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Anonymous Sun Mar 27 07:50:14 2011 No.1659784 [Reply] [Original]

Can you recommend me some authors who have a wide vocabulary and who put it to good use?

Other examples I can think of are people like Joyce, Wilde and Fitzgerald.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:05:14 2011 No.1659792 Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:23:14 2011 No.1659807 Dee Ef Dubya

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:38:14 2011 No.1659820 Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:42:14 2011 No.1659822 Nabokov

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:48:14 2011 No.1659825 Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:53:14 2011 No.1659829 I think that most authors have a wide vocabulary and put it to good use. I guess a better question would be, what authors had a relatively limited vocabulary, but still put it to good use?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 09:02:14 2011 No.1659842 >>1659829 kafka?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 10:15:14 2011 No.1659889 >>1659842 I bet you read German

>>	else !L6xabslN96 Sun Mar 27 10:22:14 2011 No.1659900 >>1659784 william golding. fuck your unnecessarily sophisticated register.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 10:25:14 2011 No.1659905 >>1659900 Oh, yeah, I love gOlding. Such an amazing writer but he's rarely talked about here, and when he is talked about it's usually just Lord of the Flies homework. Shame. The Spire is one of the most perfectly crafted novels I've ever read.

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