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Anonymous Fri Aug 27 03:34:56 2010 No.1078433 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/fags wondering if you could reccomend me some great books for vocabulary building. I don't mean like 'Dorian Gray' florid as this isn't actually that florid. But like something that will fucking floor me and be intellectually stimulating.
The best book I've read like this so far was Lolita. moar?

>>	Fire Lord !AZULaFMcQ. Fri Aug 27 03:36:56 2010 No.1078436 Shakespeare is the most complete course on English vocabulary available.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 03:41:56 2010 No.1078449 >>1078436 surely thou art in jest prithee whoreson etc...

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 03:41:56 2010 No.1078450 >>1078436 I love shakespeare but right now I'm looking for something with a more contemporary prose. It can by all means be unique, like Fitzgerald, but not really wanting to read ye old English right now.

>>	Fire Lord !AZULaFMcQ. Fri Aug 27 03:44:56 2010 No.1078460 >>1078450 Shakespeare is the first work of modern English.

>>	Fire Lord !AZULaFMcQ. Fri Aug 27 03:45:56 2010 No.1078464 So you've read Lolita. Well that's pretty much it then. Nobody's done anything else as intricate or novel since.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 03:46:56 2010 No.1078466 File: 24 KB, 309x475, 0679725229.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] start here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 03:49:56 2010 No.1078475 >>1078460 sir, though the words of the bard may serve thee in good stead with thy lips pressed against the ample bosum of the rennaissance fair strumpet, it would behoove thee to capitalize on the texts of the new world should thou seek fortune there.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 04:08:56 2010 No.1078505 File: 130 KB, 316x475, Brief Interviews.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1078466 great book, but start here? pff. try some dfw. brief interviews with hideous men

>>	Special Agent Dale !CoOperRA66 Fri Aug 27 04:12:56 2010 No.1078516 >>1078464 yeah I was going to suggest Lolita until I got to that last sentence >>1078436 >Shakespeare is the most complete course on English vocabulary available. yeah, if you want to pick up plenty of archaic usage

>>	Fire Lord !AZULaFMcQ. Fri Aug 27 04:28:56 2010 No.1078532 >>1078516 Why the hell wouldn't you? It allows for versatility. I've been told I evoke the spirit of Christopher Marlowe so well an initiate can't tell the difference.

>>	Fire Lord !AZULaFMcQ. Fri Aug 27 04:34:56 2010 No.1078543 I guess I'm a language fundamentalist so I may be alone on this one but don't you WANT to know where the words you use came from, and how and when and why? It's fascinating

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