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My fave “infodump” in fiction is the narration by Nicholas Cage in Raising Arizona. My least fave is the massive long description of fish and how submarine equipment works in 10,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (the novel).
What are you most fave and least fave infodumps?
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QUACKCAST 519 - Infodump
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2021
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EssayBee at 10:40AM, Feb. 24, 2021
Gunwallace--Very true. I skimmed over a lot of those chapters to the point of just checking that nothing plotwise was happening. Fortunately the rest of the book is good, but it does make me wish for "A Good Parts Edition" like with William Goldman's novel "The Princess Bride," an "abridged" version of the (fictional) original book by (fictional) S. Morgenstern. (Granted, books like Moby Dick and some of the dreadful literary criticism I've read made Goldman's book all the more hilarious to me.)
Gunwallace at 11:59PM, Feb. 23, 2021
Yeah, but Melville's are almost soul destroying to get through.
Ozoneocean at 4:53PM, Feb. 23, 2021
Verne used had dumps too... Personally I don't think it was stylistic, I think it was just what they did at the time.
EssayBee at 10:30AM, Feb. 23, 2021
Talking about info dumps in literature, can't overlook the technical, info-dump chapters in Moby Dick. (I think one of my lit profs called them shanty chapters.) According to some criticism, Melville interspersed these "low" slow, information-driven chapters into the "high" dramatic narrative chapters to stylistically create an ebb-and-flow feeling to the middle of the book, in essence simulating the waves of the sea in a narrative sense. So there can be a deliberate, stylistic reason for info dumps. (Granted Melville's technique really kills the dramatic pacing of the story at points.)