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What author's does /lit/ recommend for improving vocabulary. A friend of mine has a terrific vocabulary and uses it effectively and he says Wallace is one of the authors he has recently read where he found himself looking up unfamiliar words. I don't want to slog through Infinite Jest, so I need recommendations for authors with impressive vocabularies.

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3556764

bumping with Wallace humor...

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>What author's

>> No.3556807

>>3556757
James Joyce I guess.

>> No.3556812

>>3556757
No discernible vocabulary.

>> No.3556822

>>3556757
where do I find friends who read DFW?

>> No.3556823

DFW is a hack

>> No.3556835

>>3556757
Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy

>> No.3556851

>>3556835
>Cormac McCarthy
>Expansive vocabulary

>> No.3556862

>>3556851
Read Blood Meridian dick head.

>> No.3556863

>>3556757
Tao Lin

>> No.3556886

>>3556851
>The advent of the riders bruited by scurvid curs that howled woundedly and slank among the crumbling walls.

>> No.3556892

>>3556757

William Styron. Sophie's Choice greatly improved my vocabulary, and Styron uses it so naturally.

>> No.3556942

Poetry in general.