Palm Stories:
These are generally plain looking and not so interesting stories at first look. The story teller takes enough time to build the base for the story. It requires you to go on reading till you reach the top point (high-point as it is called), to really enjoy and understand the story. Examples can be some good humour stories (jokes?) or even some travelogues etc. e.g. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
e.g. this post. and this too
Creeper Stories:
There exists a huge variety in this little complicated and equally interesting category of stories. They can range from real life experiences to fantacy stories and love stories to murder mysteries. The interesting part is, the branches or supporting parts are almost as strong (or weak) and as important as the main stem. So even if it looks like there is not strong enough base for the story, the strength lies in the complex network of all the characters and their own lives! There are lot many twists and turns and many 'high-points' worth enjoying throughout the length and width of the story, just like flower creepers. You can actually enjoy any part of the story and will be pulled in to trace the start and end, eventually realising its the journey that is more enjoyable than the end points.
e.g. the recent good example is this story by Janaki (part 1 to 10).
Pine Stories:
The composition, form, structure, details.... this is what makes these stories worth reading. They are very predictable, like love stories, but the way they are told/narrated, in a very soft romantic poem like manner, makes them enjoyable.
e.g. 2 states by Chetan Bhagat, 50 first dates , bollywood movies like DDLJ etc
Mango Stories:
Biographies or even some novels based on real life. A very strong base, strong enough branches,very closely linked to each other and to the environment, very much like mango tree! The concept is very deep rooted and demands your proper involvement and interest in it. This is not just for enjoying the story, it will stay with you for a long time even changing the way you think sometimes. Very inspirational!
e.g. Closest from what I have read till now is Totto Chan, better example can be stories of raja Harishchandra.
Banyan Stories:
Epics! I do not have enough words and wisdom to write about them 'in short'! Unlike mango stories, they go beyond the individual reader, to inspire, affect and nurture the whole societies, cultures. They can be interpreted at various levels of literature as well as social evolution. And they are still not boring but very beautiful examples of art!
e.g. Ramayana, Mahabharata, Odyssey etc.
Bonsai Stories:
I would really not like to call them stories! They look like they were made as per marketing demand and requirements. They have everything, but still lack something very important like the scale, gravity, rendering them more of decorative item on the shelf in living room. They simply don't feel original. It's like Bhavin writing his interpretation of Ramayana/King Lear on his blog in one post! Show off!
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3 comments:
Nice comparison there!
Could never think of comparing stories to trees but somehow it works well!
You should write examples of books or writers or story titles that fall in each category, that will make it easier for us to decide which category each one of us falls in and what is our preferred reading content!
exactly my sentiments...in fact i was trying to place myself in one category or the other :)
interesting post nevertheless!
Thank you! :)
have added few examples, not very clear though, its difficult to put some books in one particular categories, and I guess there will be more categories beyond what I have thought here.
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