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I just wanna read sentences that are fun to read because they're very well written and clever.

Regardless of narrative, characters etc. what books can you recommend that use language beautifully and cleverly?

(I'm looking for modern English btw., not Shakespeare)

>> No.14121854

braaap

>> No.14121863

You ruined your own thread with that pic.

>> No.14121874

i can only accept asian girls farting on me

>> No.14121876

>>14121851
robert coover. going for a beer is short and zippy. it has fun sentences. its on the new yorker website as well

>> No.14121877

>>14121851
Just read Ulysses. You get the braps and fun prose all in one book.

>> No.14121896
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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH. I GOTTA FUCKIN CCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM. OH MY AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. IM FINNA COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>> No.14121910

>>14121851
Hip hop lyrics

>> No.14122728

Rabassa's translation of 100 Years of Solitude

>> No.14122750

>>14121851
It's not fair why can't I have a gf like that

>> No.14122755

>>14122750
That's an ass dude.
A gf is more than a pretty ass and some nice tits

>> No.14122757

>>14121851
>>14121896
>>14122750
https://youtu.be/hv-ODnbbP7U

>> No.14122783

>>14121851
get ffucked coomer

>> No.14122793

>>14122750
>not wanting to [/spoiler]BE a gf like that
OP pic makes me wanna throw on my yoga pants and whore myelf out on omegle >.<

>> No.14122801

>>14122755
Those are the main features of a gf though

>> No.14122804

David Foster Wallace comes to mind, I quite like Zadie Smith as well, she's very clever but just a tad more human as a writer.

In general I'm not a big fan of cleverness in lit though so can't really think of much more at the moment.

>> No.14122821

>>14122801
Yeah?
What about the soul then?

Don't get me wrong, some nice tiddies are welcome but what's the point if she won't hug you and support you when you're down?

>> No.14122830

>>14121851
William Gass Reader

>> No.14122841

>>14122821
Fuck the soul I need someone to coom in. She can be the biggest bitch in the world as long as she's hot and lets me coom in her every day.

>> No.14122901

>>14122793
ok tranny post your ass

>> No.14122902

>>14122841
>coom
never gonna make it

>> No.14122904

>>14122901
this please

>> No.14122912

>>14122902
let me coom in you butterfly

>> No.14122927

>>14121851
Read Nietzsche. His aphorism books are basically just collections of clever sentences.

>> No.14122974

Try Homer? Or dante

>> No.14123038

>25 replies
>nobody has mentioned Oscar Wilde
>>14121854
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>>14122974
kyselves

>> No.14123159

>>14122901
>>14122904
im not a tranny you obssessed lunatics, just a cutepilled trap

>> No.14123205

>>14121876
robert coover is awesome

>> No.14123253

>>14121851
ellroy

>> No.14123324

any famous english writer born between 1650 and 1800
Samuel Johnson
Defoe
Dryden
Swift
Sterne
Fielding
Benjamin Franklin

>> No.14123329

Read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer

>> No.14123464

>>14121851
Kek, what a fuckin pseud.

>> No.14123489

>>14121851
Alice in Wonderland

>> No.14124558

Rhys Hughes

he has like a thousand books though so just pick one, his whimsy and wordplay somehow sustains through everything he does

>> No.14124579

Candide

>> No.14124736

Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler

>> No.14124992

>>14122902
hey, butterfly, why are you tripfagging if it only induces sex-related reactions?
What makes you not stay anonymous as any other poster?

>> No.14125031
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>>14121851
It's all in the hands in this picture but no one realises it. Sure the ass is nice but it's not the genuine centre.

>> No.14125356

>>14123159
please show me your ass

>> No.14125372
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>>14121851
alright im gonna say it
SHAKESPEARE IS MODERN ENGLISH YOU DUMB CUNT

>>14125031
dw lad i realised it too. indeed most of the hand is covered, which is important, it's really in the fingers and nails.

>> No.14125390

>>14123038
cope

>> No.14125396

>>14124558
Holy shit another rhys hughes fan

>> No.14125639

unironically The Phantom Tollbooth

>> No.14125667

>>14121851
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

>> No.14125856

>>14121851
Pynchon, crying of lot 49 is what you want

>> No.14125899

>>14121851
I need her fucking name. Jeez anon.

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>>14123159
where is your fucking ass aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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>>14121851
>Tfw I just realised in all the multiple times I have clicked on this thread to look at the thread I have not actually read the title until now

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>>14125372
>dw lad i realised it too. indeed most of the hand is covered, which is important, it's really in the fingers and nails.
Very true but it is not the fingers alone, it's also really the silhouette of hand and entire arm. The feminine mentality and the posturing within that. And really the picture on a whole is just done so well, a very nice as to begin with, the way the hands are holding it, the fingers, fingernails, the entire arm, the silhouette of the sleeve, the general aesthetic of the sleeve alone, the waist shape, the skin showing on the waist, even the angle of the photo, the defining lines of the pants, etc. But the entirety of the hands none the less remain the centre of the pic, joining all elements together. A beautiful exposition of the feminine mentality by shape and movement, a nice ass indeed.

Check this out:

>> No.14126048

>>14125899
This bls

>> No.14126124

>>14126048
??

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>> No.14126201

Tom Robbins. Pretty entertaining and fun to read, nice metaphors. Not clever in a super intellectual way, just witty and enjoyable.

>> No.14126229

>>14122902
I'd hate fuck you only to see how much you hate getting coomed inside

>> No.14126230

>>14121896
Based

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>>14121896
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>> No.14126248

@14126234
Cringe

>> No.14126300

Burgess

>> No.14126448

>>14123038
you could have just posted 'oscar wilde' you fucking dud

>> No.14126462

>>14125926
what is this thread even about man , i want to see if that trap anon posted his ass , but he haven't so fuck him

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>>14121851
This litte gem was a breath of fresh air to read after all the bullshit coming out these days. You get so wrapped up in the prose and only then do you realize there is this huge story being built around you. Apparently it's the first of ten books, all of which are already written, but the writer already said he'll never publish the other nine.

>> No.14126638

>>14126462
Indeed, fuck the faggot.

>> No.14126645

>>14121851
That would be Oscar Wilde

>> No.14127979

COOM