Brandon Sanderson: scrappy protagonist discovers that they have magical powers, despite struggling from crushing depression and/or trauma. This annoying guy named Hoid smirks at everyone. The next weekend they accidentally trigger the end of the world, which they prevent in the nick of time by becoming a god.
All possible plots by major authors (2020)
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#52I need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"
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#53Reminds me of "Book-A-Minute" ( http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/ ) from yesteryear. Most of the entries are for specific books, but there are also some authors mentioned, e.g. "The Collected Works of Dean Koontz": http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/koontz.shtml
"A Scanner Darkly" entry [0] is my favorite so far. Somehow, it's wildly accurate.
[0] - http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dick.scanner.shtml
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#54LOL!
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#55They could have had an entry for McSweeney's that just said "the text of this article".
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#56To summarize Dan Brown books by describing the characters fundamentally misunderstands them. The characters are about as important as the characters in a porno.
The point of a Dan Brown book is to chart the stupidest possible path through history and pop science, and he's uniquely capable of this.
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#57I want an author who's work is completely unidentifiable from one release to the next. Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. Surely if there were a library with all possible books, we would find one of those two things...
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#58Reminds me of "Book-A-Minute" ( http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/ ) from yesteryear. Most of the entries are for specific books, but there are also some authors mentioned, e.g. "The Collected Works of Dean Koontz": http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/koontz.shtml
Whoooa, what a blast from the past. I loved that site, but I bet I haven't been there in 15 years. It seems their most recent update was just last week.
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#60What does it say about me that I've only actually read 14 of the 56 authors in the second list [1] as an adult (i.e. by choice)? I know of quite a few, but haven't read most of them. Here's my list (++ indicates more than 1): Fitzgerald Hemingway ++ Shakespeare ++ Christie ++ Brown ++ Dickens McCarthy ++ Wodehouse ++ Steinbeck ++ Stoppard Kafka Conan Doyle ++ Seuss (of course) ++ Lee A missing classic author is Rober…
Humanity would be a pretty bland experience if everybody universally read the same toplist of influences. Some may aspire to study The Classics at Oxford, but to me that sounds like a nightmare of deprivation.
Accordingly I see your balanced, partial foray into those classics as a positive. It shows you're an individual bespoke personality with broader influences. We won't know which of the modern works we read are future classics - that'll come in hundreds of years.