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Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Cannery Row
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How to Live 2010Also contemplative, earnest and character-led
American Sphinx 1997Also contemplative, character-led and prestige
Offshore 1979Also contemplative and prestige
Daniel Martin 1977Also contemplative, prestige and earnest
The Last Opium Den 2002Also contemplative and character-led
The lonely Londoners 1956Also character-led and prestige
How to Live 2010Also contemplative, character-led and earnest
Way station 1963Also contemplative and earnest
Howards End 1910Also contemplative, prestige and earnest
Joe Gould's Secret 1965Also contemplative, prestige and earnest
The Wayward Bus 1947Also contemplative, earnest and prestige
The Berlin Stories 1945Also prestige and character-led
The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Sea Is Watching 2002Also contemplative
The River 1951Also contemplative, earnest and prestige
Oscar and Lucinda 1997Also contemplative, earnest and prestige
Albums
- In the Blue Light 2018Also contemplative and character-led
- Hard Rope & Silken Twine 1974Also contemplative, earnest and character-led
Games
Keep Driving 2025Also contemplative and character-led
Indigo 2011Also contemplative, character-led and earnest
Old Man's Journey 2017Also contemplative, earnest and character-led
Series
Empire Falls 2005Also contemplative and earnest
Malgudi Days 1987Also contemplative and earnest
thirtysomething 1987Also contemplative, earnest and character-led
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