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Please recommend some great writers with simple prose styles. My mind is too slow for purple prose and big words.

So far I've got Carver, Hemingway, Munro and Turgenev.

>> No.5047382

Richard Yates.

>> No.5047406

>>5047378
James Joyce

>> No.5047410

>>5047406
simplicity himself

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5047412

Camus
Salinger

>> No.5047414

One half of Cormac McCarthy.

>> No.5047425

Cormac McCarthy, Chuck Palahnuik, Charles Bukoski.

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5047466

early PKD, pic related

>> No.5047514

Robert London's Tales of Alienation Tale of Advent II

>> No.5047518

Tolsty
Hamsun

>> No.5047547

Burroughs

>> No.5047562

>>5047378
Virginia Woolf.

On a serious note, Wilde and Trollope are easy but interesting reads.