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rmctagg09 (Before Recorded History)
2022-10-28 22:21:52

I thought the thing was that if it's built like a narrative it can stay, but if it's just straight telling the story of a person's life like an expanded version of a Wikipedia article then it's not tropable material.

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AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2022-10-28 22:27:24

I dont know if Trevor Noah did the first or the second. I havent read it but what little I know about it is from the TV Tropes page on it.

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Florien Since: Aug, 2019
2022-10-28 23:34:43

I have read it.

It is a comedic work in many places, interspersed with a lot of jokes, but the narrative is just anecdotes from his life under and just after Apartheid in roughly chronological order.

I'd lean cut. I'm fairly sure it would be Troping real life to not do so.

PCD Since: May, 2021
2022-10-29 05:15:06

It's a very good book, but it is nonfiction. It's a good introduction to South African life for outsiders, given the author's own experience, and I'd recommend reading it.

But it probably should not be troped.

AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2022-10-29 21:41:06

Is there a thread where this can be discussed?

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AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2022-10-31 14:27:33

Bump. Please help this hasnt been solved...

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laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2022-10-31 14:35:35

Except everyone who has read it has said it has no tropable narrative (even if it is a good book), it sounds like it has been solved.

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AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2022-10-31 14:37:40

Ok,I thought more people needed to chime in or something needed to be settled in actual discussion on the forums...

Edited by AegisP As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
Cutegirl920fire (Five Long Years)
2022-10-31 16:26:59

Yeah I think a couple people that read the books saying that the page needs to be cut is kosher IIRC.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire CG for short
AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2022-10-31 16:46:42

I dont know if that is sarcasm... but I am going that you do meant what you said. How do we start cutting it then?

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Cutegirl920fire (Five Long Years)
2022-10-31 20:02:44

^ Ah shoot, I made a typo; I meant to say "cut" and I didn’t mean to come off as sarcastic in any way.

CG for short
Speedchesser Since: Feb, 2012
2022-10-31 20:09:11

I went ahead and put it on the Cut List, so now it's just a matter of waiting for the cutmasters to verify it.

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