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2565701 No.2565701 [Reply] [Original]

Which writer has your favorite "voice"?

I like K Viggy's.

>> No.2565703

what do you mean by voice? style?

>> No.2565711

>>2565703

I guess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_voice

>> No.2565713

McCarthy

>> No.2565721

Zelazny

>> No.2565724

Foer

inb4 i get shit.

>> No.2565727
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2565727

"God's mercy on you degenerate swine."

>> No.2565740

>>2565727
Hell yeah. For me it's between Thompson, Burroughs, and Bukowski.

>> No.2565748

Bennett's is pretty good. I agree with OP about Vonnegut's - especially in Galapagos for some reason. Definitely not his best book, but I really dug how it was written.

>> No.2565823

>>2565701

Kurt Vonnegut for sure, I'm a huge fan. His are not the best books I've read, in terms of plot and ideas, but the way he rights just jams with how my brain works.

>> No.2565843

>>2565701
I thought you meant actual speaking voice.

I rather like Pahlaniuk's voice in Survivor and Invisible Monsters but overall I'd have to say Heinlein or Bradbury do it for me.

If you meant actual reading voice, I'd have to say either Stephen King (Bag of Bones is great) or Vonnegut.

>> No.2565874

Joseph Heller or McCarthy

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2565922

>>2565701
>>K Viggy

I want to hate you so bad.

But I smiled when I read that.

>> No.2566078

John Barth. Aniias Nin comes in a close second.

>> No.2566271

I like Vonnegut too, and I'll throw in Ellison for dat sarcastic yiddish wit.

>> No.2566279

Oscar Wilde

>> No.2566296

Woolf
Wallace

>> No.2566304

Vonnegut first and McCarthy second and third would be Kazantzakis.

Vonnegut always feels like he's having an uplifting, sentimental chat with you. Carthy's prose is sometimes damn near biblical, and Kaz's enthusiasm is infectious.

So, yeah, that's where I sit.

>> No.2566314

Hunter S Thompson

>> No.2566324

Shakespeare. Joyce is good. A lot of writers' I like pretty much equally.
I don't get the appeal of McCarthy. Nabokov is too wordy for me.

>> No.2566329

>>2566324
McCarthy and Nabokov would be two of my (Anglophone) favourites.

>> No.2566331

I love Vonnegut's. He's so fucking tragic and funny. Conan Doyle is great too, his humor is so dry and all of his characters express his own ridiculousness. Also Toni Morrison, she has such a knack for description and really makes you feel for all of her character, case in point: The Bluest Eye.