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The Unreliable Narrator is an old trope. [1] Gone Girl has stellar writing. I don’t think commercial success in fiction has much to do with being first to mark
by kranner 6y ago
The Unreliable Narrator is an old trope. [1]
Gone Girl has stellar writing. I don’t think commercial success in fiction has much to do with being first to market with a novel idea.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator
- thewhitetulip 6y agoYes that's the point. Now that Gone Girl is a phenomenal success, every unreliable narrator book will be "copy cat" of gone girl That's my issue with snobs who claim to like "originality" like LoTR when is is clearly inspired by loads of mythology. He certainly didn't invent elves!
- TeMPOraL 6y ago> I don’t think commercial success in fiction has much to do with being first to market with a novel idea. Commercial success in anything doesn't have much to do with being first with a novel idea - in general, but also in "first to market" sense. Video games: before Minecraft there was Infiniminer (by none other than Zachtronics Industries). Before Portal there was Narbacular Drop. Mobile: before iPhone and iPad, there were other devices with a touchscreen on the market (and they had a stylus, benefits of which people are slowly rediscovering today), and the concept dates all the way to Alan Kay's Dynabook, and in parallel to Star Trek (not just 1960s communicators and 1980s PADDs, but Star Trek in 1960s also portrayed tablets with a stylus attached). Etc., etc.