, I would like to rest and enjoy the rest of my day. Have a good one.

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Anonymous #7 6w

You’re seriously asking me how you’re a loser for getting in a fight on yikyak?

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Anonymous #7 6w

You called me a “film nerd”

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Anonymous #2 6w

If you have such little media literacy to think that I called you in particular a film nerd, then I am unsurprised you believe the dialogue alone is a superior experience to a full book. And truly, replying twice to my one message does make you look a bit desperate for attention.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Be honest are you ragebaiting ppl? lmao. Also, are David Wallace’s books good? I’ve heard of Infinite Jest but never read it

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Anonymous #7 6w

You’re being trolled my man

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