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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: At one point the book talks about how someone "Smiled a nod (?) of compassionate pity."
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* AuthorTract: The book often halts the narrative to rant about a particular subject be it sexual repression, nature's indifference or how superior our main characters are to the average person.

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* AuthorTract: The book often halts the narrative to rant about a particular subject subject, be it sexual repression, nature's indifference indifference, or how superior our main characters are to the average person.
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''List of the Lost'' was a novel created by {{Music/Morrissey}}. It was critically panned, and even managed to receive the coveted Bad Sex Award. The plot revolves around a relay team in 70s America that has a deep emotional bond but after one of the members accidentally kills a rambling homeless man, they end up dropping like flies.

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''List of the Lost'' was a novel created by {{Music/Morrissey}}. It was critically panned, and even managed to receive the coveted Bad Sex Award.Music/{{Morrissey}}. The plot revolves around a relay team in 70s America that has a deep emotional bond but after one of the members accidentally kills a rambling homeless man, they end up dropping like flies.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: A prominent feature of this novel, which has seen it unfavorably compared to the works of Creator/AmandaMcKittrickRos. This trope is the book's bread and butter, so much so that it often becomes completely incomprehensible.
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* TheSeventies: This is when the book takes place. However, it hardly matters since it barely contributes anything to the story.

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List of the Lost was a novel created by {{Music/Morrissey}}. It was critically panned, and even managed to receive the coveted Bad Sex Award. The plot revolves around a relay team in 70s America that has a deep emotional bond but after one of the members accidentally kills a rambling homeless man, they end up dropping like flies.

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* PaedoHunt: The closest thing this story has to an antagonist is the dean of the boys' college, who [[spoiler: rapes and murders a young boy, covers everything up and kills two of the protagonists by hitting them over the head with wine bottles]].

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* PaedoHunt: The closest thing this story has to an antagonist is the dean of the boys' college, who [[spoiler: rapes and murders a young boy, covers everything up and kills two of the protagonists by hitting them over the head with wine bottles]].bottles]].

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List of the Lost was a novel created by {{Music/Morrissey}}. It was critically panned, and even managed to receive the coveted Bad Sex Award. The plot revolves around a relay team in 70s America that has a deep emotional bond but after one of the members accidentally kills a rambling homeless man, they end up dropping like flies.
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!!List of The Lost contains examples of:

*AuthorTract: The book often halts the narrative to rant about a particular subject be it sexual repression, nature's indifference or how superior our main characters are to the average person.

*DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Ezra dies alone in a hospital bed with everyone he ever knows having died horribly and the last thing he sees is the mad vagrant]]

*HumansAreBastards: Long rants are dedicated to humanity's relentless cruelty to animals.

*PaedoHunt: The closest thing this story has to an antagonist is the dean of the boys' college, who [[spoiler: rapes and murders a young boy, covers everything up and kills two of the protagonists by hitting them over the head with wine bottles]].

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