Rare Novels 1

[Dearest_Violet]

Has anyone ever stumbled upon a work on ScribbleHub that is written so descriptively it wraps back around to being actually difficult to read? Something similar to the literary novels that they would make you read in highschool? If so please let me know!

 

[Kenjona]

Kind of, but it was more like, verbiage deluge then a literary novel. Do not have the work in my head at this point in time, though. Just vague memory of it. I will look around for it.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

a novel written that well isnt even a well written story. Its pretentious, unnecessarily convoluted bullshit trying to distract you with a vomit of prose to give a false sense of depth.

 

[bulmabriefs144]

Has anyone ever stumbled upon a work on ScribbleHub that is written so descriptively it wraps back around to being actually difficult to read? Something similar to the literary novels that they would make you read in highschool? If so please let me know!

I read one novel description that I gave a hard pass simply because it was about a page long.

 

[mitkopom]

a novel written that well isnt even a well written story. Its pretentious, unnecessarily convoluted bullshit trying to distract you with a vomit of prose to give a false sense of depth.

How nicely said. Same as the professor teaching the students in so complicated manner that nobody understand the topics while it could be done in much simplified and reasonable approach

 

[TotallyHuman]

Maybe

 

[BearlyAlive]

No, as those are the pinnacle of writing. Stories where you can't even derive what the author deigned to dine for that evening he wrote his story just by reading the first three letters should'nt even be allowed to be called literature!

... or at least my old literature teacher would spout or something. The dood was pretty big on only reading the old classics and was a fan of the "there's only one way to interpret a story" theory... Oh boy, did he hate my interpretation that Goethe's Faust II only ended the way it did because the poor author wrote it on his deathbed and wanted to buy himself some piece of heaven just before he kicked the bucket.

But I've read a few chapters here that almost were as hard to read as those classics, if only for the wrong reasons xD

 

[Paul_Tromba]

It depends.

 

[melchi]

So descriptive = over explaining

Over explaining -> just waiting for one good speedbump to get off the wagon.

There are some works on here that have some really creative sentence structure that look impressive from a prose standpoint.

EX: The pitcher lifted a leg, pulled his arm back, locked eyes with the catcher and the familiar bond of doing this 1000 times before lead his actions as his body leapt forward and the angular momentum of the arc of his arm through the air launched the ball at incredible speed into the catcher's awaiting mitt.

Or: The pitcher threw a fastball. The catcher caught it with ease.

Which one is better?

 

[owotrucked]

So descriptive = over explaining

Over explaining -> just waiting for one good speedbump to get off the wagon.

There are some works on here that have some really creative sentence structure that look impressive from a prose standpoint.

EX: The pitcher lifted a leg, pulled his arm back, locked eyes with the catcher and the familiar bond of doing this 1000 times before lead his actions as his body leapt forward and the angular momentum of the arc of his arm through the air launched the ball at incredible speed into the catcher's awaiting mitt.

Or: The pitcher threw a fastball. The catcher caught it with ease.

Which one is better?

First but you forgot the spins, and the ball set ablaze due to air friction