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Looking for novels about the train (discuss.online)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/books

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I have this intense craving for a novel about riding the train basically. My issue is I don’t want it to just be a setting amidst a larger plot. No train murder stories, no regular stories that just happen to take place on a train.

I need the novel to be wholly about the experience of riding the train, maybe across the US maybe just between two cities whatever. It just has to focus on the experience the train provides and the spirit of public transport.

Insane how hard this is for me to find maybe I’m not looking in the right places. Trains are so beautiful it’s a group of people who have never met and they’re all connected through experience, locked in to a direction literally bound by the railway. There is God in the railway. Infinite potential to be tapped in this hyper specific idea.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook, by Terry Pratchett comes to mind, although I suspect you aren't looking for a book about a train journey through an imaginary landscape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Not exactly, but it sounds interesting nonetheless and I’ll check it out!