Only the french...

[corpusdei]

The 223-page novel "The Train From Nowhere," by a French writer using the name Michel Thaler, is reported to be the first novel in history with no verbs, and its May publication was met with damning reviews. "Thaler" has called the verb "like a weed in a field of flowers" and his book a "revolution in the history of literature," that it "is to

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[darwinian_finch]

I remember in my junior year of high school, my creative writing instructor asked us to construct an entire short story that was devoid of verbs. The result was similar to Mr. Micheal Thaler--

Ungodly bad.

It shouldn't be labelled so much as a revolution as a world record for how awful and dragging you can make a story out to be. I'm allowed to say that only because after the bitter failure, I tried four more times with the same prompt and repetitively failed, just in different plots.

[outis]

If you can't defend your work without using verbs....

[corpusdei]

It's the french. They couldn't defend a medium-sized bathroom effectively.

[xodarko]