You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense 📖

You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

Bukowski, Charles
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contemporary fiction beat literature past tense first POV ~104 pp

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gritty despairing melancholic

A propulsive and dark contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, intimate scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 45
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 15
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 5
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 20
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 70%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count26,063
Page count~104 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst