Name That Book!

[I'm Murrin]

Mimetic fiction = realism, Iolanthe.

I don't recognise that particular one, uss.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Correct u. I suppose they are rather girlie books

I'm off to google "nightsilk".

Hmm, why didn't you just post the results, or no luck yet?

Well, I'll barge in with my Google crop

Legacies by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

[sgt.null]

i have never even heard of any of these books.

[Iolanthe]

Correct u. I suppose they are rather girlie books

I'm off to google "nightsilk".

Hmm, why didn't you just post the results, or no luck yet?

Well, I'll barge in with my Google crop

Legacies by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

You did better than I did! I didn't find this at all.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Thanks! With words that give many irrelevant results, which nightsilk turned out to be, it's mostly about cutting off the results you don't need - by using the rarest word combinations relevant.

So, uss, do I get a confirmation? Or can I just post the next challenge?

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Looks like silence. Or, well, sounds like silence, if silence counts as sounding

I guess I'll just post the next challenge then. Quite a challenge...

This book has a character who is weak-willed, deep in debts, living with a woman he took from her husband but doesn't love anymore. He also doesn't tell her that her husband died, because she may think of their marriage then. Another character observes him, noting his inclination to gambling, bad influence on young people, lack of interest in scientific talk unless something related to sex is mentioned, etc. - and thinking that a person like that shouldn't be.

An extra prize of 100 WGDs to whoever manages to guess or give an interesting own idea on how this could end

[ussusimiel]

Confirmed, Effy. Would have done it earlier but I somehow managed not to be notified of a response

I enjoyed the start of the Corean series but it got a bit too much for me in the later books.

No idea what the book you've alluded to is and no details that one could Google with

u.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

That's because Google may be good, but it's quite a different kind of fun when it won't save you

Also I'd really like to see a few guesses about the possible ending.

If everyone gets stuck, I'll give extra hints, perhaps some that can be googled.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Well, looks like no progress for now. It's not exactly a normal hint - and definitely not one to Google, but may suggest an idea for this.

An extra prize of 100 WGDs to whoever manages to guess or give an interesting own idea on how this could end

The ending of this story made me contemplate that perhaps TLD could end in a similar way.

[I'm Murrin]

Not the slightest idea.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

But I'm pretty sure you've at least heard of the author - and likely almost everyone or even everyone here as well.

So, more hints?

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

This may be not much of a helpful hint - but I have more of them if needed. By the way, if anyone feels this is taking too long and doesn't enjoy that - tell so, I'll make it short

This writer was mentioned on the Gradual Interview twice (once it was a question if SRD was going to follow a certain rule related to this writer, another time it was SRD explaining how, unlike the way this writer used, SRD depicted internal characterizations by externalizing).

Also, Murrin, I looked if there was anything about him on the Watch, found it amusing that I stumbled upon a message that jokingly chastised you for not having him on a list of books you posted.

[deer of the dawn]

This is just a wild guess, because I haven't got to the book yet-- The Man Who Killed His Brother, by Reed Stephens (aka SRD)?

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Well, an interesting guess - could be quite something to see SRD comparing his ways of characterization to himself But what rules could be related to that pseudonym? No, not Reed Stephens. But thanks for such a guess

[deer of the dawn]

What actually made me guess that was that the guy's brother disapproved, so I was thinking maybe he would kill him and get the girl, make an honest woman out of her... or so he thought (has to be something for sequels, right?).

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Where did you find a brother there?

The other person mentioned wasn't a brother and wasn't interested in the woman, though he did disapprove and did intend to kill - and the writer here didn't write to leave something for sequels.

[StevieG]

I think we need another clue Effy

[I'm Murrin]

Still stumped.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Should I already move on to those that can be googled, or are you interested in guessing a bit more?

Well, this one should be possible to google, though with some complications: this author has a very large quantity of film adaptations - one of the highest numbers at all, though unlikely to be much known in America - prevalent numbers of those adaptations are European. And there are actually some very special reasons for that, apart from the quality of the stories even, reasons that have to do with acting itself, though he didn't start that himself. [/bloody cryptic clue]

[Vraith]

Should I already move on to those that can be googled, or are you interested in guessing a bit more?

Well, this one should be possible to google, though with some complications: this author has a very large quantity of film adaptations - one of the highest numbers at all, though unlikely to be much known in America - prevalent numbers of those adaptations are European. And there are actually some very special reasons for that, apart from the quality of the stories even, reasons that have to do with acting itself, though he didn't start that himself. [/bloody cryptic clue]

Now that part sounds Chekhovian...though it could also relate Beckett.
Still, if that clue isn't Chekhov, it should be.
Of course, that's an author, not a particular work.