History Redundancy / Literature

* From the SoBadItsGood oeuvre of the Reverend Creator/LionelFanthorpe's {{Extruded Book Product}}s, in ''A 1000 Years On'' (Writing as John E. Muller):

** The most famous Fanthorpian example is probably [[http://www.peltorro.com/motrtxt.htm Chapter 5]] of ''March of the Robots'', which, when all the redundancy has been removed, just says "A saucer-shaped ship landed silently, while the people were still asleep. Mysterious robots marched out of it, and a force-field appeared around it."

* In the first section of '''1985''', Anthony Burgess refers, apparently without sarcasm, to "the gay homosexuals." Possibly justified, as "gay" also means "happy" or "jolly", and was used quite regularly in that context in the '70s when the book was written.

* ''The Darkest Road'', by Guy Gavriel Kay.

* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' novel ''Literature/DeathStar'', Memah Roothes, the new cantina owner, and her bouncer are required to do two physical exam sessions. Memah cites this trope as the reason they have to.
** That may not have been a reference--the Galactic Empire had an ''actual'' Department of Redundancy Department. Nobody seems quite sure whether it actually had a serious job, or Palpatine was feeling whimsical when he created it, so different authors will treat it differently.

* ''Fallen'' by Thomas Sniegowski is absolutely ridiculous with this. One example, "I don't know" he said uncertainly. Made worse by the fact that he thanks the 'termineditor' in his foreword. One shudders to think what the book was like before she got to it.

* ''Hank the Cowdog'' series. "Dust and hay and flakes of dried manure swirled through the air, filling my eyes and nose and mouth with dust and hay and flakes of dried manure that swirled through the air."

* Because ancient tales were oral, many of the classics reuse the same descriptions over and over to help the story teller out. When listening to or reading the ''Iliad'', by the third ox sacrifice you are going "yes yes, we know how the ox is sacrificed and burnt and made to smell sweet, get on with the story."

* ''Literature/TheLightlarkSaga'': In the first book, Isla has a tendency to glare at people or make verbal threats "meanly", as opposed to, y'know, ''kindly''.

* The title of Joan Hess's ''The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn'' sounds so much like this trope that some book dealers omit the first three words in for-sale listings, assuming them to be a typo. [[SubvertedTrope It's actually not redundant at all]]: it's about a for-real murder which takes place at a Mystery Dinner.

* [[strike:Quite a few]] ''Every book'' by Gary Paulsen will repeat itself to no end.

* ''Report on Probability A'' by Creator/BrianWAldiss appears to be based almost exclusively on this trope, to the point of unreadability. The description in Wikipedia says: "The bulk of the book is the Report, describing in minute, obsessive and often repetitive detail, three characters G, S, and C as they secretly watch a house, each from a separate outbuilding with peripheral views of the house's windows, catching occasional glimpses of its occupant, Mrs Mary. As the Report is being read by a character called "Domoladossa'", he is secretly being observed from other universes, and these observers in their turn are being observed, all of them engaged in futile speculation about the exact nature of Probability A, and the exact meaning of the Victorian painting, The Hireling Shepherd (by Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt..." (and so on)

* From ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Book the First: "Traitor tears were there, betraying me."

* From the SoBadItsGood oeuvre of the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe's {{Extruded Book Product}}s, in ''A 1000 Years On'' (Writing as John E. Muller):

** Most of Fanthorpe's SoBadItsGood work for BadgerBooks, in fact. He was being paid by the word, after all. Hence the popular UK SF scene LightBulbJoke: "How many Fanthorpe pseudonyms does it take to change a lightbulb, to replace it, to reinstate it, to substitute for it, to swap it, to exchange it, to renew it, to put another in its stead, to ..."

* The title of Joan Hess's ''The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn'' sounds so much like this trope that some book dealers omit the first three words in for-sale listings, assuming them to be a typo. [[SubvertedTrope It's actually not redundant at all]]: it's about a for-real murder which takes place at a Mystery Dinner.
* ''[[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Into a Dark Realm]]'' gives us Jommy's reaction to the possibility of going to a university run by the Monks of Durga:
--> "They're celibates! They beat each other with canes for penance! They take vows of silence that last for years! They're celibates!"
* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}},'' the supervillain Rune really wants to make sure people get his name right.
-->'''Dark Flame:''' So, you know my name, yet I don’t know yours.
-->'''Rune:''' Rune. But you can call me...Rune.
* The fifth book of the ''Literature/MaximumRide'' series, ''MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel''. Later {{Justified|Trope}} because subsequent volumes sport such titles as ''FANG: A Maximum Ride Novel'' and ''ANGEL: A Maximum Ride Novel''.


* ''Literature/TheSpeedOfDark'': During an evaluation in which Lou is asked inane questions about the names of objects, he thinks, "I am uninterested in that uninteresting bowl."
* Allan Ginsberg's poem "America":
-->America it's them bad Russians.\\
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.

* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': Maw-mouths do have TooManyMouths, but the redundant name likely has more to do with the fact that every wizard is rightly ''terrified'' by the thought of them.

* In ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'' after Mary's "clueless chick" act fails to work on the men at the fake saucer site, she states that they can't be "normal male men".