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ITT: Books that use fancy words Anonymous Sat Dec 9 06:49:31 2017 No.10375259 [Reply] [Original]

I like these books because they expand your vocabulary. My suggestion goes to, of course, Gene Wolfe.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 06:55:48 2017 No.10375273 Clark Ashton Smtih

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 07:16:44 2017 No.10375317 Beckett’s early stuff written in English has me reaching for a dictionary often. Murphy is fun.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 07:23:56 2017 No.10375336 >>10375259 lotsa will self he's pretty much know for his sesquipedalianism

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 07:35:11 2017 No.10375366 Coming from a non English speaking country, I have to agree with you, OP. I've read 'harder' books but I constantly had to stop my reading to learn a word or two with this book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 07:37:14 2017 No.10375373 Virginia Woolf

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 07:45:39 2017 No.10375388 Blood Meridian

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 14:31:23 2017 No.10376464 >>10375259 >BoTNS great first suggestion tbph. it's what i would have said instead, i will say Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 15:11:17 2017 No.10376601 >expanding your vocabulary with made up words

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 15:15:39 2017 No.10376617 >>10376601 >Being such a word babby that you think any of those words are made up, with the exception of "naviscaput" which maybe he did make up after all I nominate Austerlitz

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 15:19:57 2017 No.10376635 File: 888 KB, 553x754, 1502491740813.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10375259 China Mieville is also great at this. Heresiarch, sclerotic, animadvert, shadchan, benthos, oneiric, alterity, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 15:23:54 2017 No.10376648 >>10376635 isn't he a communist

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 15:27:44 2017 No.10376657 File: 65 KB, 946x600, shagd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10376601 >not realizing all words are made up

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 15:33:07 2017 No.10376675 >>10376648 Basically, yeah

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 21:34:36 2017 No.10378204 Tha bibble

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 22:41:56 2017 No.10378432 File: 3 KB, 125x118, 1512701302033s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10376601 >Book of the New Sun >made up words

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 23:55:56 2017 No.10378652 >Claim all the words in the book are used somewhere in 20th century english >Alzabo is a latinized version of the arabic word for hyena that no one ever used before Nice try Gene

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 00:22:32 2017 No.10378749 >>10375259 /GrandiloquentBooks/

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 01:47:46 2017 No.10378956 >>10378652 >are used somewhere in 20th century english i don't recall him saying that and i don't have a copy onhand to check it against there are definitely more than a few non-english words

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 07:50:38 2017 No.10379638 >>10376648 Thank goodness

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 08:25:03 2017 No.10379722 Cactus Tortillas Yecarthy

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 09:33:52 2017 No.10379925 Revolt Against the Modern World

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 11:03:49 2017 No.10380174 >>10378956 He claims it in the appendix to Shadow of the Torturer I think

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