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Anonymous Sat Oct 26 15:11:38 2019 No.14061423 [Reply] [Original]

Good books with clear-cut, to the point prose. No flowery shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 15:12:19 2019 No.14061429 Unironically hemmingway bro

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 15:13:17 2019 No.14061437 Ceevantes

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 16:19:07 2019 No.14061820 I think you'd really like this book, anon: >>14061083

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 16:25:51 2019 No.14061857 File: 680 KB, 1004x1268, Maugham_retouched.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maugham's short stories

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:47:17 2019 No.14062284 >>14061423 Arthur C Clarke.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:49:04 2019 No.14062294 >>14061423 Emily bront

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:49:47 2019 No.14062296 Steinbeck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:50:29 2019 No.14062299 Twilight, Divergent

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:01:28 2019 No.14062381 >>14061423 Fast One by Paul Cain.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:02:50 2019 No.14062386 Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:17:46 2019 No.14062453 >>14062296 Cringe

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:21:15 2019 No.14062471 >>14061429 fpbp

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:33:35 2019 No.14062521 Hunger Games

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:35:32 2019 No.14062532
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>>14061423
>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST USE WORDS THAT ARE PAST A 3RD GRADE LEVEL OR ELSE I CANT UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST CRAFT YOUR PROSE WITH GRACE AND ELEGANCE, YOU HAVE TO WRITE STRAIGHTFORWARD SO THAT THE ENTIRE BOOK READS LIKE A BORING NEWSPAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:50:12 2019 No.14062586 >>14061423 Pavese

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:04:34 2019 No.14062647 >>14061423 Nietzsche

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:45:38 2019 No.14062828 >>14061423 Steinbeck

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:06:06 2019 No.14062952 Virginia Wooooooooolf

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:51:14 2019 No.14063186 >>14061423 The Old Man and the Sea desu

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>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 22:00:59 2019 No.14063517 Post Office, Bukowski.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 23:37:13 2019 No.14063915 >>14062453 contrarian

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 03:28:23 2019 No.14064654 >>14061423 Raymond Carver

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 03:31:26 2019 No.14064662 >>14061423 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/03/14/going-for-a-beer this is a direct to the point story with no ornamental language.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 04:25:47 2019 No.14064752 >>14064654 Only after Gordon Lish cut his stories down. Read the pre-Gordon Lish stories in Beginners - Carver was writing floridly. Lish cut up to 2/3 of the text of the original versions.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 04:56:03 2019 No.14064808 >>14061423 Stoner (DUDE)

Anonymous Sun Oct 27 05:02:21 2019 No.14064826

>>14061423
Orwell, especially Down and Out in Paris and London + The Road to Wigan Pier.
>The shop was a narrow, cold sort of room. On the. outside of the window a few white letters, relics of ancient chocolate advertisements, were scattered like stars. Inside there was a slab upon which lay the great white folds of tripe, and the grey flocculent stuff known as ’black tripe’, and the ghostly translucent feet of pigs, ready boiled. It was the ordinary ’tripe and pea’ shop, and not much else was stocked except bread, cigarettes, and tinned stuff. ’Teas’ were advertised in the window, but if a customer demanded a cup of tea he was usually put off with excuses. Mr Brooker, though out of work for two years, was a miner by trade, but he and his wife had been keeping shops of various kinds as a side-line all their lives. At one time they had had a pub, but they had lost their licence for allowing gambling on the premises. I doubt whether any of their businesses had ever paid; they were the kind of people who run a business chiefly in order to have something to grumble about. Mr Brooker was a dark, small-boned, sour, Irish-looking man, and astonishingly dirty. I don’t think I ever once saw his hands clean. As Mrs Brooker was now an invalid he prepared most of the food, and like all people with permanently dirty hands he had a peculiarly intimate, lingering manner of handling things. If he gave you a slice of bread-and-butter there was always a black thumb-print on it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 05:23:36 2019 No.14064866 >>14064808 >good books

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 05:53:39 2019 No.14064932 >>14061423 >No flowery shit >Posts broccoli

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 06:51:39 2019 No.14065068 >>14061423 fugg that looks good

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 06:53:39 2019 No.14065074 >>14064826 >scattered like stars Already a Romanticist cliche in first few lines

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 07:15:24 2019 No.14065114 >>14065074 That is an extremely concrete visual metaphor, likening the distribution of letters to a sight that human beings have been observing since the beginning of time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 07:19:51 2019 No.14065125 Lewis Caroll

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 08:48:47 2019 No.14065409 >>14061423 >No flowery shit. Bukowski. He is like antiflowery shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 08:52:32 2019 No.14065422 >>14061423 McCarthy

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 09:01:35 2019 No.14065452 File: 3.31 MB, 2000x2997, 1569044756998.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Slaughterhouse five Anything by Orwell

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 09:14:18 2019 No.14065503 >>14065452 I am in love with this picture.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 09:23:16 2019 No.14065536 >>14064662 Anon, I... It's been a long time since I read fiction. Thank you. Maybe I'll get back to it after all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 09:26:51 2019 No.14065554 File: 32 KB, 739x415, images (8).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14065503 Pretty sure it's Counter Strike, anon

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 11:20:15 2019 No.14066040 >>14064662 This is excellent, thank you so much. Just bought the book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 11:25:50 2019 No.14066065 >>14065114 it reads as cliche, he wasnt wrong. also the passage is not trim, spots of fat everywhere

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 11:49:17 2019 No.14066177 >>14061423 Blood meridian and lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 11:56:55 2019 No.14066212 >>14066177 >Lovecraft no

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 11:59:30 2019 No.14066221 >>14066065 This shit was concise and straightforward. Go read hill's like white elephants if you want leaner.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 15:54:02 2019 No.14067408 >>14064662 wow

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 16:08:11 2019 No.14067502 >>14061423 John Williams

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 16:19:11 2019 No.14067570 This is good... https://www.ragazine.cc/arthur-shattuck-okeefe-fiction/

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 16:21:27 2019 No.14067585 FLOWERY/PURPLE PROSE IS FANTASTIC. Why read literature if you hate words?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 16:58:42 2019 No.14067813 Jules Vene

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 17:00:04 2019 No.14067827 King James Bible.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 17:20:36 2019 No.14067988 >>14066177 >blood meridian that is the opposite of what OP asked for fpbp hemingway bro

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 18:55:12 2019 No.14068690 >>14061423 John Grisham is what you're looking for, boomer.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 18:56:05 2019 No.14068698 >>14061423 gospel of john

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 27 19:53:06 2019 No.14068959 JM Coetezee

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