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Anonymous Sat Jul 7 01:47:03 2018 No.11424194 [Reply] [Original]

If all I care about is prose, all other factors be damned. What should I read?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 01:49:15 2018 No.11424200 Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 01:50:22 2018 No.11424202 >>11424194 That's a vague preference. Most novels are written in prose. Do you mean you like good prose stylists? That's also vague.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 01:51:05 2018 No.11424204 >>11424202 >good prose stylists That's what I meant. It's intentionally vague to get a variety of recommendations.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 01:52:08 2018 No.11424205 >>11424194 Unironically, read Joyce

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 01:53:26 2018 No.11424209 >>11424205 Is Ulysses a good starting point?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 01:53:53 2018 No.11424210 >>11424194 The Pale King. I've read over 2,000 novels. The Pale King is the best in prose. There is nothing like it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 02:00:30 2018 No.11424224 >>11424210 Meme or sincere?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 02:03:39 2018 No.11424230 >>11424209 dubliners, then a portrait of the artist as a young man, then Ulysses, and then read one page of Finnegan's Wake and give up

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 02:09:44 2018 No.11424246 >>11424224 sincere. 100%. The DFW haters are jealous af The first page seems like wtf? kind of. But when you get into that novel, holy fuck. There is nothing like it.