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not that that's a bad thing

>> No.9765527

Les Miserables, some of the dialogues there seem very forced and not something one person would say to another.

>> No.9765695

Pretty much every book? Real life conversations are generally asinine.

>> No.9765723

I love how the children speak and act more maturely than the narrator.

>> No.9765729

Ivy Compton-Burnett. I love it.

>> No.9766860

>>9765514
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Dialogue was written weirdly I thought

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>>9765514
Realistic compared to what? Your Tinder profile? Shakespeare?

Shall I compare thee to an upstart crow, well able to bombast out dialogue with the best of DeLillo?

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>>9765514

>> No.9767105

Catch-22

>> No.9767114

more like
ITT: Books for Tool fans whomst consider Idiocracy to be a deep movie

>> No.9767118

Pa?
Ye.

>> No.9767279

Anything by Shakespeare, obviously.

>> No.9767296

>>9765514
Well, reverse the question and you have the more effective prompt; what books have realistic dialogue? Almost all literature leans on unrealistic dialogue to be readable, because realistic dialogue is a bitch. People constantly forget what they're saying, talk over one another, misstructure their sentences, mumble and stammer. Do any books or plays accurately reflect real life speech?

>> No.9767301

Any book not written in English, unless the dialogue is in English, since very few countries still speak anything other than English.
In 50 years 95 percent of the world will know English as its first language.

>> No.9768037

>>9765514
I unironically feel like not a single line of dialogue from White Noise felt artificial or a mouthpiece for Delillo. You've never met cultural studies professors or American families before.

>> No.9768385

>>9767296
Fuck you, now I'll hate 90% of the books I read

>> No.9768398

>>9767296
>googles most realistic book dialogues
>no suggestions pop up
>unadequate results
>gg

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>>9767296
I'll admit that you're right for the most part. Very few exceptions. Pic related is the best exception I can think of. Incredibly realistic dialogue, and still entertaining and readable.

>> No.9768536

>>9765514
Anita Blake series , just the style and type of dialogue that sounds really odd in a no-one will ever talk/speak like that fashion.

>> No.9768591

>>9768037
I agree, White Noise was one of the first novels I read that was strikingly real in terms of dialogue.

Tfw not overly-educated uppermiddle class WASP.

Sorry OP, you'll be a pleb forever.