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Do any of you have recommendations for memoirs/autobiography/semi-autobiographical fiction with really beautiful prose? Thinking along the lines of 'Speak, Memory' and 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept'

Perhaps quote your favourite passage, if you have one/remember it.

Thanks.

>> No.11867074

My diary desu, unironically

>> No.11867081

>>11867074
Post a passage.

>> No.11867105

>>11867081
>Like dude i don't even have a gf or freinds. i'm in college and i don't really know if i want to continue on CS. Dad wants to kick me out of the house and i don't even have a gf and i want to die. i'm bored of vidya so that's why i read but honestly i dont even like reading that much i mean it's ok. blood meridian is my favorite book

>> No.11867110

>>11867105
>memoir
yes
>poetic prose
no

>> No.11867128

>>11867105
d-delet this

>> No.11867266

Knausgaard’s My Struggle and Ferante’s Neopolitan novels.

>> No.11867374

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Look Homeward, Angel
A Death in the Family

>> No.11867528

My Life - Lyn Hejinian

>> No.11867677

Confessions

>> No.11867936

>>11867105
>i dont even like reading that much i mean it's ok. blood meridian is my favorite book
yikes

>> No.11868005
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11868005

How about Hemingway if he had no formal education, murdered over 20 human beings, and raped over 1000 men?
>Hurry up and bring on your electric chair, I want to leave here and take a nose-dive into the next world just to see if that one is as lousy as is this ball of mud and meanness. I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race.

>I have no desire whatsoever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform other people who try to reform me. and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em. My motto is: Rob 'em all, Rape 'em all, and Kill 'em all. I am very truly yours signed Cooper John II Carl Panzram

>> No.11868054

>>11867042
bruce springsteen's book is absolutely one of the best autobiographies i have ever read

>> No.11868316

>>11868005
Not getting the poetry here.