What's your favorite Book about Books/Story about Stories?
Mine is "The Neverending Story"
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What's your favorite Book about Books/Story about Stories? Mine is "The Neverending Story"
The Last Voyage of Somebody The Sailor
>It is a postmodern metafictional story of a man who jumps overboard from a modern replica of a medieval Arab ship and is rescued by sailors from the world of Sinbad the Sailor. Eventually he makes his way to "Baghdad, the City of Peace", and finds himself in the stories of Sindbad and Scheherazade.
Dang, that actually sounds really good
Movie was better
lots of authors can't seem to help writing books about writers and books, it's annoying.
The best writers write what they know
it was metafiction before the genre became overrated
That’s… not what meta fiction means
>Story about Stories
Isn't every story a story about a story?
Isn't every question about a question?
SO WHY ARE YOU ASKING THEN!
(/?)
If I was in charge, you would be put down
The Arabian Nights
>Book says 1001 stories
>Book doesn’t have 1001 stories inside
How is this not false advertising?
Never trust an arab
>Never trust an Arab woman
ftfy
to be fair, it was to save her own life
It's a metaphorical title.
How about you metaphor on my dick?
If on a winter's night... has some of the best opening chapters and the protagonist is literally me. The meta plot is extremely relatable.
What about the closing chapters?
I don't know, I didn't finish it.
Surprised you choose to speak highly of it then
It's a joke, it's a book full of opening chapters to different novels and a quest to find the rest of at least one of them
So the book has no satisfying conclusion?
I was not prepared for the amount of gore and body horror in this one. Made me sick
More of a book about writing than about books or stories.
Yeah fair enough. It was just the first thing that popped into my head beside Borges, and I don't really like Borges.
Is this the book where the guy is gay for the hero he reads about?
Umineko No Naku Koro Ni. Only good thing 21st century japan has produced.
How is that a book about books?
How are you supposed to read this if you don't already know how to read a book?
By his own admission, the book is a guide to reading classics, and that book is no classic
>translated
Excuse me?
Gene Wolfe is a master at this
Not really tho?
For me it's The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez Reverte, a book telling a story about other books, in which the author namedrops and quotes from a good hundred other novels and stories ranging from classical gothic literature to the eponymous The Three Musketeers by Dumas, the author does so while intertwinning every single of these stories inside the narrative of his own novel. Polanski made a trashy movie adaptation starring johnny depp but he ditched the Dumas plotline and instead focused on the other half of the book.
Movies actually better tho