I'm looking for a hyper-real book. Some say a character is flat and one dimensional. I want hyperdimensional, interdimensional, and cross-dimensional characters. I want a book which doesn't only have real descriptions, but descriptions which are ultra real, like psychedelic drugs real, descriptions beyond what the mind can even perceive with the senses.
I'm looking for a hyper-real book. Some say a character is flat and one dimensional. I want hyperdimensional...
Robert Harris
James Jackson
The Bible
Leo Powell
ulysses
Isaiah Lopez
That's pretty much the opposite of the bible, particularly Genesis. Flattest characters and a story flow which is literally lists of family trees of characters who are never mentioned again.
Ayden Green
unironically this, you can´t go much further with written language than the Apocalypse of John
Josiah Gomez
Unironically Gravity’s Rainbow
Noah Long
unironically this
Jace Sanders
pm me and I will tell you.
Dylan Moore
you dont know nothing about writing.
Jack Thomas
David Foster Wallace
Julian Gonzalez
Wow, lit's top 10 picks of the yearly vote, and I can't tell whether they're ironic or sincere suggestions. Thanks lit.
Adam Lewis
War & Peace
Mason Mitchell
Tolstoy or Proust. They capture even the tiniest details of the scenes and character behaviour, I could spend hours analysing just one paragraph of Anna Karenina.
Also, maybe you'd appreciate Erich Auerbach's book "Mimesis".
Just keep in mind that realism in art is kind of a spook.
A great deal of the beauty of the Bible lies in its vague narrative style instead of realism or precision in description.
Justin Barnes
The Bible isn't beautiful you brainwashed pretentious pseud.
Justin White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Caleb Phillips
1q84
Ian Cooper
GR sounds about right
Adrian Miller
Unironically my WIP novel
Kevin Nguyen
I'm writing one. Not exactly a book though. 3 parallel streams. One of music, one of text, one of video. It's based on revelation.
Ryan Jones
How unironically ironic
Ayden Butler
The Man Without Qualities or Proust
Adrian Ward
Proust, Musil, and Tolstoy are good recs in this thread. Updike also gets heavily into this hyper-realistic style, as does James. I’d recommend Updike’s Rabbit books.
Chase Powell
Balzac was all about realism try Old Man Goriot
William Bell
Prince Andrei feels more real to me than real people
Jordan Baker
I have slight autism and am incapable of small chatting and conversation, and I am bad a reading or employing body language. Will I understand Tolstoy?
I read Anna Karenin when I was 18 and didn't feel like I got much out of it, should I give war and peace a try now that I'm in my late 20's?