/lit/ - Literature

Ban ALL the words!

I'm searching for a work or just a author in general that has incredibly vibrant, descriptive prose. I was reading some Ray Bradbury today and at times he writes some very beautiful things, others, not so much. But those vibrant parts made my wanting more.
I need more, I'm sick of bland prose. Please recommend.

An Example
"IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies.
He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning."

let's share our TOP 10 movies lists!
Here's mine:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Citizen Kane
3. 8 1/2
4. Wild Straberries
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Agora
7. Andrei Rublev
8. Seven Samurai
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. Pulp Fiction

see this wat do

OK mom, I need to stock up on my summer reading list...here's a list of all the books I need you to purchase for me...*hands list of 10 or so classics/epics*

6 hours later....

"Here they are, sweetie. All the books you asked for!"

>mfw 9 of them are books by the same author, yet not the same title. the last is the one I wanted, but a MODERN FUCKING INTERPRETATION WITH EXTENDED DIALOGUE AND AUTHOR'S OPINION + COMPARISON CONTRASTING GUIDELINE ON IN DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE CULTURE AND LITERATURE SURROUNDING IT.

fuck your shit.

i have a better idea