: A novel without verbs? A recent Snapple cap of mine proclaimed that: French author Michel Thayer published a 233 page novel which has no verbs. Does anyone know the name of this book?

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It's much easier to do in French than English, but it's possible. There is no "method" for doing so, though.

In fact, you can do this with almost any part of speech. Language is weird. For example, "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English--but really, who the fu*k would ever want to write such a sentence?

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Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere)

It's a gimmick. Nothing more. Oh sure, he gets all high and mighty about it, but even in his explanation of why he did it he breaks his own rule about never using verbs.

From the Wikipedia page:

Thaler surmised, "The verb is like a weed in a field of flowers. You
have to get rid of it to allow the flowers to grow and flourish. Take
away the verbs and the language speaks for itself."

Nobody said it was a good novel. ;)

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