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Who writes the best dialogue?

>> No.6065297

Gaddis

>> No.6065301

Gaddis and Cormac for the USA. I don't know about less freedom enriched countries.

>> No.6065319

Austen, JK Toole, Twain, Faulkner. >>6065297 is a good answer too, sometimes I wonder why Gaddis didn't write any plays.

>> No.6065543

Dosto obviously.

>> No.6065563

>>6065319

He actually did, he wrote one in A Frolic Of His Own.

>> No.6065569

>>6065293
I sometimes wonder if being a gross and ugly guy turns you into a furry, or if being a furry turns you into a gross and ugly guy.

>> No.6065624

P. G. Motherfucking Wodehouse

>> No.6065633

>>6065563
Did not know that, haven't read that one! Interesting.

>> No.6067173

Cuckentin Fedorantino

>> No.6067193
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>> No.6067238

>>6067193
lol

>> No.6067242

>>6067193
CUCK
U
C
K

>> No.6067247

Ferris Wheel
Ice Cream Cone
French Horn
Corn Dog

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>>6067193

>> No.6067255

I really like Dostoyevsky. It always seem really natural, it feels nice to read.

>> No.6067258

Proust. No one else can sustain a 100+ page dinner party conversation without a moment of dullness. You are simply a lesser person if you don't appreciate this.

>> No.6067263

shakespeare

>> No.6067268

I can't even put into words how angry that pic makes me.

>> No.6067277

>>6067193
Yes it's a death match between Tarantino, Whedon and Sorkin. Novelists btfo.

>> No.6067280

>>6067277
>Whedon

I know you're trolling, but Sorkin is bretty gud

>> No.6067282

>>6067280
he is the worst of the 3 dude

>> No.6067296

>>6067282
No

>> No.6067593

I'm not very well read in literature yet so I don't have a lot to compare it to, but I'm reading Salinger's Nine Stories and his dialogue makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

>> No.6067832

>>6067593

Nine Stories is so unrelentingly terrible

>> No.6067833

>>6065293

DeLillo

>> No.6067834

>>6067832
fuck off plen

>> No.6067837

>>6067834

Salinger belongs in a tier with Vonnegut, Hesse, and Irving as people you read when you are young and haven't read any good books yet. Don't worry, you'll get there

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>>6065293
This guy, hands down

>> No.6067843

>>6065301
>Cormac

>Okay
>Okay
>Okay
>Okay
>Okay

>> No.6067876

>>6067837
Salinger is daddy as fuck and you know it.

>> No.6067888

>>6067837
no he doesnt u fuckin nerd. Tell me why salinger fits that category

>> No.6067897

>>6067888
mostly because he is a very bad writer. ayn rand levels of conceit

>> No.6067903

Me

>He bit my dick. "AHHHHHHHHH!" I said. "You bit my dick!" "Yeah well fuck you" he replied.

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>>6067897
>2015
>still using "bad" and "good" as descriptors when somebody asks you to explain your opinion

>> No.6067910

>>6067903
I*

>> No.6067957

>>6065301
Thank ye.

>> No.6067972

>>6067263
the only correct answer ITT

>> No.6067977

>>6067897
>he is a very bad writer
Why lol

>> No.6067979

>>6067905
>2015
>muh cultural relativism

fuck off hippy

>> No.6068128

Roddy Doyle

>> No.6068476

John LeCarre for me. Tense dialogue that is really gorgeouse with lots of "holy shit" moments. Entre novels of just dialoge, no action scenes and still highly entertaining.

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>>6067840

>> No.6068675

>>6067193
Morrissey's let himself go.

>> No.6068679

>>6067258
which book of ISOLT is this in? swann's way?

>> No.6069163

>>6068128
Star of Henry had some good dialogue, but it pales in comparison with Dostoy, or (my personal favorite) Martin McDonagh

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>>6067897
>why is he bad
>mostly because he's bad

>> No.6069184

>>6069163
>Martin McDonagh

Trash.

>> No.6069214

Nebo, but you have to understand italian and veneto diocan

>> No.6069300

>>6067280
yuck, no. whedon and him probably tied for cliche factor, but sorkin's is just much less interesting

>> No.6070544

>>6068679
In both the Guermantes Way and Sodom and Gomorroah. Never trust anyone saying anything about Proust until you know whether they read further than the first volume. The style doesn't so much change but the narrator's aging opens up the social dimension that's so central to Proust's work and so relatively quiet in at least the first half of Swann's Way (and even in Swann in love you only really get one grouping so you can't yet make the comparisons)

>> No.6070582

>>6065293
That guy just don't give no fucks. He is a modern day diogenes. mad respect

>> No.6070657

George V. Higgins

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>"Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast food?"
>"Hazel, eat."
>"But why?" I asked. "I mean, seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck in with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an eggs, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."
>Dad answered with his mouth full. "When you come back, we'll have breakfast for dinner. Deal?"
>"I don't want to have 'breakfast for dinner,'" I answered, crossing knife and fork over my mostly full plate. "I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that scrambled eggs-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it occurs at dinnertime."
>"You've gotta pick your battles in this world, Hazel," my mom said. "But if this is the issue you want to champion, we stand behind you."
>"Quite a bit behind you," my dad added, and Mom laughed.
>Anyway, I knew it was stupid, but I felt kind of bad for scrambled eggs.

>> No.6072294

Obviously Plato